No.3564
>>3563>t. grey>>3541Sneedious, aka nuzach, one of the worst users from webring and a discord subhuman.
No.3686
Give me recommendations of good hard-scifi books
No.3690
>>3686"hard sci-fi" is one of those definitions I'm never sure I understand entirely. What marks the difference between pulp sci-fi and hard sci-fi seems kind of subjective to me. I've heard people refer to Alien as hard sci-fi, when to me that's a horror story about a rape monster.
I guess Arthur C Clarke is what would immediately come to mind though. Rendezvous with Rama in particular.
No.3696
>>3686The Three-Body Problem like already discussed here, read before it become mainstream because they will make a film or tv show about it.
No.3712
>>3686There's no such thing as good "hard" science fiction. "Hard" science fiction is the reddit of science fiction.
>>3696The Three-Body Problem is bad. It starts out like a modern Lovecraft story, and then he meets those guys in the bar and it just turns out to be retarded aliens.
No.3718
>>3712After five days what we get is this pathetic trolling attempt stinking as something from cuckchan.
No.3722
>>3718You got two legitimate recommendations. That's about the best you're going to get on a slow board.
No.3730
>>3718Stay seething. Maybe you want to read a technical manual for a device that doesn't exist, but the purpose of science fiction is to read about green-skinned space babes and zapping Martians with lasers.
No.3795
>>3712>>3730You really can't troll, it's a bit pathetic, maybe you should stay on discord with your shitskin friends instead of posting here.
No.3948
>>3766>>3795He's right, soyim. Scifi is supposed to be about the big terran cock conquering alien wombs. Nobody cares about your "deep" social commentary, the whole point of genre fiction is that all that gay shit is thrown out in favor of something actually entertaining.
No.4080
I'm only a few chapters into the first Wheel of Time novel. It's enjoyable and I like that it's not very pretentious like so many fantasy and science fiction novels can get. Just shameless escapism in a good way. But more importantly, does it really get lewd like these anon from ages past said?
>>353>>352It all seems so innocent…
No.4151
>>4148The only thing I'm gonna fit is my cock in your throat, faggot.
No.4169
>>4151Typical shitskin reply, pathetic.
No.4297
>>120Okay, ignoring the shit-flinging contest going on at the bottom, I'm looking to get into fantasy; the problem is what should I read? I'm looking for works that aren't just high fantasy epics that span multiple novels and volumes, but are more stand-alone/confined to the novel; they can come from any decade or century, though I would prefer those from the 50s-90s if possible.
what are some recommendations?
No.4299
>>4297I'm reading Book of the New Sun right now, which is very good. It is going to be at least 1000 pages to read all of it though.
For short fiction, Robert E Howard is always good.
No.4303
>>4297Some of Clark Ashton Smith's famtasy stories were written in the 50s-60s.
No.4304
>>4297The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany. It's an interesting mix between an old fashioned fairy tale and a modern fantasy novel. Plus the prose is top tier.
No.4614
Just a friendly reminder that Warhammer is based almost wholly on Michael Moorcock's work, an anarcho-communist male feminist who was saying Tolkien was a nazi, fantasy is racist and sexist, and Britain needed to get rid of white people in the 70s. Any optimistic fantasy was wrong because it oppressed the masses, and good fantasy must be subversive and awful to further "the cause". He was an SJW before SJWs and the creators of Warhammer unanimously agreed with and loved him.
I saw this in the 40k lore discussion thread. Is this true?
No.4783
>>4616> J.K. Rowling> Hearing about the Animorphs war crimes makes me want to experience it in the readers immersion.I would read "1984 with Dog Latin", if not Dog Latin part. Too ridiculousus.
No.4942
Does anyone here know anything about R. A. Salvatore or read his stuff?
No.4962
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Any good vigilante lit? The more puerile male power fantasy, the better, really.
No.4965
>>4962Old or more recent? The only one I can think immediately is a comic written by a Brazilian who hates communists.
No.5002
I just brought the six original Dune books, what should I expect?
No.5020
Gene Wolfe would be translated and released in my country, but my shitty government told them to cancel those plans, since Gene Wolfe was an evil "right-winger".
I guess is time to move to USA or Europe.
No.5065
>>5020Didn't even know he was a "right winger". I thought he was just a catholic.
