/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.15405852]

dead giant robot edition

What are you currently reading?

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[Anonymous No.15405879]

Sins of Empire, not bad.

[Anonymous No.15405895]

Im going on a long trip and want something to read

I read hyperion, other than some stupid action scenes I really liked it, but somewhere in last chapter I lost interest and returned the book. Should I buy fall of hyperion or is there any books thats better? I don't like stories that too dragged out without being interesting or ridiculous action scenes, the best part what I remember from hyperion was that priest stuck with that tribe

[Anonymous No.15405897]

just finished Brian Catling's The Vorrh trilogy and it's easily one of the best things I ever read

[Anonymous No.15405900]

I'm currently reading a collection of Arthur C Clarke short stories. So far I'm liking them much more than his novels.

[Anonymous No.15406005]

>>15405897
What else have you read / what does it compare to?

[Anonymous No.15406008]

I am currently reading Salems Lot as a little break before Heretics of Dune

[Anonymous No.15406060]

>>15405852
Yet again you left out the read along

READALONG starting Monday the 18th in the first discord: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january

[Anonymous No.15406065]

>>15406005
I think in its whole it is sui generis but if anything the prose reminds me of Joseph Conrad

It's about a sentient forest, the former Garden Eden, roamed by "The Erstwhile" and the colonial City that tries to devour it. It ultimately is a blend of historical fiction, high fantasy, religion - and it fucking works

[Anonymous No.15406084]

Whats some good 40k recs that deal isnt just war porn. I've read Eisenhorn (enjoyed). First Ciaphas Cain book (meh to dislike) and recently Macharius crusade (enjoyed)

[Anonymous No.15406091]

looking for any kind of lit works that explore humans in the really far future.
like when we're so advanced it's getting really hard to imagine

[Anonymous No.15406096]

>>15406091
House of Suns by Reynolds

[Anonymous No.15406147]

>>15406096
Terrible book

[Anonymous No.15406318]

Dune.

[Anonymous No.15406340]

>>15406091
Hyperion. If you're looking more into human behavior instead of technological advancement I'd also recommend This Immortal by Roger Zelazny, one of my favorite books.

[Anonymous No.15406736]

>>15405895
If you started to lose interest in Hyperion, you won’t like Fall.

[Anonymous No.15407013]

>>15405852
What is this - amateur hour?

[Anonymous No.15407061]

>>15405852
>robot has more heart than humans
Profound

[Anonymous No.15407080]

>>15407061
Those guys look like ayyys not humans.

[Anonymous No.15407202]

are you cucks finally done talking about my GR reading habits?

[Anonymous No.15407359]

>>15407202
What?

[Anonymous No.15407387]

>>15406008
Sucks doesnt it?

[Anonymous No.15407411]

Talking about Goodreads, a few days ago I added some books to my tbr list and a few bots(?) liked that. Their profile is pretty much empty with the exception of a weird looking website that I didn't care enough to click on. Anyone know what this is about?

[Anonymous No.15407455]

I'm trying to find more highbrow fantasy along the lines of Gene Wolfe. I'm thinking of checking out H.P. Lovecraft, do you think he'd fit the bill?

[Anonymous No.15407465]

>>15407455
You posted this last thread.
Go back.

[Anonymous No.15407505]

>>15407465
Yeah, uh, get used to it.

[Anonymous No.15407542]

>>15407505
No one wanted to give you a straight answer then, no one probably will now either. Think for yourself and stop picking people's brains.

[Anonymous No.15407557]

Any sci-fi about rain?

[Anonymous No.15407560]

>>15407557
Heavy Rain

[Anonymous No.15407644]

>>15407542
I answered it directly twice before I realised it was someone trying to force a meme

[Anonymous No.15407672]

I'm trying to find some lowbrow fantasy along the lines of Robert Jordon. I'm thinking of checking out Mervyn Peake, do you think he'd fit the bill?

[Anonymous No.15408434]

>>15407644
Just goes to show how few people are actually in this thread.

[Anonymous No.15408705]

>>15405897
I read the first book. The prose was nice but overall it didn't really entice me to continue with the series. How would you compare the rest of the trilogy to the first book?

[Anonymous No.15409063]

Which warhammer 40k books are the best?
I've read eisenhorn, siege of castillax, dead men walking, the 3 prequels about the fall of horus to chaos, know no fear, and fulgrim.

[Anonymous No.15409090]

>>15406084
>>15409063

[Anonymous No.15409171]

>>15409063
Probably ask /tg/ or check their charts.

[Anonymous No.15409217]

>>15409171
all charts are in the OP

[Anonymous No.15409218]

>>15409171

[Anonymous No.15409351]

>>15406091
Pandora’s star by Peter Hamilton

[Anonymous No.15409391]

Which is Alastair Reynolds best series?

[Anonymous No.15409406]

>>15409351
I liked it but /lit/ normally hates any sf thats not hyperion or anything not written by asimov. In other words your recommendation is wasted on /lit/

[Anonymous No.15409411]

>>15409391
Revelation space

[Anonymous No.15409420]

>>15409406
sounds interesting to me at least

[Anonymous No.15409537]

>>15409218
Cheers mate. First time ive seen that chart.

[Anonymous No.15409558]

>>15405897
I’ve tried shilling this book here and got told to fuck off by the dinosaur tranny. My favorite part of the book was how all the weapons are basically their own characters with personalities

[Anonymous No.15409563]

>>15406091
>>15409406
>>15409420
I like the Culture novels by Iain Banks.

[Anonymous No.15409565]

>>15409558
Fuck off faggot. You're as bad as that dude.

[Anonymous No.15409570]

>>15409565
>you’re as bad as that dude because you recommended a book
Eat a dick tranny, we all know it’s you

[Anonymous No.15409578]

>>15409563
Banks is horrible, how can anyone like any of his books is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.15409584]

>>15409578
Because he’s a faggot and I think his politics are laughable but his saving grace is the quirky ships with personality and hilarious names

[Anonymous No.15409591]

I can't imagine why I came back to this place. You things are horrible imitations of human beings just like you've always been

[Anonymous No.15409630]

>>15409570
Stop your whining bitchboy. That tranny ain't never gonna fuck you.

[Anonymous No.15409644]

>>15409578
>>15409584
This thread has gotten pretty bad if people are shitting on Banks in here now.

