In the mood to jump into some random youtube-slop, normie fantasy/sci-fi books for a while. Which one of these is the least bad?
>>24680773Here’s a book that makes it onto most milscifi rec lists I’ve seen: Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell A space navy officer got frozen at the start of a century long war between the galaxy’s two biggest human powers. The attrition is so bad that a lot of military institutional knowledge has been lost so when the navy officer gets found and unfrozen he’s really professional in comparison to the modern navy. He takes command and has to find a way to win the war.
>>24680792Really flips the whole concept of technological and tactical innovation over time, as combatants continuously seek new advantages over the enemy, on its head. A lot of genre fiction commits the sin of portraying an extremely static world like that.
>>24680773Ask in the general >>24668507
>>24680773Malazan>Sun Eater>Ambercrombie>the literal whos>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Redslop Rising
>>24680773I haven't read any of these but multiple people I know have read Joe Abercrombie and say he's pretty good
>>246807731. Don't jump into a series that's more than 3 books long unless you know it's quality/finished (there aren't any)2. If you know nothing of the quality of those books, go off by the best looking cover art
>>24681301Malazan seems like alot to commit to
>>24680773Sun Eater is cool. Starts slow but has incredibly strong peaks and a compelling blend of genres. It's a massive scale space opera with Lovecraftian horror repurposed for theological purposes. For a young author's first series it's amazing. Better yet, the last book releases in November, so you won't get GRRMed.Red Rising is fun and has a good cast, pacing, and action but its worldbuilding is rather weak. The series sheds its YA coating as it progresses, and while three books may seem like a lot to get to the more mature sequels, they're fast reads. As slop goes, RR is very digestible.Haven't read Abercrombie or Islington. The former's First Law trilogy is well regarded on /sffg/, the latter isn't talked about a lot outside of The Will of the Many, which some anons seem to like.
Dune is bad. What you pick, dont waste your time with worms
>>24680773all of these are shit and not even in a tasty sloppa way browhere is all the tasty sloppa gone?has my taste become refined or do people just like the taste of dogshit now?
>>24680773just read the first 20 pages of each book and then decide
