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 No.120[Last 50 Posts]

"Literature"? What are you, gay? We'll have none of that nonsense in this thread. Come and talk about stories about cool things for men.
>nuuuuh, but my poetry
I will literally beat you up.

What are your favourite books? Who are your favourite writers? What are you reading now? What do you plan on reading, but have not yet gotten around to?

 No.122

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I'm mostly a non-fiction guy, but I definitely have a soft spot for old pulp stories and science fantasy stuff.

Dune is probably my all-time favorite science fiction novel. I love the setting, its depth, and the way it avoids a lot of the usual beep-boop science fiction cliches. The first couple of sequels are pretty good if you're willing to be patient, but I'm still not sure what to think of the latter three books in the original series. I wouldn't call them bad, but they don't stack up as well if you ask me. They're definitely weird and unique though. I'd recommend staying away from the Brian Herbert-Kevin J. Anderson books unless you're crazy enough about the Dune universe that you're willing to read what is basically young adult fanfiction.

I like Edgar Rice Burroughs even though all his stories are basically the same thing but in different settings. A Princess of Mars might be my favorite, although I've read all his Pellucidar and Caspak books due to loving lost world stories since I was a kid.

Speaking of which, The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle is another good one.

H.P. Lovecraft is an obvious author to reference. I was thinking about buying one of those collections of all his work, but unfortunately from the reviews I've read they're riddled with typos. Maybe someday I'll finally get around to reading his friend Robert E. Howard.

I read the first Buck Rogers novel or two, but those were pretty forgettable.

 No.123

>>122
I definitely want to read more classic pulp. Just started on Robert E Howard, with "The Shadow Kingdom". Only two chapters in, but I'm liking it a lot. Good strong, classic manly stuff that stirs up those primal feelings. Read about Half of King Solomon's Mines about a year ago, which I must get back to.

 No.124

I use to own the majority of the Star Wars novel series. The comics I always thought were bullshit for kids but the novels I enjoyed up until the Yuuzhan Vong. I couldn't get interested with it afterwards and the prequels kind of killed whatever I still liked about the franchise. Gave those books to a cousin. I also have the entire Animorphs series which is sitting around somewhere at my parents'. Lord of the Rings was okay. I really liked George Orwell's stuff. I don't really do much with fiction, though. I don't see the point of being in imagination land when real history can be so interesting.

 No.125

>>122
>>123
You fags wanna read something cool
>http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cb.aspx
Check out the transition from Lovecraft to Howard.

 No.129

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>>125
>that tie-in to The Shadow Out of Time.
Cool. That's one of my favourite Lovecraft stories.

 No.130

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>Here, indeed, was outré nightmare at its height-capricious fantasy at its apex. But even this vision of delirium was not what caused George Campbell to lapse a third time into unconsciousness. It took one more thing-one final, unbearable touch-to do that. As the nameless worm advanced with its glistening box, the reclining man caught in the mirror-like surface a glimpse of what should have been his own body. Yet-horribly verifying his disordered and unfamiliar sensations-it was not his own body at all that he saw reflected in the burnished metal. It was, instead, the loathsome, pale-grey bulk of one of the great centipedes.

>[Robert E. Howard]


>From that final lap of senselessness, he emerged with a full understanding of his situation. His mind was imprisoned in the body of a frightful native of an alien planet, while, somewhere on the other side of the universe, his own body was housing the monster's personality.

>He fought down an unreasoning horror. Judged from a cosmic standpoint, why should his metamorphosis horrify him? Life and consciousness were the only realities in the universe. Form was unimportant. His present body was hideous only according to terrestrial standards. Fear and revulsion were drowned in the excitement of titanic adventure.

Oh, that's funny as fuck.

 No.131

Oops. Didn't mean to link that twice.

 No.136

>Only the candles and the soap were of German origin. They had a ghostly, opalescent similarity. The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State.
The world building is amazing. I'm so immersed.

 No.138

>>136
That's so 2015

 No.177

>>138
>drowning out actual discourse with gatekeepers makes the actual discourse disappear
Lol, no. That's why they ended up with shill like Fuentes who parrots most of the old talking points. They would have stuck with the cuckservatives if it was feasible.