[Anonymous No.15409676]

>>15409644
>shitting on Banks
>now
He was being call a basedboy before that word gained widespread adoption.

>>15409591
Well you can eat the peanuts out of my shieeet.

[Anonymous No.15409703]

>>15409676
Impressive. You outed yourself as new by revealing you don't even know the filter exists.

Yeah, this thread used to be better. Now it's inhabited by people like you who pretend to be long time users only to have your facade crumble at the slightest examination.

[Anonymous No.15409756]

Anything with humans experiments and mythicism? pic related

[Anonymous No.15409766]

>>15409703
What the fuck you actual fedora wearing fat faggot?! Congratulations I have played myself? That is your fucking retort here of all places you disgusting sack of shit?!
What's next?
Are you gonna say akshually next you fucking euphoric faggot?!
Akshually Banks is not a basedboy supreme and his futuristic nanny state fanwank is great!?
Is that what you are going to say?!

>>15409756
The tulpa threads on /x weep for you.

[Anonymous No.15409790]

>>15409630
Cry more and take your hormones faggot

[Anonymous No.15409801]

>>15409703
>I format my posts like a newfag
Welp outed yourself there didnt ya “long time poster” :^)

[Anonymous No.15409808]

>>15409790
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You little thin skinned shit!
Oh look at me I using mean words!
Are you gonna cry?

[Anonymous No.15409888]

Sword of Shannara any good?

[Anonymous No.15409914]

/sffg/, give me something to read. Nocturna turned out to be shit but I don't really feel like finishing Fevre Dream the second time around

[Anonymous No.15409969]

>>15409914
Childhood's End

[Anonymous No.15410016]

>>15409888
Seemed interesting from what I read of it. You think it's gonna be like Lord of the Rings but it goes in a different direction.

[Anonymous No.15410214]

>>15406091
All Tomorrows, C. M. Kosemen

[Anonymous No.15410239]

>>15409914
the word for world is forest, by ursula k le guin

[Anonymous No.15410249]

>>15410239
I see this is part of a larger saga. Do I need to read the others or can I just jump in?

[Anonymous No.15410253]

>>15410239
>female author
Into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.15410283]

>>15410253
This thread really has gone to absolute shit since 2016.

[Anonymous No.15410389]

>>15409914
Powdermage was decent enough that I’m going to read his follow up series

[Anonymous No.15410409]

>>15410283
>muh drumphs election
Rent free you fat bitch

[Anonymous No.15410435]

>>15410409
No, he's right. Le Guin is a great author and it's stupid to dismiss her on the criterion of having a uterus.

[Anonymous No.15410466]

>>15410435
Wasnt she a feminist and a nigger lover?

[Anonymous No.15410467]

>>15410435
Having a uterus is why her writing went to shit with the latter works

[Anonymous No.15410468]

>>15410283
anon, the whole world's gone to shit. once people realized that 90% of them just wanted to act like a cunt to each other all the time for no reason society kind of collapsed in on itself. personally, im just happy that the plague wiping us out disproportionately kills assholes.

[Anonymous No.15410476]

>>15410468
End your life you self righteous cunt

[Anonymous No.15410525]

>>15410466
>>15410467
Good fucking grief.

[Anonymous No.15410542]

>>15410525
Ok Charlie brown

[Anonymous No.15410544]

>>15410476
Way to prove his point

[Anonymous No.15410567]

>>15410544
AHH BLOO BLOO BLOO

[Anonymous No.15410578]

>>15410525
Interesting, can you elaborate?

[Anonymous No.15410585]

>>15406091
Diaspora by Egan

[Anonymous No.15410649]

>>15410585
Diaspora isn't about humans.

[Anonymous No.15410719]

>>15410649
No, it's about what humans might change into with sufficient time and technology. Which is exactly what he asked for.

[Anonymous No.15410746]

I'm trying really hard to finish R. Scott Bakker trilogies, but so many of his characters are insufferable. I really dig the mix of sci-fi and fantasy, albeit I didn't realize some things were sci-fi until I read some reviews(the indigo-plague is just radiation poisoning).

I like the philosophical zombie idea, and I think its the first time I've seen it used in a meaningful way in fiction. The name Nogod is a bit on the nose. Is it worth it to keep going?

Fiction authors need to stop making up unpronounceable names for obvious fantasy tropes. I don't need a fuckin 80 page glossary because you refuse to call a dragon a dragon.

>15393187
How? Kellhus preys on all the womens weaknesses so he can fuck them.

[Anonymous No.15410775]

>>15410746
To add: its super fuckin obvious what is going to happen regarding Kell and Nogod.

[Anonymous No.15410887]

>>15410775
Trust me, you don’t know what’s going to happen with Kel and the Nogod.

[Anonymous No.15410934]

>>15406065
That doesn't answer what you read to compare it to.

[Anonymous No.15411062]

>>15410934
it's impressions of africa but more fantasy than surrealism

[Anonymous No.15411364]

Best fantasy book published this year?

[Anonymous No.15411491]

>>15410934
anon, as someone who only read part of the first book, It's unlike anything I've ever read but rather than being inviting the strangeness was too much fo me to handle. In the first few pages it describes in graphic detail how one the main characters cut up his wife's corpse, and made a bow out of her flesh. Later, we're introduced to deformed teenage boy with one eye and dwarfism who was raised in a basement by bakelite robots powered by his semen. He ends up discovering when he lashes out and beats one of them to death.

The colonial guy anon mentioned is a racist sociopath and sex offender with no redeeming qualities, but half the cast is so fucked up beyond that he actually seems comfortingly normal.

I am saying this as someone who normally likes surrealism and body horror: if the author's life story was more fucked up than Salvador Dali's I would not be remotely surprised

[Anonymous No.15411522]

>>15409808
Seethe more

[Anonymous No.15411539]

>>15410934
It’s like the bastard child of heart of darkness and gormenghast

[Anonymous No.15411761]

LEGEND OF THE KESTREL FAG
THAT SHIT WAS SO BORING I DROPPED IT AFTER ABOUT FOUR CHAPTERS

Mortal Mage is kind of dull too desu although at the start it feels more mindgames high IQ than pewpewlasers power magick shit.

