Taboo Edition. >list the most controversial sff books you read >what sff book shocked you the most? >can modern writers get away with things olden writers got away with?
first for having a wank to Storm of Swords boat sex scene
Andrew James
best fantasy books to speedrun?
Joseph Edwards
3rd for anyone who rolls trips in this thread must never touch another book again until they've read every warhammer fantasy novel ever written.
Dylan Thomas
>The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison is great Yea. Great until she listened to her shipping fan base, and rewrote her novels to have that level. Now no one reads her (at least I don't) anymore because of that cluster fuck brainwashed ending.
That time book she wrote after the hollows flopped. I said it before. Women create great imaginative pieces, it just that they usually ruin it when they let their cunny have it's way and go crazy with the romance.
Chase Martinez
webnovels are novels too
Brandon Brown
correct. usually bad, but quality of books should not factor into the validity of discussing them
Grayson Price
Inspired by that user who was working on an Animorphs audio drama...
Anybody able to recommend some good pulpy sci-fi or fantasy book series (preferably public domain but if it's over and hasn't been touched in over a decade that's fine too) that I can give the "The Shadow" treatment and try to make into an audio drama series?
Gabriel Cook
Has anyone actually read pic related and liked it? My ex’s mom said it was her favorite sci-fi book but I’m 22 pages in and dry heaving every other paragraph.
Henry Mitchell
>Has anyone actually read pic related and liked it? Your ex's mom, for one.
Liam Young
On the board, smartass. I’m not particularly interested in a crazy pseudo-anarchist’s take on it - I already have that.
Matthew Gray
>pseudo-anarchist Can you be more specific? Every stripe of anarchist thinks at least one other type of anarchist is a statist.
Dylan Bailey
She just doesn’t vote and spends all her money on video games. As far as I can tell that’s it. She listened to a lot of the Dead Kennedys as well, so there’s that I guess.
David Lewis
I liked it. but I'm a filthy degenerate, so it's no surprise >old married father fucking young cunny >old married used up cunny getting used, then turning your son into a sissy
Parker Peterson
I swear to god though, so far this book is only about a) the card game Bridge, b) how hot the old man with the paunch and thinning hair is since he’s so stern and in control, and c) how lame his handsome son is.
Henry Rogers
It’s not even good porn though, so far as I can tell, since it’s so obvious that Farnham is just a stand in for Heinlein to use to do what he wouldn’t be able to in real life
Michael Brown
worm is the Ulysses of webnovles
Gabriel Nguyen
and by "her take" you mean "you and her lived by the book's principles," right?
Henry Williams
PSS had a sexual relationship between a human guy and an insect-woman and it was cute
Isaiah Thomas
No way, man, and I’m glad of it. Also, I’m a few more pages in and he’s introduced another concept - women needn’t wear shirts. I can fucking hear him jacking off as he writes.
Probably not what you were going for OP, but I found the VALIS trilogy very shocking and unsettling - that level of genuine mental instability and anguish, portrayed without a trace of romanticism, is much rarer in SF than the more usual type of "edgy" material
Jack Murphy
Haha I may be a masochist for forcing myself through Heinline but I’d never take it that far
Nathaniel Clark
Bakker is the most taboo fantasy shit ive read probably. Really wish rape goblins were more common.
Samuel Scott
Do we have a list of candidates for the next book club pick?
Eli Bennett
>list the most controversial sff books you read Time Enough for Love, I guess. I've not really read anything that controversial. >what sff book shocked you the most? Dystopias, say 1984 or I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, might be depressive but I would not call them shocking. So non, really. >can modern writers get away with things olden writers got away with? I doubt anyone would name a cat Nigger-man nowadays. But I don't think writers CAN'T get away with stuff.
Levi Hill
>can modern authors get away with
As someome trying to write an implied rapacious noblemans son I can honestly say no, they cannot. There's no way I can have a 12 year old rape another twelve year old while her sister watches and feel comfortable with myself. Wouldn't have been a problem in the 60' and 70's
Ryan Scott
>what sff book shocked you the most? Prince/King of Thorns, with how awful it was.
Brandon Adams
just write it retard, that sounds hot.
Austin James
Not feeling comfortable with juvenile rape is probably a positive change desu
Liam Bailey
Christ Cyteen is boring. I'm 36 pages in and it's been nothing but meetings and motions and adjournments. Please tell me that it gets going at some point.