No.5067
>>5065That's their logic.
No.5073
>>5067Where the hell do you live where they're banning catholic authors now?
No.5076
>>5073He's just making shit up
No.5084
>>5076Eat shit and die, /trannypol/.
No.5231
Who the fuck is John Scalzi and why he's being so fucking shilled as the biggest sci-fi author from this generation???
No.5365
Re-read Paycheck by Philip K Dick and Goldenman by him too.
I enjoyed more the last one. Its over for Louis K Dick and other nigger loves. The golden gods will take over the Earth.
No.5714
Jim
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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is better known today than he was in life and perhaps best-known for his story that the movie "Blade Runner" was based on. For me, his book "The Man in the High Castle"(1962) is one of my favorite SF books, a book I first read when I was in 6th grade. I found Dick's depiction of an America under the control of German and Japanese conquerors to be disturbing…the idea of a defeated America was hard to accept for a kid who enjoyed watching John Wayne films!
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" was published in 1964 and I first read it in the 90s. And even though I was an adult, I also found it disturbing. The story is about a man of mystery- Palmer Eldritch-who returns from a trip to the Proxima system bearing a gift for mankind. It's the drug "Chew-Z" capable of transporting people to illusory worlds. In the world of 2016 (when the Earth has heated up and Antarctica is a beach resort), the drug appeals especially to the lonely colonists of Mars. But this gift has a price…. I have to say I did not find the book so disturbing upon a second reading- in this the "real" year of 2016. The reason is that I find the reality of our political situation to be even more disturbing. Hopefully, however, Trump will not be another Eldritch Palmer!
No.5720
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I finished Kings of the Wyld yesterday, the book so hyped by gen x and some redditors. Isn't as great as they say, but this slut crying about the book improved a little bit my opinion since for me, the book was very reddit-like and full of Canadian culture aka gay and cringe.
No.5748
Recently finishied the first dragonlance trilogy, and I'm a big fan. It's not a flawless series, and there were clearly some issues with planning and worldbuilding. For example, the trinket that's the main objective of the good guys in the first book and supposed to be a major asset in the war, plays no meaningful role at all in the following works and is hardly mentioned again.
Also, the evil side is so absurdly superior until the very end that the war should have been very quick. I mean, they have swarms of dragons that spit out fire and ice, and the other side is shown to be almost helpless against one of these beasts. Reasonably, all the cities and forts should have been overrun in a few weeks, and that'd be the end of the story, instead of them inexplicably holding out for years. The two female authors were clearly not very adept at war.
You could also make an argument for the moral aspect of the setting being silly and overly simplified, with the sides of the war being explicitly evil and good, respectively, and worshipping a deity of the same alignment. Honestly, though, I didn't mind it.
Regarding what I liked, firstly, the problem solving of the group of adventurers that we get to follow through the story. They constantly run into troublesome situations and have to use their brains and improvise to stay alive. It was fun to pause in the reading and figure out how I would have handle what came up. The characters are great and likeable, even the rotten bastard ones. And honestly, the romance was very enjoyable too. So many waifus. Laurana's best girl, though. In her introduction, we learn that she still pines for her osananajimin fiance years after he's left, still wishing to marry him for life and, when he leaves once more on what's supposed to be a suicide mission, she follows him in secret to "not let him get away again." That's her in a nutshell.
Anyway, I mostly bring up my thoughts on this story to ask for recommendations. What are some other similar fantasy novels with sweet romance and a group of adventurers getting into trouble?
No.5766
I finished reading for the first time a book written by Robert A. Heinlein.
The constant seething done by leftist cattle about him seems unjustified.
No.5770
>>5766Starship troopers? What did you think of it?
No.5843
>>5829I've heard that it's a bit philosophical compared to typical modern fantasy slop, and almost as crazy as Might and Magic with the alien shit and fantasy mixed together.
I'll probably never actually read it, I'm trying to avoid reading fantasy, especially series.
No.5849
>>5843Prince Of Nothing is the first trilogy and it's a mostly grounded crusades-like Dark Fantasy setting. Although it constantly hints that shit will start going down soon.
It gets philosophical in certain parts, but it doesn't dwell on those themes too long. It prefers to keep a cinematic pace.
I'm not reading it so much out of love for Fantasy, as much as Bakker's prose being really good.