/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

Tuor Edition.

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>Just answer and he goes back to reading.
Why does this sound so funny? Like some kind of feral animal.

First for Dinosaurs to return, my life has been so empty without them.

Tuor had it too good, immortality and elf bitch on the side while being born human.

His cousin was far more interesting.

He still had it pretty fucked up.

Only 100 pages? Your progress seems to be slowing down

Fuck the great ordeal shill.
I had a dream that shapeshifting monsters were following me, they were killing everyone one by one, and replacing them with shapeshifters. They tried to lure me by having a girl spread eagle, "she" told me to ear her out and fuck her... when I felt around the labia I felt something that i thought was an octopus beak... "She" wanted to either take my tongue or dick to incapacitate me long enough to capture.

Apparently they need to harvest your "soul" (it's described as a shiny silvery cylindrical object, about the size and width of your index finger ) before they can "take your place". They knew I was onto them because I stopped one of the harvesting and they wanted to blame the found body on me...

For some reason I was inside the interior of a church, but when i exited it was my house.... I saved someone and we had to jump from three stories up because they wanted my soul.

The shapeshifter in natural appearance looks like it has an open venus fly trap, crossed with a hammerhead shark for a head, and the body looks like that shit on hyperion books but instead of thorns it's black snakes....

I hope the shill dies.

>Tolkien never completed his novel on the Fall of Gondolin

9 days!

Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?

Sanderson is and anime

Instead he heard the voice, uttered through a hundred thousand Sranc throats, flaring like bright-burning coals packed into his skull...The voice of the No-God.
>WHAT DO YOU SEE
See? What could he...
>I MUST KNOW WHAT YOU SEE
The great King turned from him, reached for the Heron Spear
>TELL ME
>WHAT AM I?

Love you too senpai

Can't wait. I hope it's coming out in Australia at the same time but it's literally impossible to find reliable Aussie release dates for books.

>One time, when he’d returned to the tenement and hadn’t found her sitting in her window, he had dared come up to her door, moved by some shameful curiosity. What’s she like with the others? Is she the same as she’s with me! He could hear her gasp beneath some grunting body, hear her bed creak to the rhythm of thrusting groins. And it seemed his heart stopped. Clammy skin and ringing ears.

>He’d placed numb fingertips against the door. There, on the other side . . . There she was, his Esmi, her legs wrapped around another man, her breasts shining with his sweat. He remembered flinching when she climaxed and thinking: That cry is mine! Mine!

It begins...

Don't bully Akka, he's a good boy who did literally nothing wrong.

I really hope Talk the Younger will get intimate with the sweet young lady he is going to go on a journey with, his one eye is a very bad hindrance to him

I cam smell the semen in you, recognise the Bakkerfags who raped you from the sound made by the baubles of sweat running down their backs.

>the last time the No God was awake, there were enough sranc to take over the world
>now there are one hundred times as many

Earwa is fucked.

>Multiple versions of the same audiobook
Why is this allowed?

You should be glad you have a choice.

>Sanderson
>audiobook

This is like...DOUBLE cancer. I'm impressed.

Have you even read Sanderson?

My sister reccomended it, and Im not going to listen to the radio on my commute.

>each has a different time

>All are "unabridged"

You are beginning to feel more confident about your grasp of events, though still confused on occasion.
The desire for closure is a familiar ache in an undescribable location.
You think it holds promise.
Yes, and furthermore you resolve to at least finish the book before posting again on that swedish souffle bartering board.

Hello, /sffg/, I'm looking for a couple of, what might be niche, recommendations.

>Could you point me to something where theme is about honor and oyalty existing in a dog eat dog world
GoT comes to mind here with the Night's watch, Kingsguard and House Stark

>A fantasy or sci-fi setting with a multitude of races and species that play a significant role in the world
A good example here would be the Bas Lag trilogy or the Malazan series

>A setting which has people dealing with something that is beyond their limits of comprehension
Lovecraft, The Southern Reach Trilogy, Hyperion

The Red Knight by Cameron

Recommend me some cuckcore sff.

