Will Gen Z ever produce a literary figure as lauded and original as Cormac, Bellow, Pynchon, etc?
>>25180600Well, no. Gen X almost did with DFW. He's a great writer imo, just not quite first-rate.
>>25178525such a repulsive image.
>>25180605>sheThere's your answer.
>>25178525Yes but they won't write books
I'm a literate zumzum and I write good. So yes.
Is there a genre for space being filled with air and giant airships and floating cities travel between the stars?
>>25178969If you are ok with ignoring 99% of the book, twisting around the 1% you don't ignore, and then there is his use of genre as conspiracy which most genre fags will probably get triggered by but is not really an issue since they probably won't get it.
>>25178750it's basically gulliver's travels
>>25178750science fantasy.watch the disney version of treasure island.
>>25178750I think Michael Moorcock is what you want
>>25178750There is certain Robert Rankin, who writes satirical Scottish fantasy - in at least two of his subsettings space is filled with air and giant Victorian tesla-punk airships fly through it inside Solar System.I'd recommend you to read him from the beginning as certain characters-events-running gags etc refer to his earlier books whereas victorian teslapunk only fully appears roughly toward the last third of his books. Knowledge of 60's to 90's British and USA media is recommended.
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
chud-ness is downstream from physiognomy, so just make sure you and your baby momma are from a good genetic stock and that you're at least middle class. your kid could still turn out short, ugly and fat, and it will cope with chud-ness due to being naturally hated by everyone.
>>25180627Children books are full of fag and feminist shit.Real life makes man a chud.
>>2518066418 is too early. If you got it a year later you would be a jock rn.
>>25180674Oh I meant chud in the sense of internet racist misogynist whatever. I'm fat but I lift weights and haven't ever really had problems getting women (surprisingly). Is "chud" just gen z for "incel" now?t. 30 year old boomer
>>25180667counterpoint: the average redditor
>Les Miśerables>War and peaceWhich book captures the essence of Nepolean as a historical force more fully?
>>25180630Nothing compares to War and Peace.
>>25180630Other than the Waterloo digression, 'poleon has very little to do with Les Mis
Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms Edition Version 2: Magical and/or Alien BoogalooFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25177850Because I apparently can't let mentally go off this thing, I started wondering if Industrialization might in fact be a trap similar to strategies based on mobile eternal conquest (that don't work because you only get the essence the first time you conquer something) because it's relying on my knowledge and I only have very superficial knowledge on things like cannon-making and trying to figure out it all from near-scratch would take a lot of time even with boosted mental stats.So...Traits: Joining, Recycling, ScryingDrawbacks: NoneJoining + Recycling lets me get back my experienced units even after a full defeat and also lets me offer physical immortality to those who wish to side with me. Scrying is really handy specifically to block others from scrying my location. I miss Monument Builder though. If I can have a version of Honorable that is more about sparing the civilians than getting killed in duels, then it'd be worth picking that one and Monument Builder so that my domain can look magnificent and advanced, even if I don't build the essence-farming monuments until later when I have openly turned against the goddesses.The question of which race to pick for myself is really difficult...
>>25130237Well, I've been sketching out human sacrifice rituals lately. Not the ones meant to save crops, of course, but rather dark sorcery meant to be used as a weapon, or as a power up.Since all Dark Magic comes from a primordial entity that's comparable to Nyarlathotep (the inspiration), it's always destructive to those that aren't the wielder.
How do uranium or thorium reserves come into existence? Is it due to seismic activity?
>>25180591No I think they're directly generated by stars or decay of other elements, I might be wrong though. Many isotopes are super long lived which is why they're still around in the crust. I might be misremembering, don't take my word for it. >>25130237My setting is in a weird place between post apocalyptic and cyberpunk: Vaguely like the setting of Gibson's "Peripherals" but with ASI (that came and went) instead of cross parallel universe internet. What kind of psychological effects would growing up in a decaying, rapidly depopulating VERY high technology society have? I'm taking japan and some of the decaying rural towns in the US as inspiration but I can't think of many other parallels.
>>25180672*The Peripheral, not Peripherals
We're getting deep into 2026. Are you reaching your yearly reading goals?
