Has anyone read Gemma Files' Book of Tongues >wild west priest is magic >has sex with a legit psychopath gunslinger >kill a bunch of people >fuck around >Ancient aztec goddess stirs shit up. >shit goes down >accidentally doom the whole goddamn world. and that's only book one I fucking love it. I haven't seen anyone mention it.
Carter Rivera
Hello I'm kaladin wow it sure sucks to lift bridges those damn light borns I don't like them one bit. I miss my daaad How can brandon fill up so many pages with so little?
Carter Perez
I'm skeptical, Gemma sounds like a female name
Gabriel Collins
Ebin
Christopher Garcia
Sanderson ruined WoT.
Caleb Barnes
Ok sffg, space opera me. I like it hard, but fluid.
I've already read Mote in God's eye, Blindsight, Rendezvous with Rama, Ring World, Crossfire, Coyote and Old Man's War. I read but didn't like the sequels to crossfire and coyote (I think one copied the other because they are very similar in a lot of ways, but mostly they build a nice world and then just, "you know, forget this, let's focus on politics and how it can ruins nice things"), and The Lost Fleet (it's just a dump of orbital maneuvers and the dialog SUCKED, the plot could have been good, which is sad).
Liam Williams
did anyone read stone sky yet? I feel pretty meh about it, fifth season and obelisk gate were both much better.
Ayden Cox
your loss user
Noah Howard
easy on the carrots, bugs ;)
Jace Kelly
Vox Day's fantasy stuff is comfy as fuck.
Zachary Sullivan
Can we add "To Kill a God" to the recommendations?
Ian Parker
Would u plz shut the fuck up
Noah Walker
Is soft scifi the same as science fantasy?
Matthew Wood
Not quite.
Jeremiah Jenkins
There's no such thing as "soft" sci-fi.
Evan Morris
Imagine putting Conan The Barbarian on Mars. That's science fantasy, ERB's John Carter. Or writing about a King on planet Saturn, or a necromancer on Venus. It's just about transposing some fantasy elements with exotic secondary planet setting.
Soft SF is more like pic related.
Connor Foster
Cease posting this. The actual plant one is funnier.
Ian Nelson
Gimme some hot elves. Bonus points for dark elves.
Josiah Rodriguez
I need a good Space Opera
David King
Here.
Lucas Sullivan
Tolkien?
Jace Bailey
lots of blindsight on goodreads, who's the author?
Carson Jenkins
Peter Watts
Nicholas Johnson
A Fire Upon The Deep Count to a Trillion Night's Dawn ... although pretty soft Xeelee...start with Vacuum Diagrams
Gavin Bennett
Is Garth Nix's 'Keys to the Kingdom' actually a good series?
I remember liking it when i was a kid, but i never finished it
Evan Torres
It was pretty damn good when I reread it. Nix manages to combine an imaginative isekai scenario with an "I wanna be normal" character without making him a tedious asshole, and the supporting characters were quite fun. The ending was very weird though. I'd say it peaked at book 4/5, but the ending wasn't bad.
Mason Harris
Should I read an english translation of Battle Royale, or should I learn japanese?
Caleb Clark
Use google translate.
Ryan Morris
For whatever reason, he is absolutely fixated on death, funereal imagery and scenes of decay, to a degree I haven't encountered hitherto; charnel houses and their worms, mausoleums, burial vaults, necropolises, mummification, torturers, necromancers, cannibals, cere-cloths, sarcophagi, lichens, fungus. CAS is your man if you like mordantly exotic morbidity, and he has an irresistibly surreal eye for monsters; somebody who can toss off a paragraph like this without it even being the climactic part of the story:
>In the wide intervals between the tables, the familiars of Namirrha and his other servants went to and fro incessantly, as if a fantasmagoria of ill dreams were embodied before the emperor. Kingly cadavers in robes of time-rotted brocade, with worms seething in their eye-pits, poured a blood-like wine into cups of the opalescent horn of unicorns. Lamias, trident-tailed, and four-breasted chimeras, came in with fuming platters lifted high by their brazen claws. Dog-headed devils, tongued with lolling flames, ran forward to offer themselves as ushers for the company. And before Zotulla and Obexah, there appeared a curious being with the full-fleshed lower limbs and hips of a great black woman and the clean-picked bones of some titanic ape from thereupward.
