>RETCON - THE PLAY winning >tfw it triggers me more than it should
Robert King
I MUST KNOW WHAT YOU SEE
Carson Scott
How many of you here read novels based in RPG settings?
Specifically, I'm asking if any of you here read Ravenloft novels and if they're any good.
Asher Morales
If Focus had a cross-media sibling within the sff genres, which book/series would it be?
Christopher Brown
>Fire Touched >Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.
Good Lord.
Jason Rogers
>alien spaceship from outer space >aliens >changing species biology with technology >fucking nukes
why is this considered fantasy again?
Robert Gomez
That sounds like fanfiction.
Also, I never really understood the appeal of making werewolves act like wolves.
Werewolves were always meant to be monsters, solitary creatures.
Them having packs, the whole "alpha" and "beta" thing - it just didn't make sense.
Kayden Roberts
Ninefox Gambit is one of the best scifi stories I've read in years and it's a fucking travesty it didn't get more votes.
Noah Rogers
What's the best place to start with LeGuin? I'm thinking either A Wizard of Earthsea or The Dispossessed.
Evan Morales
GUYS I JUST REALIZED IT NAU-CAYUTI IS INSIDE THE NO-GOD'S CARAPACE. Feel free to screen-cap this post so you can marvel when the reveal comes.
(I apologize if it has already been revealed, I haven't read The Great Ordeal yet).
Gavin Thompson
I read through a dozen or so of these fantasy romance series and they're all exactly the same. The SF authors at least have some originality but the fantasy stuff is just muh primal attraction ad nauseum.
Modern were-____ are basically animorphs
Landon Howard
From what I remember of that series, it's just basically the same chick over and over being chased by all sorts of dashing and rugged men and gods/demi-gods. Sure, there's a main plot, but it always seems like a side thing rather than the main issue when the personal life drama comes up.
Michael Thompson
>WE WUZ NO-GOD N SHIT
William Watson
Recommendations for things without tiring/dense prose? Both scifi and fantasy
Hunter Gonzalez
it gets revealed in the Great Ordeal
William Rogers
Because magic n rape orcs n shieet
Levi Torres
Someone told me pic related is good; i read the first 10 pages and find it unreadable drivel does it actually get good Veeky Forums? Help
Adam Price
No, it's terrible.
David Gray
I'm about a third into it. It doesn't get better. It's anime tier, but I'll finish it. Won't be reading the others in the series though
James Hall
That's what i thought thanks user
Angel Davis
It's snowy out. What are some good books that pair with this weather?
Caleb Collins
...
Gavin Sullivan
Song of Ice and Fire
Camden Mitchell
>winter is coming
WHEN?
Robert Howard
>a year ago Martin said he would do nothing but write Winds of Winter >still no known release date NEVER
David Powell
Someone hit me up with some good fantasy anime for me to read please.
Cameron Nguyen
I bet he still blogs about sports and politics and other shit
Jason Bell
...
Mason Allen
Powder mage Locke Lamora Lightbringer Shadow campaigns Daniel Faust series
Levi Flores
Was actually thinking of this. Last book I read was Summer of Night.
Dylan Kelly
Shingeki no Kyojin
Gavin Williams
I was the guy who posted this: And yeah. Modern day technology in a secondary world. I have never read a book that has such a setting.
Bentley Miller
>SnK >Good How's it being pleb?
Henry Adams
>"male:tomgirl" CEASE!
Lucas King
Don't worry, once my 600+ page post industrial high fantasy epic (along with deep themes and philosophical discussions) it'll exist. Veeky Forums will be put on the map.
Ian Brooks
Should I?
David Hernandez
Don't try and fight it Just embrace your desire
Kayden Wright
Are there any scifi stories about a man fucking his robot waifu?
Luke Perez
Might as well.
Grayson Evans
No, read something good instead.
Justin Hill
What's the most christmasy fantasy novel?
Charles Young
If you want to go ahead. Don't seek approval for everything little thing you want to do.
Jace Fisher
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Austin Barnes
The only thing I liked about the Rothfuss books is when Kvothe and his friends are hanging out at school or at the tavern. I use the books as a comfy friend simulator for this, but hate all other aspects of the books
Are there any books that excel in camaraderie and make you as the reader feel like you're "part of the gang?"
Julian Scott
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Austin Edwards
Good choice.
Easton Cox
>tfw you go to hell for being too lewd
Dylan Baker
I assume you've read Name of the Wind so you know what you're in for. Don't depend to much on memes.
Colton King
>not synthesizing your own race of shape shifting dick girls who orgasm just by pleasing you
Consult did nothing wrong
Caleb Rivera
C E A S E E A S E
Jace Walker
god, the words are just not coming to me tonight. You writing anything /sffg/?
Dylan Bailey
You are an /a/utist aren't you?
I went there sometime during the year and they went ballistic in teh sad panda thread when I said tomgirl.
Eli Powell
Can TKaG be added to the charts?
Samuel Moore
Whats a good book/series for political intrigue or revolts and that sort of thing. Preferably Sci Fi but im alright with fantasy ones too
Cameron Young
Your thoughts on songs/poetry in fantasy books?
Kevin Bailey
Valis
Blake Sanchez
I find it difficult to find the flow in many songs and poetry within books because of how non auditory books are Unless it's like a really simple rhyme scheme, I find it difficult to imagine the pace and inflections someone reading it might carry. That being said the few ones I've liked purely from being able to imagine it are 2 Tolkein songs, Far Over Misty Mountains and A Walking Song, and the Rains of Castamere from assoff I find it personally better for characters to use poetry and song within their universe as quotations or little snippets of it, rather than reciting the entire thing
Zachary Richardson
Anyone else find Citadel of the Autarch really depressing? There's something so soul-crushing about Severian's arc, and how basically nothing works out for anyone.
