/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

crazy chinese art edition

anyone read any good Chinese shit apart from 3Body?
any good African shit? South American shit? I want to diversify.

FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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youtube.com/watch?v=x69VpqoAj1w
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first for sanderson not a hack

second for sanderson a hacker

Second for the only decent Fantasy author still living

hahaha faggot

Sanderson-sama a best

U wanna go m8?

>far future setting
>people are still (for some unknown reason) called "he" and "she"

Gender fluid sci fi is not only preferable, it's sensical

>near future first space colony setting
>every character says wizard
Wizard

goodreads.com/review/show/210180755

>goodreads

any one read this? is it really as good, as reviews say it is?

Any litrpg where a guy becomes a sexy girl and hates it? Asking for a friend.

yes

>he doesn't use goodreads

I've heard of people who read it and didn't enjoy it much, but most people come out of it loving it. It's very, very weird and incredibly Chinese-y but it's worth it for the beefy excellent Liu puts out. This guy is a nutjob he grabs any bit of science by the balls and wrings the fuck out of it until it's literal anime but still somehow believable. Also I think it's worth saying that 3Body is a a bit of a slower start but my god Dark Forest blows your socks off (plus DF and the final book are much better translated IMO).

May I see it?

>and incredibly Chinese-y
What does this mean?

I'm not being racist lol
It's just very Sino-centric, most of the main cast are Chinese and seems to follow a general Chinese viewpoint. Doesn't subtract form it's excellence.

yes

Where is it?

Now with new fresh info in the image!

Downloads: b-ok.org/s/?q=Childhood's End

What will you give me in return

My eternal gratitude and as many (you)s as I can spare.

>buy a really nice, large edition of first book in series
>they never made the rest in the same format

What else?

Name it.

Forgive me for lying about knowing about any litrpg where a guy becomes a sexy girl and hates it?

Deal.

A book-recommendation?

yes

Project Alpha

The summary is nothing special. What sets it apart?

Why does Sword & Sorcery trigger the soyboys so much?

If you have nothing of value to post, simply don't post.

You too fampai

bump

Why do the so-named soyboys trigger the self proclaimed defenders of all that is true and wholesome so much?

Every Sword & Sorcery I've read recently has a female warrior, and that triggers me.

the Red Sonja archetype is a staple of pulp fantasy.

this is a bit long isn't it? this is the Midwitch Cuckoos rip off yes?

And I'm not too fond of it

What's the next big thing so I can write it and get a movie deal?

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>Is all that you've read of sci-fi Blindsight? jeez.

This was an excellent post

It's a FANTASY. Get over it. It's like complaining about FTL in sci-fi, or humans on fantasy land that somehow evolved to be just like us in a world that is completely different.

Rothfuss triggered me and destroyed all of suspension of disbelief in his second book when mercenary character uses his sword to
cut food for his dinner while having knives.
casting spells and dragons are more believable than a swordsman using sword to cut potatoes

are you gay?

Translate Blindsight into a watchable script

>this is a bit long isn't it?
Yeah, highest page count yet. But ~225 pages is not that long desu.

>this is the Midwitch Cuckoos rip off yes?
Childhood's End was published 4 years earlier, so would not think so.

No.
No.

Then you must be a woman, because there's no other reason you wouldn't like heaving bosoms in bikini armor.

>all this bitching
Tell me what you're currently reading instead! Is it good? Would you recommend it to /sffg/?

Because it's a dumb as a woman using a sword effectively is dumb.

Dumb yet sexy, and justifiable with magic. Sword and Sorcery is a dumb subgenre, and frequently revels in it. Why does this one aspect bother you so much?

what book tho?

>Why does this one aspect bother you so much?
I donno. It's a curse I'd enjoy a lot more stories if I jut let it slide.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about the Inda series before in my life, but I see it on the flowchart. Does it have good characters and dialogue?

Thanks m7. Nice dubs too!

Fire Upon the Deep

This. Yes. Sure.

