Sandergod is back, emberdark is his best in yearsPrevious: >>25253825>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
First for heckin s-o-y-facing over sanderslop
>>25262819Jashna Kohlin was my favorite character
>>25262819Book is nice. Haven't opened it yet though. I'll read it after I finish Mistborn era 2.
>>25262838What is the book about?
>>25262840Not this book
This anthology is at over $1m and has a quite a few big names in it. How much is it simply because Sanderson has a story in it?https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unbroken/unbroken-new-tales-by-masters-of-fantasy/
Forgot what I was gunna say
>>25262848pretty crazy, whos boosting this kickstarter?
Is Riftwar slop?
>>25262839I know this is reddit but i am glad i read it after reading all the cosmere but elantris>>25262840Very basic avatar + milenial falcon type story but seeing how the whole universe progress to sci fi and how the magic and civilizations evolved is kino like i havent seen in a while
>>25262848Imagine if he had 2 or 3 short stories in there, they dumb for not asking him for one more>>25262860sanderGOD
>>25262864Yeah
>>25262870I didn't mind Elantris. It's rough but I liked the Elantris stuff and the solution at the end.I still need to read Isles of the EmberdarkSunlit ManReading Bands of Mourning right nowThe Lost MetalShadows of Silence in the Forests of HellFires of December when it arrives
Bros, I just can't hate Sanderson. The man successfully finished WoT (even if you don't like the series), never badmouths other authors or fans, built a multi-million brand on his own and continues to pump out (multiple) books every year. Sure, the writing's shit, but what the guy has accomplished, deserves respect.
>>25262915He didnt finished wot, he wrote the highest rated books of that series>>25262911Silence is a must before emberdark no memeing but its like 70 pages
Is a series of books that are independent stories but set in the same world called an anthology or something else?
>>25263037An anthology is a publication of short stories by different writers.
>>25262819I want to give Brandon Sanderslop a shot, but the first chapter of The Final Empire reads too young adult for my liking.Is The Way of Kings more mature or is it also young adult?
>>25263040Them being different authors is not part of the definition of an anthology.They can be any collection of works. Including a collection of works from the same author.>>25263037So in this case anthology is fine, people will know what you mean.
>>25263043As a.sanderchad i rather you dont read him
>>25263051why?
>>25263066I think he's mad I called him Sanderslop
Just cannot believe we are never getting No-God... I am honestly devastated
>>25263137we are. They are just not going to be written by him :)
reverend insanity is better than anything bakker wrote
>>25262819>Isles of the Brandon Sanderson
do you think scifi as a genre will eventually fade out now that more and more people have hateful relationship with ai or technology in general?
>>25262915>built a multi-million brand on his ownAgree with everything except this. He’s part of the mormon family, so not completely on his own.
So this just became a Sanderslop general? Anyways, I’ve been reading Narnia these past few weeks and it’s pretty comfy.
>last book you read>current book you're reading>next book you plan to read
>>25263051More like sanderfag
>>25263311At least it's better than 'Bakkerfag' general
>>25263476Just finished it this morning, probably going to read the rest of Before They Are Hanged, which I started but still haven't gotten back to.
'Mute' - Honestly, this one took a little while to get going. Wolfe was obviously going for two siblings sort of jabbing back and forth and getting on each others nerves, but it was unrealistic that moments of shared concern did not happen more often given the situation at hand. I actually thought they were making up the horror of the situation, because their feelings did not seem to match up with their situation at all.It even gets surrealistic at the end, which is pretty unusual for Wolfe. That is also in my mind when the story gets interesting. I loved that they looped back to the house, the lack of other people, and the darkness at the end. I wasn't sure what to make of it all though, except that perhaps the siblings were in hell. I also thought the potential incest angle at the end was a curveball. I usually don't look up analysis, and leave that to myself, but Aramani had a good overview of this one in my opinion. Wolfe said that, to him, power is the chief appeal of post-apocalyptic fiction. >“Most of us have very little control over our lives and our environments,” he said. “We must work to eat, and take whatever jobs we can get. Our votes do not matter because the men and women who are supposed to represent us could scarcely care less about our situations or opinions. We must live by the mores of our society–mores we cannot reshape; and we long at times for a simpler, rougher age.”I do think that is why cozy catastrophes (usually meant pejoratively) are so popular. People instinctually want freedom from the chains that bind us and control over their situation... apocalypse fiction does that for our characters. Who doesn't want to chill in some bunker while the world goes to shit? All the people you blame for the downfall of society get to die, and you get control, freedom, and fun. You don't have to think about any of the downsides that might befall you or your loved ones.
