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why don't we have anymore bikini armored sword wielding females kicking evil doer ass?
>>24968664I bet George Soros is behind itAnyways where the fuck is red god
Opinions on the Dread Empire series?
>>24968664Because it's lame
State of the Sanderson 2025 Text & Video Versionshttps://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/state-of-the-sanderson-2025https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DnOe7VV5T-hwIt’s been twenty years since this all began with the publication of Elantris...It’s fun to look back at the State of the Sanderson from 2015 and see myself reminisce upon turning forty...I’m halfway through the main plan for the Cosmere, and feel like it’s going great, yet fifty feels more old by far than forty did at the time when it hit me.Tentative Cosmere Release Schedule UpdateLate 2026: The Fires of DecemberDecember 2028: Ghostbloods 1December 2029: Ghostbloods 2December 2030: Ghostbloods 3Biggest changes from last year are...me being uncertain where Elantris fits right now. I’d love to do the books in between Ghostbloods novels, but with so much Hollywood work this year (and coming up next year) I’m hesitant about committing to getting those ready at the speed I thought likely last year. We’ll see. I also am already starting to feel the call to return to Stormlight, so Horneater (and maybe early work on Book Six) are likely in the next few years.Other Cosmere ProjectsI'm moving White Sand to the back burner. The Night Brigade, Dragonsteel, The Silence Divine, the Grand Apparatus, Mythos, the Aether World book series, Free Fall Seven Layer Burrito World, Caveman Heist, Unnamed Other Ashyn Book. My, my. This list keeps growing, doesn’t it? That’s how it goes. Most of these are just idle thoughts, and none are promised. Many have been on there for over a decade, so I like to drop them into the list when I have something solid in mind, but I won’t be able to get to all (or even most) of them.
>>24968728https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOe7VV5T-hw
>>24968728>>24968730noone cares
>>24968728>ghostbloodsIs this the new mistborn era?
>>24968784Yeah. He's also talked about doing a cyberpunk Mistborn era but isn't sure if he'll ever do it.
So what do I get into next>Riftwar>Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant>Demon Princes>Longprice Quartet>something else, what?
I'm getting bored of The Expanse. On book 6 now. How do you kill 15 billion people and still make it boring? So many pointless inner monologues about dumb shit. Holden spending pages thinking to himself about how they can't fly everyone on Earth to the colonies all at once. No fucking shit, why do they feel the need to explain the most basic things. It's like the authors knew idiots were going to read it and couldn't trust them with basic science. I don't really know how to explain it but it feels like so much is happening, but at the same time nothing is happening at all. Also how is Avasarala still in power after overseeing the biggest catastrophe on Earth since the dinosaurs went extinct
>>24968675Very good. It's basically epic fantasy written by someone who doesn't write epic fantasy. Give Cook's writing style that alone is the biggest attraction.
>>24968637>week left in 2025>can't be bothered to read anything
>>24968664I find it funny how pure brawn and nothing else Jirel of Joiry is. It's not something you'd expect from a female protagonist in that kind of story.
>>24968664>>24968928Is her stories good? She's looking like a qt3.14
>>24968664Unironically what some good classic novels (60s-80s?) for strong barbarian 'fus? It's one of those situations that always stymie me where an archetype emerged that clearly encapsulates the whole of an idea, but tracing it back to actual material ends up being harder than expected. Red Sonja wasn't even an actual Howard character.
Good shit
>>24968999I assume you've read the Kane stuff?
>>24968928>>24968664Even in the 1920's, white women desired BBC
>>24969026Nope. Are there ladies in it? The only non-Conan Conan-alike I've read so far is Gardner's Fox's Kothar. The man was a great low-price copycat.
Looks like the Top 100 creator ended the poll. Here's what the results apparently are. To be seen if anything further is done with it.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZ_q7ZqKXD2e-fSw2zAefzxbneNfuJahQ7OvAnRkldDa7u8g/viewanalytics
>>24969060 What an awful list. Didn't realize you all had such shit taste.
>>24969060>>24969062Only surprise is Vance being that high. Normies.
>hipsters seethinglol
>>24969060Yep yep! Can't beat DA KING BABY!!!!!