Jace Cooper
no, it's really not
Christopher Nelson
>tips
Lincoln Long
The movie is better than the translation I read. The plot is slightly different but in a way I actually found less interesting. The book is more 'government be keeping us down, adults don't get it and are evil, pretty much 1984+violence+youth-angst' while the movie is more 'holy fucking shit how did we let our country get this bad everything is so fucked we're bad people'. The book doesn't have Takeshi Kitano's character running the show, instead it's some boring evil bureaucrat.
Wait that guy actually writes?
Camden Evans
Have you even read his books? Everyone is so triggered by his political opinions that they trash his books without even picking them up. Goodreads is filled with one star reviews that review him as a person but not his prose.
Brandon Sanders
>Goodreads There's your problem.
Juan Bell
He's a shit writer too. I didn't even know about his permavirgin blog and his prose was still rancid garbage.
Matthew Watson
lol nice try.
Xavier Sanders
It depends? Soft scifi tends to be more like Star Trek in that it deals with, say, the ethical, religious and moral issues behind creating sentient robots. Or linguists talking to aliens. Many times it's simply an issue for the author to write a commentary on real-world social issues. The hard SF issues of how the characters travel the stars or power their laser guns never really matters.
Science fantasy on the other hand, that tends to be fantasy/pulp stories and plots with a scifi veneer. The Cyborg C0-N4N swinging his laser sword at the dastardly psyonic masters of the jungle planet Venus or so on.
Easton Richardson
Don't know about his fantasy, but I picked up that "Rebel Moon" book he did about ten years ago and it was total trash. Not a whiff of an original idea, the main hero is called "Dalton Starkiller" without a trace of irony, the rebels just invent a game-changing weapon halfway through for no reason, it didn't even have a proper ending. Probably tied with Ready Player One as the worst thing I've read.
Ayden Wood
His fantasy is top notch.
Adam James
Tried reading blindsight and wow it's just a bunch of nonsensical science terms strung together. Do people actually read this garbage or do they just pretend to because they think it makes them look smart?
Alexander Torres
The movie is bizarrely tonally inconsistent though. It flipflops between being over-the-top dark humor and satire to taking itself 100% seriously.
>"MyFriend-chan has a crush on you!" >"shut uuuup, no I don't!" >both get shot >mfw
Cameron Nguyen
Top kek fuck off back to your blog.
Gabriel Harris
Please leave, reddit.
Aiden Cox
Stop shilling your shitty books you silly cocksucker.
Daniel Robinson
>Book discussion not allowed You leftists and your desire to silence everyone.
Kayden Rogers
You really trying to shill and make this author the next Gene Wolfe meme huh? It's possible. Took 2+ years of focred shilling (along with absolute aram) for Wolfe to be a constant meme. You could try your hand.
Hudson Butler
Gene Wolfe has always been very well regarded, you dumb slut.
Samuel Ward
Cool your jets buddy. Just discuss whatever book you want and leave the politics at the door. Don't want to draw the attention of the mods upous now, do you?
Colton White
>slut I wish. Also i was talking about plebs wanting to read his books. He was well regarded by authors, not readers. This general introduced so many people to Wolfe.
Hunter Hill
Shut up you schizoid loon.
Nicholas Miller
Are there any other fantasy or sci-fi books like Hyperion where characters tell stylistically different stories?
Nolan Harris
Book of the New Sun
Andrew Cruz
Don't pretend Jordan was ever better
Austin Green
>M-mommy, they're discussing forbidden authors again! It was good, admit it.
Austin Thompson
Take your medicine
Tyler Flores
Who wants to talk about Sanderson?
Bentley Wood
A response straight from the goon playbook, how dull. Well, for those of you who aren't SA stooges I recommend it.
Joseph Wilson
Any fantasy with cute girls?
Josiah Gonzalez
I know a lot of people here dislike Moorcock because his prose isn't great and he gave an only half-coherent criticism of Tolkien, but I still think he's a good storyteller, and creates interesting worlds with fascinating characters.
Plus he helped popularize the "new wave" of sci-fi along with people like Zelazny.
Elijah Russell
The fantasy and SF threads on SA are fucking weird places man
Aiden Martinez
I do. WHEN IS THE NEXT BOOK????
