Really big construction edition

Really big construction edition.

What's the most jaw-dropping SFF megastructure?

What kind of superconstruction do you wish more SFF featured?

What SF novel is most like BLAME!?

(Some random anons' completely subjective) Recommendations:
>Fantasy
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>Sci-Fi
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What would you do if an alien appeared and told you to suck its dick?

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I loved the idea of the Ringworld more than I enjoyed the book. But the second Ringworld book was good.

Just the idea of something so many hundreds of thousands of earths could fit in, how far you can travel amd still be on the ring.

Any books where multiple little girls rape one guy? Or anything with lewd little girls.

USE THE SUBJECT FIELD
IDIOT

Where should I stop with the dune novels?

the beginning

Man Who Was Thursday was awesome to be honest.

I've heard Napoleon of Notting Hill was also excellent, but it didn't feel like anything was happening and I didn't make it far.

My bad, man. Sorry I don't participate in generals all the time.

Why did you stop?
You aren't reading for the plot, are you?
Orphans of Chaos

Thinking that "Name" means the name of the thread is a sign of a pure heart, one who has never namefagged. That user can probably catch unicorns.

If you like Dune and Dune Messiah, you should probably read Children and God Emperor. If I were you I would not stop after Children without reading God Emperor, because if you've read that far, you might as well read the big one. Then after that you can decide whether you want to read the next couple of books.

In essence, my advice is to evaluate your position every two books. If you like what you've read so far, continue on to the next pair. Repeat through Chapterhouse and then stop. Don't defile Frank's good name with the shit his son wrote after that.

Stop with the Greeks

OR...
Read them all, even the ones from his spurious spawn, so you can bitterly complain online about how shitty it went after certain point.

You fucking idiot.
You made the same mistake last time.

When you make a thread you put the general information in subject, not name. When someone searches they won't find the thread.

>Anne Frank, in a fantasy and sci-fi selection.
>Because it never happened.
Well played user.

I know right.
Fucking Margaret Atwood and her silly normie nom de plume.

>What's the most jaw-dropping SFF megastructure?
None really. Its either something very hard to visualize or mostly just goes completely overboard with 'lol its a million billion km long' (fucking Perry Rhodan). Its like the Largest Spaceships infograph thats floating around from time to time, where you can simply said 'My ship is a thousand times larger then that one'

>HAHA! LOOK EVERYONE! I GOT THE JOKE!
Gas yourself senpai.

then pick one from a scifi author et al, of repute.

>No jokes after mine please.
I still love you senpai.

You didn't even link the previous thread
Fagget

>gas yourself
Well played

>*whew* managed to slip my thread in in front of the othes
No wonder you didn't take your time and do it well, you were rushing to get ahead of the others

Then we have to blow through this one extra fast.

hardly anyone is these days. fucking summer.

משוחק יפה

The last 6 threads were linked.

Probably the most palpable descriptions of megastructures that I've read are from the Culture novels by Iain M Banks. He doesn't just reel off figures about how big they are, he writes how immense they are from the characters' perspective.

>characters spend hours in frictionless maglev trains just to get from one district of one continent of one plate of a ringworld
>cruise ship a whole chunk of one book is spent upon is later seen as a dot in the distance in the cargo bay of one General Service Vehicle
>civilisations have to progress as far as pressurised atmospheric flight to even see the top of the towers holding up on level of a concentric-shell artificial shellworld

Where do I start with Brent Weeks?

Nowhere, he's a garbage author.

But this one is getting better shitposting. HURRAY!

Lightbringer

Night Angle is young adult shlock

>Worldbuilding

Absolutely! The OP question immediately made me think of GSVs.

It's summer, ye olde goode patricians are reading books.

This. Remnants of it pop up in Lightbringer, but overall the cringe is reduced by at least two-thirds.

He'd better release that book this year, though, and not go GRRM

Is it real?

I don't remember those. Which novels were these?

they're all garbage

not even joking

And a GSV can easily evaporate a solar system by burping some anti-matter. Contrast is the operative word.

I would happily kill Harlan Ellison. I hate him.

I dropped out of astronomy grad school, but I know enough to tell you that it's not an "alien megastructure."

why bother

>Look to Windward
>Consider Phlebas
>Matter

>God wears a fedora and is a nice guy.

Napoleon of Notting hill is I believe one of the first anti-utopian science fiction novels and its full of Chesterton's aphorisms and his take on love of ones country. It's quite moving, especially near the end.

This would explain a lot.

October 25th senpai

People have already received ARCs

THEN WHY DOES HE KEEP CREATING ROASTIES!

>GSVs
>Scary

Ever seen an ROU go to work?

I wish it was, but the most logical explanation in this case is that the star's light is being shadowed by a shattered planet of some sort.
We need more info.

ok then what is it

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Why did you remind me?

Those fucking ARC anons didn't want to share
RRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

A disturbed accretion disc? Or a disturbed protoplanetary disc? What this guy said sounds plausible on the face at least: It reminds me of pic related from a few years ago. rochester.edu/newscenter/gigantic-ring-system-around-j1407b/

The one the Sith used in the Sith era.