[Anonymous No.15411769]

Anyone else lacking the desire to read recently? I saw someone crying about 3000 books burn out. I'm only at 800 and I don't feel like reading anything.

[Anonymous No.15411789]

>>15411761
>buggy gaining popularity from riding the coattails of a rubber butt boi

[Anonymous No.15411791]

>>15409914
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Other_Worlds

[Anonymous No.15411845]

>>15411769
I don't think I'm over the 50 mark yet. But I can totally imagine getting burned out at 800. I'm already beginning to recognize patterns and tropes. I assume that after so long, everything starts looking like a algorithm of tropes to you.

I got that way with erotic literature. I used to read a lot of erotica. Roughly estimating, I've read about 500 stories. But I've skimmed through probably 1500. Because I'm so sick of certain tropes, that I cynically skim through stories just to see what tropes they're using and how.

[Anonymous No.15411874]

Besides I Am Legend and World War Z, what are some SFF books relevant to current events in the world?

[Anonymous No.15411934]

I'm trying to find more highbrow fantasy along the lines of Gene Wolfe. I'm thinking of checking out H.P. Lovecraft, do you think he'd fit the bill?

[Anonymous No.15412076]

Imagine openly spamming so much that you can easily be banned.

[Anonymous No.15412085]

>>15409888
Very comfy.

[Anonymous No.15412096]

>>15411769
I did during March and most of April because life was a bit too chaotic to settle down. Now I'm more or less back to normal.

[Anonymous No.15412115]

>>15410585
just ordered this on amazon, looking forward to reading it.

[Anonymous No.15412496]

damn, this book really goes crazy on the lore and world building. im only about 1/3 in, but I feel like the story has gotten 10x bigger than in dead house gates or gardens of the moon already

[Anonymous No.15412657]

This thread has gotten so bad that I bet people in here actually like Terry Goodkind.

[Anonymous No.15412680]

Should i give it a try or avoid it?

[Anonymous No.15412737]

Time to spark some discussion.

[Anonymous No.15412762]

>>15410746
i tried reading bakker, trouble i have is that he's shit at writing super-intelligence. his characters just sound like fedora-lords who spent some time on r/psychology. compared to John Wright's ascended intellects Bakker's writing looks silly.

[Anonymous No.15412802]

I hate everything and I want to die. What are some books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.15412865]

/sffg/, I've made an unpleasant discovery. Apparently the theme tune to Harley Quinn fucks up the part of my brain that's responsible for writing. After watching it, every time I try to feel the rhythm of my words or play a scene out the song plays in my head and drowns everything else out

[Anonymous No.15412943]

>>15412762
Bakker's writing seems p. highbrow to me. Am I a brainlet?

[Anonymous No.15413212]

>>15412762
This is the problem I've been having. Kellhus in particular reads like a Rick and Morty fan.

>>15412943
Probably? Hes above average, but still firmly in undergrad territory.

[Anonymous No.15413284]

>>15412865
Woof woof

[Anonymous No.15413351]

There we go with the fantasy again (and Bakkers edgelords to boot).
How horrible.

[Anonymous No.15413390]

>>15412737
Hey I watched Magicians!
Olivia Dudley's udders carried that show.

[Anonymous No.15413432]

>>15406091
The Gentle Seduction

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

[Anonymous No.15413480]

Hey guys
I'm trying to find some lowbrow fantasy along the lines of Robert Jordon. I'm thinking of checking out Mervyn Peake, do you think he'd fit the bill?

[Anonymous No.15413499]

4chan is an exercise in collective self-harm, though many are in denial about that.

[Anonymous No.15413504]

>>15413499
No need for projecting tranny.

[Anonymous No.15413508]

>>15413499
existence is an exercise in collective self-harm

[Anonymous No.15413509]

>>15413499
That was gay as hell dawg

[Anonymous No.15413510]

>>15413508
That was even gayer dawg.

[Anonymous No.15413610]

Anyone read this? The setting seemed interesting and someone from sffg recommended it a while ago but the writing has not been particularly good. I tried to turn off my brain but it's hard to keep it that way after reading like 200 mentions of the fae in just 40 pages and words like "Neocounty", "unhorses", "uncats", "unkitten". Every magic skill is just a fucking verb except capitalized.

In the best case scenarios I'll finish it, but how do you rate the sequels?

[Anonymous No.15413734]

>>15409351
The humans in those two novels are ordinary as fuck and in no way psychologically different than the peopel of today

[Anonymous No.15413747]

>>15410249
>part of a larger saga. Do I need to read the others or can I just jump in?
IIt is all part of the Hainish cycle, but those books are really stand alone novels, just all in the same universe. Wordt for World is Forest is one of the poorest ones. Try "The Left Hand of Darkness" or "The Dispossessed" from that cycle, two of the best SF novels ever written.

[Anonymous No.15413769]

How many of you are straight males?
This thread seems full of trannies and girls.

[Anonymous No.15413819]

>you will never be able to write like gene wolfe
>>15413769
yo

[Anonymous No.15413967]

>>15411364
/lit/ wont read anything released in the last 5 years.

[Anonymous No.15413993]

>>15412737
Blood song by anthony ryan is good

>>15413390
Worst tv show ever, I have watched many low budget one season shows and nothing compares to the magicians and how shit it was.

[Anonymous No.15414008]

>>15413993
I just enjoy Dudley and her body of work.

[Anonymous No.15414042]

>>15414008
What happened to her face? It looks disfigured, from what I remember she looked very cute, could it have been jewish tricks, is this how she really looks ?

[Anonymous No.15414048]

Just finished pic related. How are the sequels?
Also, if you happen to know of any innovative hard sci-fi besides this and Jean le Flambeur series I'd be interested.
Thanks in advance, lads.

[Anonymous No.15414053]

>>15413967
That's not fair. I've read the Murderbot diaries for example. Even the Cradle series. But there are so many older and accomplished books to read, why not let the new ones settle?

[Anonymous No.15414088]

>>15413819
>gene wolf

Any story that involves time travel is automatically put in the garbage pile because of how dumb the concept is.

[Anonymous No.15414090]

>>15414048
how was it?