Touble And Her Friends, some lesbian cyberpunk. It's ok, kinda dull. Wouldn't recommend because you all hate women.

Is there a better ship in all of sci-fi?

Not a nautical ship at least.

>finish date 30 march
cant wait to start reading this on the 29th

>soon became clear that the proposition of attacking enemy ships in harbors was not a practical one. Because of this, torpedo rams were never particularly popular, and the design was largely abandoned by the end of the 19th century as other, more practical, classes of torpedo-carrying warships emerged. Only a handful were built. The best remembered examples of the type were the aforementioned Polyphemus and the United States Navy's USS Intrepid. Neither saw a great deal of active service and they were mostly used for torpedo trials, although Polyphemus did demonstrate the potential damage she could inflict when she was used to demolish a harbor defense boom via ramming.
>While never popular with the naval services that created them, the torpedo ram can be said to have caught public attention in a manner which far exceeded its utility as a concept for a fighting ship. The heroic HMS Thunder Child in H. G. Wells's science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds was a torpedo ram,[6] and she destroyed two Martian Tripods. It has been suggested by some[who?] that, in view of the limited military value the torpedo ram demonstrated, Wells's immortalization of the type in what would become a literary classic was the torpedo ram's greatest achievement.

Scanners Live in Vain is his best story, although not the only good one. Worth getting into. Plus, I'm almost certain he introduced catgirls into Western culture.

>All-American Glurge
wtf are you talking about

How does one write a novel?

FUCK OFF.

Torpedo Rams would have been far more highly valued if Martians actually invaded.

With words

Tell yourself a story and write it down while you do.

Then edit.

Why are white women so delicious?

eating people is illegal in most countries, you should be careful about saying things like this

youtube.com/watch?v=x69VpqoAj1w

To mask their poison

That's not Brandon.

who?

who?

whom?

who dis be?

Just finished thr Hyperion Cantos.

Which should I start next, A Fire Upon the Deep or Gateway?

A Fire Upon the Deep.

>Indeed, every positive review I've read mentions that though the book has many flaws, its redeeming strengths are the 'depth of worldbuilding' and the 'meticulously designed magic system', two red flags which seem to be the fantasy book equivalent of saying that a blind date has a 'nice personality':

>"Well, the author isn't very good with character, plot, dialogue, structure, tone, or prose, but I was very impressed by the way his novel resembled a CIA Worldbook for yet another pseudo-medieval kingdom, occasionally interspersed with a list of house rules for Magic: The Gathering."

I'm like 15% of the way through Ship of Magic and god damn, nothing is happening.

I thought this was going to involve fighting sea monsters or pirate curses but instead everyone's just fighting depression

such is life

I assumed the people recommending Robin Hobb were joking, do people actually like her? I've never made it more than 20% into the first book of any of her series, all the characters read like self-interested teenagers. They're so trite and ridiculous.

Finishing the third book on the Altered Carbon trilogy. The main character being stalked by a younger copy of himself is a blast, especially when the two banter. Im gonna miss the word of digital human freight, but I'm also ok with it not overstaying it's welcome.

>Make it personal

Whom, and your goddamn father

Blandman Sandybuns

How loose do you think his boipucci is?

Robin Hobb mainly writes misery porn from what I've heard.

Like I saw some people talking about the game Owlboy elsewhere and basically the plot has the character getting bullied and abused by everybody else, with no good ending, and somebody qupped "wow didn't know Robin Hobb was making games now."

Is there still a market for fun and fast paced space adventures?

Yes, they just have to actually be fast paced and include some sexually confusing fuck alien.

Yes; it's called the pulp revolution.

yep

Wow what a retard. How can one post fuck up this bad?

Can confirm - he's great!

Writing about the printing press being invented in the stone age is still scifi, right?

Like user said, it's on the longer side.You might not make it if you start the last day!

Hey dawg, I heard you didn't want to be killed by the Blight, so I killed you with the Slowness.