>>25263488Can’t disagree with that
I hate to be so viciously mean to pagespammerfag but I just can't take it anymore.
What's your favorite Catholic SF book?
>CatholicStatue worship cult. Shan't.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XdZOCyWEoyglmao this nigga fat as fuckan alright point tho
>>25263043It's for a slightly older but still young adult audience. If you didn't care for Mistborn you'll probably not like Stormlight. It's more mature in the same sense that Kamen Rider is made for ten year old kids and Sentai is for 7 year old kids
>>25263662you killed him
>>25263708I'm sure you'll be back at it in no time.
>>25263688Some niggas are better at teaching writing than writing themselves. That's their gift to the world. What I'm saying is this fat nigga needs to put down the pen and pick up a second burger.
>>25263722who?
>>25263761
>>25263764Why is this guy being weird and retarded? Kind of adds nothing
>>25263662You can only use extreme bluntness and honesty toward those with no self-awareness.
>>25263791True
I just added this to my queue but have never read anything by him.Is it worth the time?
>>25263818I guess.
Why isn't there a single female character in this story?
>>25263818If you like megastructures and dog aliens, sure.
>>25263066He wont like it>>25263085Nah we cool gang
>>25263311If you keep making me do the threads yes
>>25263851Isn't the prison guard's daughter a character?
>>25263164Never heard of it, what is that? >>25263476>Empire of the Vampire >Children of Ruin >Sun Eater series
>Enter thread >Learn I am hatedk
>>25263940You can't let one guy get you down.
I recently read the GRRM stories Meathouse Man, Sandkings, and Nightflyers.What did I think of them?
>>25263959You don't have thoughts. You're asking others to provide them for you.
>>25263963No that's not what I thought of them at all.Try again please.
>>25263137What is No-God?
>>25263978You fool you messing with powers you dont understand lets hope the beast is in a good mood or this thread is doomed
>>25263959>>25263970>GRRMfag pretending he has any critical thinking skillsTrying to out-embarrass the pagespammer?
>>25263993Uhhh what?
>>25263993You are interacting with it. Notice how it pretends to be confused.
>>25263963Very midwit thing to say? But will he ever be aware? No I don't think so. And its not for the reasons he thinks. Its for the fact that he does not believe he ever needs to explain, justify, and therefore will never be privy to explanation and justification.
>>25264007No seriously. What is No-God
>>25264045Here is the mating call go masturbate somewhere very far away from our thread
>>25263851based
>>25264048That's just the bakkerfag book though
>>25258615It helps to read Stoker but it's not mandatory. You can definitely enjoy the book either way. But the more you know about the setting, the better it gets
>>25263476>last Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju by Kim Newman>current: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan>next: Talulla's Dawn (sequel to the current book)
>>25263851Not a fantasy novel
>>25263476>lastdamnation alley by zelazny>currentshades of grey by fforde>nextprobably "farewell horizontal" by jeter or some of the other 5 books that are coming in the mail soon
>>25264167>shades of grey by ffordeNig be reading women shitRomance is gay bro
>>25264171most of my collection consists of post-apocalyptic/dystopian novels, I wanted to read something a little lighter for a changeit's also getting harder and harder to find either decent books at all or ones that are available for a reasonable price
>>25264182And you chose a bdsm porn book? Wtf
>>25264190>>25264171nta This is the usual case of it being difficult to tell whether you're a troll or idiot by referring to a different book with a similar name. The most likely answer is that you're both.
>>25264205while looking for a copy I had to include the author because most of the results were that shitty sex book
>>25264167>damnation alley by zelaznyBased.>probably "farewell horizontal" by jeter or some of the other 5 books that are coming in the mail soonMore based. What did you buy?
>>25264205Dude just let me baitmaxx in peace
>>25264205n0t ThAt AnOnI read Shades of Gay years ago and it was a very underwhelming subpar color-magick book, compounded by the fact that the author took like a decade to write a sequel.
>>25263856>>25263818British space operas can't deal with scale like American ones do.
>>25264221Xeelee scales harder than your favorite 'space opera'. What even is an American 'space opera'? Red Rising faggotry?
>>25264219>I didn't like it and I had to wait too long to read more that I didn't like Ok
>>25264224>vagueposting dismissive babbleWhat a surprise from a newfag!