>>25180017this is a retort only said by those who would be embarrassed to show their amount read because it would expose how little they actually do.
>>25180003I don't really have a goal but I keep track of the number just for fun. I've read 16 books this year
>>25180193no hes correct
I go from thinking having goals is peak NPC behaviour to thinking having goals is some kind of endurance against life's overall futility. One day I'll have a defined personality or a semblance of true belief, I swear.
>>25180003Volumecells need not apply.This only signifies the amount of time you spent on reading, not the amount of knowledge or peculiar experiences you acquired.
So... the good guys won?
>>25179533>>25179335I just checked, the words "Wathi" and "doll" do not appear anywhere between him leaving and it appearing.
>>25179400The Judging Eye opens on him at the end, revealing his true nature. But just think about what comes to him on the Circumfix ( hint: it ain't Ajokli, it says the famous No God words—it's the Ark; Bakker even points out in the AMA that everyone is missing something obvious, which is to my mind that the Dunsult themselves admit that the Ark is the real master and refer to it as an entity.
>>25179335That guy is either bumping his own thread or just baiting. No point engaging. You’re correct btw, I just finished the Warrior Prophet yesterday and there’s zero evidence that anyone other than Akka activated the doll.
>>25176704The Fanim are the most wrong for an extremely simple reason, and that is that the God does not care about them. Recognizing the existence of the God alone will not save them, its demands are inhuman, absolute and arbitrary. To get so close to the truth and still fail to grasp it is the greatest failure of all.
How are the Consult the good guys? If someone like Esmenet isn't damned, you have to be a pretty terrible person to warrant eternal damnation.
I'm nearly finished with the expansedwhat the fuck am I supposed to do next?
>>25180614Where’s my depressed Russian protagonist and his prostitute wife? It ain’t literature nah I’m just baiting anon idgaf
>>25180617russian alcoholics and prostitute wives? I'm sold, what do you suggest?
>>25180604This. Cleanse your brain of genreslop cortisol-dopamine loops by reading Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe or some Browning poems or maybe (my favorite) Pope's Odyssey. Basically, eat better mindfood.
>>25180620Anon that’s literally just every piece of Russian fiction to ever exist
>>25180621Have you considered developing actual taste?
Did any of you guys read mack daddy's new poetry book?
>>25178203>no i am still waiting for him to send me a free copyi'll send you a copy if you give me your email
>>25177874This fucking sucks.
>>25179982go suck a corndog
>>25177871>>25177874Why is every y2k poetry book ever so shite? Bros...
>>25177874Embarrassing
>Genesis was a snore fest of lineages that I didn't bother to remember(This begot that guy, that guy begot him, him begot he, no one in-between has any relevance to the plot so you could've just skipped them and said that he was a descendant of this guy)>It still had enough edge/grit/tension to keep me reading through it>Start Exodus, know that there were alot of adaptations and homages to it so maybe this one is better>The entire first act is just a cycle of Pharoah refusing to let 'em go, then a plague comes, then he let's them go before saying 'SIKE!'>The rest of the book is a tent building guideYeah, I think I understand why even the fans don't even read ts
>>25180476Well, I recommend you read Cologne Mani Codex and other recovered fragments of Manichaeism and then look at St. Augustine's criticisms of Manichaeism. Evil does not exist in Post-St. Augustine Christianity. Everything is good in various degrees, evil being merely a privation of good. Evil has no positive existence for him.Manichaeist dualism had a lot of influence from Zoroastrianism, but it was not identical. Manichaeist saw the material world as evil, materiality being a kind of shell of darkness, whereas Zoroastrians viewed the material world as good but Vohu Manah and Spenta Mainyu as helping to lead to end times (Frashokereti) to banish the evil. The main difference between Abrahamic traditions is that Manichaeists and Zoroastrians had a dualistic theodicy, and they saw evil as having a positive existence. However, Zoroastrians did have one fatalistic monist sect called Zurvanism.Catharism seems to have been influenced by Manichaeism.
>>25178804>>25178811Shill thread o algo
Unironically greek myths have better writing then these 3 holy books.