 No.179

>>177
Why are you dragging basic bitch /pol/ talking points into a thread about genre fiction?
Yeah, yeah, the holocaust is probably bullshit. I don't care. Take it to /dup/.

 No.181

>>138
slaughterhouse-five was written in 1969 I'm sure Vonnegut would change those references if he knew they were fake.

 No.210

>>179
It's my kink and you just came dangerously close to shaming me. Tut-tut.

 No.212

>half way through first book of book of the new sun
>it's boring
>literally nothing has happened
>dude it's so deep though did you get the bit where he was looking at a moon landing photo?
yeah nigger and the moon landing is fake do you expect me to believe in a future world that believes in obvious frauds like that? fuck off trash niggers

 No.213

>>212
I've been meaning to read that. Guess you don't recommend it then?

 No.214

>>213
Yeah i have no idea what people see in it. I could be wrong but srsly

 No.236

>>179
The holocaust *never* happened.

 No.237

>>212
The moon landing *never* happened either.

 No.238

>>236
Don't care. What do you think about pulp detective novels?

 No.239

>>236
>>237
The atomic bombings *never* happened.

 No.240

>>213
I read the first two books and it's pretty hard to recommend over all the other stuff you could. There's a lot of weird choices though so maybe you might enjoy that. If I finish the series I'll write more.

 No.241

>>240
What would you recommend in it's place? I need to get around to finishing Lord of Light, speaking of sci-fi fantasy mashups.

 No.274

>>241
oh I just meant in general not specifically fantasy sci-fi.

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Maybe some of you kind anons can help me here. I'm looking for wholesome sci fi or fantasy. I'm sick of Stronk womyn, obvious fetish insertion or just plain stupidity in the genre. All too much of it is political people trying to push their ideology as being THE FUTURE or how it's enlightened to fuck whatever they want to fuck. I'm looking for stuff with a good foundation of realism while still being an adventure. I want to enjoy reading a good story instead of rolling my eyes at obvious man children creating mother figures they can fuck and hide behind when the scary orcs turn up.

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 No.289

>>288
What's that?

 No.292

>>289
looks like an ebook

 No.310

>>281
Read some of the classics. Frerik Pohl, Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc

 No.313

>>281
I like asimov. It's pretty much a sexual

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I've only the first Mars down the hatch on books and portions of Howard's characters (Kull and Solomon Kane) on the stories side, along with a Lovecraft now and then.
Still got ways to go, want to get around more of Burroughs and A. Merritt the latter I mistakenly thought was mainly short stories but the one I decided to read was basically the prologue to the book.

>Genre Fiction, cool things for men

The Big Sleep was a knockout, whatever your experience with detective or noir aping, check it out if you feel the slightest interest. Does not stretch anything longer than it needs to.
Also, the anon around the webring that recommends Solomon Kane deserves a drink.

 No.329

>>327
I read a couple of Soloman Kane stories myself recently. I think it's the first time I've experienced puritanism represented as something positive in a work of fiction. The upstanding man of moral character, who goes out into the world and fights back the evil things. I love shit like this. It's a kind of storytelling that can only be born of a culture that takes pride in itself.

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I picked up Lord of Light again. Really like this book. The basic premise is that it takes place in a future society modeled on Hinduism. I'll check back in when I've finished it.

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>>327
I like big tits, would I like that book? The cover tells me there are big tits in the book. I can't read what's on the cover though and don't know what language it is and in all honesty can't read very well to begin with

 No.348

I could swear there are older posts in this thread that didn't exist earlier this week.

>>337
Go read it if you feel inclined in the least: her breeding material frame comprises a reduced amount of the book but martians die for getting in the way of Carter and the customarily almost naked princess.
Worse that can happen is that you finished a book. >>122 gives glowing recommendation.

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>>337
>I like big tits
try Wheel of Time

 No.353

>>352
Blah, the only kinky shit in those books is all the lesbo spanking. You want some fucked up kink fantasy read Terry goodkind's sword of truth series. Some sick shit.

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Pulp is kino.