Aaron Gray
You really do suffer from persecution mania user, don't you?
Jonathan Gutierrez
What is SA anyway?
Elijah Collins
somethingawful
Andrew Perez
Ah, right. From the "leftists are trying to censor muh shit books" thing I thought he might have meant Socialist Alternative.
David Turner
Is there such a thing as Gothic SF?
Xavier Anderson
40k duh
Juan Watson
BotNS
What doesn't it do?
Ryder Hall
Since half life 3 is never going to happen. What's the closest thing to that story in a book form?
Andrew Perry
>read solaris >technobabble out the ass >don't understand shit
Zachary Price
>What doesn't it do? Gay rape. Traps and boipucci
Leo Robinson
Dune, in the sense that you get to various characters' thoughts.
Ian Martinez
About to read Sabriel, what am I in for lads?
Elijah Parker
>You're delusional >Bogeyman something something >Nobody is out to get you >Etc Yeah, I know the routine. At some point you will misstype words and act as if that is brilliant and witty. I've seen it all before too many times, lad.
Benjamin Hernandez
>Dune Read a couple of them many years ago. Should give them a try again soon. >in the sense that you get to various characters' thoughts. Not what I asked for, but something I think is really important anyway. Vernor Vinge did this well in his "zones of thought" series.
Nolan Hill
Everyone who has read Watts knows he sometimes has trouble explaining things clearly, but calling those terms nonsensical is just false. If you don't want to imagine what the ship looks like you could just skim through the part. People read Watts for his take on consciousness, free will and the unique aliens.
Why do so many people think other people read to pretend x?
Hunter Walker
I quite liked that, it's something you don't see much and it adds a lot of depth.
William Rivera
Something pretty good and unique. The cover art is also excellent, at least it used to be.
Jordan Garcia
Oh yeah, I definitely avoided the dumb YA Hunger Games covers they put out for that series.
Adrian Evans
It's like the concept of a cover that depicts the main character, important elements of the setting, and clues and foreshadowing about the plot, while establishing an aesthetic and mood is lost to time. Even among the old style covers, that one's great, it just fits so perfectly.
What are some fantasy books with badass elves like that instead of gay elves?
Angel Carter
Look who's back
Jace James
The only good series about necromancy you will most likely ever read
Noah Jenkins
Drizzt.
Wyatt Richardson
who here has written something of his own? care to share an excerpt?
Jason Watson
Skip everything that isn't the original trilogy though.
Matthew Fisher
*cough*
Jeremiah Parker
Gotta admit, I have precisely zero interest in engineering speculation my dude
Daniel Walker
Any love for Poul Anderson here? I'm reading The Broken Sword right now and loving it. I'm going to get to Three Hearts and Three Lions right after it.
Nicholas Scott
It's definitely a weird movie >She didn't have her period >I checked ok wat. But it actually is one of my favourite Movies. (Maybe I have the Yellow fever, because I also love Oldboy and a book called "Welcome to the NHK)
Luis Sanchez
Just finished this. I enjoyed it, but there was no reason for them to be goblins and elves. Felt like fantasy in name alone.
Isaac Edwards
Fuck off thief.
Jaxon Bell
Have never heard of this guy, what book specifically do you recommend? I don't want to read anything with a protag named Dalton Starkiller, that's Jemison-tier
Landon Jackson
yeah because people also stole all shit posted in critique threads was stolen
Eli Adams
Some stories are like this, where they went in with Microsofts find and replace tool and changed the country name to "realm", "black man" to "Orc" and "jewish" to "goblin"
Xavier Young
>and "jewish" to "goblin" Alex Jones does this.
Christian Brooks
Who else should I read if I like Zelazny and Moorcock? In particular, I like the law/chaos stuff, the kind of conflicted hero who loves excitement but kind of also wants to settle down and live a normal life, and a willingness to have lots of exciting passages and weird shit, and also slow down and let us see the characters just being people sometimes.
Adam Hughes
I mean not that it's literature but the Star Wars prequels are basically just lazy stereotypes put on aliums. I mean.. the fucking "jew" thing in that has a gigantic nose.
Leo Jackson
>love the money hate the work I'm a black jew Can someone convert to Judaism? Are there black jews?