This general is so bad.
>>25264215Budayeen Nights by EffingerThe End is Nigh / The End is Now / The End Has ComeResurrection Inc. by AndersonEye in the Sky by Dick
>>25264222A space opera written by an American, duh.What I mean is, one must not think of solar systems and council estates as topological twins. This is not one lesson that the American founders of space opera ever needed learning. This may not be entirely to the credit of the sons of the conquerors of the West, which is beside the point; of present interest is the fact that almost every non-American space opera does mismanage the rhetoric of scale. Even when a subversive intention is obvious (as with Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas), the risks of energy loss are very considerable.
>>25264260Nice, but>The End is Nigh / The End is Now / The End Has ComeNo idea.>AndersonPoul?
>>25264218>>25264237Yes, yes, you're only pretending to be retarded because it's the only way you know how to bait. Please improve. Thank you.
>>25264277>space operas are only space operas if written by an American>>25264314Oh no, it's new to 4chan and can only make dismissive vaguepost commentary.
>>25264314You quoted 2 persons there fucking nig
>>25264336He's new to 4chan and believes that every single person in the world who disagrees with him is the same person. He is in for a rude awakening when he displays this behavior in real life.
>>25264326I'm sure that an American knows more about living in a very big place than a Briton.
>>25264354>random arbitrary argumentative platformoh no newfagGPT is acting up
>>25263662If you are talking about my mute review, that guy isn't me.
>nooo brangoat sandergod you cant write 30 book in a year>you cant be the biggest fantasy from the 2010 onwards>noooo pls brangod dont come after scifi tooGet ready for the post mistborne movie newfags avalanche and for sanderson to become the top dog in scifi
>>25264583oh no it's new to 4chan and thinks that Sanderson has never been mentioned
>>25264120>talking animals>not fantasyhuh?
>>25264591New? I made the cosmere images in the sticky
>>25264601>the stickylol you are new to 4chan
>>25264607Its always been the general sticky on all board, idk what you on, makes me.think you are the underage newfag
>>25264612>what you on,>makes me.thinkuh oh is this an actual legitimate botposter
>read books of reviews>the authors usually spoil the whole bookDo they think that it's the way you tell the story that matters, not what you tell?
>>25264613>is this an actualLmao you cant write either and you . Gay
>>25264618>books of reviewsDid you mean review of books? There are books that are only reviews, including for SFF.
The bots shall converse with each other.
>>25264619>you . Gayoh no it's a literal ESL botposter
>>25264628I guess but i got you replying like a retard for a while
>>25264632>I'm new to 4chan and everybody who replies to my nonsensical faggotry is retardedyou all read off the same script lol
>>25264635>sees "newfags" around every corner, under every bed, behind every postThere's a word for this phenomenon.
>>25264639oh no you're new to 4chan
There certainly are a lot of anons who seem to believe "If I get a reply I've won, regardless of the context." It's very sad behavior because it shows no regard for the art form.
>>25264623Review collections, I mean. I'm tired as fuck.
>>25264648It is frustrating that 4chan.org, especially 4chan.org/lit, is full of newfags like yourself.
>>25263999>>25264044You are very upset.This amuses me.Thank you.
>>25264635You are retarded cause you replied to my bait for like an hourHow didnt you catch it with, you . GayLmao you a boomer?
>>25264655>>25264656u mad and samefagging LMAO
>>25264658Boomer maxxing detected
>>25264641>>25264653that word is "schizophrenic" btw
Guys we baited the boomer to much, he left
>>25264664>>25264665oh no, newfags can only spam their favorite 2016+ buzzwordsextra embarrassing on the literature board
>>25264676Lmao you are great bro
>25264676The evidence for your pending diagnosis increases with every post.
>>25264678>underage newfag can only spam non-sequiturs over and oversasuga
>>25264680>newfag reverts to non-quotingLOL you all read off the same script
He went from getting baited to baiting himself,.you good unc we teaching you stuff
u mad bro?
>>25264683>>25264635A quick recycling of content.
>>25264685>>25264686>>25264689Holy fucking shit, how mad can a newfag possibly be?
I guess we get to add a new schizo to the /sffg/ wall of shame: newfag detector.
>>25264693Dont make me post a screenshot again unc only one post is mine
>>25264694I like that for the next op
>>25264695>don't make meLOLI hope you exhibit this behavior in real life and see how far it gets your aggressive ass
>>25264699Are you that isolate that seems agressive to you? Or just woke weak bitch?