 No.360

Finished Lord of Light. Very good book, and I would recommend, though the set up was a little better than the pay-off, and there were certain things I wish had been elaborated on more. Though maybe that's the point. Just to give the smallest slice of a struggle against immortals that has been going on forever, and will continue to go on.

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It pisses me that there's no clear boundary between genre and literary anymore. If you want to read modern genre fiction you have to hop on some shithole like Clarkesworld and trudge through dozens of "whoah the aliens are symbolic of the struggle of trannies" shitheaps just to find one readable story, and even then it's either pretentiously "literary" or autistically "realistic". Such stories are okay sometimes, but it's basically impossible to find anything written after 1980 in the true tradition of pulpy goodness. And that's bullshit, because sometimes a man just wants to read about how the galaxy's buffest super-genius discovers a convenient loophole in the laws of physics and proceeds to abuse the fuck out of it to have badass adventures.

Anyone who's ever tried to write a "pulpy" story knows how hard it is to get it right, too. For some reason when a modern author gives it a try the result is inevitably cringeworthy shit. What gives? Why can't we produce simple action stories anymore? Is it because we just don't have the boundless optimism for science and freedom that previous generations had? Or is it something that can be overcome by just going back and reading more old pulps?

 No.387

>>386
>simple action stories
>boundless optimism for science and freedom
>science and freedom being one and the same
lol, u dumb as fuck yo

 No.388

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>>387
>not wanting to use universe-wrecking technology to impose AMERICAN FREEDOM on the galaxy at large
okay, soylet

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>>388
>not using your own two hands to write a story about using use universe-wrecking technology to impose AMERICAN FREEDOM on the galaxy at large
You are a cuckold who can do nothing on his own. Your insults are your own psychology projected onto others. You want mindless pulp adventure in the modern age? It's called Chuck Windig, enjoy. Or better yet, go play a video game. All of them feature the plot you describe. You want a big burly man to crush aliens (non-whites)? Play Halo. You want a scientist doing the same dumb shit? Play Half-Life. You want a big burly man to not just kill aliens, but fuck them too? Play Mass Effect. Your interest already exist, you just ignore them because you prefer to bitch and moan.

 No.390

>>389
>just play cuckeo games bro
This is /lit/, not /v/.

Why does the idea of masculine literature get your panties in a twist, anyway?

 No.391

>>390
>masculine lit
Now you're redefining your own descriptions. Read Cormac McCarthy if that's what you're after in regards to contemporary fiction. Oh, but wait, you need aliens and space ships and lazer guns too, right? Damn, maybe you need to try writing your own shit.

 No.392

>>391
>Now you're redefining your own descriptions
Lol, you're the one who was going on about "big burly men," not me.
>Read Cormac McCarthy if that's what you're after in regards to contemporary fiction
McCarthy is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about when I was talking about pretentiously "literary" works. He writes like he thinks being depressing makes him smarter and more artistic. Sometimes you're in the mood for something like that, but sometimes you're not, and then you're just shit out of luck unless you want to trawl archive.org for poorly-encoded PDFs of old pulps.
>Damn, maybe you need to try writing your own shit.
I've certainly been working on my own shit. In the meanwhile, are you aware of any markets that even take works like that anymore? Because I've been looking, and they do not exist. If you want to get published in the current year, publishers only ever want more literary works, even the genre publishers. Which brings me back to my original gripe: that there's no clear boundary between genre and literary anymore.
>inb4 "just start your own zine bro"

 No.393

>>392
>you're the one who was going on about "big burly men," not me
"Sometimes a man hust wants to read about the galaxy's buffest super genius…" Sure thing, bro.
>McCarthy is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about when I was talking about pretentiously "literary" works.
I guess you and I have different description of pretentious. That's fine, though. Have you actually read every old pulp story, though? From Robert Howard to Clark Ashton Smith? You've gone through their whole bibliographies? There's a lot of stuff to read.
>are you aware of any markets that even take works like that anymore?
Terror House if you want to get your stuff seen. They'll take anything, just look at the stuff Nobody got on there. If you want to get paid, GrimDark Magazine pays. "Grimdark" as a term has become a shield for violent/masculine stories. I know it's not exactly what you're interested in, but that's the closest thing there is, most likely. George R.R. Martin for example, who people call grimdark, is really just a pulp fiction author. Especially if you go through his short stories.

