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>>24690786malazan is reddit
Paitently waiting for anon to read Marrow.Patiently waiting for other-anon to read another else in Ursia, perhaps the Mage Hunter series.
>>24690786Victra best girl>TQI thought The King of Elfland's Daughter was boring but Dunsany balances whimsy and tragedy better than anyone.Sun Eater's side characters are mostly just serviceable.
I just finished the Murderbot Diaries. They were pretty good.But Martha Wells has like four other book series, all fantasy. Are any of them any good? Which one should I start with?
>>24690432Correct. Good eye
>>24691134Stop reading books by women.
>>24691120Based Victrafag. I guess Pierce Brown is a liar as we got past August with no updates on Red God or whatever he's working on.
>>24691178I only read books by women. I love romantasy and scifi with pronouns. That's why I post on /sffg/
>>24691244No, anon, stop, his masculinity depends on your reading choices.
>character has a close friend who suddenly grows distant>character knows something is wrong>"i'll mend things once i'm done with [plot]"
>>24691254Name 20
>>24691266I've been checking out this general's favorite YA series, currnetly on Golden Son and it's got this plot going on with the gold poet guy
>>24691308Roque au Fagii. Are you enjoying it anon?
>>24691320it's nice.I like the ideas more than the narrative. Wish i lived in a biodeterminist caste-based interplanetary empire.But it usually feels like the plot "just happens" instead of being something the story builds towards, or the natural results of the characters' actions.
>>24691213The update was about the hazard bedlam thing, which is a lorn prequel. More info on that in the next phase of the "game" this month.
>>24691364He needs to stop this gacha shit and finish red god. I’ll iron rain his fucking house if he does a gurm and gets distracted by constant side projects.
>>24691364>Lorn prequelWho asked for this? He gets glazed so much in the series that I've lost all interest in him.
>>24690911
The golden age of scifi sucks.
>>24691416I didn't ask for Lorn in particular but a prequel about pre-Rising era Golds being cunts to each other while pretending to be honorable knights is exactly what I wanted.
why in the HELL did I binge buy all of these star wars prequel novels???
>>24691516because old star wars is comfy and kino
>>24691516Why not, most of the prequel novels are pretty good.
>>24691451That would be good but I don't have faith PB will portray Lorn as anyting but a Gary Sue.
>>24691682Wasn't he always?>most famous and feared space ninja knight>has a griffon and a space castle>one of the few honorable golds darrow meets>has a famous bloodline with skilled descendants including someone who MUST dieetc but I sitll like him as a character. I'd rather that than a story of how Silenius started the society
>>24691544>>24691634checked. yes so I bought Plagueis and really enjoyed it and then said fuck it and went on a spree to then buy the prequel movie novelizations (the third of which I am reading now and isn't bad but not as good as others have claimed - Stover is a bit too cheesy with his writing) ; bought some Bane novels ; a Maul novel ; the Ep III Grevious prequel novel ; among others. I'm burned out
>>24691756the Darth Bane trilogy and the revenge of the Sith novel are the best of what you listed. Read those before you burn yourself out.
>>24691682>>24691745Lorn is still a traditionalist Gold who would have turned on Darrow if he knew he was a red or wanted to abolish the hierarchy. I think there's plenty room for flaws in a character like that who preaches honor but turns his head at cruelty like that.
>>24691771I think he would've been like Romulus. Political differences with Darrow and would've killed him if he could, but recognised the rot of the society and wouldn't mind a good culling at the top. Probably would've done it himself if he wasn't sad about his sons
I've been reading Gibson's The Bridge series, it's not so bad. They're no where near as the highs of neuromancer, but the writing is still fun.
I can't be the only one who cares about gold society in red rising more than the actual plot at this point. Honestly, he should just go all the way back to the conquering, and follow some of the first golds (or the preceding scientists and philosophers) before the first war. At this point the RR universe has just become another milquetoast scifi series (with boring supernatural stuff like the main antagonist that doesn't even belong in the story)
I read Haïta the Shepherd on a whim. I've actually read some other Hastur stories years ago but I forgot pretty much everything so this was a nice way of going to the beginning again, especially since I'd missed this short story for some reason. I did enjoy the quasi-parable quality, but somehow I kept expecting the maiden to be someone/something more sinister, not Happiness. It's not even that I had what Cthulhu mythos at the back of my mind, she just felt kind of scary (which might be rather fitting if we were to start philosophising).
>>24692024>(with boring supernatural stuff like the main antagonist that doesn't even belong in the story)Minds Eye is not supernatural.
>>24692086i don't even remember the in-universe explanation, it's not some new stage of human evolution right? It's literally just meditation speeding up his mind to godly levels, that the Sovereign didn't have?
>>24691134City of Bones is great
Instead of making himself king, Conan sets up a democratic society like an American Revolution. Has anyone written that?
>>24692206Democracy is lame as hell, i never want to see it in fantasy and i'm disappointed to see it in sci-fi
>>24692226NTA but based. If democracy appears in SF it should be dystopian. It shouldn't be in fantasy unless it manifests as Athenian / magna-carta English aristocratic oligarchy
I need dwarf, hobbit, and gnome oriented novels please. As many as possible.I've already read that dwarf series by the German guy (it isn't that good)
>>24692121Afaik the Mind's Eye and Breath of Stone are just Dune-like psychic techniques I wish more space opera included honest to God supernatural elements
>>24692267Breath of Stone isn't even a power or anything it's just the chuuni name Darrow gave to his dual welding style.
>>24692288>isn't even a powerAllegedly the Mind's Eye isn't either. As I remember they're described similarly, being feats of mental focus rather than magic
>>24692267>just a psychic techniquewell... you would think this kind of shit would get out, or be used to a devastating effect against the rebellion. I get them not using it before Darrow showed up because they didn't really need it, but now that the Golds are facing extinction there's no reason not to just go ham
>>24692206Why the fuck would someone like Conan create a democracy? Especially one where he shares power with civilized men? The whole point of those stories is that his wild side is always and will always be the better path.>>24692267It's not psychic at all. It's just meditation that may or may be enhanced by the Gold's genetically superior minds. The Sovereign (Octavia) did have it and it's a secret passed down in their line. That said, I do agree that it only barely fits in the series. Meditative-like sword/combat forms aren't uncommon in the genre, but Brown's attempt with the Mind's Eye was poorly implemented IMO. Breath of Stone was only a little better and I think that's because we got to see the process as it formed instead of Lysander's "oh and by the way I can enter a state that lets me notice literally everything in an instant with no preparation"
bros i had a dream that i was in love, woke up alone. fug... what books for this feel
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 0.0001 seconds after killing some randos at the same time in Lankhmar.
>>24692386me on the left
>>24692357Politics are gay, noted.
conan is an enlightened centrist