>>24969060Here's 1-50. Each voter had 15 votes. As expected, it seems some anons voted with multiple accounts for their preferred books./lit/ and /sffg/'s Top 100 SF&F - Voting Round60 responsesTolkien, J - The Lord of the Rings 26Wolfe, G - The Book of the New Sun 18Vance, J - Dying Earth 17Herbert, F - Dune 15Howard, R - The Complete Chronicles of Conan the Barbarian 15Tolkien, J - The Hobbit 15Lovecraft, H - Cthulhu Mythos 13Dick, P - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 9Strugatsky Brothers - Roadside Picnic 8Vonnegut, K - Slaughterhouse-Five 8Tolkien, J - The Silmarillion 8Shelley, M - Frankenstein 8Smith, C - Zothique 8Huxley, A - Brave New World 7Carroll, L - Alice's Advenures in Wonderland 7Vance, J - Lyonesse Series 7Bakker, R - Second Apocalypse 7Lovecraft, H - Dream Cycle 7Wolfe, G - The Knight 6Le Guin, U - A Wizard of Earthsea 6Erikson, S - Malazan Book of the Fallen 6Martin, G - A Song of Ice and Fire 6Leiber, F - Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 6Lewis, C - The Chronicles of Narnia 6Spenser, E - The Faerie Queen 6Anderson, P - The Broken Sword 6Lewis, C - The Space Trilogy 6Orwell, G - 1984 6Howard, R - Kull the Conqueror Series 5Dunsany, L - The King of Elfland's Daughter 5Hodgson, W - The Night Land 5Brothers Grimm - Complete Works 5Wolfe, G - The Fifth Head of Cerberus 5Asimov, I - Foundation Trilogy 5Ren, G - Reverend Insanity 5Dick, P - VALIS 5Peake, M - Gormenghast 5Ellison, H - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 5Burroughs, E - John Carter of Mars 4Card, O - Ender's Game 4Le Guin, U - The Left Hand of Darkness 4Flaubert & Druillet - Salammbo 4Miller Jr, W - A Canticle for Leibowitz 4Gibson, W - Neuromancer 4Simmons, D - Hyperion 4Jordan, R - The Wheel of Time 4Stoker, B - Dracula 4Junger, E - The Glass Bees 4
>>24969060>Carroll, L. - Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandyou just know
>>2496906851-102 and however many more with 0-2 votesVance, J - Planet of Adventure Series 4Bradbury, R - The Martian Chronicles 4Herbert, F - Dune Messiah 4Heinlein, R - Starship Troopers 4Keyes, D - Flowers for Algeron 4Dunsany, L - The Gods of Pegana 4Vance, J - The Demon Princes 3Clarke, S - Piranesi 3Harrison, M - Viriconium 3Brown, P - Red Rising 3Asimov, I - I, Robot 3Jacques, B - Redwall 3Le Guin, U - The Tombs of Atuan 3Pratchett, T - The Discworld Series 3Rowling, J - Harry Potter 3Rabelais, F - Gargantua and Pantagruel 3Howard, R - Solomon Kane Series 3Clarke, A - 2001: A Space Odyssey 3Zelazny, R - Lord of Light 3Bradbury, R - Fahrenheit 451 3Cook, G - Black Company 3de Saint-Exupery, A - The Little Prince 3Anderson, P - High Crusade 3Mieville, C - Perdido Street Station 3Stephenson, N - Snow Crash 3Dick, P - Ubik 3Heinlein, R - Stranger in a Strange Land 3Matheson, R - I Am Legend 3Wells, H - The Time Machine 3Lem, S - Solaris 3Williams, T - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn 3Egan, G - Permutation City 3Hobb, R - Realm of the Elderlings 2Sanderson, B - Mistborn 2Banks, I - The Culture Series 2Anderson, P - Three Hearts and Three Lions 2Anderson, H - Complete Fairy Tales 2Vance, J - The Dragon Masters 2Haggard, H - Allan Quatermain Series 2Martin, G - Tuf Voyaging 2Hughart, B - The Chronicles of Master Li and Number 10 Ox 2Burroughs, E - Tarzan Series 2Donaldson, S - The Gap Cycle 2Shakespeare, W - A Midsummer Night's Dream 2Martin, G - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 2Swanwick, M - Stations of the Tide 2Bujold, L - The Curse of Chalion 2Le Guin, U - The Dispossessed 2Heinlein, R - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 2Kikuchi, H - Vampire Hunter D Series 2Lem, S - The Cyberiad 2Moorcock, M - The Elric Series 2Other 83
>>24969060>ctrl+F Eddings>0 results
>>24969060"Other" got 83 votes, which completely invalidates 2001 A Space Odyssey and everything below it
>>24969071Will Eddings scratch my Tolkien itch?
>>24969075Scratch my hairy Tolkien balls
can we just stop sucking Tolkien's cock for once
>>24969068A few particularly egregious examples are:>Ren, G - Reverend Insanity 5>Flaubert & Druillet - Salammbo 4>Junger, E - The Glass Bees 4
>>24969075The Belgariad is a very good and well-beloved read (and re-read, and re-read). Despite having the same sort of epic wars of men against evil gods kind of story, it feels a bit more homey rather than "legendary", with an additional dash of slice of life and reminder that it's really about Family.>pull up Pawn of Prophecy on my app (because I, sadly, haven't owned any paper since becoming a world traveler)>last read: 2,600 days agoLooks like it's about that time again.
>>24969068>>24969070These results don't seem representative at all. What does the poll creator have to say for himself?
>>24969088I got bored and dropped the series
>>24969109Seems unlikelythat you're white
>>24969075>>24969088My impression of Belgariad was familiar fantasy with greater emphasis on characters. In a way that might make it more appealing to modern readers.
>>24969115I am not white. I am yellow.
>>24969033imagine conan and elric had an immortal evil baby inspired by gothic fiction and you have kane
>>24969119Modern readers aren't allowed to enjoy Eddings.
>>24969125But there are rippling well-thewed ladies in it, yes?
>>24969130Aunt Pol is a middle aged fat white Karen.
>>24969136She's not fat.