 No.394

>>393
>Have you actually read every old pulp story, though? From Robert Howard to Clark Ashton Smith? You've gone through their whole bibliographies?
Of course not, though I've definitely knocked out a few big names and gotten started on a lot more. That doesn't mean I don't get to criticize modern trends.
>Terror House if you want to get your stuff seen.
I have been published on Terror House, and read it most days. I was actually thinking of the "pulpy" works I've seen on Terror House when I said that modern attempts at pulp are inevitably cringey.
just look at the stuff Nobody got on there.
Cyber Punk was kino.
>GrimDark Magazine
That honestly looks like it's worth checking out. Still, there's that emphasis on darkness and moral greys there, pulling it towards "literary". I understand that a lot of older genre works had those elements too, and that most of these were perfectly enjoyable. But there were also a lot of older genre works that reflected a sort of optimism that isn't really found anymore outside of "humanity fuck yeah" greentexts on /tg/, and those were enjoyable too. Somehow it's just hard for modern authors to capture that essence properly. I know that I've tried to, and that the results are just plain bad stories. Works that are darker, more artistic, or more realistic have their appeals, but it would just be nice if the plain fun adventures hadn't died out.

 No.395

>>394
>Cyber Punk was kino.
Cyberpunk was terrible.
>I have been published on Terror House
Post your stuff.

 No.397

>>395
Here >>396
If you want to shit on my shit, do it in that thread so this one isn't derailed.

 No.400

>>389
Just to interject, all of those games are ten to twenty years old at this point, and the hyper masculine video game hero with no strings attached, isn't even that common anymore.

 No.402

>>395
>cyberpunk was terrible
Elab.

 No.1147

Just going to bump this thread to say I have been reading the Deathworld series by Harry Harrison lately, which I happened upon by luck. Very enjoyable if you're looking for some 60's pulp with a Captain Kirkesque womanising hero, and perhaps some subtly based themes.
They do one of my favourite things in the science fiction genre, which is to look into the ways that environment and culture can shape people. Think Frank Herbert, but less lofty and with more wit.

 No.1197

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I like Dragonlance. I haven't read it since I was about 13 or something like that, and I can hardly remember most of what happened in it, but I remember it being very engaging for my teenage mind. It does unfortunately contain Kender, however. Good high fantasy, though I think it's got something of a negative reputation in some circles. I know a lot of atheist neckbeards reviled the book for its focus on the religiosity of some characters.
Of the Discworld books I've read, I enjoyed most of them, though it's also been a few years since I touched them. The most recent one I read had Vampires in it. Good book. I also liked the one with the idiot savant travelling with the much diminished avatar of his god.
I'm finding that most of the fantasy stuff I read, I read while I was much younger. On that point, I read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy just before I read Dragonlance. Must have been around 12 or something like that, but it gripped me. I especially liked what Lord Asriel does at the end of the book. A lot of Christians didn't like the series because of how the books depict what is essentially the fantasyland Catholic Church, and also how the heavenly court behaves.

 No.1202

>>1197
>he one with the idiot savant travelling with the much diminished avatar of his god.
Small Gods, right? I remember liking that one a lot. I have a bunch of Pratchett books I've amassed over the years. Ought to read them, really.