[Anonymous No.15414091]

>>15414053
There may be plenty of fantasy but much less science fiction. And reading old scifi where author had state of the art punch card computers/machines running the spaceships just doesnt feel right

[Anonymous No.15414141]

>>15414090
Really good. When it was recommended to me there was talk of vampires in space, which there are. So I was afraid of that, thinking it would be something corny, but it was done really tastefully and well.
The whole take on vampirism is a re-conception of vampires as predators, not monsters. Like a cross between a shark and a chess grandmaster. Watts’s twist on an old archetype is hair-raising. And his background in biology shows, giving it all both a hair of believability and credibility.

[Anonymous No.15414160]

>>15414091
I liked Red Rising, yes I did, fuck you all. Even though it's YA, it's not scared from going dark at times.

[Anonymous No.15414192]

>>15414091
What about Heinlien? And his able spacemen manhandling hot uranium rods with no protection except their gigantic brass balls?
That's hardcore.

[Anonymous No.15414202]

>>15407557
"The Ugly Swans" by the Strugatzkijs

[Anonymous No.15414216]

>>15414202
There's a Russian movie as well

[Anonymous No.15414225]

>>15414216
is it kino?

[Anonymous No.15414297]

>>15414225
Imagery feels a bit like second-class Tarkovsky, so yes.

[Anonymous No.15414395]

>>15412762
I just don't understand it. If you faggots are so well versed in rebbit, why don't you stay your fucking ass there?
>psychology
Oh, you're one of those tourists.

[Anonymous No.15414400]

>>15414141
Sounds neat gonna give it a try

[Anonymous No.15414411]

>>15413212
>reads like a Rick and Morty fan.
The books were out before that show, newfag shit. You morty show fans are really the most insufferable cunts on the net.

[Anonymous No.15414478]

>>15412680
>50%

[Anonymous No.15414507]

>>15412680
I read some reviews and they talk about things like gender fluidity and social issues, also mc is female(?). If you are a straight white male Id advice you not to waste your time with it

[Anonymous No.15414523]

>>15414507
Pol fuck off. Not only white males use the fucking internet.

[Anonymous No.15414545]

>>15414523
Maybe not, but only white males use 4chan. If you don't like it, leave.

[Anonymous No.15414551]

>>15414411
Reading comprehension, retard.

[Anonymous No.15414574]

>>15414478
What the fuck is that thing?

[Anonymous No.15414576]

>>15414523
>Not only white males use the fucking internet
Only white males pretending to be women whine about white males using the Internet

[Anonymous No.15414601]

talked about and showed /lit/ and /sffg/ to my normie friend today. I also showed him /fit/ because I know he likes to exercise. I had to explain to him what a roastie was, not a good look

[Anonymous No.15414650]

>>15414601
You friend will thank you someday.

[Anonymous No.15414705]

>>15414551
Why wouwould you compare it to a show that came afterwards, fag hag? You're trying to make it sound as if Bakker copied from rick and morty, and now that you've been btfo you're trying to save face by using
>Reading comprehension, retard

[Anonymous No.15414743]

>>15414576
>Only white males pretending to be women whine about white males using the Internet
So >>15414507 Is a tranny? And he is using reverse psychology to get us to read the tranny book?

[Anonymous No.15414756]

>>15414743
Nigga are you having trouble following the reply chain or something?

[Anonymous No.15414761]

>>15414545
I a curry and been on 4chan since bob and vagene in the bee sub.

[Anonymous No.15414766]

>>15414756
He was talking about straight white males on the internet, so he had to be a tranny.

[Anonymous No.15414782]

>>15414766
So you do have trouble.
Maybe you wanted to link >>15414523 instead of >>15414507

[Anonymous No.15414878]

>>15414766
>advice straight white males on degenerate literature to avoid
>get called tranny instead

[Anonymous No.15414935]

>>15414878
The only people who use "straight white males" unironically in a sentence are trannies. You also imply only "white" males read. If you think sffg is only filled with pasty weak wrist "white" males, then you have another thing coming, pol.

[Anonymous No.15414984]

any fantasy similar to the setting and lore of the thief videogames? A mix of subdued steampunk and conflict between pagan culture and a religious order
please do not recommend the book of the new sun although something similar to nessus is what I am looking for

[Anonymous No.15415025]

>>15414935
I am eastern european, have been lifting for years, before that trained mma for many years, I could break your weak undeveloped neck with the snap of my fingers.
Sffg, /lit and 4chan are filled with straight white males, niggers can fuck right off, trannys and blue haired women should just go to good reads forums or reddit/facebook where you belong.

[Anonymous No.15415099]

>>15414984
When will you /v/aggots learn. Stop asking for books like games no one in here played. If we played games we would be in /v/ you absolute piece of shit, Jesus fucking christ.

[Anonymous No.15415105]

>>15415099
I gave a pretty clear description of what I'm looking for, also I browse this board daily. stay mad for some reason

[Anonymous No.15415120]

>>15415025
>pol mutt larping as "purebred" European who is a fit chad
You nazis are funny. You don't read and destroy everything you touch. Congrats on fucking up 4chan by putting it into the msm.

[Anonymous No.15415124]

>I am a straight white male
>I am eastern european
???

[Anonymous No.15415147]

>>15415105
Why did your virgin ass have to mention that you wanted something like a game then, faggot? Go read litrpg shit if you want games in your books.

[Anonymous No.15415151]

>>15410435
>Le Guin is a great author

[Anonymous No.15415162]

A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality is pretty good
It's the first xianxia I've read where the protagonist isn't capable of crushing everyone at their cultivation tier, still does the advancement made possible because of mysterious magic object thing but the use is hyper specific so the protagonist has to go through extreme ordeals to benefit from it.

Seems like a really simple thing given the way cultivation works as power levels to have the protagonist pretty evenly matched against people of their own level but almost nobody else writes it that way.

[Anonymous No.15415169]

>>15415147
notice how I said "any fantasy similar to the setting and lore of. don't bother replying to me anymore, your ways of trolling is pretty pathetic.

[Anonymous No.15415173]

>>15415151
you really think you have something here lol

[Anonymous No.15415186]

>>15415120
Mutt? My ancestors lived here since the at least 4000 bc.


>>15415124
I am so sorry, being white and straight is just a concept for you, one that you will never understand.

[Anonymous No.15415196]

>>15415173
I think that her books, even the early ones, were conceived primarily as political slop, yes.

