Anything worth getting, apart from Yukikaze and LoGH?
Liam Wood
What are good Sword and Sorcery/Sword and Planet short stories or books
James Price
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Tyler Williams
...
Leo Robinson
Is it worth reading?
Caleb Reyes
What's in the rest of that chart?
Liam Martin
Pretty lame actually. The aliens are uninspired and Turtledove has a peculiar gift for making his characters boring.
Grayson Garcia
Zzzzz.
Oh well, I'll have to get my first contact jollies somewhere else.
Michael Foster
>crossboarding /pol/shits coming out of the woodworks because of the Nobel Prizes Predictable
Aaron Bell
Come on, man. It's on the OP.
Cooper Russell
Thune's Vision
Lincoln Thomas
Please leave, tumblr.
Camden Ramirez
I recommend Blindsight.
Owen Morris
I recommend therapy.
Aiden Campbell
>vampires in space!
Connor Garcia
>vampires in space! Pulp as fuck.
Connor Cook
(You) are the tumblr.
Henry Bell
been actually looking for good book that involve modern people traveling to alternate worlds etc. but there doesnt seem to be any really good ones. theres the daniel black series which is soon getting a new book. but those are really centered around worldbuilding which is nice but you can notice the author isnt very experienced. then theres the darklord but those books are really really grim and may not be everyones cup of tea, werent mine. i tired the builders sword but that seemed to be a kinda litrpg thing that wasnt well exectuted. obviously theres dark tower but that kinda got ruined for me by the movie because eveyone i talk to never read the books but only saw the movie. currently im looking reading spellsinger and schooled in magic which seem promising. honestly id welcome more "isekai" books because there arent any good ones and for all the flood of shit that would come id wager thered be a handful of gems that will turn up. overall i think it be worth the new influx of authors.
Gavin Lopez
fuck my grammar. apologies, its like 5 am and i should be going to work.
Sebastian Ortiz
>paying for a pdf
Noah Rodriguez
P8c related. Starfire by Bv Larson
Brandon Flores
>Modern (well technically more advanced than current earth) person going to ANOTHER WORLD (not alternate) technologically not advanced Hard to be a God (Strugatskys): Undercover operative from a advanced version of Earth goes to a world that is technologically behind.
Prisoners of Power is also good but the translation reads so terribly ;_;
>Modern person going into a fantasy world The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny The Fionavar Tapestry → note that I have not and will not read this because I believe that it sounds like the worst isekai ever with medical students and law students - really? GGK's Tigana was really good
Asher Lewis
thanks ill look into those. right now im planning on reading empath rising(goodreads.com/book/show/34063396-the-heartstone-saga) because the premise sounds cute and after that im trying either spellsinger or schooled in magic. ill make a note of your suggesitions though.
Charles Ortiz
gotta note though since this seems to be an indie book its hard to get a hold of the pdf.
Nicholas Scott
Not that user: honestly every indie book I've tried to read is shit and the summary for that book looks utterly retarded/fanfic tier but if you followed my chart it's on mobilism.
Aaron Jackson
I finished all of Way of the Shaman Not bad, some books got repetitive but I was really engrossed, especially by book six
Now there's nothing more to read
Joshua Morales
i know im just a sucker for love stories. i actually prefer less erotica and more, err, vanilla romance but both seem to come hand in hand when it comes to books. i know the premise seams simple but a few friends that read it told me it caught them completely off guard and seems to be well written so im willing to take a look.
completely forgot about mobilism. i had an account once but fake email addresses got purged some time ago. i usually just go to audiobook bay for audiobooks or use qbittorents built in torrent search for pdfs or other things and just pick whatever has the most seeds. it is very hard to find indie books on open trackers though. thanks.
Noah Cox
welp not that it matters the pdf from mobilism is infected. now i remember why i dont visit that place anymore.
Mason Thomas
>infected No. The pdf is not infected the fact is you tried to download an exe or some shit. Use jdownloader.
Jacob Stewart
It's also not a pdf it's an epub
Ethan Ortiz
you know what i mean god damn it I LITERALLY USE JD AND CHROME TO CONFIRM extraction failed cause windows defend threw a hissyfit chrome didnt even want to save the archive.
i dunno man. if both crome and windows defender throw hissyfits its a red flag im my head. however i tired which works fine with no warnings. thanks for that.
i assume the infection is not in the pdf but the archive itself. that being said i dont know why it warns me but doesnt seem to warn you guys. especially since i tried both links in jdownloader and chrome. obviously i have an ublock on.
Samuel Rogers
>Book got 3 stars on Amazon
Wew, I can tell this is going to be a rollercoaster ride of disappointment.