 No.1348

>>1202
Yeah exactly. I liked it. It's pretty gay that it suggests that absolute adherence to scripture is not what God wants, but it's a fun story and I like that the main character is a retard.
It's hard to think of other fantasy I've read that's worth mentioning. I hardly read anything I'd feel is worth recommending to anyone these days, at least in the fantasy genre. I remember I checked out some book recommendation thread way back on 8chan and someone had recommended The Magician which I read. It was pretty boring at points. Alright, but not really worth reading given how long it was. The point of bringing this up is just to remind you to not take recommendations from imageboards.
I guess I'll just recommend genres to avoid instead. Ever read Chinese fantasy? Specifically the kinds known as Xianxia or Wuxia or the other one I can't remember the name of. They're all basically the same genre anyway, as best as I can tell. Every character in it is a perfect stereotype, one dimensional completely and usually irrelevant to the story. For some reason, they think it's a good idea to put over 1000 chapters in their shit books. It's always just dreadful powerfantasy shit with nothing redeemable about it. Fucking dreadful shit.
I was introduced to jap light novels by a friend in high school. I was running a server from home to bypass in-school proxies and he wanted me to upload this series I forget the name of now. It was some Isekai style book, about some fat jap neet who died and was reincarnated in a fantasy world and was instantly amazing at everything from the age of 2, but especially amazing at magic. A lot of jap light novels are like that. Most of them are, even. Still, if you have to pick between the Chink genres I've mentioned and these light novels, pick the light novels. They tend to be shorter, so your pain will be over quicker.
Later on, that same guy introduced me to my first piece of Korean fiction. I can even remember the name of this one. "Legend of the Moonlight Sculptor". It revolves around a man who has no personality other than being extremely miserly and being good at video games. It's about him going on to play a vr video game and again, it's just power fantasy shit. I don't understand how, but my friend had read like 20 books of this one story. I tried my best to appreciate it and got through three books or so. It fucking sucks balls. I later went on to check out other Korean fiction of different genres, but the common theme is that Koreans don't seem to understand that characters should have a personality. At least the Japs and the Chinks can give their characters more than one character trait at a time. Fuck Korea.
So my friend understands that I didn't like the korean series he recommended and then recommends me a western book, very much similar. It turns out that there is a genre about people who play games or live in worlds governed by video game mechanics, they call it LITRPG. The book he recommended this time was called "The Gam3". It's certainly better written than the korean book, way less long winded, the characters are actually almost characters. It still sucked massive balls and was still power fantasy shit.
Don't read Korean fiction, don't read Chink fantasy, don't read Jap light novels. Also do not read this LITRPG shit. It strikes me as the kind of thing that someone who has no experience with absolutely anything outside of fucking games would enjoy.

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Oh shit, I thought this thread fell of the catalog already. I just started getting into these kinds of books. I've been reading a little of A. E. van Vogt. His books are retarded and genius at the same time and I mean that with complete sincerity. They don't make writers like this anymore.

 No.3254

>>3248
>one of L Ron Hubbard's inner circle
Sounds good. I must read some of Hubbard's sci-fi, on that matter. I have one of his Mission Earth books sitting here unread. Seems not great, to be honest.

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Superb, my post about Cixin Liu and his The Three-Body Problem got jenny'd, probably weeks or months ago.
In summary, excellent books if you are interested in physics and hard sci-fi. Some people cry a lot about characters and dialogues not being like they are used with western authors, redditors argue about the author and as usual they try to force their "ethics" in the work and author, even though to me and others it seems he is far from hating CCCP and agree with their liberal hippies concepts, he seems like the type of chinese who really has contempt for baizuo who has an idiotic notion of reality and coward faggots and other subhumans who are easily swayed by beauty and security-based notions of respect and diversity, but I can't get into it without giving away spoilers.

 No.3477

>>3476
As long as an author is earnestly communicating something they believe in, I feel like I'd rather have that than some one size fits all globohomo morality. That's pretty much why I don't like Reddit, or much of modern Western media, I guess.

 No.3480

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>>3477
At least that was the impression that I and other people had of the author, I never cared to search for any interviews.
First, it was a woman being nihilistic and butthurt with mankind that started to trigger the events in the books. The concept "lol let's all become one government and be friends with everyone" falls apart.
Maybe if you want to check up something with a bit of spoilers.

This jewtube is a nigger with fake glasses and seems to like some Breadtubers, but he rarely tries to turn his videos into something political and he has done sjws seethe at the past, I'm just warning.

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I'm a big fan of military science fiction, but only when there's more going on than "wow cool space war!"
There's a tabletop game with rules and miniatures based on this series, but I don't have any friends that would be interested and can't be bothered anyway.

 No.3502

>>3501
How do you even read that title? Is Hammer's Slammers the imprint?

