/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

>That pic

>’nifykin look outha portole sreely pretty, sreely pretty, lookna Port Upotoi swinging roun thole mudball, thole goodole place, it’s maybe not the prettiest place na whole universe but nobody ever said it was, it was home though m that counted frole lot that swat Leander Laptip saw outha portole

Wow

Can someone put the GRI in the Night Angel trilogy in a spoiler for me? I can't remember any of it, but you guys still give it the GRI stamp.

>That cover
>Womeme authors
Isn't this just thinly veiled erotica for women?

No, it wasn't hot unfortunately. There weren't any juicy details. It was further characterization to show she was morally grey.

The plot made more sense the second time instead of seeming random. You can see the build up coming to the end.

I agree that I didn't care about the revelations that much either. It got too crazy and I didn't care about the character. Even though she had a lot of personality, she just didn't click like the characters in Set This House in Order, which I'm going to reread next, and I know I'm going to enjoy the hell out of that one again.

Any good books with lead characters as badass as is implied by the quote in that picture?

Sci-fi or fantasy, either.

Author didn't pick the cover.
Also, sorta.
There's sex like, 4 times in the book? The rest is him learning how to do wolf things and fighting trolls and fucking a milf in town. It's erotica with plot.
Also, what's your point?

Belgariad's plot is orphan farm kid is the chosen one to save the world from the dark lord. It's hack writing and totally pandering but one of my guilty pleasures.

>Set This House in Order
this was good
surprised ruff gets any mention, haven't seen her talked about ANYWHERE

daryl gregory is a good writer that kinda reminds me of her

>Any good books with lead characters as badass as is implied by the quote in that picture?
No, only antagonists get to be that badass.

>and fucking a milf in town
Hmm.
>Also, what's your point?
I was just wondering if it was really a good fantasy novel or if you liked it for... other reasons.

This one of my favorites, I find my sealf rereading it regularly, but it's been buried in obscurity, anyone else whos read it what did you think?

>Any good books with lead characters as badass as is implied by the quote in that picture?
You mean tipping fedora and unsheating katakana while preparing to teleports behind you badass? I mostly see that in fanfiction desu.

>katakana
*Katana
You're drunk, autocorrect.

Really good? Depends on what you think it qualifies a good book.
I really enjoyed it because I like Historical novels, people acting not quite human, young men learning how to adapt to a strange environment, and young men taking on "female" roles, including taking care of everyone else (in a non sexual way). The fighting was okay, I guess. Nothing special (just men against trolls) but not badly done at all. The sex was just a cherry on top. If there wasn't any, I would have enjoyed it just as much.

I think it's good, but I don't know if it's better than that.

Logen Ninefingers in Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy is feared by everyone who knows him, but hes not very cocky about it like that picture.

I've been a fan of Ruff since I found Fool on the Hill and I've been reading him chronologically. I haven't gotten around to Lovecraft Country and The Mirage but they're definitely on my list. Another of my favorites is Jeff Noon who I rarely see mentioned here.

Thanks for the Daryl Gregory recommendation. He looks like a writer I'd be into. The /sffg/ hivemind keeps talking about the same authors. Any others you like?

The Vox Box:
my.mixtape.moe/wwgzxt.zip

YUGE and fast fantasy and science fiction torrents:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3CC0E1D3FFF491051E03E654128B544B142A818B&dn=Fantasy&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6E5356CC9A58585B97BC1C2E6D2019E18D0C486F&dn=Science%20Fiction&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

How huge are we talking?

I might have exaggerated with YUGE but it's basically two gigabytes of txt files and some other formats for each torrent.

As much as I disliked this book, it was exactly what I needed. Yes, I'm the same guy from a few threads ago - I finished all six hundred fucking pages of this travesty.

And it was actually okay. Helped to cleanse my palate after marathoning the entire Prince of Nothing series.

what did the prince of nothing series fuck up your brain?

No, it's just an actually good series. This was nice and mindless.

Anyone know the name of that shitty YA book about a self sustaining dome city in a post apocalyptic ice age.

The main protagonist is some kid who's dad died.

It was full GRI. All three happening at once, and separately and in pairs.
Butts were buggered, gays were incestedly raped.

How can you not remember? Are you the skim/speedread user?

