Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
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Andrew Rowe has now been traditionally published. That's another LitRPG/Progression novelist that's transitioned.
>>24779846Based. Litrpgs are the future
Making History - K.J. Parker (2025)Twelve scholars are called upon by their new king who slaughtered the previous ruling class to create a pretext to invade a neighboring country. He wants them to create previously a unknown ancient civilization that will serve as justification to have his countrymen die for his ambition. The king means this literally, as in building it in the world, not just as a fictional work. If they fail to do so, they will all be put to death.What follows is a novella length exercise in worldbuilding, or in this case, city building. Everything has to be perfect, so they have to think of everything. A linguist creates a language for them, a historian writes their history, and the other scholars fabricate every other aspect of their society. A static, singular time, isn't enough though, so they have to develop it from its beginning to its end. No question is too trivial and no detail can be overlooked. Some of the scholars enjoy creating the fictional civilization so much that they temporarily forget their original goal, deadline, and punishment.I've tried reading Parker a lot, but I've never been able to finish any of his novels and I didn't like the short fiction I read, until now. I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. Making History is amusing, informative, and fun.Rating: 4/5
>>24779854your """reviews""" are SHITFUCK OFF
>>24779846>faggot author who writes faggotry has now been tradpub'dhashtag whoa>>24779877go be a newfag nigger somewhere else
>>24779834>TQLast fantasy/sci-fi book I read was the twelfth Dresden Files book, Changes, so I’d probably just go hang out in a church or something so vampires didn’t molest me
>>24779846I'm glad to see this subgenre start getting some legitimacy even if it isn't for me. People here love to shit on litrpg but it's been very effective at getting young men to read fantasy again and for many it will be a stepping stone into traditional fantasy.The real cringe is going to be when hollywood starts trying to do live action adaptations of litrpg and we have to see stat screens on tv
>>24780007We already have that. We have it in anime already too
>>24779940That shitposting being old doesn't make it not shit.
>>24779834Last book ready Midnight tides my plans suck Rake'cock
>>24779854I enjoyed this one too, though less than his Engineer trilogy (which is his best prose and plotting) or Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (which is one of my favorite recentish novels).It was downright decent of him to only price it at $5 for a novella, rather than the $16 fucking Martha Wells wants for each new Murderbot.
>thief the black parade picture for /sffg/Why
>>24780007Why is bringing in new people who wouldn't normally be interested a good thing for anyone except the corps who sell it? Isn't that exact goal a driving factor of the culture rot we've seen across most hobbies and special interests over the last couple decades?
>>24780123You're right in general but SSF is traditionally male nerds, the kind that over time were getting pulled away by things like vidya anyway. It's more like a recovery of the original audience than bringing in a new one.Gatekeeping by age is dumb. Imagine if they had started doing that with SFF in the 60s.
>>24779854Thanks, that sounds like a really fun book, I'm gonna check it out.
>>24780143Vidya and traditional games were primarily male dominated spaces, and now they're full of purple hair and lgbtp+
>>24780173Vidya players are still mostly straight dudes, a lot of the purple hairs got into the industry as developers but they are being flushed out now that it's backfired.You might be right about tabletop sadly
The threat vector for SSF isn't even litRPG its booktok and Romantasy
Finished this the other day, the prose was not the best and I found the ending to be a bit underwhelming, but I liked the characters and I'm curious to see what happens with the protomolecule so I will be reading the next book in the series and eventually watching the show.
>>24779854This plot sounds incredibly jewish, but in a good way, exposing them! I'll check it out. Thanks, goy.
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/System resumption has begun, slowly but surely. Two rumbles have been detected in the past months. Faint signs, but signs none the less.Prepare thyself, for the Boding is upon us. The Plague of Wombs has already been spotted in Korea and in the urban centers of the West. The whirlwind is nigh. What do you see?
>>24780241Even bakker is using AI art.
>>24780241bakkerslop and aislop… truly disgusting
>>24780248AI is the No God, Nihilo Ex Machina.
I just finished my first Guy Gavriel Kay novel (Tigana).I liked it, obviously. I think Gavin got pegged at one point by a horny milf but it was left upt to interpretation what she actually did to him. On a more serious note, I really enjoyed how Brandin was humanized rather than just making him le evil wizard man despite his actions obviously giving just cause to the heroes to go against him.The Night Walkers were just a tiny segment in the story but I felt like they left the strongest impact on me, other than the ring dive at the end.
>>24780241>The Plague of Wombs has already been spotted in Korea and in the urban centers of the West.What did he mean by this
>>24780299Something like the 4B movement?
>>24779854I quite liked his 16 Ways to Defend a Walled City, so I think I'll give this one a try.
>>24780280I've heard GGK is hit and miss. I have "A Song for Arbonne" way up my to-read list because I only hear good things about it.
Kino
how does /sffg/ feel about haremlit?
>>24780691Love it.
>>24780691I like some of them as part of the emerging "romance for men" genre and some recommendations I've received here have actually been really fun reads. Many I've come across are just low effort trash, though.
Oh this is cinema. I'm not a shipper and no spoilers pls, but I need these two to end up together now.
>>24780828Who is this? Shallan and…?
>>24780838Kaladin, second book
>>24780591I'm reading this right now. Great horror scenes, the was the Fugue is interspersed with the Kingdom is interesting and Shadwell is the most interesting character.
>>24780854I hate shadwell he reminds me of a coomer. Immacolata is badass, though.
>>24780847Ahahahah no
Literally nothing happened in this book I want my money back.