I'm still bothered by how Genesis has 2 contradictory creation stories right next to each other.
>>25180571Yeah, but why did I have to be born during these shit humiliating times and not as a Greek warrior or something? Honestly, just fuck this life, really.
Your favourite books on law and jurisprudence?
The Tanakh.
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Hegel Philosophy of RightSchmitt's Nomos of the Earth
>>25180315Nice thanks.
>>25178609My brother practices intellectual property law
kelsens pure theory of law
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25180459Achilles got pwned kek
If every man raised their sons to be like Hector instead of emotional autistic retards like Achilles the world would be a better place. Hector wasn't perfect but he was a great man
>>25179066>Achilles is a force of natureTrue. But please, men, find yourselves other heroes to imitate and relate to because I don't want to keep being forced into bisexual scenarios to accommodate you.Only some of you will understand this lol
>>25180597I blame the hand women keep forcing in Achilles' life against his consent.Somehow because Achilles' loves men, women feel they have a kinship and can self-insert into his story??? I dont know the reason really.If women want to make a female version of Achilles a la Skyros, which then prompted the creation of plays in which women would act in his role then they would do better choosing a hero that even wants association to females in the first place so that kind of shit stain doesn't linger around my life.Good fucking lord Im sick of women and their sexuality. Such bad feelings all around.Youd understand if you were being sexually harassed by men.
>>25178878Achilles is not meant to be an emulatable ideal hero. He is basically a god-king trapped in mortal form because Zeus subverted the succession prophecy.>>25178905>>25179245Bizarrely he's the only one who goes to Elysium according to Homer. Is this some sort of compensation for fucking up his marriage? Who knows.
its mid
>>25179931Fahrenheit 451 mogs both
>>25179892“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”That passage elevates the entire novel to greatness.
Shes just like Julia
>>25179939Im sorry...I wasnt listening...could you repeat that
>>25180639who?
Should Nobel Literature Prize laureates be selling A.I.-generated slop novels?
>>25177115>ob Dylan is selling AI-generated historical fan-fiction. The “Like a Rolling Stone” songwriter has launched a Patreon to regale fans with fictional AI monologues by historical figures for $5 a month.why wouldn't you just gen these yourself? seems like a bad way to grift money when he can just sell autographs
>>25180102he was just never a genuinely political person. the protest songs were just about capitalizing on the dominant trends at the time
>>25177124They should give him the Nobel War Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize
>>25179661What is BOM?
>>25180553Just some shit that is self-shilled by some spic. Ignore.
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>>25179100>even if he's not particularly martially skilled.If you're saying he has no actual combat experience, then just about nobody his age does (the last war being Balon's Chimpout 11 years prior) but all nobles are trained from birth to be warriors and commanders, it's the entire point of feudalism.Edmure Tully had no experience either, yet his actions at Stonemill are something that still would have been studied at West Point and Sandhurst.
>>25179466>You exaggerate the confines of the fish market.Again, this is Gurm channeling D-Day because he has a shit understanding of history and warfare (as do you).
>>25179965>>25176215The easy fix for this is Varys lied to Jaime that the wildfire caches were found and confiscated. Jaime isn't going to check Varys's work because he's the Kingslayer, Barristan isn't letting him out of the Red Keep for a while. For good measure, Cersei rides Jaime so hard every night he actually forgets about the wildfire. Also keep in mind Jaime has limitations. His imagination is quite mediocre, and he's shown a poor track record of managing people. He's not one to ask for help, so only someone psychic like Varys could figure out there is wildfire based on the Mad King and Jaime's behavior. Jaime is only a genius when the subject is opening people with metal.>>25180354Rather than attack the argument about ladders in medieval warfare, you attack the character of the anon. gg
>>25180181>tywin was evillow iq>tywin was a geniusMidwit IQ.>tywin was dumbHIGH IQ
>grrm said he gave main plot points to the show (like Stannis burning Shireen)So how will the books make it?I've seen theories that because Azor Again had to sacrifice his wife to make the original Lightbringer, Stannis thinks he has to sacrifice Shireen. I've seen theories that once the Others begin to come south, Stannis feels he has to sacrifice Shireen to save the realm.