[Anonymous No.15415243]

>>15406091
Accelerando by Charles Stross explores humanitys development towards singularity and beyond. The latter chapters are...special

[Anonymous No.15415257]

>>15415169
You mentioned videogayms in the fucking literature board, then you got on your high horse when told to go read litrpg? Litrpg is fantasy with settings and lore of "videogames". Go read it andfuck off.
>hurr durr everyone plays and likes videogames if you don't want off topic snit mentioned in the fucking literature board you are a troll

[Anonymous No.15415271]

>>15415196
Please keep your politics in /pol/

[Anonymous No.15415286]

>>15415271
>You can't discuss anything related to politics even when an author specifically says that every detail of their book is a political statement
Oh no it's the /pol/ boogeyman!

[Anonymous No.15415300]

>>15415257
Just fuck off and do something else for a while anon. You're shitting up the place. It was a reasonable question. If you didn't have an answer then it's probably better to not say anything.

[Anonymous No.15415307]

>>15415257
Video games are literature, bud.

[Anonymous No.15415312]

>>15405895
I bitched about it here a few days ago when I finished it, but Fall of Hyperion fucking sucks. It's baffling to me that the same author wrote both novels. I shed a damn tear for Sol's story in Hyperion. Its payoff in fall is completely lame and ruins everything that made it good. The priest's story carries on into books 3 and 4, which by all accounts are not worth reading, so you don't get a full payoff on that. He brings back fucking Keats as a character, again, and makes him space-Joseph. Every predictable thing happes. Fall fucking sucks, just treat Hyperion as a standalone and come up with a headcanon or read a synopsis to see how it pays off.

[Anonymous No.15415317]

>>15415099
>Stop asking for books like games no one in here played. If we played games we would be in /v/ you absolute piece of shit
I wasn't aware I was only allowed to have one hobby if I wanted to post in this thread. Maybe you should put that in the OP so everyone will know.

[Anonymous No.15415375]

>>15405895
Look into Neuromancer

[Anonymous No.15415406]

Emperor of Thorns ebook has a horrible font switch for the time jumps. Fortunately very easy to remove with Calibre. Why do they do shit like this?

[Anonymous No.15415433]

I'm trying to find more highbrow fantasy along the lines of Gene Wolfe. I'm thinking of checking out H.P. Lovecraft, do you think he'd fit the bill?

[Anonymous No.15415520]

>>15415433
I like HPL but I'm not sure I'd call him "highbrow". His entire output is about as long as The Wizard Knight though so you aren't losing much if you don't like him.

[Anonymous No.15415528]

>>15415196
Okay, so you've pointed at the subversion of tropes and hinted that her stories were political and call it "slop". Cool opinion.
>How dare a fantasy book challenge my real world ideas! This is WRONG.
lmao. When will these /pol/tards realize they say and react to things in the exact same way than Americans from the 50s except corrupted by hip hop and social media instead of cold war news flashes and I Love Lucy.

[Anonymous No.15415529]

>>15415312
I didn't think that Fall "fucking sucked" but it was definitely not as good as Hyperion by a long shot and rather steadily declined in quality. I don't know how anyone could read the ending to Fall and possibly think that the following novels could be worth reading.

[Anonymous No.15415531]

>>15415286
We're here to read fuckin books, not authors. You fookin pinks always shit up this general. If the book in question had that in it, then fine. But we're not looking on the net to find conversations a author had to see their stances on politics. Kys you're everything wrong with lit these days. You specifically want to talk about her politics then go to fucking pol.

[Anonymous No.15415536]

>>15406091
The Golden Age by John C. Wright

[Anonymous No.15415568]

>>15415406
To trigger your autistic ass. Hope more books trigger you.

>>15415520
It's someone spamming (cops called swat in 5 minutes) just ignore him.

[Anonymous No.15415591]

>>15406091
The gayest and most boring type of SF.

But I suppose Asimov's Foundation and Simmons' Hyperion kind of fit the bill.

[Anonymous No.15415603]

>>15415568
No it's not.

[Anonymous No.15415607]

>>15415196
the dispossessed is quite critical of the anarchist planet as well as the capitalist one and also has some beautiful defenses of monogamous love and commitment. le guin is more complex than most people make her out to be.

[Anonymous No.15415623]

>>15412680
it's not bad but it's not good. there are interesting parts, i guess. you can tell the author tried really hard to make it the big epic fantasy of the year. there's a reason it was published by Angry Robot and not a big boy publisher.

[Anonymous No.15415626]

>>15415603
no it wasn't done specifically to trigger ocd snowflakes such as yourself? s.m.h

[Anonymous No.15415633]

>>15415568
It has triggered plenty besides autists. If you were to transition from your Kindle font to some weird type writer shit you'd understand.

[Anonymous No.15415698]

>>15415591
Nothing wrong with sci-fi being gay. I encourage it, if anything.

[Anonymous No.15415703]

>>15415633
It happened to me in dead trees novels, why should it matter in a microprocessor novel?

[Anonymous No.15415706]

>>15415528
Is this actually what you want out of a fantasy book? Real world political subversion?

[Anonymous No.15415714]

>>15415698
Fair - though there's a lot wrong with being boring.

[Anonymous No.15415715]

>>15415698
So you're the anon who was shilling and praising Samuel Delaney recently? Did you enjoy hogg too?

[Anonymous No.15415721]

>>15415698
I have no problem with that, as long as its labeled correctly and kept in gay section.

[Anonymous No.15415737]

>>15415531
The thing that strikes me as "wrong with lit these days" is the politicization of everything.

[Anonymous No.15415812]

>>15413734
They’re very psychologically different just by the fact that they can live thousands of years in those books.

[Anonymous No.15415828]

>>15414160
>hunger games on mars
I dropped red rising when they started singing as a form of protest. About 30 pages in or so

[Anonymous No.15415831]

>>15406091
Lord of Light

[Anonymous No.15415918]

>>15415828
I never read hunger games, but I get what you mean. Its pretty YA. But later on there's rape, babies being killed, all sorts of weird shit.

[Anonymous No.15415950]

>>15415162
Is it something that actually reads like someone other than a 10 year old wrote it?

[Anonymous No.15415969]

>>15405852
I want a book about an adventuring mage who isn't a complete pushover. I've read enough stories about protagonists who are only barely proficient with magic/powers/whatever.