Anthony Clark
Fuck that shit, 50 of them is more than enough
Angel Lewis
Spoiler alert: The old man tries to convince his daughter to fuck his nigger manservant; later they emerge into a future where literal fucking Yakub niggers from space are all genius Kangz and all whites are ignorant rapeslaves
That was when I dropped it and, after the shitshow that was the unabridged Stranger in a Strange Land, decided Heinlein was simply not for me
Jordan Gutierrez
I think I’ll end up disliking similar parts as you for very different reasons, friendo.
Caleb Turner
Aww. Poor pol. Don't like things that challenge your worldview /doctrine?
Christopher Hill
user I... It picks up a little when young Ariane makes an appearance, but the book is literally about political infighting.
Jace Gray
Is there a reason Robert Jordan wrote 90% of the women in WoT as massive cunts? I'm a few books in and this shit has me baffled.
David James
Do the user who posted the list of radio dramas, I'm listening to the Black Tapes right now and really liking it. Thanks for the suggestion. On the other hand I dropped Welcome to Nightvale like one minute in. That really did seem like some tumblr shit, to paraphrase that other user.
Isaiah Turner
You're shitting me, for real? Well, at least it was a christmas gift and not something I paid for.
Chase Watson
To contrast them with best girl Tuon
Bentley Carter
Matriarchy. Not even memeing
Camden Bailey
His only experience of women came from his harpy of a wife.
Jayden Wood
It does explore some themes like personhood and cloning, but definitely isn't one of Cherryh's space operas. I sometimes recc it to anons looking for sexually precocious lolis because I'm a bad person (technically true).
Luke Young
There are any books with degeneracy but not smut? I want a good book, with some good stories, but i dont want everything to revolve about sex and how the protag is amazing and his dick is like honey.
Connor Jackson
Great. Is there any hope of character growth or should I just bail? If I have to read another 9 books of Egwene maligning Rand for absolutely no reason I might as well do something better with my time.
Blake Nguyen
There is, really, the most hateable woman in the series becomes one of my favorite characters, behind only of rand, even egwene gets redemption.
Christopher Moore
Egwene is forever a bitch, honestly. Although, minor spoiler, she doesn't spend much time around Rand later on so you won't have to bear that particular interaction. Some other women... change if not exactly develop. I love WoT and in my opinion the female characters don't overshadow the other parts of the story enough that it's not worth to read. But that's my opinion
Chase Gray
I am not sure if i should post this here, but well... There are any other good cosmic terror aside lovecraft and night land(this shit is unreadable)?
Jack Gonzalez
Who? Moirane?
Funnily, the evil women in WoT are the most bearable.
Mason Allen
challenge accepted
Elijah Martinez
I dont know where you are, but nynaeve becomes more annoying than moiraine. But you have to understand their reasons. >nynaeve >wisdom with confidence problems, always have to be tough to show the others that she is a wisdom no matter her age Also, she cares for rand, and she sees herself as wisdom, he is her resposability. Also she has a thing for saving people. Moiraine gave up everything for the DR, she wants to guide him, this is why she's so fuckin annoying, later she will redeem herself also.
Carter Gomez
Oh, of course. Nynaeve. Yea, she gets better. I've read the whole thing already, I'm another user.
Caleb Cook
yeah, it's called "i fucked up and rolled a triple in this thread"
Adrian Phillips
Do people actually read modern fantasy novella/novelettes? I would have thought they'd be more popular considering people read less nowadays but that seems not the be the case
Landon Martin
oh shit where should i begin?
Grayson Gray
that's the horrific part you must read them in a random order
Nolan Torres
do you have any chart for me to roll user?
Carson Brooks
nah, m8, i've never read any aside from part of "trollslayer" but maybe the guy who posted that satanic curse can help you
holy shit i am gonna die before i read all this shit
Luis Wood
My personal opinion is that it's not worth it. Not because the women or any other characters are insufferable or because the story is bad but because it's 10 000 pages of partly unfinished fantasy that's at best slightly better than average.
Samuel Peterson
For some reason people chose one long as series (most often something by Sanderson) and then spend the rest of the year reading it.
Daniel Hill
I am thinking of readding warhammer should i begin with fantasy or with 40k?
Tyler Hughes
Do you want books where the girl's pussy is like honey (tight and wet) then?
Josiah Hernandez
heartstone saga
Jaxson Gomez
What about cuckold porn and science-denial challenges my world view?
