/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

So I read all of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series over the weekend, because I heard he wrote it on a bet, that he oculdn't write a series about Romans with Pokemon, and it was pretty cool. Got a bit inconsistent towards the end in terms of plot though. the first book was the best.

What are some other series that just took some wacky ideas and ran with them?

>Codex Alera
It had no right being as fun as it was.

Maybe his butt hurts

Kitai was olev. I liked that it stayed pretty low key on the romance with no real drama. Also Attis Aquitaine was a really good character (and antagonist) considering how little presence he actually had.

Evolved slavsquatting

From what?

None of those count. Military SF is naval battles in space, typically written by right-libertarians.

luv to minimise the state whilst asking for a large military

Finished re-reading A Storm of Swords, considering Varys kills a Lannister male heir at the end of ADWD do you think the Dornes are planning something? Hard to say really whether it is purely the Dornes to begin with but I think they are largely involved and it's some kind of grand revenge scheme for what Tywin and his house brought down upon them and the Targs. Giving that Tyrion told Aegon to go to straight to Westeros rather than go to Daenerys I think they'll probably spare him for giving them an excellent tip. Thoughts?

I'm looking for an ebook of Space Mowgli by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, can anyone help me out?

Moon is a Harsh Mistress feature artillery battles in space and is written by a libertarian.

Have you tried searching for "The Kid" which is the other title it goes by

Yeah I have, no luck.

Can anyone recommend me science fiction books that deal with some of th following things?

>fascist or authoritarian regimes (like Starship Troopers)
>space colonization
>massive human civil wars
>humans being a weak presence in a galaxy of hostile aliens
>society having aristocrats and a feudal system (like Dune)

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

>space colonization
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

a learning experience.
tl:dr;
group of /k/ommandos get obducted by ayyliums and instead take over their ship.
because us gubment sucks they make their own on the moon. they then get dragged into earth and interplanetary wars and politics.
rest of the books build on the foundation the first book builds, but changes characters.

I didn't know about the naval battles, but is Heinlein a right libertarian or a wacky libertarian?

Baxter's Xeelee universe. Vacuum Diagrams gives a pretty good overview of it.

Got really bored with the Black Company after Murgen became annalist desu

i cant find the thorn of emberlain in anywhere? week google-fu?

anyone else read metal boxes?
whats your opinions?
i liked the series a lot.

Thanks guys

I don't understand

if i can find it in libgen and b-ok, where do you anons suggest to look at?

I re-read the Wheel of Time.
First time was for learning "tower politics."
I didn't know they all usually act like a gaggle of little sisters.

>A languorous dragon, cheekily reclined atop mounded dinosaur books in lieu of gold :3
>Where is my dragon, frogman? Will you really leave us to fester in these stale memes?
I have Two versions.

Part One

Part Two.

What kind of concepts can I do in a "cold western", a western set entirely in a frozen hell hole?

on the off chance you're not being facetious, it hasn't been released yet

>I re-read the Wheel of Time
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Yeti stampede?

Could work but there's a lot of stuff and creatures I could work with I just have no idea how to benefit from the backdrop.

And I just thought of something, Were Yeti.

Well, if you consider Earth and the Moon to be two ships it's basically a naval battle. I'm not sure what you mean by wacky libertarian, but if you ask for libertarian literature Heinlein is one of the recommendations you'll get.

That dragon have quite a tasteful collection.

We answered you in the other fucking thread. You couldn't have finished alln those suggestions already. Fuck off.

Then you are a brainlet. Enjoy starving.

I have 78 iq, I am a brainlet, I never denied it. I still want to understand though

How many meme books are in this picture?

Very nice :3
I like the distinction you chose for both versions, but perhaps option 2 edges ahead for me. A most commendable meme.

A....... Are you low iq user from years ago?

Any other series like this?

I am indeed, I started reading Sabriel again, I've forgotten a lot and I remember enjoying the story, I want to enjoy it once more, but that one thing bugged me even the last time

Sure, it feels like we've been here forever, but I think she'd been posting earlier this year.

He.

Silly user, boys don't read.

Most of the time I don't.
I usually listen to audiobook while doing jigsaw puzzles, it clears my mind and helps me focus very easily, the jigsaws take no concentration away from me hearing the words and understanding, while keeping my mind busy in other ways

Oh, sorry user, I forgot. It's just a meme. Pay us no mind.

Sffg was in existence for 2 years and I was here from the beginning. Please free me.
Looks like the same less than 80iq user that asked obvious questions.

Indeed, been here nearly that long myself. Could be worse. I remember user.

Why haven't you two left the board yet? 9/10 of the people here don't read and if they read they have a cursory understanding at best. How could you spend so much time on this shithole of a website?

Hmm. Feel like making a macro of sffg chained (with those old leg to cannonball chains) to Veeky Forums, and on the wall 2 years is scratched off in tally.

Honestly? I'm so shy that participating in normal forums requiring some kind of username is uncomfortable. I initially tried /g/ as a homeboard, but it's horrible. This thread is home right now. I don't need much socialization, this is plenty.

Well i was in lit since 2010 (talking about fiction was frowned at severely those days). I migrated and made sffg my new permanent digs when it first popped up (2-3 years ago ).
I actually read (audiobooks cause no Longer NEET) and I get some nice recs in the general while I get to show my recs in the form of charts :3

It's not bad, once our friends from the pole don't try to annex/colonize us it can be an interesting place. And compared to outer lit people here actually read. The ones out there read wikiedia and sparknotes, then pretend to know what they are talking about.

