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[Hide] [Show All] [Return] [Catalog] [Bottom] [Update] [ Auto] This thread is archived 120 / 23 / 69 / ? 120 / 22 / 69 / 11 File: fantasy_and_science_ficti(...).jpg (56 KB, 360x533) /tg/ approved literature Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)01:48:22 No.73073933 ▶ >>73074276 >>73074556 >>73074663 >>73082235 >>73082801 >>73086099 >>73093937 >>73094001 >>73094198 >>73099017 >>73116015 Time for another literature thread lads! Post recommendations, requests and general discussions. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:17:24 No.73074266 ▶ >>73074541 >>73091158 Neuromancer is fucking tits along with Johnny Mnenomic. Great action and great fucking. Characters are good too. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:18:15 No.73074276 ▶ >>73074355 >>73074858 >>73089275 File: 220px-Rincewind.png (126 KB, 220x378) >>73073933 (OP) Disc fucking World >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:27:10 No.73074355 ▶ >>73074371 >>73074386 >>73074689 >>73074786 >>73074276 Redpill me on High Fantasy. I mostly read Low Fantasy. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:28:31 No.73074371 ▶ >>73074531 >>73074355 The best high fantasy is amazing and surpasses any low fantasy in existence. The worst high fantasy is Warcraft tier nonsense. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:29:52 No.73074386 ▶ >>73074531 >>73074355 Discworld is a deconstruction of fantasy as a whole, while still remaining really fucking good. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:45:24 No.73074531 ▶ >>73099322 >>73074371 >>73074386 What separates good high fantasy from bad high fantasy? Also what are some recommendations for good high fantasy? >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:46:39 No.73074541 ▶ >>73074574 >>73074814 >>73074885 >>73075170 >>73075679 >>73083869 >>73091158 >>73093223 >>73074266 Are there any notable cyberpunk works NOT written by William Gibson? >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:48:14 No.73074556 ▶ >>73073933 (OP) Titles + reasoning https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Approved_literature >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:50:07 No.73074574 ▶ >>73074637 >>73074541 Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson is amazing. I like it more than Gibson's works. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)02:58:16 No.73074637 ▶ >>73074734 >>73074574 To elaborate it's a pseudo-parody of the cyberpunk genre about a pizza delivery man who works for the Mafia and uncovers a Globalist conspiracy to enslave humanity. The main bad guy is an Eskimo who carries a nuke around rigged to his pacemaker so if he dies it explodes. It's silly but legitimately smart and fun. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:00:36 No.73074663 ▶ >>73074724 >>73075007 >>73081939 File: croaker_t.png (82 KB, 220x250) >>73073933 (OP) It's all so tiresome, though. Always the same recommendation and there's nothing really modern to recommend because everyone jumped on the YA bandwagon. How many times can people recommend the Black Company and think it's obscure, for example? >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:04:17 No.73074689 ▶ >>73074355 It's fun, it allows far more things in world-building level and it usually doesn't try to use shock value to keep you interested >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:08:11 No.73074724 ▶ >>73074663 >muh obscurity Nobody ever uses this argument. In fact, the recommendations are most often deliberately normie-friendly, since it gets more people hooked. Also, the point of all those approved lists isn't "muh secret gems", but "easily accessable books that have high applicability to the hobby". Thus things like Watership Down or early Anne Rice. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:09:13 No.73074734 ▶ >>73074811 File: Confusion.gif (296 KB, 529x720) >>73074637 >It's silly >but legitimately smart I mean I get what you are trying to say, but the way it's done is awful >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:14:52 No.73074786 ▶ >>73075719 >>73074355 isn't high fantasy just on a higher power level, though? think flashier and bigger with all that entails. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:17:46 No.73074811 ▶ >>73074986 >>73074734 The book was intentionally written to be over-the-top (the main character's name is literally Hiro Protagonist) but it knows when to take itself seriously. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:18:05 No.73074814 ▶ >>73074541 Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Frontera, by Lewis Shiner. Lucius Shepard was lumped in there in his early days, but I'm not sure which of his works fit (some of his short stories, I think). >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:21:21 No.73074858 ▶ >>73074898 >>73075121 >>73081959 >>73095213 >>73099388 >>73108419 >>73116464 >>73074276 >Redditworld >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:24:03 No.73074885 ▶ >>73074541 It will never stop being funny how someone who, in his own words, knew basically nothing about technology became the father of cyberpunk as know it today. