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Previous Threads:
Hudson King
what's out?
Jordan Allen
Why do you not like the Dune series? God Emperor is the best science fiction.
Jaxon Collins
Best Star Wars books like Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi and The lost tribe of the sith? I'm looking for stuff not based on movies or video games. I polluted this board with a thread just for this question then got called a retard.
Grayson Nelson
What's this image supposed to convey?
Landon Jackson
Brandon Sanderson is a great author.
Brody Parker
two questions /sffg/:
>is asking/paying my younger cousins to read my YA novel a good idea or a bad one >how much time and money does it cost to go to a print shop and print out 150 pages of text?
Brody Nelson
Why is wheel of time so hated? It's an amazing series.
Jeremiah Russell
Fuck all of you the ending to Oathbreaker was hype.
Cameron Martinez
There is any other desktop reader as good as the firefox one? I mean i read it directly in the firefox, because it isnt too zoomed and neither too small.
Benjamin Butler
>buy a fantasy book that has a fantasy creature on the cover >friend looks at it with dissapointment >informs me he’d rather read “more productive” books like investing, business, etc.
what do you think? is he right?
Bentley Howard
He's a pompous ass. Let him get lost in the rat race.
Elijah Rodriguez
I hate this feminist nonsense where women can fight men because they are powered by magic or w/e
Jaxson Brooks
That's better than women fighting men double their size with no help from magic or technology at all.
Nathaniel Sullivan
What would you guys say are the most overused tropes in sci-fi books? I'm thinking of writing a sci-fi book but I would like to know what to avoid while writing.
Nathan Collins
what's this shit about having to read edgedancer before oathbringer?
Dylan Gray
THE END OF Book Three of THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE
what a silly autistic book
Charles Morales
Pretentiousness and self-seriousness.
Gabriel Martinez
What's the consensus on the Halo books then?
Jacob Rogers
How is writing pretentious?
Michael Jones
The fuck are you talking about? He asked what are overused tropes in sci-fi to avoid and I said pretentiousness and self-seriousness. You need to work on that reading comprehension.
Cameron Russell
Calm down sperg. I am just asking what makes writing come off as pretentious. No need to fly off the handle.
Parker Murphy
>what makes writing come off as pretentious Do you not know what 'pretentious' means?
>attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
If you need an example in the form of a novel I suggest you read The Prince of Nothing series.
Oliver Allen
I know what pretentious means I just always thought saying something was pretentious just stemmed from the reader disliking the higher thought of a book or series. Almost as if it wasn't a valid criticism
Gavin Walker
>I'm thinking of writing a sci-fi book but I would like to know what to avoid while writing. if you're new to writing, then it literally doesn't matter because whatever you write will likely be terrible regardless. stop worrying about being a special snowflake and just write. you need to focus on volume and getting used to the writing process.
Jace Johnson
Ehhhh as long as you like the games, then the extra lore is enjoyable. I suppose not playing the games, the books are still really good for a casual read
Aaron Carter
You know I hated the love triangle subplot in Oathbringer, but if Sanderson was going to resolve it the way he did, why the fuck did it exist in the first place? They didn't get any narrative out of it in the end, and I don't imagine it being revisited with how they closed up all the ends so tightly.
Leo Foster
I know you are joking, but there are people that unironically think this. I actually know one of them in real life.
Alexander Gray
>navani follows up an arched eyebrown with a roll of the eyes
how will dalinar ever recover?
Sebastian Lewis
Is Dresden Files the Big Bang Theory of fantasy schlock?
Andrew Roberts
Dear God no. It isn't THAT bad.
Nathaniel Nguyen
>wheel of time >hated The series has its fair share of detractors for sure. Even the fans will agree that parts of the series are an absolute slog to get through (Crossroads of Twilight for example) and some anons on /sffg/ really don't like the Sanderson books but I wouldn't say they are hated here.
Mason Ross
Oathbringer was great, but Words of Radiance was better. Need to reread part 5, my hype was too high.
Have to agree. Basically the entire book I forgot it existed except when it was specifically brought up.
