I think Steve is a really great guy and a good author
Andrew Reed
Here is the reviewers’ choice books
Jaxson Cruz
I dropped The Long Way off my reading list because somebody on another site mentioned there's a character who basically exists to be mean to everybody, and the ship's captain does nothing about this or the other crew don't just give him a blanket party ("it's just a bad dream fatboy") for causing trouble, which really just breaks one's suspension of disbelief.
Carson Robinson
Good fantasy recommendation for my friend? He likes classics, the bronte sisters, anime, edge chronicles, and xenoblade chronicles.
Anthony Jackson
Sandman Breeks
Gabriel Richardson
Breeks? google isn't helping.
Nathaniel Kelly
>trusting tor reviewers
Tor pushes out some pretty tumblr-tier shit. Not that they don't publish a lot of good books but I'll be fucked if I'm going to trust their reviewers not to be agenda driven. I read for funsies, not to be beaten over the head with gender politics.
Camden Russell
Brent Weeks, though that user is memeing you, he's shit.
William Cox
Oh okay. I didn't recognize the name.
Ayden Jackson
>being this triggered
Juan Roberts
He's not shit you're shit
Henry Myers
I think you meant to say
>I only like politics in my books if they conform to my present worldview
Jayden Cook
Thanks
Brody Thompson
Orphans of Chaos worth a read?
Julian Turner
Rec. some classic outer space sci-fi, thanks.
Nolan Hill
I'm now 10000 words in and I want to raze my story to the ground and re-make it from the ashes as a generic potterclone where instead of it being a school, it's a city full of hidden passages and speakeasies
Connor Hall
I bet you jelly you never had tight pussy
Nathaniel Morgan
So lev grossman but city big?
Leo Young
Ah storm it.
Ian Lewis
Zizek is a modern fantasy character, you can tell by how much he sniffs.
Ryder Morris
Any recommendations for someone who likes dark fantasy like Berserk and Dark Souls?
That's pretty normal for the 10,000 word mark. You'll get more out of it if you can actually finish it instead of restarting a dozen times.
Julian Ward
6/10 Final verdict
Hard to rate this one, the beginning is really weak and the end is much stronger but it kind of felt like luck that it got better at the end because /something else/ happened about half a dozen times as though the author was just throwing things at the wall hoping some would stick.
The end result of a few of the characters is pretty satisfying, like the main villain turning out to be chaotic lawful instead of actually a bad person, and the main character himself might be interesting if he had any internal consistency.
Idn. Wouldn't recommend.
Besides, it has airships and I struggle with airships because I instinctively lump them with the much loathed steampunk even when the book isn't actually steampunk.
Nicholas Jones
Just finished this. I enjoyed it but why does everyone act like it's so confusing? You can figure out what almost everything is just by context in which it's referenced.
Camden Morgan
Warrens were a bit confusing at first but that's it.
Brayden Nguyen
Has anyone ever answered that question? I've only ever seen it met by memes.
Charles Diaz
There's still a lot of stuff you have no clue about yet, but you have the right mindset for reading it which is to just take it as it comes and trust that things will be explained eventually. If you obsess too much over working out details in MBotF you'll never get very far because it takes several books before you have enough information to really piece the mythos together.
Xavier Hughes
This. Tor isn't accepting novellas in their new contest or whatever that are based on European culture. Medieval/High fantasy is inherently white. If someone who isn't white wants to write about African wizards, then power to them, but banning Eurocentric fantasy is like hosting a white-only RnB festival
Adam Baker
We literally answer Dying Earth and New Sun every single time. Feeling of loneliness and isolation in a vibrant, overgrown world where most of what's going on can't possibly be understood; New Sun additionally has a near-hopeless mission to reignite a fire source.
Jason Evans
To be a devil's advocate, a lot of slush-pile writers use European fantasy as a crutch, and Imaro is pretty baller. That said, the best fantasy isn't world-built around African myths, it's world-built around the Angolan civil war and Rhodesian bush war. Not that I know of any aside from what I'm writing
Matthew Miller
I went through my steampunk fetish phase, and I think the problem with the genre is that people completely forget that it's supposed to be retro science fiction. Instead of thinking of something new that asks questions, they regurgitate aesthetics that they will grow out of. The vast majority of Steampunk lacks originality
Jose Ortiz
So the answer is that there really isn't anything like Dark Souls, then. Those thematic similarities aside, BotNS doesn't even have a slightly similar feel or aesthetic to it.
Jack Barnes
>Imaro is pretty baller Isn't it just melanin-enriched Conan?
Luis Richardson
So what?
I'm not opposed to real world politics in my books up until they stop being entertaining and start being preachy. I would happily read a novel about a black disabled trans woman if her race/gender/physical abilities played no role in what was happening, but those kinds of characters tend to signal a certain kind of agenda that's just not fun to read about.
For fuck's sake I come from the generation that invented this shit and I am as tolerant as they come so why do I have to read books that are actively attempting to make me feel guilty about behaviours that I don't participate in.
