/sFFg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

>Which sff book had the most out there concepts of weapons
Lazy Guns maybe?

I dont have a backlog, I struggle enough just finding books that sound appealing and are worth finishing.

>What was the most Futuristic sff book you read

I watched an episode of Altered Carbon on Netflix and it was futuristic af. Does that count? Based on a book dontchyaknow.

webnovels are novels too

let's plays are movies too

some are, some aren't
and they'd better fit into the category of tv show than movie, since they are usually serial.

I want to write my novel as an epistolary of corresponding interviews between several different people of an incident that happened recently as they are being reviewed by other people who don't give two shits about it.

>by other people who don't give two shits about it
nice idea up until this point
why would we want to read the reviews of something when the people reviewing it don't give a shit about it? they'll just be detached and boring

a good novel to read to learn how to do an epistolary well is Augustus by John Williams, also my personal all time favourite book

Why haven't you read Daniel Black as yet?
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I can smell the the dusty, mustard yellow pages from here

I read the red, it had mech suits I think, and an ai who talked to a guy; rather gave him premonitions
I wanted to finish the trilogy but I presume I read something else

Why is the general so dead?
Are people getting cunnys?

Hey, I'm trying to write a science fiction novel that involves adventure, a post apocalyptic future, a SHIELD-esque military system, and children with superpowers. What are some good novels I could read to get inspiration from/understand these topics better?

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Fuck off

Sounds like Akira, but that's not a novel.

Just finished Count Zero, and have Broken Angels/Woken Furies in the mail.

Where should I go next down the cyberpunk rabbi whole? Inb4 snowcrash (I want to read more of the genre before digesting the ironic/over the top take)

I'll look into it, thank you

Why shouldn't I read Darkover?

Sci-Fi about space muslims? Hard mode: no Dune.

It's not ABOUT space muslims, but the Galaxy's Edge series features an alien race that are totally muslim.

Side note though: the writers clearly do not like muslims.

Synners, Schismatrix, Mirrorshades, Islands in the Net

Eden, by stanislaw Lem is pretty fucking out there

I saw a considerable number of posts mentioning this book a while back, so I paid 8 dollars for a paperback. I read most of it, and I felt it was sort of middle of the road, familiar, and unremarkable. I wanted to find out if others felt the same way and if it was worth continuing, so I looked at a few of the top reviews.

One of the top reviewers pointed out that the main character has no real flaws and I found this to be true, and detracts from the development of the character and story. Kvothe is almost always behaving uncommonly talented, wise and kind. He's essentially a superhero and I fucking hate superheroes.

love that fucking artwork thanks user. Adding that shit to my reading list as well.

sorry user i don't have a book for you, but that reminds me of F.E.A.R.

You should finish up the Sprawl trilogy with Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Part of the plot in Poor Man's War by Elliot Kay involves evil space pirates terrorizing a system settled by a Muslim diaspora.

I'M TOO MUCH OF A FANTSYBRAINLET FOR THIS BOOK AAAAAAAAAH HELP MEEEEE

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Neal stephenson is a meme anyways. I read SevenEves by him. Probably one of the most obnoxious scifi books I have read.

Are Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun related? I've never read either.

And by that I mean Litany of the Long Sun, of course.

Yeah, I read Snow Crash and it was really jarring trying to keep track of when he was seemingly parodying the cyberpunk genre (most of the first 1/4 of the book) and when he was taking himself way too seriously (most of the last 3/4 of the book).

I genuinely chuckled when the weeb hero protagonist (literally named Hiro Protagonist) crashes his pizza delivery car while thinking about how badass he is, grabs his katanas he carries in the trunk, and runs off in fear of pizza-mafia retribution. 300 pages of Sumerian historiography, virus theory, and child rape later, I look back on that and wonder if it was even supposed to be funny.

They are in the same universe but are not directly connected plotwise.

The best and only worthy part of that book was the 1st chapter with the car chase.

Thoughts on Faction Paradox?

sffg with talking animals.
no anthro stuff.
preferably post 2000.

Duncton Wood
The Animals of Farthing Wood
Watership Down

thanks

Has anybody read this? Netflix brought out a TV show based on it but I'm not a fan of TV so I'd rather just read the novel. The central concept of transferring consciousness sounds pretty interesting. Reminds me of Soma (the game). It also won the Phil K. Dick award in 2003 so I assume it's not complete trash.

It has a cool setting, but the protag is a pervert and there's a few detailed sex scenes.
The adaptation changed a lot of major plot points and added junk, a rather loose adaptation.

I'd like to hear some thoughts on this as well. The TV show was enjoyable, but not very good. The production values made the show, so I'd be interested to hear how it compares to the book.

On another note, just finished Hobb's Assassins Apprentice. It takes quite a while to get going, and I found the first half to be a bit of a slog, but it really found its course in the second half. The finale was an incredibly tense roller coaster. It's a short read, but I'm now pretty excited for the sequels. While most characters weren't all that interesting, Verity really grew on my when he finally got involved, and he proved himself to be absolutely based.