[Anonymous No.15415983]

>>15415828
I was going to drop it there too, but the shill from here who got me to read it told me to push through. I REALLY wanted to drop it when the hands in the air shit started, but the next chapter shit went from 0-100 in 2 seconds. The entire trilogy was fun after you got through the singing shit. Too bad the author didn't write anything after the red rising trilogy.

[Anonymous No.15416006]

>>15415706
If it's clever and well written, then yes. Why not? A lot of great literature uses the society and politics of the time as a source of inspiration, used not just to satirize or comment on real world events, but as the backdrop for a more classical approach (plot, themes, characterization). The better ones do it subtly enough it's completely unobtrusive to the point it's just another potential layer of the analysis.

My point is you make it sound as if political = bad by by definition, which suggests you either don't read much or trivial shit makes you bad to the point you can only see that. One book or a series of books, in a lifetime of reading, is not going to ruin your life or something.

[Anonymous No.15416044]

>>15415698
Homosexuality has no place in any media

[Anonymous No.15416048]

>>15415969
Sort of dark mage?
Daniel Black?
It's mostly self pubbed that have the books about power houses just being power houses. The publishing houses forces their authors to conform to a formulaic way of writing. Your protagonist can't be all powerful, he has to have these arbitrary boxes ticked so it can appeal to more people. Self pubbed knows who their readers are, and they ain't pandering to anyone (unless you're Blaise Corvin/ Tao Wong).

[Anonymous No.15416067]

>>15415983
>>15415918
I’ve heard the 4th book has gender fluid themes so I don’t regret dropping it when I did

[Anonymous No.15416071]

>>15415969
See >>15406992

The mage in the book is young and is learning magick however he learns fast and kill a lot of people in the process. Dont pay attention to the cover, its nothing like the actual book.

[Anonymous No.15416080]

>>15416071
Is this YA?

[Anonymous No.15416140]

>>15416080
I dont know what that means. The protagonist is young (18 years old), so probably, its not a work of philosophy, if you are looking for that then look for something else.

[Anonymous No.15416191]

>>15416140
It means young adult. Basically books for kids and low IQs

[Anonymous No.15416229]

>>15416191
What are the books for average IQs?

[Anonymous No.15416270]

>>15415983
Red Rising trilogy was great entertainment. The author is incredible with pacing and flow. It's the highest tier of YA.

[Anonymous No.15416332]

>>15416270
I bet he bangs a different girl everyday. I saw a video of him in a bookstore talking to an audience. All the women melting up to him, incredible stuff anons.

[Anonymous No.15416342]

>/SFFG/ - Hard Science that was peer-reviewed, politics (that conform to my expectations), trannies, homosexuals, author studies, videogame General

[Anonymous No.15416378]

NIGGERS

[Anonymous No.15416381]

>>15411845
>>15411769
Sort of, I think I just ended up too narrow in genre.

So far this year I had a hankering for some grim fantasy, so finally read all the 11 Black Company books, all 8 First Law books, and a whole bunch of K.J. Parker (who is amazing) and now I just need a change of pace.

Going to chip away at my SF Masterworks collection, get into Glen Cook's sci-fi works, and finally get stuck into the Le Guin Hainish collection I have. After that I think I'll be ready to get back to the rest of Parker and Bakker.

[Anonymous No.15416401]

>>15416067
What fourth book? The author only wrote three. A trilogy, then nothing else after that. I don't know where you got this notion of a fourth book.

[Anonymous No.15416409]

>>15416332
He really looksmaxxed himself. Wouldn't surprise me.

My writing goal is to get as good as him in plot flow. Then I'll die happy

[Anonymous No.15416468]

>>15416409
>>15416332
>imagine writing and having girls impale themselves on your hard flesh rising because you're too much of a chad for them

[Anonymous No.15416852]

>>15415025
>I am eastern european
Mars u pucku materinu, pizdo larperska.

[Anonymous No.15416912]

>>15396124
The War of the Flowers, I read it recently. it's nothing special in my opinion, but still pretty good. it's a different take on fairies, you should check it out

[Anonymous No.15416922]

>>15413747
>The Dispossessed
>one of the best SF novels ever written
come on i agree it's fantastic but calm down

[Anonymous No.15417020]

>>15414705
Holy shit, you're mad I insulted your favorite cartoon.

[Anonymous No.15417034]

If only there was a site like 4chan, but with a better culture.

[Anonymous No.15417054]

>>15417020
He kind of gets mad every time doesn't he?

>>15417034
Yeah but then it wouldn't really be 4chan init? Only here do you go to a YGYL thread and get to see a 13 year old after she was attacked by some machete wielding madman.
The video was not pretty but it's 4chan.

[Anonymous No.15417168]

>>15414141
Don’t you have to check in with your parole officer Peter?

[Anonymous No.15417182]

I'm reading the Sword of Winter, by Marta Randall. Three chapters in, it's interesting and goes by fast, without seeing any action so far; characters are introduced, a bit of travelling and some politics in a cold environment, which I like. I would like to read more stories in extreme or cold weather. There's 8 chapters in this ~230 pages book so the setup won't last much longer. I wonder if this will be sword and sorcery. I like the main character, she doesn't give many fucks but is also compassionate, sometimes. And she appears capable as a fighter based on her lonely travels and the skill she showcased. I like what I've read so far but have to read more to see where the story goes.

[Anonymous No.15417300]

>>15417020
I don't like rick and morty faggot. I'm mad because you insulted based bakker.

[Anonymous No.15417310]

>>15417300
>I'm mad because you insulted based bakker
That's even worse.

[Anonymous No.15417348]

>>15415173
>>15415271
>>15415531
>>15415528
>>15416006
trannies seething lmao

[Anonymous No.15417641]

>if you don't want politics in lit or support my politics you're a tranny
Pol really is filled with trannies. I remember in 2016 when I peeped into /lgbt/ to see wtf they post in there and saw nothing but faggot and trannies with maga hats. They were talking about teaming up with pol and getting a blue eyed bf, even though the vice president wants to shock em straight.
The anon that screams tranny at everyone is from pol, he got trannies occupying his brain rent free because they saturate pol.

[Anonymous No.15417663]

>>15417641
thanks for your /sffg/ post fucking retard i should just add "trannies" to my filter links, please kill yourself

[Anonymous No.15417669]

>>15417641
nice try tranny. any good lit on other things trannies ruin besides their genitals?