 No.3503

>>3502
Hammer's Slammers is the title of the first book and the name of the series, then At Any Price is the subtitle. Like Star Wars: A New Hope.

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So I finally sat down and finished the Deathworld trilogy. Overall, I enjoyed these quite a bit. Each book follows the same basic premise of the protagonist Jason (professional gambler and thrill seeker) having to integrate into some kind of warrior culture, while using his smarts to turn things to his advantage, but I feel like each book was a little better than the last. They're witty, and violent, and horribly chauvinistic. Good clean fun.

I'm curious to check out some of Harry Harrison's other work now. I know he wrote the book that was adapted into the movie Soylent Green, which I have not read, and something called Bill, the Galactic Hero, which seems to be a space marine military satire.

 No.3523

>>3521
Interestingly, the books were apparently popular in Russia, since there are four more sequels, co-written by Russian authors, that have only been published in Russian.

 No.3533

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>>3476
>all aliens are evil! Be a paranoid autistic with zero social skills
I hate those hackers and their blackpilled view of the universe, same happens with The Killing Star and Starship Troopers

At least Dune doesn't have "muh evil aliens"

That's why Steven Spielberg is the biggest movie director of all time, he can't make good stories about aliens.

 No.3537

>>3533
I don't know if that's necessarily the point of Starship Troopers. It's just that there's a war on, and the exact motivations of the enemy are never fully elaborated on, because it's not really what the book is focused on.

 No.3539

>>3533
>the de- I mean aliens aren't evil goyim they're friendly and intelligent just like in Star Trek

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>>3539
Do you mean demons, Sneedius?

 No.3541

>>3540
Who?

 No.3563

>>3533
All aliens are evil, Xenu.

 No.3564

>>3563
>t. grey
>>3541
Sneedious, 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

>>3686
The Three-Body Problem like already discussed here, read before it become mainstream because they will make a film or tv show about it.

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>>3686
There's no such thing as good "hard" science fiction. "Hard" science fiction is the reddit of science fiction.
>>3696
The 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

>>3712
After five days what we get is this pathetic trolling attempt stinking as something from cuckchan.

 No.3722

>>3718
You got two legitimate recommendations. That's about the best you're going to get on a slow board.

 No.3730

>>3718
Stay 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.3766

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>>3730
im sorry, but you sound like an arrogant faggot. with all due respect of course.

 No.3795

>>3712
>>3730
You 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
>>3795
He'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
>>352
It all seems so innocent…

 No.4148

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>>3948
>I'm right, also check me trying to fit it!

 No.4151

>>4148
The only thing I'm gonna fit is my cock in your throat, faggot.

 No.4169

>>4151
Typical shitskin reply, pathetic.

 No.4170

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>>4169
>i-is that just an adventure story???? wh-where is the symbolism about why racism is bad?????

 No.4297

>>120
Okay, 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

>>4297
I'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

>>4297
Some of Clark Ashton Smith's famtasy stories were written in the 50s-60s.

 No.4304

>>4297
The 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.

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 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?

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I think K.A. Applegate opened the door to my heart and J.K. Rowling followed through. I want to re-read Animorphs. I've only ever read a couple of books spaced out as well as youtube spoiled the ending but one of the couple I owned was the one when David was introduced. I got to reminiscing and recalling they were well written. Hearing about the Animorphs war crimes makes me want to experience it in the readers immersion.

 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.4823

>>3712
>>3730
>>4331
>t. Low IQ MCU fanboy

 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

>>4962
Old or more recent? The only one I can think immediately is a comic written by a Brazilian who hates communists.

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>>4965
Trashman? That's some quality grime there.

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>>4966
>>4965
This one?

 No.5002

I just brought the six original Dune books, what should I expect?

 No.5012

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Oh fuck, I was trying to organize my books since I'm low on space and now I noticed that one of my books from Philip K. Dick is missing.

 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

>>5020
Didn't even know he was a "right winger". I thought he was just a catholic.

 No.5067

>>5065
That's their logic.

 No.5073

>>5067
Where the hell do you live where they're banning catholic authors now?

 No.5076

>>5073
He's just making shit up

 No.5084

>>5076
Eat 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.


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