Ethan Cook
>setting aside those things that are similar >there isn't anything similar
Hudson Mitchell
Is that a problem?
Ryder Allen
Just sounds done desu.
Charles Morales
Lots of works have broadly similar themes, but feel extremely different, therefore not necessarily appealing to a mutually inclusive audience. I can see why the memes took over.
Jeremiah Gomez
I'm generally going to prefer European-style fantasy because it's the culture I'm familiar with, but I'd definitely give foreign fantasy a shot if it was well written. What I am absolutely not interested in is the kind of affirmative action that Tor is practicing.
Also, fantasy based on the Rhodesian bush war could be cool. What are you working on, user?
Brandon Miller
Any good Lovecraftian-like fantasy?
Justin Murphy
What are some good fantasy with lesbians doing lesbian things?
Nicholas King
Robert E. Howard's work was also pretty racist. You might enjoy it.
Jayden Lopez
S L A V F A N T A S Y L A V F A N T A S Y
Jacob Hall
I haven't checked but, are there any pagan inspired fantasy out there?
>inb4 witcher books
Anything else?
Grayson Watson
ooh, I like slav things, what's that?
Blake Powell
-> Wolfhound
Henry Scott
I read that as Slave fantasy. Some Veeky Forumserate I am. Seriously, recommend me some good Slav fantasy, preferably stuff on audible
Matthew Johnson
Any coming of age romance magic/fantasy recommendations?
Nathan Rodriguez
Best English Jules Verne translations?
Ayden Ross
Very little of them got translated. And even even fewer are published published in english, Germany and Poland are more lucky. I suppose that's just because of you angloes are not very fond of publishing foreign literature. But those who are close to the request are Goodsdoom and Chasers of the Wind
Asher Barnes
Reminder that you just read the best book in the Malazan series.
Hudson Wright
As an Estonian I would really prefer if you never posted anything russian here ever again. Thank you.
Hunter Hernandez
Who gave a word to a halfing?
John Martinez
>Estonians
>a people that think Madara is an acceptable girl name
>naming your daughters after Naruto villains
Cameron Garcia
So what would happen if you Slicked yourself with Stormlight, reducing friction to zero, but then get hit with a sword?
Would it slide off your body, do reduced damage, what?
Connor Reyes
I have never seen a girl named Madara in my life
Wyatt Jenkins
dont be a fool
Gabriel Thompson
I've mentioned it before, it's about an expedition made by this little country in the middle of nowhere to follow their river to the ocean, as their old records say that's where rivers terminate and they want to know where they are on the map. It turns out the planet is huge, so they just take their cool trucks across a different adventure every week. It's gone through a lot of iterations but right now I'm doing good work on a trilogy of short stories about when the expedition joins a motorized caravan crossing about five thousand miles of rugged terrain, and the bandits with small air forces, giant ice monsters in the mountains, god-like creature in the plains beyond them, that they encounter.
It's fantasy even though everyone has 1970s-era tech because science isn't the focus, it's on a secondary world with no mention of Earth, the planet's bigger than Jupiter but has one standard gravity, and there might be magic, but at this point I'm debating if I even need it.
But the character archetypes are a lot more like you'd find in, say, Gods Must Be Crazy 2 than Shannara. Grizzled mercs, ideological refugees, clueless city folk out for adventure.
Christopher Rodriguez
Sanderson would probably think long and hard about that, then say it depends on exactly what you're slicking and how, and how if you do it wrong you might actually make it easier for it to cut you. He probably won't go down the route of careless edgedancers making their limbs slick off, but he might make it easier for swords to glance away.
Lucas Jones
Can someone point me in the direction of where I could get Roadside Picnic in Russian/cyrillic? I'm trying to learn the language and I also want to read it in its original prose. I can't find it for download either, so I guess I'll have to buy it.
Andrew Jenkins
We're not asking the important questions here. Did Dalinar storm Navani or not?
Shallan's spren all but implies he did, but we have to be sure.
Grayson Cook
A more important question is the existence of shitspren.
Colton Peterson
That's actually briefly touched upon in WoK, I think in one of the Kaladin flashbacks he askes his mother if even "dung" has sprens and she answer that it probably does.
And while we're on it, if you get horny while in a social situation and consequently attract some sexspren, wouldn't that be awkward as all fuck?
Camden Nguyen
>TFW I send in a submission about how great it is to kill gays and Jews and how it improves the world >Write it under a sandnigger penname >It's arabic culture so it's all right and not problematic at all
Mason Smith
I can tolerate the first part but >request submissions from writers from underrepresented populations
Is the sci-fi sjw aids spreading to fantasy now, these people need to be put in ovens.
Brandon Thomas
>now Fantasy has been a vehicle for political correctness for a while now.
William Peterson
Not so much the mainstream and popular stuff from what I can tell. And no the lack of GRI doesn't count, I mean obvious agenda like this shit. One could argue for the kingkiller chronicle but I think that one hilariously fails at it by being a male power fantasy but for white knight orbiter nerds.