Nathaniel Cruz
Parts 2 through 4 were kind of a slog for me. Shallan and Kaladin retread a lot of ground on their character development, and the traveling group through Kholinar and Shadesmar just went so fucking slowly. I did enjoy the opening and the closing of Oathbringer, but it's probably my least favourite of the three Stormlight books so far.
Dalinar and the Bridge Four chapters were great though.
Ian Collins
You picked us clean last thread.
Jeremiah Allen
I still prefer it to Way of Kings, but agree with most else of what you said.
Flipping to random parts of a book, come across Wit being aghast at the possibility of skipping boring parts of a story, sorry bro that's what I'm going to be doing
Alexander Green
FUCK OFF WITH SANDERSON KEK SUCKERS
Jayden Ward
*unbuttons safehand*
Henry Jones
would this be the equivalent of a Vorin gimpsuit?
Gabriel Turner
How dark is this series?
Jack Peterson
*raises eyebrow* *crosses hands beneath breasts* Blood and ashes!
Connor Rogers
Give me a rundown of The Wheel of Time
Ayden Torres
NTR in every book
Jordan Robinson
All modern fantasy will have normalized faggotry huh
Bentley Gomez
>normalised >when there is another culture (Azir) that outright has forcing gays to wear female clothes and take a subservient female role as a social policy
Thomas Robinson
the slippery slope aint real goy.
Justin Jenkins
Sounds awful
Jonathan Jones
yeah, only dusty old bargain bin sci-fi allowed!!!
Brayden Sanchez
After finishing the golden compass, should I read Earthsea, Garden's of the Moon, or Mort first?
Juan Richardson
Are you talking about Northern Lights? If so you should read The Subtle Knife next.
Or are you talking about His Dark Materials series as a whole?
Jaxson Perez
Malazan is autistic and Earthsea isn't
Blake Brooks
What the fuck was Mawhrin-Skel's problem
Joshua Howard
UNITE THEM
Cooper Wood
SC are shady fucks, basically.
Wyatt Richardson
>part two >Oathbringer epigraphs were a waste of fucking time >this epigraph starting off needlessly slow >Shallan chapters make me want to stick my dick in a blender
The Book of Dust is out but obviously read the next two books in the series, faggot.
Landon Wright
>Shallan chapters make me want to stick my dick in a blender Retard-kun, her chapters are much more interesting. Dalinar's chapters made me want to stick my dick in two blenders simultaneously
Logan Williams
I skipped all the "20 years ago" segments Also all the interludes
Jordan Robinson
I skipped the entire book desu
John Martin
Sorry bro I couldn't read your post behind all that blushing.
Yeah I'm not enjoying the Dalinar flashbacks either. I don't like young Dalinar. I'm only interested for whenever he visits the Nightwatcher.
>skipping the Interludes
Jackson Parker
shallan is black?
Tyler Cooper
shalash is the Herald shallan was named after, most of them are kangz
Landon Rodriguez
When will Dalinar SHUT THE FUCK UP.
James Jones
Are any of Yahtzee Croshaw's books a good read?
Benjamin Thompson
His short story in Machine of Death was good, but I'd be surprised if his style translated well to a full novel.
James Peterson
lewd
Chase Green
>there are people itt right now who already finished Sanderson's 60hr tome
Jayden Bailey
truly a special kind of autism
William Morgan
Who is ishi? Is he floating or using some form of lashing?
Camden Nguyen
>Sabrina Salem fag is back Man I remember when I wanted to fuck Sabrina's THICC aunt as a kid.
Nolan Reyes
It's to be expected when they skip chapters, skim, speed read. When you discuss something, they ask what you talking about.
Henry Gutierrez
Ishar.
Sebastian Martinez
> last
The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch
> current
Red Seas under Red Skies Scott Lynch
> next
Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson
Leo Martinez
To the sanderson fags. Does Dalinar's memory about his dead parents wife return in this novel? Or do I have to wait for the end of his ten book series? (will an hero long before then)
Noah Miller
What specifically? it's a huge series.
