Based Bakker Edition>Old:>>24968637>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
What has the same vibes as this but in fantasy book form?
>>24975110>TFW YWN read an end to ASOIAF>TFW YWN read an end to Berserk>TFW YWN read the No GodThe last hurts most tho.
>bakkerfag is back
>>24975124Our King has been silent for 10 years now...
I'm Raistlin Majere and I hate every single one of your losers.
>>24975171He was so unnecessarily edgy
>>24975117Eaters of the Dead. >>24975124You forgot one.
>>24975124I'm sure we'll get an end to Berserk, just not the one Miura would've made.
The Failures by Benjamin Liar, Y/N?
>>24975333Sun Eater book 7 flopped hard
>>24975130On the eve of the 10th year since the unleashing of The Unholy Consult his voice will echo in the dark and we will know "The No-God Trilogy... is real"
Does Sun Eater have cool fighting sequences?By extension, which sff have the best fighting sequences?
>>24975460You clearly didn't read it.
>>24975416N, but I dropped it quickly after skimming through it. I don't like a lot of stuff. It's definitely different though. Apparently the target audience is fans of Nightland.
>>24975469Red Rising has some good ones
Just finished the first Powder Mage book. Why did the author think it was a good idea to have a protagonist that that was "tricked" into cheating on her fiance that was away at war and expect the readers to sympathize with her when she blamed everybody but herself for it?
>>24975525She grows to realize her mistake in her own later series
>>24975500The only one I remember was the gala fight in Golden Sun between Darrow and Cassius and that was more because of the sheer chaos of the whole thing.
>>24975532That might be the best one, but the dueling ground in Iron Gold and the final showdown in Lightbringer are up there.Best battle is the Iron Rain on Mercury though (in Dark Age).
>>24975547based
alri malazan got pretty good towards the end of doghouse gates
>>24975110No wonder thread question and discussion prompts stopped, and the mere acknowledgement of them gaining a trend of absurd backlash, if Bakkerfag is the one spamming these fucking thread OPs.>>24975171THE quintessential power-hungry voluntarily-celibate 4chan archmagus.
>>24975547The Iron Rain is kino and it will never not bet. only in Morning Star
no-god? more like no-book lol
>>24975597bakkerbros are on suicide watch after this one
Is red rising good or is the latest meme you guys spam
>>24975651Good once you get past the first book, which isn’t even that bad. It’s just the weakest.
>>24975651It's the latest FOTM that normalfags defend like a religion.
>>24975657>sexy aryan woman in form fitting armorhnnngany scenes where she's in a skimpy outfit/armor?
>>24975672Maybe
>>24975678okay this looks promising. just ordered a copy from my local bookstore
>>24975651It's slop in the purest sense. I can't imagine a functional non-british white adult reading and enjoying it.
>But... I knew nothing of praxis ;(Bruh, you're like 600 years old, learn how to use a computer
>>24975547Now that I think about it, I actually like how hilariously easily Darrow decapitated Karnus after being hyped up the entire book and how brutal the Aja fight at the end of Morning star was.
>>24975776Why the non-british distinction?
>>24975785ffs, he really should've learned at some point. Why spend 200 years lounging about on Jadd and not spend ONE of those filling in your gaps?
>>24975966Brits are subhuman
>>24976096They have the best authors in English
Just giving you all an update on the historical folk horror/dark fantasy book I completed a little over a month ago.I’ve had three literary agents make full requests, some of them representing authors mentioned in this thread, which is nice. And I’ve met with a small publisher that’s interested, but I’m a little apprehensive about it and want to see if one of the agents decide to take me on.I will say that the entire querying and agenting process feels unfriendly, and has overt preferences that focuses more on the identity of the author than the quality of the book. So, if you’re nervous about publishing, it’s real.
>>24975259The Gods willed this ending.
>>24975124I simply need to know how all the characters come together to defeat the No God. Sure, Akka will be central to it, sure he will discover the location of the Heron Spear. I need to see it on the page.
I'm about to finish listening to winds and truth. Anyone have any good audiobook recommendations? I've been enjoying this specifically because the prose is quite simple, and the pacing / storybeats are pretty forgiving because you can kind of zone out (e.g., pay attention to traffic or whatever) for a paragraph or two and not actually miss much.