Bakker apparently

Not literal cucking, Veeky Forums cucking. I'm looking for sff for left leaning SJWs, bonus points if the bad guys are religious conservatives.

You're literally describing Mieville's Embassytown.

That's about language though

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

Not really, It's not so subtly about Britbong politics.

Will check out, thank you.

How about the complete opposite tho? /pol/core sff, as it were. I like variety.

I'm glad I missed it. All I read was a fun SF novel.

>multitude of races and species
Perdido Street Station - Some people on this general don't like it because the author is a socialist or something apparenty, though I didn't quite feel it while reading it.

>beyond their limits of comprehension
Most books by Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space is as good a place to start as any.

Crown of cold silver
Every character is bisexual
Trans characters are accepted everywhere
Enemy is the big bad not-Catholic church

You can also try the works of N K Jemisin

John C. Wright isn't quite /pol/core but he's pretty traditionalist. Even when he's writing transhumanism. John Barnes is liberal but his Jak Jinnaka trilogy is set in a satirical future where democracy is mostly regarded as a silly atavism.

Although the highest-profile /pol/core would have to be the Red Rising trilogy.
>trick your way into the genetic aristocracy
>realize they are actually great at ruling things and leave them to it

It's funny because out of your three examples of loyalty and honor in GoT, the Kinsguard has been a fucking joke for more than two decades and is filled with unworthy scum, the NW has always been a gathering of murderers, rapists and assorted cutthroats, and House Stark had like two honorable people who basically killed themselves with their own honor.

That's much more difficult, /pol/ is quite politically diverse.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers obviously.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress probably endorses too much sexual degeneracy to be /pol/ approved.

I already read those, but thank you all the same.

I feel like Heinlein doesn't give much of a shit about characters, plot, pacing, prose, just as long as he can preach his philosophy and show you just how much you are wrong and he is right.

>hey guys, turns out pure libertarianism IS possibile...

>...if you happen to have a near-omniscient and near-omnipotent AI at your complete disposal solving your every problem, that is.

Stranger In A Strange Land is the same, just with Michael Valentine Smith's magic powers instead of the AI.

Are you the guy who recommended Barnes's Candle and Kaleidoscope a couple of threads back?

>just as long as he can preach his philosophy and show you just how much you are wrong and he is right

How is that possible when all his books are shilling contradictory ideologies?

...

But incestuos rape is a key plot point

Elantris is his first book, I suggest the stormlight archives.

Not in the first book desu.

Anyone on Veeky Forums read Sudanna Sudanna? It's actually better than Dune.

>It's actually better than Dune.

That's not a hard thing to accomplish

I liked it better when it was called footloose

heh, too right good sir

*pushes up glasses with stone cold look in his eye and offers hand in a show of camaraderie*

Hard concept to swallow, I'm a big fan of Dune.

I never liked Herbert's prose/writing, more his ideas. What makes you think I'll enjoy this more than Doon?

The teenage girl POV in Second Foundation is pretty creepy T B H.

I think Asimov wanted to fuck Arcadia.

Really, what makes it "creepy"? I agree as a male reader the female perspective can be a little odd, and too many writers simply write women as men. (Asimov kind of does this to be honest) What gave you the impression he wanted to fuck her?

I'm currently writing some chapters from a ladies perspective for my shitty lifes work, and I was slightly concerned about how descriptions of """femine""" specific actions could be a little disturbing. But literally no writer ever describes situations where this awkwardness comes up, so neither will I. Or neither does Asimov really.

Arcadia's hardly a little girl either is she? Admittedly it's been a while he might have mentioned her age, but I remember her being a very sharp cookie.

Personally I think you're a bit of a pervert, but who cares. Second Foundation was let down more by those retarded scenes involving the Second Foundation folks, where all dialogue was through like moving their fingers.

>where all dialogue was through like moving their fingers.
upon second reading this kind of mugging off sign language. I mean the scenes where they're talking through like minimal facial actions and eyebrows and other random shit
fuck I dont know I read foundation years ago leave me alone

Any slavs/ruskies here? How was Metro 2035? I'll probably learn enough russian to read it before it gets translated, but i'm curious still.

