/SFFG/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

The author looks like a member of a black metal band.
That's very promising.

He very obviously worships at the altar of REH, Vance and Moorcock, but it never feels like he's copying them. The stories read like they came right out of those same eras. Wonderful prose as well.

Little Witch Academia
Also, considering how quick she's been to financially milk the franchise, wouldn't be surprised if she licensed one on her own before that.
It is, but every time it's about to expire it gets extended thanks to the lobbying efforts of Disney.

Things that make you skip over a book:
>female author
>female protagonist
>first person narration
>TITLE: A (character name) Story
>TITLE: Book 1 in (series).
>TITLE: A (series) Story.
>urban fantasy with a person on the cover

>first person narration
Your loss user.

also
>GRRM's endorsement on the cover

It's not that they can't be good, it's that the ratio of good to shit makes looking for them an untenable proposition.

If someone recommends me a first person book I'll look at it, but if I click that sample button and get some smarmy wisecrackin' impossibly witty wanker drawling sarcastically at me in the first three lines I'm clicking right back out of it.

>the virgin recommendation

usually its:
> author is the next XY. (usually tolkien)
>endorsement from other author that i dislike
>ongoing series with no end in sight

i made quite a few mistakes with shit covers.

>female author
>first person narration
>TITLE: A (character name) Story
>TITLE: Book 1 in (series).
>TITLE: A (series) Story.
>urban fantasy with a person on the cover
YES
>female protagonist
No.

When the fuck is The Monster Baru Cormorant coming out? I need my goddamn financial fantasy fix and I need it now.

>tfw you realize warlock of the magus world being finished will probably ruin your life

Very nice Herr Donkles. Thank you.

This, female protagonist/male author is the GOAT combo

>tfw photoshop is better at spoofing book covers than gimp
>tfw donkey puts all my gimping to shame with his crisp texts and floating point manipulation
I give up. Donkey is now the meme master for sffg. He will make all the memes people request.

This pic looks like ET was bullied when he went back home, so he logged onto Veeky Forums from his homeworld and got HUGE.

>written in the recent years, nominated for hugo or nebula

>post-millennial
>cover is photograph of a person
>conversational prose
>unfinished series

I doubt he has your stamina senpai desu.

Gud! Cause grrm endorsed book of the new sun and we all know that book is shit.

>tfw no Shalukhe the Swimmer gf

WTF, devious fatass,
he endorsed a good series finished in 80s on purpose to confound the readers
I underestimated him.

Does Photoshop have a feature that allows you to analyze text and reproduce it? His (the OP) matches the original from the last thread.

>tfw permanently an aspiring author
>3 years
>300k words written
>still can't design a narrative, into dialogue or finish a short story

I have so much more respect for every sffg author, even terry goodkind can be seen in a new light once you've walked in his shoes.

That's a very accurate board xover

Start planning.

Writing is fun, but without a plan it's worthless, wasted effort.

I got the feels for you phamalam

Ita not wasted effort since you learn shit, but yea seriously take the time to learn story structure since it'll fix your shit immensely. I reccomend Invisible Ink.

Is this good? I'm looking for space operas with a lot of action.

...wow

It's honestly kinda not great. It's like the ASOIAF of scifi.

Unfortunately it's not wh40k fleet battles in space like your pic implies.

Are the shills coming back?

My pleasure, von user. I hope you don't mind the wider aspect but as soon as I saw the scowling dude ducking through the entryway, I knew what I had to do.

I used paint.net, of all things.
Not sure what you meant about the text, though; the fonts are all different from the original cover. Heck, the most time-consuming bit was finding new fonts to use that looked at least tangentially appropriate.

Just picked this up off Amazon on your recommendation.

>only knowing her friend-name
>friendzoned
>laughinggirls.jpg
This cover is okay up until you notice that Rhialto looks like he just moonwalked out of the Thriller video.

If by shill you mean somebody who wants to express their love for the best scifi book in recent history then yes

Explain to me why the immigrants (orks) pouring into europe (middle earth) aren't instruments of the jews (the enemy) for their plans of destruction and domination? Eroding away the culture and tradition (sub-creation) the people here have fostered for centuries

In what order should Tolkien be read? Thinking of suggesting the following to a friend of mine who asked for my input on the matter.
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Children of Hurin
Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
(History of Middle-Earth if you want to go full autism)

What do you guys think?

Is there even such a book?

If he saw the movies, which I assume he did, there is no reason to read Tolkien.

Don't listen to posters saying read LotR before the Silmarillion
Tolkien originally wanted the Silmarillion to be published before LotR

>urban fantasy with a woman wearing a spaghetti strap top on the cover

Don't listen to this poster

...

>actually reading Silmarillion
Tell your friend to read Hobbit and LotR, only recommend the rest if asked for more.

Hi /sffg/, I come with a humble request. I've very recently become interested in poetry and I don't know where to start. I ask here because I dislike poetry that is set in real world places. I read Lord Byron's Darkness and loved it, and it didn't take me out of its world by mentioning real places. Any collections of more narrative based fantasy poetry, preferably exploring romantic themes of heroism, love, fear, evil, redemption, and/or beauty? I want the best poetry that takes me somewhere new and makes me feel feelings. Any help would be most appreciated.

>Just picked this up off Amazon on your recommendation.
Good, namefag.

eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/

>everything up to now was planed out
>we can expect a dropoff in quality from here on out
>we'll remember TUC as the last GOOD part
DEAR GOD! What unholy masterpiece awaits us? TUC was LITERALLY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT GRI!