Luke Flores
>I can tolerate the first part Why though? What's wrong with European culture? It's actually not very well represented in the fantasy genre at all, a modern kitsch version of faux medievalism sprinkled with puddle deep Tolkien conventions is the most common setting. I understand that an ignorant American might think that the fantasy genre is very European but we the literati know that that this is not true at all.
Authentic European medieval culture is just as unexplored and foreign as any other culture in the modern post-Tolkien fantasy genre. I find it just as offensive for it to be the subject of Jewish discrimination as such done on the basis of race. Especially since I doubt that they truly embrace other cultures and that they really just want western liberalism (which is corrupted Christianity) with a light Oriental flavour.
Cooper Bailey
It always struck me as super funny how /pol/ types hate the fuck out of radical Islamism while also having more or less the same ideals : kill the gays, jews, enslave women, one God et cetera.
Maybe they just don't like the competition.
Joseph Wilson
It's understandable in a sense that you can set this as a theme then something else next time etc. and I wouldn't jump at it as some example of sjwism immediately out of context. But the second part just makes it abundantly clear.
And if you go in-depth in individual European medieval cultures wouldn't that be more like historic fantasy not just inspired by whatever fantasy? I do think we could use more of that but you need actual knowledge of history to do that right so most people aren't going to find the effort.
Gavin Stewart
They're different breeds. Both bears and wolves are predators, they both hunt and they both eat the lesser animals. Yet the wolf does not get along with the bear, can you imagine why? It's a silly question, so I assume that you are a rabbit or a deer.
Chase Cook
I don't see /pol/ going over to other countries and raising hell while the media portray them as poor, helpless refugees that are being discriminated against.
Jonathan Carter
>anything less than full degendered anomie is enslaving women
Levi Allen
bahahaha that's because they never leave their mommys basement
Evan Hughes
>I am a wolf, if you will. An apex predator.
This is possibly the most fedora post I've seen in here and that includes the Rothfuss excerpts.
Carter Wilson
I'm actually Havinga lot of fun
Matthew Kelly
Spoken like a true rabbit.
Leo Hill
Indeed, my good Sir. Soon we shall purge the Earth of these vermin and take all the wenches for ourselves, at long last we will have revenge on those who wedgied our underpants in school. *tips*
Jackson Sullivan
hard to take anything but the top covers even slightly seriously
Jackson Nguyen
i don't remember this dialogue in zootopia. may be some other form?
Dylan Smith
Notice how the sjw will not even try to defend the point that started the whole discussion and just try to derail into shitposting, possibly by typing something stupid while pretending to be the opposition then jerking themselves off, or just picking out some random shitpost to reply to. Because as we all know sjws always lie.
Jacob Collins
Don't be mean. Each of them has its own charm in my opinion.
Sebastian Torres
>discussion >sjw bahahahaha Holy shizt, keep em coming. You're making my day.
Blake Brooks
The is meant to be , wrong quote.
Andrew Ward
The people talking about it before they came along, I agree that you obviously can't discuss anything with them.
Charles Long
Your point doesn't change what he said about the two having similar ideals. In fact, it reinforces it:
"What would /pol/ do if they had the size and influence of Islam?"
Brayden James
Whichever ones dont censor his blatant racism.
David Butler
I was talking about ideologies and social organization, not people. I'm also not identifying with either group myself. The allegory might put you off but I don't think that makes it inaccurate, the survivalist values of Muslims, Christians, /pol/acks and what have you are in stark contrast to the reversals of liberals, neo-marxists and so forth. If you cannot understand why they don't get along then you are likely to belong to the other camp because you do not know the fundamentals of what they are. >What would /pol/ do if they had the size and influence of Islam? Stop the white genocide. Remove Jewish influence from society. Create monoethnic states. They wouldn't flood the east with welfare sucking parasites in the hopes of winning a long term demographic war.
Matthew Brown
>What would /pol/ do if they had the size and influence of Islam
The inverse of how things are now, which is trading shit for shit. The human race should be done away with all together in retrospect of that. Preach that one group is objectively inferior to another and then go about how life is carved by your own hands. Shitty species that thinks it's intelligent, only in comparison to the other retarded life on the planet. The equivalent to an average kid being in a special ed class and being proud of being the top student.
Brayden Brooks
meant for
Elijah Allen
You should write to Sanderson and tell him you've discovered something sharper than the Shardblades : your edge.
Gavin Rodriguez
I was mocking you, /pol/tard.
Theres no discussion to be had with the likes of you.
Landon Richardson
What do we have here in this thread?
Kevin Gutierrez
I do not browse /pol/, too close to /b/ for my taste. But keep on lying, we all know it's what you do best.
Brandon Cruz
I said what I said, and I meant what I meant. My view stays the same until shown otherwise.
But all of this is digressing. Is Edgedancer worth reading?