>What lengths will you go to ---
>for your boner and for the love of your wolf?

Ahwahrn'd 'ew, didn'eye?

That's what I saw too.

No, I'm a very anonymous user in this general.
I read the books in my teens sometime, and can't remember any explicit GRI. Some was more or less stated or implied, but nothing was described/experiences first-hand as far as I can remember.

For example that friend of Azoth who ended up selling his body was, I think, only said to occur.

How's your book coming along? Rate my idea. It would be a one and done book, fairly large, but no chancr of being a series.

[bio-digital fantasy, postcyberpunk, grimdark]

This science fantasy epic explores an endless global war in a world with evolutionary magic, framed in an expedition by a young genius who discovers and is subsequently trapped on perhaps the most treacherous planet in the universe in search of a seemingly limitless energy source.

Sounds like potentially good YA.

YA might be the way to go. It would definitely sell better. Ideally it'd be something in between Hunger Games and ASOIAF in terms of explicit content.

Did your mommy read you the books or something?
>first pubbed 2008
>read in my teens
... How teens were you?

Why is she only wearing underwear? That's horribly sexist and wrong

what about it. it"s an just the old book cover

Is there an epub or mobi that collects all of CAS's Zothique stories? I know they're all uploaded at.eldritchdark.com, but I'd like them on my PC in a single ebook file.

>implying 2008 wasn't 9.5 years ago
He could have read it when he was 13 years old and still be old enough to drink user.

pls stop

>SFFG of the Tower of Torture and Sin
>Anonette having Wolfe tied up
>GRI approved
Come on.

>implying he isn't just pretending to be tied up

I wouldn't mind only wearing a bikini in the company of Wolfe desu.

I think they are included in this:
www17.zippyshare.com/v/2673553/file.html

You shouldn't mind wearing a bikini in the presence of Veeky Forums then

Thanks, bruh.

Gonna write a fantasy about a war between lizardmen and mermen.

Will the mermen be traps?

Very important. Fish and or lizard breasts, yes/no?

>Fishboys getting hot lizard dick
Would read

Huh, the fantasy torrent is remarkably incomplete for gigabits of text.

What in particular are you missing?

Well I just finished way of kings so I was hoping maybe I could grap the sequel but there's only 4 books in the brandonson map. he's made like a billion.

It really should have been compressed.

>Rate my idea. I

Recommend me fantasy with a trap protagonist please.

What do you think of Alvin the Maker saga? I've read a lot of things from Orson Scott Card and I've pretty much liked everything.

I've only read the first four and I enjoyed them. I heard the last book was weak so I'm not sure if I'll bother to return to the series.

I was about 17 years old I think and read them about 7 years ago. I can't fucking remember. Stop being a dick.

seconded

>the fuck? No, the text is really poor resolution!

You don't know how ebooks quality works?

The rest of y'all: these torrents are almost entirely made up of .txt files with no chapters, formatting, etc. You're better off getting these books elsewhere.

I haven't even seen it mentioned but it looks interesting, will check it out. Thanks, user

So I'm reading through the Three Body Problem trilogy right now anons. I'm only a couple pages into the third one so no spoilers please. That post might contain spoilers for the first two books though.

I quite liked the first one, I got a 'Fine Structure' (an episodic novel published on qntm.net in the 2000s) vibe from it, the whole chinese thing was a fun way to learn about their history and that was also nice. I liked most of the characters, and overall really left me wanting to know what happens next.

The next book however... I still like it, but every single character feels weaker. The waifu fag is the most boring protagonist ever, the only fun character is Da Shi in my opinion.
Out of the four wallfacers, one spends most of the book jerking off to his waifu before he gets a good idea at the end, one is actually pretty interesting with his mind seal thing, but the other two...
First there's mister giant atomic bomb. His cover up plan is non existent, just stockpiling bombs for the sake of it is stupid. And his actual plan... While interesting, it's also stupid because of the sheer amount of bombs needed.
Then there's mister mosquito swarm. Again, his cover up plan is stupid, he's just putting people inside guided missiles because "muh AI isn't good enough for guided missiles" when that's blatantly untrue. His actual plan makes a bit more sense, but given that the Trisolarians don't even understand the concept of lying, maybe blowing up the whole planetary defense force just to convince them is a bit excessive.
And then there's the whole fiasco of the battle with the first probe, I mean, yeah, sure, for our first encounter with the technologically superior enemy force we've been anticipating for centuries, let's just send our entire fleet in parade formation, at the lowest possible crew readiness level, what could possibly go wrong? How these idiots didn't think that a combat operation isn't a photo op is beyond me. Really took me out of the book.

