/sffg/ SciFi and Fantasy General

>What is the best Asian inspired fantasy?
Books of Stone & Water by Daniel Fox

I dunno about best. About all I read that even qualifies is Under Heaven and the Braided Path, both of which were alright I suppose.

What's with all the good Asian SFF written by white guys? It'd be like if Eddison or Dunsany had been Japanese.

There are probably some good Jap or Chink writers but they write in Japanese or Chinky and don't get translated, or do but are unknown in the west.

What would /sffg/ think about a story that is a genuine adventure in which you as the reader explore the universe together with the protagonists.

The story starts when Mc1's master disappears into a sprawling ancient city that has since been occupied by a mysterious Ruler and his people. Mc2 is this master and we explore her motives and insight into these city's inhabitants and their ruler, whom they see as some sort of god king.
Mc3 is a person with unclear origins but it's implied and eventually revealed to be a diogene. The diogenes are artificially made beings out of this ruler (who is secretly dead but a shadowy organization uses the diogenes as puppets to control the city in the name of this ruler.) This organization seeks to restore humankind to their former glory and conquer the stars, without knowing why the now-dead ruler settled on this planet in the first place.
The story starts as medieval fantasy but as we progress, it goes more and more into sci-fi territory. The diogenes, children of god become clones of him, the ancient city is revealed to be the ship upon which the Rules arrived on the planet. The city also has some cyberpunk elements such as drug addiction, a degenerate and uncaring society, body alterations and a dark and maddening mood about it.
I plan to have it as a trilogy. In book 1 we are introduced to the world and it's dualistic nature (those inside the city and those outside), the 3 main characters, their motives and the decaying state of the world. The reader will discover the diogenes, the truth about the ruler and its body, the secrets of the city and towards the end the secret organization is introduced and it's taking control of the city after certain events throughout the book. Book 1 has a bad ending.

Book 2 starts with the organization, now a ruling government, and a montage of it taking control over the world through various means, and forwarding their plans. We learn of their motive and the reader might ever align with their ideals. The dead ruler is resurrected towards the end of the book. The book ends with the utter destruction of the ruling government. Good ending.

In book 3, the revived ruler becomes Mc4. We explore his motives, history and the reason he settled on this world and never went further. Most characters, both main and side, die, but for many more life becomes better. The ending is intentionally ambiguous: should we stay on our world, cherish it as our only and true home, with all its goods and bads, or should we venture into the unknown of space, potentially triggering our downfall.

I want to explore several themes: degradation of society as a bi product of technological growth, free will, the unknown, parenthood, good vs evil and the origins of evil, love as a pure connection between intelligences.

This is a massive undertaking of mine but know that I'm taking as much time as I need to make it worthwhile.

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I think once it's not the protagonist, Sanderson would let any of the "loose" characters engage in premarital sex .

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>my taste is the basis that the world should use as a template

Hobb is pretty shit.

Why do women write again?

AA was good.

The series goes downhill from there though

Name the 5 best female fantasy authors and tell me why they aren't fucking shit.