>teenage girl POV
>in a story narrated in third person

>The teenage girl POV

Uh huh...

Not him, but a third person narration can be told from a character's point of view. Like, when the narrator knows only what the POV char knows.

What if the third person narrator says exactly what the character thinks and the characters thinks of itself in third person?

Yes. I am his only fan here. Vocal fan at least. Same for Adam Roberts as far as I can tell.

The only way to get through most fantasy dogshit is to listen on audiobook.

are there illustrations or depictions of what the different worlds/realms/dimensions in gene wolfe's the knight look like? i'm having difficulty imagining what mythgarthr looks like from aelfrice and aelfrice from muspel are stuff like that.

The Steel Remains

>A setting which has people dealing with something that is beyond their limits of comprehension
The Book of All Hours

>Fantasy writers will never learn how to cut out unnecessary garbage from their stories

>The Steel Remains
This was terrible.

>I've never read David Gemmell

You've been spending to much time reading Reddit approved ebic fantasy user.

The AI was mostly just a way to speed up the plot. Judging from his other books, Heinlein thought that libertarianism was both desireable and only possible in a low-density, high-trust environment. As population density increases, more restriction become necessary because MUH RIGHTS start getting in someone else's way. This is hinted at near the end of Harsh Mistress--the AI is obviously going to start harshing everyone's mellow once resource constraints become a problem.

The solution is to keep expanding into space forever, ensuring that somewhere a frontier-type environment always exists where the can-do libertarian spirit can be fully expressed.

So I've been thinking about reading Mistborn but read it's a drag to read.

Any shorter series with a girl protagonist?

Read the thread

Oh, didn't notice it's 6 am
Thanks

What's some sci fi similar to Peter Watts' stuff

I'm a big fan of how he wanks off over philosophy and neuroscience and shit

But if I don't read them how will I be able to write 3+ posts worth of walls of text about why they're bad when a redditor tries to come here and argue they're good?

How could you not notice it's 6 am? There's a timepiece in the lower right side of your screen, infant.

>Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15%? In a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian, underground world where class and beauty are defined by resistance to an overheated environment, Eden's coloring brands her as a member of the lowest class, a weak and ugly Pearl. If only she can mate with a dark-skinned Coal from the ruling class, she'll be safe. Just maybe one Coal sees the Real Eden and will be her salvation her co-worker Jamal has begun secretly dating her. But when Eden unwittingly compromises her father's secret biological experiment, she finds herself in the eye of a storm and thrown into the last area of rainforest, a strange and dangerous land. Eden must fight to save her father, who may be humanity's last hope, while standing up to a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy, despite her overwhelming attraction. Eden must change to survive but only if she can redefine her ideas of beauty and of love, along with a little help from her "adopted aunt" Emily Dickinson.

Is this any good?

Do I like the Silverfox parts?
Do I think this book is good so far?
Do I want to keep reading?

I was hoping someone could help me remember a short story I read, It's a story about a group of people trapped at the back-end of the galaxy because their one-way teleporters no longer work.
Two people eventually figure out that the teleporter are sending the data needed to build a new "self" to the next location, but is failing to destroy the one at the original location. The Self at the receiving location goes on thinking it has been successfully teleported, while the original is stuck at the start point. Armed with this knowledge, they "send" themselves through one more time to pass on the knowledge of what's going on.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?

>but my world build and intricate magic systems

this is a joke right?

Yes and published unironically by a white woman who thought she was being progressive.

"It's not racist it's about global warming!"

Kek, this sounds like someone made /pol/'s bizarro reality into a YA book

Anybody read Mark Lawrence? I've taken a real liking to his novels, and he puts them out at a steady pace too.

Terrible pop author.

>tfw almost finished with book 8 of WoT

Bring it on Jordan, not even bored yet. Bowl of Winds was small time, this isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Epic fantasy is a meme.

Calling books memes is a meme.

What I mean is that in any "epic fantasy" you will inevitably have repeated plotlines, themes, and characters which are indistinguishable from each other. The author just runs out of things to say.