>>25264702>2016+ newfagbabbleas expected
>>25264706I am curious unc how did you got irl? How far did schizomaxxing take you?
>>25263476>Last bookpicrel. It's pretty good and very weird. The narrator is a Jewish broad. Reminded me of Marrow in some ways, although the plot is very different.>Current bookLove Not Human by Gordon R. Dickson>Next bookSee >>25263506I am awaiting this from the Amazon van even as we speak.
>>25264694he is barely new. Literally the same script everyday
>>25264694>>25264764Newfags spam the same handful of words everyday. Embarrassing, considering that this is the literature board and their (your) lexicon is pitifully small.
>>25264763Forgot to include the pic
Made it through nearly 6 pages of Perhaps the Stars before I had to stop reading. Its going to be a rought finish but I think I can do it if I take more breaks
>>25264804You may even finish before the end of the year.
Unfortunately I dont expect most of you to be smart enough to answer this but ill try anyway before I go to chatgpt.Is this a real economics/census equation in...anything?
>>25264839Why not ask the rest of the megapopular reader-base on goodreads instead of /sffg/?
Maybe im being too harsh. Its unfortunate, this is really about the only way I can try to mine for substance here without slogging to the ending that will totally make all the past criticisms of a lack of substance and depth meaningful.
>>25264842Why would I do that? Theres even less precision in larger populations, and even less incentive to step out of line and be different in some large group/echochamber.
>>25264853>I dont expect most of you to be smart enough to answer thisYour narcissistic ego suggests that you would be a better fit on some normalfag website like goodreads or reddit, as opposed to 4chan.
I know this is likely part of the point of how every utopian society would think everything they do is the bestest ever compared to the past regardless of how stupid, but there's a very obvious reason thst military uniforms were often, simple and drab.Another odd thing about this world palmer has built is how little credit is given to the past. In the middle ages people glorified the greeks and romans. Its why to this day, so much of that shit is everywhere. To be fair the medieval age has the dark ages myth. But fantasy also lives off the glorification of that time, it also happens to be the time with the "enlightenment" and the birth of science which we glorify too. Its just odd that this modern society depicted is the only one to not glorify any aspect of its past, and to take all the credit for ideas (flying cars, AI, space exploration) established long before its existence. Mycroft talks about Voltaire alot, but thats supposed to be the stupid simple superficial obsession of our modern liberal democratic socities. Not a society nearly thousand years removed from that.Doesn't matter much beyond making the world feel simpler. I figure this is rationalized by "Utopia" but what really makes a Utopia different from our modern society when so much of that "Utopia" hinges on just being further developed or "progressed" compared to the past. Is it really the absolute absence of war? (ridiculous and borderline anime) If so we can ask a very simple question, if our modern world were completely absent of war, would we consider it a Utopia? I don't think so. Slavery can exist without war (it literally does in this fictional universe) so too can crime, oppression, discrimination, or just simple poverty (which is never talked about in this series for reasons i can only charitably assume are because nobody is poor)These are the questions I have to make up off of 3 sentences to make reading interesting.
>>25264839It makes sense on the ecuetion sense, buti dont get what x is, and why the 3, if you know what they are in world maybe it would make sense? But its not a real life used formula to my knowledge maybe it is
>>25264913what do you disagree with chatgpt about regarding its answer?
>>25264942Chat is right about the 3 being weird, the 0.5 constant etcBut i guess if it would be justified in world the formula itself works
>>25263043Try Warbreaker.
>>25262838Sanderson was afraid to give Kaladin and Jasnah more interactions because he knew the emotionless hag and brooding young man chemistry would be off the charts.
>>25262848I still can't believe the Hello Future Me guy got in this. Good for him.
>>25262819I"m starting the Horus Heresy series. Are any of the books skippable?
https://youtube.com/shorts/T6t_4sUOumwgenius writer reallythat tolkien guy was clearly very smart aswell
>>25264839>>25264891Why are people responding to this fucking spammer?
>>25265234true kick him from the groupchat
The writer of swashbuckling adventure is a pathetic little homosexual who still lives with his invalid mother. - Harlan Ellison commenting on Robert E. Howard in 1967, 31 years after Howard's suicide.
>>25265281>pomo edgefaggot jew doesn't understand adventure
>>25264280Yeah The End... are short story collections, I got them pretty cheap. >Poul?The book is by Kevin J. Anderson, I don't know what you mean.