[Anonymous No.15417749]

>>15417641
Shows us your boypussy!

[Anonymous No.15417790]

>>15416229
Stephen King

[Anonymous No.15417795]

>>15417641
There is a rather large overlap between horrifically insecure young men larping as Nazis, horrifically insecure young men larping as women and horrifically insecure young men calling themselves gamers.
And we are smack dab in the middle of the shit flinging. I am honestly surprised at how quiet it is.

[Anonymous No.15417810]

>>15412115
Nice. Not enough Egan readers. If you like it, try Axiomatic.

[Anonymous No.15417814]

Realtalk: is the retard here a mod or do the mods just refuse to enforce any rules here anymore? I've reported him like 10 times for off topic /pol/ shit in the past and I've never seen a single post deleted

[Anonymous No.15417826]

>>15417790
That's a giant leap in quality compared to literary laxatives being discussed here. Like Brandon "Metamucil" Sanderson or Scott "Colace" Bakker.

>>15417814
Dude get with the board culture already. This is not reddit. You don't run to the jannies every time your feelings are hurt.
How long have you been whining about mods? Man up already.

[Anonymous No.15417920]

>>15417810
This.
The short story collection is the best sci-fi one I've read.

[Anonymous No.15417972]

>>15417826
anon, your newfag is showing. While the mods have always allowed abuse and /pol/shit even though it's technically against the rules there's always been a pretty distinct line in the sand between on-topic retardation and off-topic. It's one thing if you're hurling a copypasta'd wall of all-caps racial slurs at an author, but if you're hurling a copypasta'd wall of all-caps racial slurs at an author in /ck/ and the thread isn't discussing how Gene Wolfe invented Pringles, then that's the shit that gets the ban hammer.

Well, that and whatever generals the local mod hates. Redwood made a habit of doing that.

[Anonymous No.15417983]

>>15416401

[Anonymous No.15418001]

Why scifi books with trannies in them?

[Anonymous No.15418004]

>>15417814
If you want heavy moderation you better hurry back to plebbit bitch boy

[Anonymous No.15418013]

>>15418001

[Anonymous No.15418043]

>>15418013
I am disappointed by the lack of trannies in scifi and fantasy. Should I write one?
I've read a fair bit of sff so l could write some.
But in both genres there could be magic or science which just turns you into a girl and that takes the wind out of it.

[Anonymous No.15418082]

>>15418043
> being this unimaginative
not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.15418154]

>>15417663
You didn't tell this >>15417348 faggot anything. Fucking neck yourself.

[Anonymous No.15418184]

>>15417983
That's photoshopped. The author only wrote three books.

[Anonymous No.15418209]

>>15418043
There have been books for years where tech has advanced enough for you to clone bodies and do mind back ups (like Neal Asher, or Richard Morgan), you don't think trannies would grow a female body and just port in their mind?

[Anonymous No.15418251]

>>15417972
It's nigger not "racial slurs". Fuck off you limp wristed hag.

[Anonymous No.15418319]

>>15417814
The nsfw anon gets cleaned out now and again.

[Anonymous No.15418329]

>>15418319
Finally someone is thinking of the children.

[Anonymous No.15418347]

Is the Song of Fire and Ice series worth getting into? Surprisingly I've never read it before or know anyone who has read it. The only thing I know about it is I watched season 1 on HBO a long time ago but never advanced beyond that because of not really caring for television at the time.

[Anonymous No.15418382]

>>15418347
Probably not. It's not pretentious enough for you.

[Anonymous No.15418389]

>>15418347
If you're in that position it's absolutely worth reading.

[Anonymous No.15418403]

>>15418347
Television is worse now than it was back then you dumb bitch

[Anonymous No.15418516]

>>15418184
lmao, you didn't like it? I heard great things about the 5th book. But I stopped in the first trilogy as well.

[Anonymous No.15418532]

>>15418389
Sweet I'll order the first book right away then. It does interest me quite a bit but I've never taken the time to actually read it.

[Anonymous No.15418659]

>>15418209
That's exactly the problem. There's no trans issues in such a society where you can simply get a female body.

>>15418082
How do I make a tranny supremacist plot then?

[Anonymous No.15418745]

Link me to a good Beginner body refining technique mate, I am not getting anywhere with poison or electrocution

[Anonymous No.15418823]

>>15405852
I've been reading through Tales of the Dying Earth by Vance and it's been a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of the whole vagrant wizard stuff and I really enjoy the sense of adventure and mystery rather than grand epic hero tales. Are his other works similar?

[Anonymous No.15419164]

>>15418745
Jump from an ice bath to a jacuzzi really fast to make yourself immune to temperature damage

[Anonymous No.15419167]

>>15413769
Yo #2

[Anonymous No.15419367]

>>15418532
It's actually pretty good but this thread is full of contrarians who will tell you it isn't just because it's popular. It's MUCH better than the show.

[Anonymous No.15419408]

>>15418823
Hugo winner before they became pozzed. I’ve been meaning to read these.

[Anonymous No.15419419]

>>15419367
Not the first three seasons of the show. They cut out all the filler and aged up the characters. Both great improvements over the books.

[Anonymous No.15419427]

>>15415120
What are you talking about the nazi's amped up the literacy rate in all classes and genders?

[Anonymous No.15419657]

>>15419419
>aged up the characters.
>Both great improvements
The fuck?

[Anonymous No.15419804]

>>15411845
>I used to read a lot of erotica.
any nice recs for a newbie?

[Anonymous No.15419833]

>>15419408
One of the stories is about a group of wizards being attacked by a feminist who wants to turn all men into trannies. Overall I enjoyed it, particularly the two Cugel stroies.
The idea of a dying world built on the bones of greater lost civilizations kind of echos the modern scifi situation.

[Anonymous No.15419841]

>>15413610
>200 mentions of the fae in just 40 pages and words like "Neocounty", "unhorses", "uncats", "unkitten"
fucking lol. I haven't read it but that sounds like a trip

[Anonymous No.15420018]

>>15419657
>I’d rather read about 12 year olds having sex
Fuck off pedo

[Anonymous No.15420027]

>>15419804
Pornhub

[Anonymous No.15420048]

Who invented the idea of simulated reality?