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:25:59 No.73074898 ▶ >>73074858 The first Discworld novel was written 20 years before Reddit was founded. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:34:24 No.73074986 ▶ >>73074811 It was written to be the script for a videogame >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:36:33 No.73075007 ▶ >>73075080 >>73074663 Theres new fantasy out there. What about matt ward's new book. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:44:29 No.73075080 ▶ >>73085967 File: 81bGoeCxldL.jpg (319 KB, 1647x2560) >>73075007 I mean, you're not wrong. Makes me want to hang myself, but new stuff exists. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:49:22 No.73075121 ▶ >>73074858 >Discworld >reddit You are trying too hard >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)03:55:27 No.73075170 ▶ >>73074541 True Names by Vernor Vinge. I would even argue Gibson wouldn't write anything cyberpunk without this novella existing >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)04:59:39 No.73075679 ▶ >>73074541 Hardwired, and Snow Crash have both been mentioned There's a shit ton of good short stories out there, including the one that originates the word "cyberpunk" (That also got an extended version) When Gravity Fails was pretty good also >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)05:04:46 No.73075719 ▶ >>73077066 >>73074786 The technical definition of high fantasy is that it takes place someplace other than Earth. Whereas low fantasy takes place on Earth (or an alternate/older version of earth like Hyperborea) but with fantastic elements. However, nowadays high fantasy vs. low fantasy is usually regarded as how much magic a setting has, though that's technically a separate axis. It can get kind of confusing because there's no longer a universal definition. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)07:11:05 No.73076896 ▶ File: dragonlance.jpg (55 KB, 345x571) Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy (Dragons of Autumn, Twilight/Winter Night/Spring Dawning) then Dragonlance Legends trilogy (Time/Test/War of the Twins) the Weis and Hickman novellas from the Dragonlance Tale anthologies. Those six epic high fantasy novels tell two complete stories, each different in scope. The novellas add some interest and give a nice twist on some prior events. Be careful after that. There are around 160 novels with Dragonlance on the cover (lots of authors) but /tg/ does not approve of many more than I have said. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)07:31:12 No.73077066 ▶ >>73075719 >The technical definition of high fantasy is that it takes place someplace other than Earth. Whereas low fantasy takes place on Earth (or an alternate/older version of earth like Hyperborea) Whoever wrote that definition is wrong. Tolkien wrote a lot of high fantasy set on Earth, much of it set on an alternate version of Earth called Middle Earth, which that wrong definition says makes it low fantasy. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)07:31:55 No.73077076 ▶ >>73081757 >>73099292 File: A1FFo456P1L (1).jpg (1.3 MB, 1563x2364) Read Flashman >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)08:10:11 No.73077430 ▶ >>73088741 Is there any Conan but in space with sci-fi tech? >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)12:35:10 No.73081757 ▶ >>73082399 >>73082945 >>73099292 >>73077076 DAS RAYCIST >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)12:44:52 No.73081939 ▶ >>73085967 >>73074663 >there's nothing really modern to recommend I'm sure there is. You just have to check back in 15 years when the natural process of popular curation has filtered out the good genre fiction from the tripe. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)12:45:33 No.73081959 ▶ >>73074858 You should have your balls nailed to the fucking cross for that statement >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)13:03:47 No.73082235 ▶ >>73082531 >>73088776 >>73104863 File: stare.gif (1.98 MB, 418x215) >>73073933 (OP) Beyond the black river is the best Conan short story. Objective fax. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)13:15:13 No.73082399 ▶ >>73082945 >>73099292 File: 20200609_121411.jpg (37 KB, 337x356) >>73081757 >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)13:23:42 No.73082531 ▶ >>73088776 >>73104863 >>73082235 >Not 'Queen of the Black Coast' Nah m8. >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)13:41:04 No.73082801 ▶ >>73073933 (OP) Been reading a lot of Dresden Files recently (starting out book 8 today) and it’s pretty good I didn’t find the early books to be as bad as people claim, though I also wasn’t that impressed by Dead Beat, so so far I’d rate the series enjoyable/10 Though it is a great /tg/ read as I’m really into the idea of playing an urban fantasy game now >> Anonymous 06/09/20(Tue)13:47:21 No.73082911 ▶ Larry Correia's MHI is breddy gud.
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