Cooper King
Expanse is the blindingly obvious scifi rec Some Culture books too
Traitor Baru Cormorant, Empire Trilogy, Song of Ice and Fire and Long Price/Dagger and Coin are the fantasy recs I can immediately think of
Jose Adams
Are there any fantasy series/books where the stakes are extremely small-scale?
One thing I think this genre struggles with, like Hollywood, is blowing things up to such massive proportions that the emotional weight is lost in spectacle
Angel Cooper
Dandelion Dynasty for fantasy revolution, Alchemy Wars for Clockpunk robot uprising
Jordan Stewart
The Buried Giant
Nathaniel Butler
Golem and the Jinni. It's literally just an evil Rabbi trying to become immortal. No world domination, he just doesn't want to end up in Gehenna
Joshua Morris
I have an idea for an urban fantasybut it doesn't take place on Earth so I don't think I can call it that story where a guy and his sister are tricked by their town into living in their world's version of purgatory. Instead of trying to support their community by spreading the influence of their world's equivalent to a god they renounce their past ties and strive to attempt a comfortable life.
It's pretty rough and I'm still figuring things out. I'll probably drop it after getting too worked up over every little thing. Pretty sure someone did something like this too.
Nolan Campbell
To Kill a God.
James Carter
I thought I would have dropped this story too. I've never gotten further than the 5k word mark but now I'm sitting at over 10k words and I keep re-writing the entire beginning because it moves too fast and doesn't introduce her character properly. I'm betting I'm going to have to do it all over again too
Beginnings are hard, harder than almost anything else. You don't have strings to build off of, you have to have everything right to hook people right away and even if you go back to it you can't really work backwards
My story is noir fairy tale about a mafia don's daughter who can see the future. For seven years he relied on her powers to solidify his rule over the unsleeping city, but when a prediction goes impossibly wrong he winds up dead. Now the daughter is on the run, sheltered by a circus magician who seems a to know a bit more than just smoke and mirrors
Ryan Nelson
Thanks for the rec. Deeply appreciate it, I'll be sure to read it soon
Bentley Stewart
House of blades It is LITERALLY anime in prose. It even has nothing personnel
Jace Ortiz
There is a scene with someone fucking an ai android in Neal Asher's agent cormac series. she dies
Owen Rodriguez
I finally caught you fagget.
You made me read that shit book. It's literary fiction, not fantasy you fucking cunt.
Nathan Taylor
Need more catgirls in fantasy nyaa.
Hudson Turner
Wait she is a don's daughter now? I thought the magician orchestrated everything?
Oliver Cox
You linked your own post.
Matthew Nguyen
I remembered a book I wanted to read and thanked myself for it
Leo Hill
Second Mistborn trilogy (quadrilogy). 1900 + magic.
Luke Phillips
Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Cooper Jones
Wight's newest series (Unsouled) is also basically just a shonen repurposed into a fantasy book.
His other series outside of that and House of Blades is awful though, even for fun trash
Zachary Sullivan
Beginnings are hard for me too since I need everything to click. It's like my mind goes, "If it's not right not everything falls apart later." Right now I try not to get to focused on making one way the story begins work, just analyzing what does and doesn't work. Which is pretty hard to determine from one pair of eyes.
Luis Walker
Any novels about space privateers/pirates (I'd ask for fantasy but I've already read Inda?
Ideally nothing with multiple ships on each side in battles as that isn't very interesting to me
Julian Stewart
What was it?
Dylan Peterson
Foundation or Downbellow Station?
Adam Roberts
Kino's Journey.
Sebastian Johnson
Citizen of the Galaxy has space pirates in it. The Lensman series.
Kevin Butler
>Lightbringer >good
Isaac King
Its fun
Dylan Hill
The Shadow Campaigns series has a French revolution in the second book.
The second or third Dread Empire's Fall book has one of the characters leading guerilla attacks and starting a popular uprising during a civil war after a planet gets taken over.
The Blackcollar series by Timothy Zahn is about genetically enhanced human ninjas fighting against aliens after humanity gets conquered. It's pretty pulpy but is entertaining.
The Vatta's War series might be what you want. Woman from a merchant family gets kicked out of her planet's space navy in disgrace, so her family gives her a old space ship to get her out of the limelight. Eventually she ends up with a letter of marque.
Carson Smith
Looking for a new book to read.
I liked the tower of the elephant and the dying earth.
Preferably something beautifully written, a little bizzare, testosterone soaked and **a little lewd**
No urban fantasy or sjw shit pls
Matthew Murphy
Forgot another space pirate one: David Drake's Igniting the Reaches series is about Venusian pirates/privateers going after Earth-owned planets and so on.
Ryder Clark
Literally BotNS
Elijah Wright
You're describing Book of the New Sun. >that scene where they're riding a dinosaur and he beheads the guy right as it walks into Vodalus' clearing
Juan Evans
Just a Nanowrimo project.
I need to fix some finer parts with it and write the damn ending, but it's going okay.
Ryder Price
What's the lewdest (not fanfic) sci fi/fantasy youve read?
I thought some of heinleins stories were pretty bawdy at points
Jacob Baker
Probably ASoIaF, but it tends to straddle the line between erotic and grotesque in a way that resonates with my own psychosexual morphology
Asher Powell
So I finished Echopraxia last night and it was okay. it seemed too wrapped up in trying to sound smart to actually be particularly interesting though.