[Anonymous No.15420116]

>>15417826
What is the foie gras of science fiction and fantasy?

[Anonymous No.15420170]

>>15420018
>it's the resident bible thumper

[Anonymous No.15420197]

>>15420048
What is Google?

[Anonymous No.15420206]

>>15420116
Yes. Who wouldn't want the sickly liver of a being to consume.

[Anonymous No.15420235]

Made a separate thread but we redirected here. Just finished this trilogy, anyone else read it, or anything else by her? I really enjoyed this series, so am open to trying one of her other books.

[Anonymous No.15420284]

>>15420235
most of this thread doesn't like her
from what I've read her other series aren't as good Inheritance is pure romance so you probably want to avoid that, I didn't read much of it but whatever her other one is called (something about a moon?) is probably more fitting if you liked fifth season

[Anonymous No.15420353]

>>15420284
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, I’m not big on romance fiction. Will look into the other one, though. I liked the world she built. I like that she purposefully eschewed delving into the high politics of the world, because they were irrelevant to the story. I liked quick-paced writing style. Hopefully her other book is like that too.

[Anonymous No.15420356]

>>15420235
Did you like the used up milf pussy?

[Anonymous No.15420367]

>>15420356
Not even sure what you’re trying to get across with this comment

[Anonymous No.15420382]

>>15420018
I can't remember any sex scenes involving the underage characters.

[Anonymous No.15420397]

>>15420367
This thread is actually horrible like most generals so don't expect much good discussion in here. You'd be better off ignoring the people who tell you to come here and just waiting for someone with a brain to show up in your separate thread. As for why I'm here, I opened the thread a couple days ago and haven't closed the tab yet.

[Anonymous No.15420451]

>>15406091
last and first men

[Anonymous No.15420529]

>>15420397
Duly noted. Thanks for your civility.

[Anonymous No.15420582]

>>15420235
I read The Fifth Season based entirely on the back cover blurb, without knowing anything about the author or series. I enjoyed it when I read it, and I think the world was genuinely quite interesting and mysterious, but there were a few moments that stuck out a little bit for me, like I could feel the author had a chip on their shoulder about something. The tranny kid, the rough gay sex, the weird comment about pale-skinned people burning in the sun, but other than that it was fine. I don't think it was worth winning a Hugo, but that whole award has become a circle-jerking mockery of itself so I guess I should care.

[Anonymous No.15420614]

>>15420367
If you read the book hou would understand.

[Anonymous No.15420695]

>>15418659
> Write my book for me
no

[Anonymous No.15420785]

>>15419804
Different anon. I have a lot I've "read", but I've never actually read a full length novel of erotica.
I'm in for the fapping myself.

[Anonymous No.15420792]

>>15413610
I loved the whole scifimagic space colony schtick, the idea that the energy field permeating the planet reacts to human thought and emotion the way it does. Like humans accidentally dreaming their collective fears into existence. But I fucking HATED all of the characters. I made it through the second book and regretted every page past the title.

[Anonymous No.15420794]

>>15407013
Posting low quality amateur works is your niche, so I understand you being upset.

[Anonymous No.15420805]

>>15415307
They aren't.

[Anonymous No.15420815]

>>15417054
What 4chan is to you isn't what it is to others.

[Anonymous No.15420817]

The problem with generals is that they are an easy target for vandals, especially on a slow board.

[Anonymous No.15420830]

>>15417795
>I am honestly surprised at how quiet it is.
It would you're deaf but you haven't realized it yet somehow.

[Anonymous No.15420854]

>>15420048
probably some ancient philosopher 1000s of years ago

[Anonymous No.15420857]

>>15420382
Danny has tons of sex at like 13

[Anonymous No.15420862]

>>15420170
>tips fedora

[Anonymous No.15420874]

>>15420862
Terrible reply but fuck it, this thread is about to die. Let's go all out with the stupidity. EAT SHIT

[Anonymous No.15420880]

>>15420582
>tranny kid
>rough gay sex
>white people should burn
>I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.15420886]

>>15413480
Peake uses pretty big words, probably not.

[Anonymous No.15420889]

>>15420874
>how dare you criticize the sexualization of children
are you really that far gone?

[Anonymous No.15420893]

>>15420889
Can you reply in anything but greentext, shit eater?

[Anonymous No.15420903]

>>15420880
>white people should burn
The line is that the MC sees a white person for the first time and says she's surprised he can walk in the sun without burning. Also, I said I enjoyed the book apart from these weird parts.

[Anonymous No.15420907]

>>15420893
>he mad

[Anonymous No.15420912]

>>15420907
I guess not you fucking robot. You absolute NPC. Give me a quest you fucking NPC, I need to make some gold.

[Anonymous No.15420914]

>>15420903
How you can enjoy a book that has garbage like that is beyond me. Do you also enjoy shitting in a bowl so you can immediately turn around and eat it?

[Anonymous No.15420916]

A New Thread Has Arrived
>>15420911
>>15420911
>>15420911
>>15420911
>>15420911
>>15420911

[Anonymous No.15420921]

>>15420912
>seething

[Anonymous No.15420926]

>>15420914
And what books do you enjoy, Mr. Artiste? I will enjoy watching as you refuse to answer. You probably don't even read at all.

[Anonymous No.15420929]

>>15420926
Books that don’t have fags and trannys

[Anonymous No.15420951]

>>15420929
A non answer as usual. You don't even read. You're just larping.

[Anonymous No.15420960]

>>15420792
You wanted cat puss too, huh?

[Anonymous No.15420963]

>>15420817
We didn't have this problem years ago.

[Anonymous No.15420964]

>>15420951
>I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.15420981]

>>15420964
A hole is a hole. Can't be pick with corona chan around.

[Anonymous No.15421017]

>>15420963
That's true but it also doesn't matter.
Adapt or die.

[Anonymous No.15421100]

>>15420963
We used to have smarter people who could push away the vandals. Now they're just welcomed in.

[Anonymous No.15421210]

>>15421100
>>15420817
Don't use the name of a people as a derogatory.
That's basically an ethnic slur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals

Also unacceptable:
Thug
Barbarian
Goth
and many others

[Anonymous No.15421400]

Goddamn it, I just want a commercial ebook version of Gateway!