Tell that to the blindsight, too much lightning, and three problem shills.
I'm the captain now, it's my turn to shill.

No. Litany forces the Christianity down your throat, to make sure that you understand that it's Christianity we are talking about.

I read it a long time ago, and recently re-read it (though coinciding with the show coming out was pure chance). It is a fun romp, fun world building and exposition, has a nice noir pulp atmosphere.

>but the protag is a pervert and there's a few detailed sex scenes.
>people who have sex are perverts
In this particular thread, sex scenes are generally a plus.

At least come up with something creative once in a while. Talk about the book or something. Besides, blindsight is a much better book and genuinely good, while memeiel black is just somewhat enjoyable.

This was a pleasant surprise. Just take a look at this cover. My 10yo nephew could make something better than this, holy shit. Besides that
>sexcraft chronicles
Who the fuck thought this was a good name for the series? It alienates a lot of readers who might have found this book enjoyable. Past all that, if you manage to actually open the book and read it, it is indeed a high quality fantasy.

The plot is good, if somewhat overused in fantasy, but it just sets itself as standard fantasy instead of what the fuck is common place with contemporary fantasy. The characters are all well written, with clear motivations and personalities. The world is simple enough to understand, with no pretentious """worldbuilding""", but still pretty interesting to keep us reading. The magic is simple to understand, without delving too much into it as not to take away the mystery of it, and it's not at all overpowered. The sex is way too tame to warrant the name, making me wonder about the sanity of the person who chose it. Its placement is consistent with the world and doesn't feel like just fanservice. The plot is driven more by opportunity instead of clear preparation, with the characters taking advantage of what is happening at the moment instead of waiting and taking a long time to prepare for battle.

Next book is coming in valentine's day, supposedly. If this wasn't good enough to convince anyone to read it, here comes a briefing of the plot: Dragon attacks village, kills everyone. Non-combatant MC is driven for revenge and sets himself to kill it despite being weak as fuck .

>is just somewhat enjoyable.
That's all I want. One convert at a time.

What's the meme trilogy of /sffg/?

Define 'meme trilogy'.

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Blindsight, The Thing Itself, Too Like the Lightning

Does Malazan pick up after Gardens of the Moon? I've heard good things about the series but the first book is feeling a bit overwhelming at the moment.

To Like the Lightning, BotNS and Malazan in that specific order.

So i just got these at the store. I hear that I shouldnt go beyond these?

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book of the new sun
malazan
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i have no idea what the third would be.

>reading anymore dunes after the first book

Might could use an extra line with Hunters+Sandworms and something like "I want to see the outline Frank Herbert had for tying up the chapterhouse plotline, and this is the next best thing. And I could use some encouragement to never pick up another Kevin J Anderson book again."
Otherwise about perfect, yeah. Why do scifi authors turn into pervy old men so often? Heinlein's late stuff gets that cringy bad porno feel, too.

/sffg/ meme contenders:

Meme of the New Sun
The Name of the Meme
Too Meme the Lightning
The Meme Itself
Memezan

Any others? Maybe GRRM or Sanderson?

i think wheel of meme has to be in it.

come join the litcord discord.gg/XZ4wrZR

Book of the New Sun, Gormenghast and whatever Bakker's most popular book is

Good stuff, terminally underrated beause it started out as a Doctor Who inspired thing. Warlords of Utopia and Brakespeare Voyage in particular are bettter than 90% of contemporary award-winning SF.

Has any author ever been BTFO this badly?

Sheev memes aside, the Matthew Stover episode 3 novel was surprisingly good for a Star Wars book. I'd actually call that one decent scifi.

>like a hamster considering pellets of its own shit

At the beginnig it could be confusing 'cause little is explained to you but then things start to be more clear. The second is better and more clear, also GoTM is consideret the weakest

The next two books are the best in the series IMO.

Choose three

Ringworld, Altered Carbon, Lies of Locke Lamora

Books are not concrete.
But authors are
The three meme authors of sffg are Gene Wolfe, Brandon Sanderson, and R Scott Bakker.

>children with superpowers

Do they ever grow up?

litMeme

That would be Book of the New Sun, I guess. Except those books are not memes but actual masterpieces, unless you dont consider that to be mutually exclusive.

If you like a nice military science fiction trilogy try "Dread Empire's Fall" by Walter Jon Williams. It is really pretty good. Maybe a tier below Armor or Starship Troopers, but well worth a read.

Any good deep sea or sea opera books?

can you give me a link? I can't find anything on F.E.A.R.

t-take that back! some litrpg are fun
Anyone who says so never read any. You shit talk litrpg, then want to talk about webnovels and Japanese cultivation shitfest?

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My favourite

>Japanese

You have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, apologize now.

>this book is good because my dick was in my hands: the review

>Russian names
It's funny because Daniel Black has some Russian mercenaries hiding somewhere in a city.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.E.A.R.

If that's what you got from it, tell your parents I am sorry for them.

>to be fair you need to have a VERY high IQ to understand kindle unlimited erotica

I read both desu