The books aren't kino though, except for the first two Darth Bane books and those where a different time period

Are there any books about a space-based humanity trying to reclaim Earth?

Kind of a spoiler (also kind of not), but the more fantastical third part of Seveneves is about that.

>except for the first two Darth Bane books

Yeah but it does work, try it.

That's already on my to read list, nice.

Probably not what you're looking for but the hunt for Earth becomes a prominent feature of the later Foundation books.

These are stronger books if you've read some of his Robot/Empire novels before Foundation

Architect of Aeons portrayed the Milky Way's Sagittarius Arm as a megastructure/living being while hinting that the entire universe might be one, or in the process of becoming one. The whole series does a great job at portraying astronomical scale and distance without getting too bogged down.

Can you lads help me out? I read a book years ago that I loved but I can't remember it now.

>something about rediscovering a crystal city
>clone backups of body/consiousness but there was some catch that meant you couldn't do it all the time
>the timeline skipped ahead towards the end and the original characters were commemorated with statues or something
>it ended with a war scene where the protagonist tried to break into a tomb and got bombarded from space
>lots of stuff about wormholes

it's been driving me nuts for years, I'm sure it was pretty well known but I can't remember who it was

It's kino and you know it, hothead

Because he's into Lovecraftian fanfics.

>Autistic Monad
That's why he never married, and kept worldbuilding all along.

What is it with sci-fi people and exaggerated, exotic physical objects used as a sorta metaphor for specialness and mystery. Like ... that shit mostly got played out in literature by the iron age. Hell, even by the iron age that symbolism is often used as a metaphor in some more comprehensive narrative - not this "lol it's so special how kooool" sentiment.

What's with some science fiction novels being almost great, but in need of editing, considering a third or half of each tome losing steam or compulsion at some point.

I don't get it. We're past the big three era, and modern writers should have absorbed their strengths and improved on their weaknesses. The state of science fiction is embarrassing, so what gives?

>Ctrl f
>tfw nobody's talking about Rama
I found it fascinating purely because of its unexpected surprises and its sense of mystery. It felt like a real adventure to read the crew of the Endeavor explore it.
1/3

2/3

3/3

except it's not a megastructure you retard.

kek close enough faggot

Thoughts on Malazan Books of the Fallen series?

Great series, stutters a bit around book 7, but overall is a good solid series

close enough doesn't cut it in science or science fiction. look at how niven was ripped apart by fans in earlier versions of ringworld.

look at how, in trying to show the thread up, you made yourself look like a gaping asshole.

LOL BTFO

Has a pleb like you considered you're the kind of moronic tripe Stalin would gladly exterminate? You using that gif shames Stalin.

How does it feel coming out of Wheel of Time?
Overly gritty?
Fun characters?

I read MHWT for the plot and loved every minute of it.

>the entire galactic arm is working off a billion-year-old debt
>supernovae are generally acts of industry and warfare
>galaxies are spun to ensure optimum star distribution
>Jupiter casually mentions FTL communication is possible
I love how the more Montrose knows the bleaker the universe's prospects look.

bored me to tears t b h

Generation Ships

oh yeah lets see you build a five mile cylinder in your back yard then

I hate that the Lynch film has set a standard for Dune designs. The aesthetics of that movie are fucking abysmal.

You'd prefer the SciFi hats?

At least it hasn't completely taken over like Peter Jackson's LotR.

>reminder that we will never have a low fantasy Lord of the Rings miniseries

When I read Dune I visualized the setting as being super oriental in appearance.

retard

>megastructures

They're not the craziest things in fiction but I really like the ship descriptions in the Expanse series, like the Mars warship just being a big cylindrical thing resembling an apartment block or something since it doesn't need any aerodynamics. The Mormons are even building a huge generation ship so that they can inherit their own star system.

There was a Captain in the story too who had a painting of an actual ship in his office because he longed for the days when they were designed to look beautiful and sleek.

Good world, that.

the syfy costumes weren't bad in concept per se, just cheap looking. same goes for the actors, though I think some of them are venerable, but didn't fit the roles.

The ending of the Fifth Season though
youtube.com/watch?v=oIscL-Bjsq4

In John C. Wright's Count to the Eschaton series, interstellar ships are streamlined to deflect near-c particles. One of them is described as looking like a rapier, with the laser push plate forming the basket.

Write something better faggot.

>At age 42, Wright converted from atheism to Christianity, citing a profound religious experience with visions of the "Virgin Mary, her son, and His Father, not to mention various other spirits and ghosts over a period of several days", and stating that prayers he made were answered.[6] In 2008, he converted to the Roman Catholic Church, of which he approvingly said: "If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics."[7]

Maybe Diaspora by Greg Egan?

What's that like? I'll read it if theres ebin megastructures and stuff in it.

I can but don't. By doing nothing I'm still a better person than you.

Fucking hell Sanderson

You better write some damn good revenge porn later on. I want to jerk off to Kaladin killing Amaram

Not really, but Egan writes the hardest sci-fi around.

It's a bit darker, less character driven and things aren't as spelled out as in WoT.