Adrian Ortiz
I think youre dense
Michael Evans
> Do you want books where the girl's pussy is like honey (tight and wet) then?
Yes, I think I do but only if it's well written and with a decent story.
Christian Taylor
Emmanuelle
Dylan Robinson
Suggest some? I thought every contemporary author is just jacking off into an ASOIAF style endless series these days
Chase Anderson
Doesn't belong in /SFfG/
Anthony Gonzalez
I might actually make a roll chart when I get to my PC and assign dubs/trips/etc. to particularly shitty ones. Just finishing the Horus heresy will be a nightmare in itself since only about 1/4 of them are tolerable
Brody Ramirez
So I started reading The Library at Mount Char and I'm only two chapters in but boy oh boy I hope David dies a horrible death.
Can we discuss sci-fi that involves manipulation/violation of mathematics? I know this occurs in the Xeelee Sequence by Baxter, and Reynolds has used it before in Revelation Space (cryo-arithmetic engines violating 2nd law of thermodynamics). I'd love to read more hard sci-fi that incorporates this kind of shit if anyone can provide me with further reading material. I have nothing important planned after my current book.
Isaac Collins
I must admit i like the warhammer setting. Are they really that bad? also why?
Eli Carter
>Methuselah's Children >some autist build a small add on to a ordinary rocket engine making it capable of FTL travel How I hate Libby...
Logan Rogers
it's been sitting on my shelf for a month, should i do it guys? is today the day? i'm not reading any other scifi currently and the mood has struck
Connor Clark
The setting has lots of potential, the authors choose what to do with the setting. I personally like the William King Gotrek and Felix books (declined in quality with each new author), Malus Darkblade (read before I knew about Elric of Melnibone), Brunner and the Matthias Thulmann books are ok, the Wine of Dreams is also a cool standalone that hardly has anything to do with the game setting. The problem is over time they hired cheaper and worse authors, and started asking them to make it more of a commercial for the tabletop products, where originally they just let authors play around in a setting sandbox and even help fill in blank spots as they found them.
Horus Heresy started off strong with the first three books but was a victim of its own success as worse and worse writers were brought in to crank out a new Spess Muhreen book every three months, and black library went downhill from there. Much of that wiki list is fanfic-tier trash.
Easton Rogers
>After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100 Do I need to read this shit beforehand?
May as well. I read it over the past ~2 weeks and last thread was rife with discussion. Jump on the wagon.
Logan Carter
Are there any decent sci-fi books about time travel but set in the modern day?
Nah. You can jump on and of the Heinlein train at any point. Revolt is also quite boring.
Jack Baker
I was hoping someone would surprise me and tell me one or two that everyone's reading/read recently. I partly asked because I wanted to play with the idea of a novella series
Brayden Martinez
one or two what?
Bentley Ward
this meant for I fucked up
Elijah Hall
So you admit you're a filthy facts changing /pol/e
Justin Morales
I'm glad you're enjoying library at mount char. I hope you will consider house of blades for the Sandersonesque anime. >training montage >summoning techniques >anime weapons >animal / cute item companion >multiple worlds and ways to travel to them >anime power ups
Dominic Carter
>hard sci-fi that violates physics
Hunter Lewis
>you're a filthy facts changing /pol/e
This is an American website and in America we speak English
Connor Walker
John C. Wright, Golden Age trilogy. Mathematics discovered inside the event horizon of a black hole where infinity = 0.
David Davis
>"hard" sf >someone transmutes elements
Cameron Young
Asking again about this. tl:dr - any books that use historical magic systems instead of making up their own?
Brandon Cooper
>fi
I wouldn't say I'm enjoying it but can't say I dislike it either. I am neutral so far. The premise seems a bit bland hunting a missing person but I guess it will be interesting to see what happens given the characters' various disciplines. If I wanted to read anime I'd just read battle shonen
Nathaniel Rivera
Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son series uses a lot of American folk magic. Same with Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John stories.
David Carter
Anything that's termed "the ulysses of web-----s" is bound to be good
Jackson Collins
There is any good book with a Veeky Forums protag who fucks pussy?
Chase Nelson
>reading a novel >author aggressively starts shilling his aborignal stand in When will this meme end?
gee user I wonder why the Lavoisier picture was attached, maybe he was a great scientist of his age that didn't believe transmutation was real science or something