/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

First for Stephenson's a fucking hack.

I vote we read Arty Clarke.

Snow Crash is fucking garbage

Vote in the strawpoll, you screwballs!

Sorry LOL

I did already, ya dip. I like to announce my actions. I am now smoking a cigarette. Later, I will think about something embarrassing from my past like I can change it.

>Later, I will think about something embarrassing from my past like I can change it.
Books for this feel?

Any books about vampires not set in the present? Alternatively, any fantasy (or sci-fi) that deals with immortal life, preferably of the main characters. Yes, I've read blindsight already

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Read Blindsight again

I was only copying the previous format jeez

Tell me, is Dracula hard to read? I read a translation when I was around 10 or 11 and enjoyed it a lot, and I'd like to take another jab at it.

Can't have a love interest more interesting than the MC.

What's Singing Flame about? The link doesn't have a synopsis.

Trinity Blood?

What's some good SFF about cute boys and their adventures?

The Licanius Trilogy

Just recently finished the southern reach trilogy and borne, don't understand why they're turning Vandeermeer's stuff into movies I feel they'd work much better as tv series

any other recommendations for weird stuff like his?

How did you like Borne?
I loved Area X, but couldn't really get into Borne the first time.

I liked it a lot. The middle dragged a bit but overall I thought it was really good.

>Tell me, is Dracula hard to read?
No

I don't know why I was asking, to be really honest. Maybe those Goodreads horror stories of it being hard to read made me question it.

who /malaz/bro here?

Do you guys think that GRRM would be a better sci-fi author than a fantasy one?

No, I have read his scifi and it strikes me as pretty mediocre. Even Sandkings and Nightflyers, probably his two most famous stories. Apparently Nightflyers is being turned into a moovie right now, he has written something about it on his blog.

No one, it's shit, fuck off

how about you fuck off instead, my man? it's perfectly acceptable to talk about malazan here, stop trying so hard.

You're shit

It's hard to read if you're a brainlet who thinks YA is "standard" prose. I.e. Goodreads

>discuss your favourite conceptually mindblowing sff where plot and characterisation take a backseat to pure wealth of imagination, ideas and imagery
Anything by Simon Bucher-Jones. Pity the man's worked most of his career in the media tie-in ghetto, he should be winning awards.

lmao

based Goodkind does it again

He really is a cunt.

Any other redpilled fantasy authors out there?

thats haram.
such opinions are not welcome in this day and age.

that seems pretty rude

what's even bad about it, sheesh

The absolute madman. Have he ever written anything readworthy?

Tell me about Brian Catling. Why does he write the Vorrh?

Friends, can someone recommend me fantasy books that are set in the bronze age? I thoroughly enjoyed the setting of Earthsea and would like to read some more books with similar setting.

Webnovels are novels too

He's one of "those" authors like Bakker who's all "first of all my art is NOT deserving of puerile 'fantasy' covers because I only write literary books about the triumph of the human spirit and Ayn Rand themed BSDM sex." There's some interview out there where he rants for paragraphs about how fantasy art is bad and that the attached cover is his TRUE VISION.

A blurry silhouette?

Gemmell's Troy trilogy, but there's actually very little, if any, fantasy elements that I remember. Still a good series.

Game of Thrones is scifi. It takes place on an alien planet with the remains of human settlers after a fall from technology. He just stole from Pern.

>Still need to finish it after stopping last year mid way through

It's not fair. Might just get the audiobook and listen to it in bed

What is the Myst of fantasy?

goodreads.com/book/show/159764.The_Book_of_Atrus

>book based on vydia
lel fuck that senpai

its actually a very good series.

Is the sword of truth series worth a reread as an adult? I read them when I was in middle school. Don't remember much but not sure how they will hold up to maturity.

First for litrpg

I crawl her dungeon, if you know what I mean

No, it's truly horrible. Unless you can meta-read it, wise old man style, and be charmed by what a young boy is charmed by.

I kind of liked the Halo books and I've never even played the game.

I thought it was a pretty good cover, though.

>Ayn Rand themed BSDM sex
Apart from his distaste of good fantasy covers, this might have caught my attention. Should I start Sword of Truth, or is it a waste of time? (it IS a 15 book series) Maybe something else by him is a better starting point?

i read the first book and didnt like it.
3/4 of it is basically mc and love interest getting tortured by bdsm nuns and not in a good way if you want smut then just read smut

I am not that completely appalled by it if it avoids "levels", "skills", "classes" and such. Any recommendations?

>Can't have a love interest more interesting than the MC.
The Witcher did it.

To be fair to Bakker, the covers for his books are genuinely awful. I mean who the fuck even is the guy in the Aspect Emperor covers?

Nah, not really interested in torture. I just read the synopsis and thought there might be some cuddling between dragon hunting or something. Lodoss war or something like that.

It's in the same bracket as Wheel of Time in that it's only good if you're a teenager.

Are there any litRPGs where a character becomes a sexy woman and hates it? Asking for a friend.

Sorry, no. It's all about levels, skills and classes. Otherwise it's just lit.

Am I correct to be alarmed by this trend and its effect on the /sffg/?

Don't be too alarmed until Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day co-author one and it ends up a NYT best seller.

Christ, I feel a containment board coming on. A thread just won't do. It's still too close.

Yes, if you subscribe to the calcified version of genre lit. If you yearn for the day when the weirdness and unpleasant nature of the creator shone through a work of art then litrpg is your future.

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>If you yearn for the day when the weirdness and unpleasant nature of the creator shone through a work of art
That still happens now. See GRRM's obsession with lactation and food descriptions

That's an excellent point. Now again I'm forced to refine my idea of what is squelched in GRRM but shines through in kindle specials.

Disgusting.

>the day when the weirdness and unpleasant nature of the creator shone through a work of art
>it's reddit narrating farming dire rats in World of Warcraft

Out of curiosity, did you read and despise the original Scott Pilgrim (comic not movie) or did you sense a possibility?

Yes, the author's pleb enthusiasms have not been workshopped out of him and ground into an all-tastes paste. Even if he is derivative as fuck.

I wonder if he would ever try to do an epic space opera series? Only SF of his I'm familiar with is Tuf Voyaging which is a bretty gud collection of short stories.

I just finished Hyperion and honestly found it fantastic, but was told to not read its sequels. It feels though like Fall of Hyperion is a direct continuation, should I read it?

...that's not even a bad cover.

literally every piece of realist garbage ever written

Reminds me of Ted Chiang's Tower of Babylon short story.

>My novel is just a court proceeding with the Main Character just Reiterating what transpired a few days ago.

Is this bad? I thought about making this into some sort of Interview but thought that courtroom is much better.

Does anyone here have that one website where the guy just lists all the stupid shit in Sword of Truth? I rememer the parts where Richard murders a crowd of peaceful protestors because he knows in his heart they are evil, and the parts about the evil chicken.

All depends on the execution. Could be novel and clever. Could be boring.

> I rememer the parts where Richard murders a crowd of peaceful protestors because he knows in his heart they are evil
But that was the only good part in Sword of Truth

Why is there so many people asking if they should read Sword of Truth in here lately? I think we need to put that one in the OP, the answer is no, of course.

a few chapters into consider phlebas, I heard it was a bad starting point for the culture series but holy shit, I feel like I'm reading gulliver's travels in space and not in a good way.

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Yeah, player of games is a much better starting point.

The whole shit eating cult section was terrible.

Blindopraxia and Coldfire are the only good ones I've come across.

Fevre Dream for something more traditional.

Yes. The sequels are the two others.

any good mixes of dystopian future and feudalism?

also if there isn't then this post is OC and you may not steal it