Logan Walker
Return to Nevèrÿon Adventures of Alyx
Mason Murphy
>WARNING: This is a work of erotic fantasy, there is nudity, swearing, a bit of violence, and plenty of naughty sex between man (and woman) and monster girl/girls.
the fuck is wrong with u people
Isaiah Brown
welcome to commercial fiction
Jordan Bennett
Which one should I pick up to become a true patrician in all things fantasy. I've read most of the essentials prior. Book of the New Sun or Malazan?
Michael Turner
Lord Dunsany
Brandon Robinson
>Return to Nevèrÿon >recommending the Hogg man to someone Shame on you
Blake Williams
>authors today have to give a trigger warning that spoils the book
Tyler King
Are the John Dies at the End books any good? I saw that the third one came up on one of the sites I get my ebooks from, so I looked for the synopses of the first two and they seem pretty interesting. On the other hand they're by a Cracked editor and that has fallen to shit. On the third hand the first two books are somewhat old, maybe from when Cracked wasn't shit.
So, anyone read those, are they any good?
Jeremiah Martinez
This looks like fanfiction shit that /mgg/ over at /jp/ would write.
Eli Brooks
This is utter shit
Jaxon Cook
Non-space near future scifi, recently published. Something like Rainbows End but with a better story.
Michael Rivera
SALLY FEEDS FAMILY GRAPES
Robert Wilson
>what do you mean "series cancelled due to low sales"? I want to pirate Yukikaze 3!
Lincoln Carter
>a genre defining series by a true master where every word is a pleasure to read >never ending "epic" fantasy series where even the fans of the series admit that the first book is something you have to force yourself through to get to the good stuff What do you think?
Jackson Bailey
This has probably been talked to death by various different communities, but I'm looking for some input. Should I read Children of Hurin before or after Silmarillion?
Jace Morales
"epic" fantasy where the only "epic" part is that there is an extra 200 useless fucking characters, and we need to read the story from 10 different points of view
Alexander Diaz
After
Brayden Hill
>hitler no stay away lest you become another /pol/tard.
Ayden Thomas
They're dumb as shit but they're fun.
Landon Price
I've heard God Emperor of Dune is where it's at and have read Dune. Can I get away with skipping Messiah and Children?
Leo Nguyen
yes unless you want to see a children becoming a huge immortal worm
Wyatt Lewis
>children becoming a small immortal pickle ftfy
Caleb Edwards
all hail the god emperor pickles
Lucas Roberts
This might be kind of weirdly specific but could anyone recommend me some strange and bizarre science fiction? Something like Childhoods end or Dune? I know my taste is pleb-teir but I like really weird and interesting stuff.
Sebastian Smith
Star Maker
Oliver Lewis
Good enough. Thanks.
Oliver Ortiz
HP Lovecraft's sci-fi stories e.g. The Colour Out Of Space, The Shadow Out Of Time. Clark Ashton Smith's martian SF e.g, The Vaults Of Yoh-Vombis. Some of Philip K Dick's stuff is bizzare but more for psychological and philosophical reasons, false memories, alternate realities, mental illnesses, The Electric Ant is a good example.
JG Ballard is weird but somebody like PKD is a better and more gradual introduction to new wave SF.
Aaron Morgan
I love, venerate and collect strange/bizarre shit. In order of what I enjoyed the most Phillip K. Dick - especially Three Stigmata, Ubik, Martian Time Slip Strugatskys (Amazing authors) - Roadside Picnic, the Time Wanderers, The Doomed City, Beetle in an Anthill (terrible translation, amazing story) Hyperion Cantos - Priest's Tale. Man... Fforde's Shades of Grey The ending of Foundation and Earth. There are some really chilling moments in the Foundation series towards the end. Solaris by Lem Blindopraxia
Some of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. That fucking ending...
Anime - The End of Evangelion, Darker than Black (s1 and ova only - the setting is an altered version of Roadside Picnic), Shinsekai Yori has some uncomfortably disconcerting scenes Nice.
Cooper Harris
* by nice, I mean that I am looking to pump this list for books until only dregs remain
Nathan Baker
Opinions on the Foundation series? I read the first one a few years ago and remember enjoying it Just started the second one
Kevin Evans
You ought to look at Robert silverberg. He is if pkd passed college, stayed off drugs and bad marriages. His subjects and ideas have a big overlap while keeping the experimental new wave feel. Recommend dying inside, downward to earth, tom o bedlam.
Gabriel Torres
Did anyone watch Electric dreams? It's a tv series with standalone episodes bades on Philip K. Dick's short stories.
