/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

So do you use sepia, green, black or white? What font?

Green. Terminus.

I thought he was a good example of what happens when you give a dumb kid with no real experience in anything lots of power

>If I say my story is character focused then no one will be able to question why there's a lack of a main plot!

Never Let Me Go is classified as YA right?
It annoys me that I actually have to say I like a YA novel now

Embrace your plebness, user. Pigs are happiest wallowing in filth, after all.

Where is the sequel to The Traitor Baru Cormorant? Google gives me nothing. Is the author still in a depressed coma? He hasn't posted on twitter since 2016.

I've finished to read this book and this is very nice.
It's not a neo-feminist book, I assure you. This is a book about power: no matter if one is male or female, power corrupts anyone. It's a good dystopian science fiction book.

Wanna see it get even worse?
Check this baby out.

it's gonna come

Now imagine that a YA writer was just tossed a literal Nobel prize. Imagine if I had told you a year ago that Bob Dylan would be the biggest joke of a Nobel Prize for Literature awardee for only a year.

I think you're being unfair
I think considering how he wanted it to be distinct from Blindsight, and given the success and overall excellence of BS, there was quite a challenge to be faced
He certainly had a major thematic shift

>Jonathan strange and Mr Norrell
I started it, but the beginning was quite slow and boring. Will it get more interesting?

Not to you

I wish something like as Tolkien with mages, elves, orc and all this shit, but that it also has a political focus rather than all kings was just and the heroes holier than Jesus himself. Is there something like this?

He has posted, are you following another account maybe? The first draft of the sequel is finished but it was like 1000 pages long, so it needs some editing. It's called The Monster Baru Cormorant. I don't know when it's going to be ready.

Looks interesting, thanks for the suggestion, user!

Bakker

it is like eating puke while starving, its disgusting but tasty

Is this book about two young people in love persevering despite the horror of the world and the evil people in it? Will it fill that void?

Pls respond, it hurts

goodreads.com/book/show/11764721-good-intentions

its glorfied porn basically but the story elements are fantastic.

Why do I get a feeling that every science fiction or fantasy book ever made was designed for a female audience in mind?

Because you're a retard?

thats not even remotely correct.
if anything the opposite is true.

What has fantasy taught you guys?

The Red Knight is pretty good

that life is pointless and nothing interesting ever happens.
you will die eventually and nothing will change that.
you will never fall in love with someone and actually have a deep connection to that person like you wish because its either one sided by you or no one else can feel love or devotion like you do.

Heinlein's juveniles, Asimov's Foundation books, anything by Arthur C Clarke, is among the most male oriented fiction I've read. It's all problem solving protags, men of logic and invention as well as action. Heinlein particularly wrote coming of age plots where young men learned to be more assertive, independent and worldly - with just the same audience in mind.

Are you saying women can't solve problems, be logical or invent? What the fuck?

Muh Arthur
Muh knighthood

Still a fun book

exceptions prove the rule.
that being said its not that women arent capable of it. its just that theyre biologically wired to be more emotional and act on feeling rather than logic.
denying the differences of the two races is futile and a disservice to the human race. not everything needs to be a social justice cause, user. instead of throwing a hissyfit just celebrate the differences.

Winds have carried tropical debris, Saharan dust, and ash from the Iberian peninsula fires to the UK, producing this red sun effect that straight out of Zothique, BOTNS and Dying Earth. Pic related, taken from Cardiff castle.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906

central london

>theyre biologically wired to be more emotional and act on feeling rather than logic
Unless you have proof of this you're just another retard from /r9k/ and /pol/.

Yes, I am saying that

>the two races
Gender is not a race, moron.

Your novel is shit, and it's never going to be published.

You're welcome!

>so many arabs are in London that it's literally becoming Arabia

Your geography is a bit off mate
>Cardiff
>Scotland
>In London

>Sahara
>Iberian Peninsula
>In Arabia

You heard me.

