Post about whatever SFF you want and stop whining like a fag editionOld: >>25166415
>>25168407Just finished the Star King. Pretty good, 6/10, but it wasn't really anything to write home about. Does Demon Princes get any better vancebros? Or should I move onto something else
Feels bad setting a higher reading goal for 2026 and immediately starting a series where the books all push 1000 pages.
>>25168490The Killing Machine and The Book of Dreams, especially the latter, blew me the fuck away.
>>25168494Avoid Goodhart's Law at all costs.
>>25168407Please delight in this finest work of sword & sorcery fiction ever put to page by man or beast alike: https://alexbeyman.substack.com/p/knights-of-john-henry
I’ve mainly only read PKD this year What should I read as a palette cleanser?
>>25168494I don't know why you even have a reading goal, seems like the exact sort of thing that would make reading a chore.What I do, is look for an inquire about new possible series that seem interesting, in the middle of reading another series, and if I hype myself sufficiently on that series, it serves as huge motivation for me to finish my current series so I can move to the next series of books. I dont have a plan beyond that, this is basically the only reason I'm reading so much. It also helps that I deliberately avoid the 1000 page books until im certain and ready its really good and really worth it, or if Im certain ill be taking a break inbetween and starting a shorter series
Yeah I'm starting to think smut fantasies like Fourth Wing is being astroturfed just like Ready Player One cause of Tik Tok.
>>25168645Read some old pulps on the Internet Archive to stick it to the Man
I wanted something light and quick, so I read Tress and Emerald Sea, then Yumi and the Nightmare painter. I liked Tress a lot. Seemed like something that really suits Sanderson's style, and coming off wind and truth was a big improvement. The shorter book structure really fixes his problem of nothing happening before the ending of the book because there is much less content that isn't the ending. I do think it needed like one other "thing" to happen, but it's short enough that I didn't get sick of it. Normally I wouldn't like such a whimsical narrator, but I didn't mind as much because its an established character who I already knew. Yumi, I did not particularly enjoy. It's kind of cringe, kind of boring, and annoyingly horny (half the book is just them ogling each other while bathing). It's funny because I was reading it I thought that the whole setup reminded me a lot of Zanarkand which is funny because in the author notes he explicitly says FFX was the biggest inspiration. Sanderson always has a problem with his books feeling YA, but this one I really felt like I was reading something I wasn't supposed to.
>>25168517Enjoyed first chapter, very basic style and im excotes to explore the superstition but reuse to support any author.
Should I read the Mars trilogy, NASA trilogy, or Expanse books? I've wanted to read all of these but can't decide what to start with.
>>25168798Fair. Half my stuff on that account is already free though. Anhedoniapolis is probs the best one without any paywall.
every single male protagonist in prince of nothing is either a cuck, or a faggot. wowzers.
King of /sffg/.Simple as.
FUCK it is good
>>25168407Why can you people not make a proper OP with all the links and information?
>>25168923the old recommendation charts are embarassing, better not link any at all than those
>>25168407FUCK it is good
Damn you guys are desperate..
Okay I'm finished with Darkness That Comes Before, time to move on to Warrior Prophet
>>25168803Can't speak for the first two but I can never recommend anyone read The Expanse.
>>25169015Link?
Everyone told me Bakker's books are difficult to understand, but he literally spoon-feeds you at the beginning of Warrior Prophet on what has happened before and how it all should be interpreted.
>>25168926You're just being a contrarian.
>>25169149Agree, not a fan of author's "previously on.." thing. It's like he's saying: "Gotta make sure reader got every single plot detail right as I intended". Who cares? It's also quite ironic, since he goes on to recap the events from previous book again in form of character conversations/introspections.
>>25169314You do know that's not part of the book and you can skip it, right? Only an autistic would read those.
Recommend me a sff book that prominently features anthropomorphic/furry animals, i already know about Redwall and the Chanur Saga, i'm looking for more lesser-known ones
>>25169391What an odd request. I don't think there are many (worthwhile ones, at least). You'll probably have too turn to shit like Star Wars, Elder Scrolls or Manga.
>>25169399It’s called xenofiction, though
>>25169491The one with the most indians
First filtered IP of the general.
>>25168645RPO was popular before TT.
>>25169391If you want more straight up cats there's the Warrior Cats series.
>Banned againMany such cases.
So is Mycroft coping and propagandaing about the Utopians here? Its hard to believe, knowing that the Author themself likes the Utopians, so it wouldnt be surprising if theyre just the defacto good innocent guys of this whole Hive system, theyve certainly been presented as such, and if you wanted to pull an ole "Good guys are actually...da bad guys???" subversion, then thats already accomplished with the Humanists and Saneer bash whom we first met in the story.So I have a disappointing feeling that the Utopians are infact as innocent goody two shoes as presented.
>>25169399Nah, but thanks for the suggestions anyway.>>25169663Warrior Cats isn't anthropomorphic and it's a very popular series, i'm specifically looking for lesser-known/obscure/underrated ones.
Also my prediction in my intial counter argument turned out to be right. While this number is still much smaller than I expected based on the 81 deaths seemingly in 5 years? That was given before. The point stands. Because the ideal of peace is fundamentally an eternal ideal. Youre essentially rationalizing an infinite number of deaths, for the promise of infinite peace. There is little moral high ground here when this is thought through, especially for a group of people that condemns Mycroft, at a point youre just killing people for your own personal interests which youve deluded yourself into determining as higher order, better, more right.Besides, once you reintroduce actual complexity into your thought, you realize a lack of large scale conflict or death. Isnt actually an ideal. A world can easily be imagined where the Civil War never happened, slavery continued and all slave revolters were murdered so that the slaves themselves could never trigger a large scale conflict. And peace remains for decades, centuries even...If one wishes for a better world. Then obviously "peace" no longer becomes a golden ideal that cant be challenged.This entire thing is just cope. Its cope to protect and maintain a desires status quo. Drunk on a delusional belief that things dont need to or cant get better, or rather "shouldnt" because everything is fine the way it is, because its been decided that it should be.Also if you pull a "inconsequential deaths" argument, this just returns back to the serial killer argument. We already established fundamentally why theres no moral grounds to the rationalization of murdering people to maintain a stable status quo. But if you have little problem with sacrificing lives as long as theyre minimal, then what does it matter that a serial killer sacrifices a life every once in a while so that whatever bloodlust they have doesnt get out of control and they dont kill more?
..................lol what is this midwittery?
best book I've read in ages
Its just such an odd thing to make a story about:A God (presumably) from another world, pained at the idea that another God would create a world with suffering.Its a basic philosophical argument that has gone back a long time. With lots of different arguments from both sides. Seemingly unresolved, although there is one sides arguments, whos counter I haven't yet heard.Its just not the type of thing I'd expect a fictional story to be centered around. Now whether its done well? Thats a different question.
>>25168517sorry, got bored during the first few paragraphs. I'm sick of boring openings and fantasy tropes.
The fuck did he call the police for then?
> Within days the Prince of Atrithau was improvising new axioms, discovering theorems and formulae that Achamian had never imagined possible, let alone encountered in the classic texts. Kellhus even proved to him—proved!—that the logic of Ajencis as laid out in The Syllogistics was preceded by a more basic logic, one which used relations between entire sentences rather than subjects and predicates. Two thousand years of comprehension and insight overturned by the strokes of a stick across dust!>“How?” he’d cried. “How?” Kellhus shrugged. “This is simply what I see.”Mary sue cringe
>>25169813It gets much worse.