>>24976234ooooo I'm interested in reading your book. Give it to me
>>24976266Doesnt that mormon retard have like 1000 books? Pick another of his series
Need a fantasy books with lots of drugs, gambling, and hookers.
>>24975259>ending to Berserk authored by Brandon Sanderson
>>24976234any tips on writing a query letter?
Just found this.What did I think of i...hate that meme. What do YOU think of it?
>>24976366Realize that agents are looking for the first opportunity to reject your query because their default view is that you're wasting their time.Keep it brief. They want the title, make it good (the publisher will try to change it anyway), say the genre (go wide, don’t just say fantasy, say dark adult historical fantasy), then list relevant comps that they’ll recognize and say, “Now that’s a book I wish I had agented.” Pick a couple breakouts from this year, and don’t be afraid to include one older one that’s undeniably a perfect comparison.Then a paragraph of setup, keep proper names down, and establish theme simply. Don’t default with something like confronting trauma, make it specific. The next paragraph should be the plot, and the ending. Spoil the shit out of it, tell them the big twist and final reveal. Make them feel like they “get” the full story.Then tell them about yourself, make yourself come off as professional and dedicated. They want to see you as someone that’s easy to work with who has a proven work ethic and writing history. They don’t want one great book, they want writers who will be cash cows and produce lots of stuff for them to sell.A lot of agents are particular and will ask for all kinds of personalization—just ignore that. Don’t waste your time personalizing the greeting, or talking about their clients, or their great taste. Even if they appreciate it, it’s not moving the needle. They’re going to send you a form rejection—treat them with the same respect. You’re giving them a product to sell and you’re doing it for free. Have some fucking dignity.Read what they want in their submissions. Sometimes it’s the first thirty pages in an attachment, sometimes it’s the first chapter in the body of the email, others will want it sent through a query platform. Some will also want the synopsis. Do what they ask, they’re looking for any reason to pass, which includes following their submission guidelines.Then you wait.
>>24975469Yeah, there are multiple cool battles in every book of Sun Eater. Not exactly what you asked, but historical fiction from authors like Cromwell have great battle sequences.
>>24975469SE has plenty of cool fight sequences.Red Rising, Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, David Gemmell, and Robert E. Howard all do combat well.
Why do sf and fantasy get lumped together? Fantasy is staid and trite, and now full of quasi-smut trash that’s not in any way literary; whereas sf is always about novel ideas and breaking new ground, and has yet to be tainted by prurient interests.
>>24976532Delusional
>>24975785>born into "AI is...le bad" empire>have Tavrosi witch gf>don't need to learn praxis and reflexively hate it>almost lose to glowies with AII had a lot of problems with Shadows Upon Time but this wasn't one of them
>>24976398>all women listen are in the same hemisphereKek
I found a channel where someone is doing readings of Lovecraft as audiobooks but the narrator is a woman...there's no way, right?
>>24976234Continued wishes of good luck to you, anon. I finished part one in my multivolume Dostoevskyan-McCarthyan fantasy epic and will be querying it in the new year.
This white boy DEPRESSING
Does Blindsight suck, or was I just too dumb to understand it? It was an absolute pain in the ass to read
>>24975473A flop is a reference to sales though? I think. Maybe.
>>24975110>posting the same 20-year-old picBakker's probably bald now.
How is A Fire Upon the Deep? Im very close to dropping it after the prologue.
Where to start with Jung?
>>24975651It's better than the Sun Eater books people keep shilling, but that isn't saying much. Gosh darn are the Sun Eater books trash.
>>24975259>>24976253Wasn't the ending confirmed to be that Griffith keikaku'd literally everything to destroy the IoE permanently?
>>24976730I read the first one and didn't contain a single non-plagiarized concept, character or line of dialogue. I do not understand how any editor would allow this to be published.
>>24976732No, you just made that up
>>24976730>>24976733Le Mangeur de Soleil is in convésatíone with other litérateur, c'est ne pas un plagarisme
>>24975110Where is the No-God duology Scott?
>>24976809He has no choice but not write it. Sorry. It's just what the darkness that comes before dictates.
>>24975124Did he call it Earwa because it's shaped like an Ear?