I already visit there a lot but I was hoping for a collection I could bring with me when I go out to school or wherever. Thanks though, it's a great resource for reading at home.

Overrated due to one of the authors being a buddy of GRRM

Dunsany probably has something like that.

He's said that's he had plans for two books, to cover what happens after TUC, but that he thought just finishing the series would be unlikely, so they're not as fleshed out.

What you guys read so far?

probably 70 /brit/ threads this month

>"I did it in The Name of the Wind"

Is this hack fucking serious? I'm about to drop this shit.

Baru is a great character.

>two books
Get ready for a new quadrilogy.

Look at my cancerous shit taste for 2017.
Currently reading The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury, they're a great collection of short stories.

>tfw no t'sain gf

dykes leave

Rude.

>it's the Dick user
I didn't know you read echos of things to come, we might have similar shit tastes (except for the Star wars, my shit tastes doesn't go that deep).

I see you are the Carol Berg shill too.
Were you looking for Vampire books with those Hambly novels?

>CBS logo
Wtf does this have to do with Veeky Forums, much less SFFG?

come on now she was even in the very first book

I'm one of the Dick anons. There's that guy who basically read everything by Dick, but I try not to read more than one book from one author and am clearly failing.

No. I only read those Hambly books because CS Friedman's basically copied and pasted the MC from that book into theirs but the originals are really fucking weird and not fantastic. By weird, I mean these vampire novels weirdly /pol/ (and by weirdly /pol/ I mean vampires actually saying that they aren't really preying on humanity as much as the jews, random eugenics nazi vampires, muh harem muslim vampires who have become infertile and each novel has different genres).

I'm not the Carol Berg shill if there is one, my main complaint is that they are too shounen.

*are

>I'm not the Carol Berg shill
Someone shilled her last thread I think, thought it was you.

>I'm one of the Dick anons
No. You are the dick user I was thinking of. You were crying a few threads back that you were failing to stay away from Dick.

>pol vampires
I think I read shit like that before (not the same author). They fed on the jews in germany in ww2 because no one would believe them, etc etc.

Welp, I learned some Photoshop.

And I have hold of her. Her hands are tangled in my hair, pulling me close. Her mouth eager. Her tongue shy and darting. Her breath in my mouth, filling my head. The hot tips of her breasts brush my chest. The smell of her like clover, like musk, like ripe apples fallen to the ground …
And there is no hesitation. No doubt. I know exactly what to do. My hands are on the back of her neck. Brushing her face. Tangled in her hair. Sliding along the smooth length of her thigh. Grabbing her hard by the flank. Circling her narrow waist. Lifting her. Laying her down …
And she writhes beneath me, lithe and languorous. Slow and sighing. Her legs around me. Her back arches. Her hot hands clutch my shoulders, my arms, pressing the small of my back …
And she is astride me. Her movements wild. Her long hair trails across my skin. She tosses her head, trembling and shaking, crying out in a language I do not know. Her sharp nails digging into the flat muscles of my chest …
And there is music to it. The wordless cries she makes, rising and falling. Her sigh. My racing heart. Her motion slows. I clutch her hips in frantic counterpoint. Our rhythm is like a silent song. Like sudden thunder. Like the half-heard thrumming of a distant drum …

only started reading again recently. fnished words of radiance (way of kings pt2), what to read now? pls help.

I really should use goodreads so I can remember what the fuck I read and when

malazan

Not the guy who asked but I should probably give malazan another chance. Although it did seem like the author just flat out couldn't write on my first attempt

huh. plenty of things to dislike about malazan, but when it comes down to sheer writing and prose, Erikson is definitely better than Sanderson

Arts of Dark and Light

Nah Sanderson is bad but he's broadly functional

Go back to whining about Jack Kirby on twitter vox

Black Sun Rising is good and fun

Sanderson can write to serve his plot, barely. Sometimes it suffers from underwhelming writing. But he is very good at other elements, like worldbuilding, plots, and he's prolific.
Erikson might fall short in other places, and he's not an amazing writer, but he can at least elevate his scenes with his writing once in a while and overall has better style. He's not amazing by any means but he's just a better craftsman than Brandon full-stop. Brandons writing is really bad sometimes, especially dialogue.

sounds good. i'll give it a go

You should. Don't bother with the autistic luddite dinosaurs who want you to write it down on a piece of paper.

Who's gonna be the one laughing when the soviets invade and use Goodreads lists to round up wrongthinkers? Oh, wait, it isn't the soviets you gotta worry about now is it?

I have never read a book with a female protag that I liked.

>soviets
?

>reading Star Wars books
>accusing anyone else of shit taste

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

Please leave, good reads.

I still can't quite grasp planning, tried using the snowflake method but it hasn't worked out for me.

Erikson fluctuates in quality more than Sanderson though.

Sanderson has fairly consistently invisible prose design to draw you into the better parts of his books, like worldbuilding and plotting.

Erikson isn't aware of his own flaws as a writer and so his quality of prose, characterisation, plotting, and dialogue can vary wildly from page to page. He can elevate some scenes with brilliant prose, but also ruins otherwise impactful ones with clunky writing and inconsistent characterisatio. His characters will randomly do senseless things because the plot demands it. Barely any characters have a consistent voice, so you'll get one scene with a soldier speaking like all the other ones do, and then the same soldier is suddenly speaking formally like one of the gods. He generally improves around book 5, but it remains an issue throughout the series.

And as his writing improves the plot increasingly goes to shit (for unrelated reasons)

Meant for