Gabriel Foster
These all sound great! Thanks Veeky Forums!
Justin Sanchez
overhated
Brody Murphy
Ubik is an incredible, bizarre, book.
Joseph Howard
Do anyone know of a book about fate and how the protagonist struggle against it(he can give up and follow his destiny or can fight till the end eventually overcoming his fate, i dont care)?
Nicholas Hill
>Darker than Black (s1 and ova only - the setting is an altered version of Roadside Picnic) Explain? Roadside is one of my favorite novels to date.
Nicholas Garcia
Several "zones" appear throughout the world where strange things happen. At the same time a bunch of people start manifesting strange powers. They're termed "contractors" because every time they use their power they have a compulsion to perform some kind of idiosyncratic action as if it were a sort of payment. It can be anything from eating something, to smoking, to writing a poem, up to, in the case of one unfortunate woman, murdering a child. At the same time other people turn into "dolls', they become borderline catatonic, but can project their consciousness through physical materials. Water, cement, metal, glass etc.
The first season is really slow and pretty lame until about two thirds of the way through though. Some people hate S2 but I like it better than the first.
Xavier Gutierrez
Having read RP and having watched DtB I have no idea what he means. If anything, DtB is closer to Eugenio Loboe.
Luke Moore
S2>S1 for sure. His relationship with Shin is what holds the series together.
Liam Watson
wew this is a hot grill
Robert Turner
No.
Benjamin Lopez
Why did my eyes water and something prod my heart and a wave of shivery tingles run down from my head when I read about aule creating the first dwarves, orome discovering the firstborn and when fingon rescued maedhros with the help of thronodor the eagle with a 180ft wingspan?
Noah Foster
>implying Abe & Isaac reenacted with dwarves is better than this "At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
"Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
"Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
Or my personal favorite, the /r9k/ death charge:
"Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him. ‘Éowyn, Éowyn!’ he cried at last. ‘Éowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!’ Then without taking counsel or waiting for the approach of the men of the City, he spurred headlong back to the front of the great host, and blew a horn, and cried aloud for the onset. Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!’ And with that the host began to move. But the Rohirrim sang no more. Death they cried with one voice loud and terrible, and gathering speed like a great tide their battle swept about their fallen king and passed, roaring away southwards."
Jackson Baker
tfw you're reading a scifi expecting the force the protag is fighting for to turn out to be the villains because it's so stupid but it turns out that it's actually just what the author believes in
The people who write libertarian military scifi are weird lol
Daniel King
Recently finished the first one and while I generally liked the idea and setting, the ending left me dissatisfied. I could forgive the science stuff being a bit unbelievable but the book just kinda stopped.
I suppose my main criticism, even though it may have been intentional, would be that I didn't care for any of the characters. They each felt like pawns to the overall scheme, devoid of personality.
Adrian Johnson
Just started reading these the other day and while I can appreciate the influence they had on later work, they have not aged very well at all.
Jason Gomez
To the winner - the spoils.
Bentley Bell
I just got the first book of "the once and future king" and it was going well until the meeting with Merlin Basically Merlin reads into the future and he has guns, marmalade, potatoes and a lot of futuristic stuff in his home what the absolute fuck, I was hoping to actually learn about Arthurian legends and this is looking like a horrible (well written) fanfic. Do these novels tell the actual legends and tales or have I've been memed into a stupid invention of the author?
Adrian Brooks
He has published a fantasy book. If you ask a question about the book, his book, the author will NOT respond, instead some anonymous person will answer that you cannot verify to be the author.
Tyler Wilson
>posting the good cover i'm not touching this book. the cover already states it's quality.
Alexander Wright
Super specific but anyone got any recs about disgraced protags gradually returning to power/status
Stormlight sorta has it with Kaladin and Vorkosigan kinda does it early on but I can't think of much else. Think it'd be more interesting to read than the usual scrub to god stuff
Easton Rogers
>actual breast moulds on a breastplate >six pack >thinking I believe you are female
Gabriel Mitchell
So basically what you want is a pauper Prince rising back to power after some hard times?
Adam Moore
Yeah or disgraced soldier/wizard/whatever
Jack Morales
so, friends. friday's good.
Brandon Scott
>mfw I have to wait a year for Oathbringer to be release in paperback format because I hate hardcovers and got the first two in paperback.
Adrian Price
Should I read Mistborn?
Lincoln Wood
you want the actual Le Morte d'Arthur
Josiah Long
Best Served Cold by Abercrombie The Conqueror's Shadow by Ari Marmell fits the request but I found it to be shit, unfortunately
John Campbell
its allright. be sure to read the transitions between the books. theyre mostly catchup but have some interesting things in them.