>>25265144Just read the ones by Dan Abnett
Chose heem>give the stephen king cocaine arc to sanderson and see what happensOr>give coke to bakker to finish no god
>>25265582Can I just forcefeed them both so much cocaine that their hearts explode without any thing being produced as a result?
>>25264314>>25264237>>25264224you guys are indian. stop talking forever
Neal Stephenson is pissing me off with these retarded little pop-etymology tidbids he likes to include in his novels>the word babble comes from the biblical city of Babel where people stopped being able to communicate>the word blackguard comes from shoeshines who polished shoes with black lacquer doing criminal activity on the side>the term "gin" comes from "perfume of genova">the term "go on the account" comes from the fact that pirate captains kept account of loot so they could split it up
Magic being able to change reality but not changing its user through repeated use is kind of gay.
Anyone else in a reading rut? By this point in the year, I've usually read around 15 SF novels. This year I'm at 5 and I think it's because every book I've read was just decent. Nothing awful, bad, boring, good, great, or amazing. Just decent.Ubik, one of PKD's weaker novels and repeats several of his themes from Time out of Joint and Martian Time-Slip.The Word for World is Forest, LeGuin's writing is still good but this one really beats you over the head with the Vietnam allegory. Something she admits in her foreword.Parable of the Sower, once they got on the road I started to love this one. But before that, it's misery porn. Everything sucks, everyone gets raped, everything is stolen, yadda yadda.Babel-17, well-written but such a simple and predictable story.The Boat of a Million Years, despite loving long-lifer type stories (Lazarus Long, Mars Trilogy, and The Years of Rice and Salt are favorites), this one didn't quite hit. The first two-thirds are very good, but the last third is like trudging through a mudslide.Here's hoping my next two novels (The Penultimate Truth by PKD and The Dispossessed by LeGuin) rouse me.
>>25265743It's always a struggle to take time to read if it's not for work or college.I hate it.
>>25265743yes i was in a rut a couple of years ago. i wasn't in your exact same position in terms of favorite writers, but i found myself unable to find more books for my reading list and i felt as if i've read everything the genre has to offer (that i would be interested in).i solved it by doing these things:>going through the bibliography of my favorite writers (vance and zelazny, in the end i decided liked vance way more)>pivoting slightly to an adjacent genre (in my case the best success i found was in horror and ligotti)>using audiobooks to experience entertaining pulp i wouldn't devote my reading time towards, like lost fleet, red rising, dresden books, codex alera, wheel of time reread>using audiobooks to experience entry level world classics that are like 1000 pages long and i would never read otherwise like count of monte cristo, three musketeers, or on the more serious side, anna karenina, war and peace.i'm back to enjoying and savoring my reading time now. i'm doing a reread of dying earth from vance now, which i'm enjoying immensely, next up is treasure planet from vance, which i haven't read before, and after that maybe a boy and his dog
I bought that Blade of the Betrayer furry book someone mentioned a while back and now amazon is recommending me this.
>>25265804
>>25265804Well, son, you need a new amazon account now.
King of /sffg/.Simple as.
Man... someone please talk me down from buying ebook versions of the Shannara books.
>>25265999Don't pay for text on a screen.
>>25266021Why not? I love ebooks.
>>25266042You asked me to talk you down, but I can't do the impossible
>>25266042nigga you can EASILY get that shit for FREE
>>25266049Okay, brownskinned thief.
>>25266058oh, i'm sorry, mister aryan man, i didn't realize you considered it your honorable duty to gib over your shekels to publishing kikes you shouldn't have even asked people to talk you down if your purpose was so noble
>>25266067Thanks for fucking up the economy, pig.
>>25266072you are a goy
>>25266067>>25266075Just stop entertaining bad faith actors. This general is shit enough without more random faggots coming in to act superior to everybody else.
>NOOOOOOO, DON'T SHOP!!! NEVER BUY! NOOOOOO, YOU ARE JEWISH GOLEM GOOOOY!!!!What the FUCK causes this attitude?
>>25266081Being or growing up poor usually.
>>25266081>What the FUCK causes this attitude?the desire to get shit for free no? there's NO WAY you're struggling with this concept, fucking retard lol
So you're just immature and selfish. Gotcha.
>>25266081They still live at home and have never had a job.
>>25266089that's good that you've got it, that means you'll stop asking the same question over and over and replying to yourself right? or will you come back tomorrow or a week from now to post the same thing for attention?