Tyler Kelly
Whi is ishar? The crazy king?
Nathaniel Jones
I would have but I'm waiting for it to come out in trade paperback.
Gavin Cook
Recommend me some good "Gothic" fantasy; something that gets philosophical at times, preferably something with good prose.
Landon Smith
>google gothic fiction vooks2 >can't read it all
Dominic Gray
I'm a virgin to genre fiction. I'm free from "cliches"; I can't care about something copying Tolkien with elves dwarfs orcs and shit, cause Tolkien is pretty much my only experience with that stuff. Same with whichever other cliches exist.
Show me the way.
Nicholas James
So what, you want fantasy? High fantasy? Would you prefer something short or something really, really long? Complete story or in progress? Dark and gritty, maybe with some GRI, or lighter fare?
Anthony Martin
Begin at the beginning.
William Phillips
What the fuck was the point of killing off kaladin like that? He's the only reason people even read the stormlight books. What the fuck.
Joshua Barnes
I want something particularly "Gothic". Novel-length is preferable, but anything goes. I'm not really looking for grimdark (something edgy for the sake of being edgy). Maybe something that appears light and fun on the surface, but is just a mask to a darker world. To elaborate, when i say Gothic, I mean something that explores the horror of the Unknown and the brevity of human life.
Mason Wright
I thought you were replying to my post. Sorry, I guess I really can't read.
Colton Bell
Hey, you're not me; but I agree.
My point here, was that I want whatever is very well written, but "derated" cause it's full of cliches. Like if other books didn't exist it would be a revolutionary new work. Instead it's discarded for not being original, like at all.
Angel Russell
There's links in the OP to charts, start there and pick one you're most interested in. This one is even a flow chart so just follow this one and then see if its what you like, if not try something else.
Mason Harris
Is the sequel to Forever War any good?
Julian Thomas
But that chart is shit.
Gabriel Smith
then pick one of the others, point is there are 7 dedicated lists to Fantasy and Sci Fi right there in the OP if you want to find something, esspecially if you don't provide any specifics about what you want to read.
Nolan James
Could someone on Roshar theoretically form a bond with Adonalsium were it unshattered and start pulling off insane levels of bullshit?
Aaron Garcia
Dalinar's memory completely returns.
Jack Ward
Fuck Moash.
I don't know.
Zachary Roberts
Shards are near-omnipotent in their solar systems. Adonalsium's domain is the entire universe, so yeah, absorbing Adonalsium would turn you into God (with the capital G).
Though keep in mind that you don't "bond" with it. Adonalsium is not a spren, nor are its splinters. They are more like mindless forces of nature driven to a certain purpose, that people fuse with. Adonalsium is the fusion of all of them.
Ruin's purpose is to decay things, Cultivation's is to grow things, Odium to discard and Honor to uphold, Autonomy to separate and Dominion to unite, Preservation to keep and Endowment to give, etc.
Carter Fisher
>no swearing or graphic sex >characters are annoying boring peasants and dont get better (despite being born with great magical ability bla bla bla) > author has obvious creepy spanking fetish that i would be into if this was some sort of erotica but it just comes across as cringy >shit takes insanely long to happen because the characters are fucking retards with shitty personalities and they barely grow as characters (at least they didnt in the 3 books i read)
its shit but if you can stomach it at least it will entertain you for a while.
Jace Cox
Tbat spanking sounds hot af.
Elijah Cox
>A spren is Investiture that is alive. So they would call Nightblood a spren. That’s the word for what all of these things are. They would probably call Adonalsium a spren. t. Brandon
Brandon Morgan
once again, jordan writes like too much of a pussy to make it worth the slog. afaik theres only one semi graphic spanking scene in the 10 volume series(although spanking is alluded to pretty much every fucking chapter). Just read some erotica family.
Adam Stewart
It's still a different thing. Splinters and Adonalsium are THE investiture that is being given.
Christian Campbell
hnnngg any recs?
Jason Morales
i assume youre into women, in which case guy spencer or flogmaster are pretty good.