Last pointIf I leave sffg might die, seeing as I'm the one always autisticly keeping it alive

What you guys reading?
Bout to tuck in to some Meme Shills.
what should I expect?

Hey Veeky Forums I'm not too big on fantasy or scifoi... Or anything fictional really.
But I have a friend that isn't into reading and I want to Starr reading with him. Problem is, he's into exactly fantasy and sci-fi. So I want to find a book that will be good for both if us. It needs to be a good on that will drag someone in who doesn't even really like to read.

Maybe something about demons, or the end of the world.
I've already read Feed and world war Z. But I haven't read the two apocalyptic ones on the flow chart.
Maybe something about demons? I don't know I hardly read this kind of stuff and just what suggestions for even little things I have a bit of interest in. Maybe I'll true persuade him into reading something more crime related. That would be pre fun. But yeah I'm open to suggestions

Finished pic related. Overall, I liked it. Four of the five stories had a macabre ending, which I found repetitive. I thought 'The Ecology of the Unicorn' had the most potential; I wonder how it would have read with more witty exchanges between the sorcerer and the faerie.
Hernstrom's main characters are hard to differentiate so I would say he needs work there. He tries a few standard types on for size in 'The Saga of Adalwolf' but none of them are exceptional in my mind.
'The Challenger's Garland' I liked best. Clean, elegant, concise: the ending felt like it fit best here.

Related to our 'color word' topic from several threads back: Hernstrom seemed to pointedly avoid using anything but simple terms for color. The exception I can recall is ochre.

Hopefully the library has K. J. Parker back on the shelf so I can read it next.

Step up your game with the cover images. That Cesar faceswap was ridiculous.

>What Mil-SFF would you recommend?
Armor is GOAT.

What's your opinion on Neil Gaiman? You could try American Gods, I've had great success recommending it to people that usually don't read that much. Another idea would be to try some anthology of short stories, and if you find one you both like read something by that author.

Does Chuck Palahniuk write YA novels? This shit reads like the "oh so smart rich 13 year old girl who has a large vocabulary". This is the shit outer lit memes? If I have to hear her say she's 13 again I will go and defeat big oil and find a way to store the sun in liquid form.

Library at mount char.
^ has world ending, crime (some detective work), demons (minor)

Look into the history of the Yukon Gold Rush.

>Cesar faceswap was ridiculous
???????
What?

>That Cesar faceswap was ridiculous.
Are... Are you funnin', mule man?

More like Neil Gay-man desu familia.

Why isn't anyone answering? Is it because none of you dont read?

Your post, taken in it's entirety, was confusing.

considering his obsession with nudism, i'd say pic related

wacky libertarian = seasteading

Is armor really that good? Starship troopers has a large amount of recommendations but after the first few chapters it wasn't good at all

Aes Sedai are impossible to take seriously on reread because you know in advance how incompetent they actually are.

He's right libertarian. He started as a socialist, converted to conservatism, then finally settled with libertarianism.
You can tell he's a right winger anyway from all the soviet union/communism allegories and his low opinion of women.

I am reading day watch, its actually refreshing to see the perspective of both watches at the same time

Will science fiction be doomed to forever explore the nature of social media and popular psychology meshing with epistemology and theory of knowledge - that is, be forever Dickian or will it move towards post-scarcity / back towards hard-sci fi utopias about Space Age and use theoretical physics as crutch to simultaneously negate aforementioned "hard" sci fi throwback?

Will it become an escapism of a genre or will it move something meaningfully forward? Look at the "visions" in the new BR. Zero futuristic gadgets, zero tech that isn't already available save of course the AI meme.

haha that guy is silly!!!

I asked to get other people’s opinions because not everyone lurks here all day like you.

What are some good post-apocalyptic fantasy novels? And by post-apocalyptic I mean actually post-apocalyptic. Not a survival story, but one where society has already picked up the pieces and started (or is beginning to start) anew.

Something like Shinsekai yori

Ever watched the movie /series?

>Is armor really that good?
Arguably the best military SF standalone.

Read Stross' Accelerando. I think that is where we are heading.

>it's a galactic empire
>but they haven't figured out how to stop aging
Are science fiction writers really bad at making realistic technological timelines or are they just intentionally being wrong to fit their narrative?

>they’re capable of 3D printing, traveling to the Moon, cloning, heart surgery, genetic engineering, and small-scale teleportation through quantum tunneling
>they haven’t yet mastered immortality

I guess we don’t live in a realistic timeline either.

>this upsets the manchild

>travelling to the moon with insane budget
>comparable to a ftl galactic empire where space travel via some kinda physics bending theoretical device is trivial
These are all fairly below or on the level of the complexity of figuring out immortality, while most of the things in space opera and other sci fi is well into the incredibly advanced, possibly impossible level. Shit argument.
I never said immortality is simple, but it's easier than, say, curing cancer

suburban commando book written and read by hulk hogan when?

Not really, heard it was okish

When has Veeky Forums ever consistently recd chuck? He's very unpopular

>btw I'm a boy xddd
Go away

You're reading shit scifi authors desu.
Neal Asher and Bv Larson.
Immortality could easily be achieved by mapping someone's neural network, storing their memories, then cloning the body and implanting the memories.

Hell a dinosaur like Vance figured this out in "to live forever". SLOPE SLOPE SLOPE