That certain races are entirely evil and others are entirely good

Such a pity. I really liked this series for it's mix of militariy and political conflict in a sci-fi setting. Yet this is what heppens when you keep one character at the centre far too long, she becomes a mary sue, her enemies become literally nazies, and the whole book becomes boring as fuck.

Any contemporary series to replace it with? I have read most of the older series in this vein, so looking for something fresh and maybe not so well knwon.

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>Yet this is what heppens when you keep one character at the centre far too long, she becomes a mary sue

It's funny because I noticed the same thing reading the John Carter books, he goes from "superhuman" to "godlike". ERB had the sense to switch to another character at that point though.

Yea obviously, there is only so many risks you can take until you get a b ad roll and die
In a fictional book/series it gets ridiculous when the writer makes the protag get captured a dozen fucking times, survive constant battles or fights or ambushes, etc

Then again why are you reading a book with a woman protag or implicit leftist values

Is that dhalgren?

lèl

are the Eisenhorn books actually good, or are they just good compared to other WH40k literature?

That if you know the future you can't just tell people what happens you have to speak in cryptic, intentionally misleading statements for no reason.

What the fuck is Dan Simmons's obsession with Jews?

Is it a Mormon thing?

hey /sffg/, I started a short story a little over a year ago as a trial run for a novel I wanted to write. Now it's a nearly finished novel but I still want to tell the story it was supposed to be a trial run for.

The issue is I'm already using three of the main characters in this book and while alternate universes do exist the mythology kind of diverged and they're more or less incompatible now

what do?

Most people aren't xenophobic.

try that again without using buzzwords, and provide sources for your assertions

Change the characters' names dipshit.

It's more of an "American Christian conservative" thing but yeah.

Include it as "what if" at the end of the novel. Or just publish it separately

Get off the internet and experience the real world once in a while.

you sound like you spent a lot of time in college hahaha
fucking nut

Reading The Night Land soon.

What am i in for?

>"So how do we beat this alien monster?"
>"Ya gotta remember the six million! Oy vey! How could you forget?!"

Cosmic horror and manliness.

Is he actually a mormon? Fuck, he was one of my favorite authors too.

Thanks user. I must have had the wrong account. Much love.

I am glad donkey-kun has joined me in the meme game.

but but but it's a literal modern classic!

these books are all utter dogshit
why would he recommend them

>heroes die
>utter dogshit
just lay down and sleep forever you fucking waste of skin

The first book is kinda ok but the rest of the series is abysmal

Who thinks the early Dresden Files are worse than the later ones?

Urban fantasy is a goddamn cancer

It's no worse than the rest of the genre.

What does /sffg/ think about the Chaos Queen series?

Well the first two books are garbage. Butcher only gets his footing around book 3. I haven't read past Changes, so I can't comment on the quality of the later books.

Dresden Files is the only one I've read and it's pretty decent. I've heard horror stories about other series though.
Also this

RIP user's audiobook

Name some overlooked sci fi or fantasy classics.

The more obscure, the better.

David Mace's Firelance. It's basically a nihilistic Red Storm Rising about a nuclear super-battleship on a final mission after WWIII.

the first book is the least good of them all for christ's sake

Viriconium. It's on Veeky Forums's general fantasy link but at the very bottom and quite overlooked. In the same vein as Gormenghast

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delusional
They were basically unreadable

Anybody read Alexander Key?

A lot of his stuff is out of print.

I dropped it at about 30% through Olympos, does something like this actually happen?

>denying the differences of the two races
>two races
>races
kek literature

Stapledon's non-Star Maker novels
Sirius, A Man Divided, and the Darkness and the Light are all GOAT. Sirius is the only novel that's made me cry and I don't even like dogs.

Yes.

Does it actually contain bestiality, or is my scifi encyclopedia engaging in hyperbole?

What's your favorite type of megastructure?

literally type "differences between sexes" into a search engine

Gender is not sex.

bakker isn't interested in the politics, he's interested in the gay alien rape and other homoerotic undertones