But overall I'd still say I'm liking the books and looking forward to reading the third one. What did you guys think of these books?

What was the last thing you read and why wasn't it written by Gene Wolfe?

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What are some fantasy books that feature interracial cuckolding?

Please leave, Sweden.

user I think you're better off reading hentai

Does GRI approve of the first Thomas Covenant trilogy? If so, that, if not I really don't remember.

[Spoiler]I hated the first book in the second trilogy and didn't bother reading the rest after finishing it[/spoiler]

Anybody just been re-readingbooks from their childhood instead of starting new series?
The lioness quartet still does it for me almost two decades on.

This, couldn't understand the appeal of cuckholding until I saw elf maidens get defiled.
Now I sort of get the destruction desire, like seeing a creampie in a porn and knowing the dumb slut is gonna get pregnant.

>that manga

I liked Quantum Thief.

are the novels of Trudi Canavan good or is it just fantasy for kids or YA (aka manchildren)

I enjoyed them. Nice solid sci-fi with clear oriental influences. It read differently.

Any novels with a little girl protag?

It sure does read differently. I'm reading an english translation, so I'm not sure how much of it is my own expectations, how much is the translator's style, but some sentences do sound... asian I guess?

Also please tell me I'm not the only one who had a comprehensive plan for the defense of the solar system? I'm at work right now so I pcan't really take the time to type it all up, but I might later. I'm looking forward to getting to the actual invasion to see what their ships really are capable of so I can find out whether my plan would have worked or not.

Hi guys, I'm writing a sci-fi epic.

Just wanted to know, since I'm actually fairly new to Veeky Forums, I'm going through your list of selections posted here and picking out what to read, but I have a very specific interest -

Sci-fi sans aliens, or at least without life more intelligent than humans, where it is explored what happens when the limits of human capability and science are pushed - for lack of a more obscure example, Dune, with its prescience. Is there any similar book that I should look at first?

I guess Dick would be interesting to you. (I mean Philip K., not rods, fag).

Lolita

You know, I never really liked The Man in the High Castle.

I'm not a pedo.

no thanks

Me neither actually. But I'm a big fan of his more wacky stuff with mutants and colonies on the moons of Saturn, mostly short novels Minority Report is great (so much better than the movie) for instance.
So yeah, read his short novels.

>I'm not a pedo.
What a fag, come on, it's 2017

Let's face it, no one is ever going to write better, cuter or purer lolis than NK Jemisin in western fiction.

>So yeah, read his short novels.

I will, he's one of those authors I heard and read about, you end up reading the most popular novel and then you kinda forget.

Like with Tolstoy, although I loved Anna Karenina I was a little eh about reading anything else, and then War and Peace just blew me away (even though everybody said it's too dense and so on).

2010 was only 15 years ago. Why can't you remember?

Lord of the Rings collection has a 4.47 rating and the Great Book of Amber has a 4.31, so why do you all keep pushing Wolfe when BotNS only has a 4.15?

inb4 "goodreads is for plebs" that's not the point. Every user is a stranger and unless they list specific taste, it makes sense to assume they'll like what most other people like, and overall, people seem to like both Tolkien and Zelazny better than Wolfe.

>Convert from txt to epub/mobi
>??????
>profit
I'm sure there are programs that allow you to chapterize an epub by space or seeing the words "chapter" followed by a number. And font? I thought people changed fonts from retail books regularly. And I'm sure this program does it in batch.
If I have a program that splits multiple audiobooks mp3s into "chapters" by recognizing the space (pause) the narrator takes before starting a new chapter. Then there is a batch program to convert multiple txt files into epub/mobi and chapterize automatically.

>three shill problem user is back
>starts to praise the series once again

Thats enough autism for today user.

>implying legendary super aryan has a chance again pure blood masterrace

>Goodreads

>and overall, people seem to like both Tolkien and Zelazny better than Wolfe.
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