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Unpleasant professions edition >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Banned Authors: Joe Abercrombie A.A. Attanasio R. Scott Bakker C.J. Cherryh Glen Cook Steven Erikson R.A. Lafferty Mark Lawrence George R.R. Martin Patrick Rothfuss Gene Wolfe >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg Previous:

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𓀐 @-QohoQPC: It does not feel worth it. I have better scifi I can rerereread for weird shit and abstract manipulation of maths/physics without the bizarre likely longnose-influenced snuff on like page 2. I am CRAVING CRAVING CRAVING scifantasy at the moment.+

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𓀐 @s5V8*am?: Quick, someone write a book called Jesus is Back... But he's PISSED! so I can read it.+

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𓀐 @K6ZYwVJ*: >desperately want to write >so in love with the idea of what I'm going for, I keep plotting out weird shit and adding stuff to a world irrelevant to the plot itself help me+

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𓀐 @K8oy9n_d: Teetering on the point where Fantasy as a genre is near equivalent to Shonen. And by that I mean, It is nearly impossible to find any seriously good writing because of the inherent tropes that tie the genre down.+

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𓀐 @mFsn=nnb: I started this Light book and what the fuck. >first scene is the MC and his current girlfriend girl he's dating whatever at some party >crowd joke about fucking people as young as their children >MC literally kills the gf in an empty room a few paragraphs later when they've left and is revealed to have killed other women >then turns out he's a physics-wiz working on some experiment with another dude >chapter 2 cuts to some random spaceship out in (you guessed it) space what the actual fuck+

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𓀐 @e2NdbJbB: love Heinlein treat it as a design doc, or bible. it sounds like you want to worldbuild, so put all of that into a document, then eventually you can write a story (no need to reinvent the wheel here, steal a plot you liked) and use your design doc as a guide to color it in.+

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𓀐 @panjd28i: Why didn't anyone tell me King's The Running Man was more cyberpunk than Neuromancer? This shit came out 2 years earlier and he predicted so much. That shitty Arnie movie and even shittier adaptation last year really fucked over the novel's reputation I think.+

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𓀐 @p~N=WYds: >Up for three hours >Only nineteen replies It's beyond over for this general.+ 1

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𓀐 @n5_6Ahbz: Idiot, troll, or both? There's very little activity outside of US hours.+

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𓀐 @ZbtLojMm: Now that I am almost done with the 3rd book here is my verdict: Misery slop+

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𓀐 @xE6rcmax: I am worldbuilding a technocratic future dystopia. The villain wants to create an AI God and AI Afterlife, calls it the singularity, and he enslaves people’s souls inside a fake digital world. But in order to manufacture their consent, he has a well-oiled propaganda machine, shilling this false Heaven as a wonderful digital paradise. Well, I’ve never written sci-fi before. I wonder if this idea was done well by someone else.+

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𓀐 @Viu3JN4E: /r/ing any books with elongated day/night cycles or permanent day/night. I have some ideas for a story, but I'd rather just see what was already done before I commit to anything besides it's easier to steal than to reinvent the wheel+

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𓀐 @B8MVQCv?: how is the culture series by iain banks? i was thinking of reading it, but then saw it's 9 books long and i don't want another malazan length series.+

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𓀐 @kW7GXJrh: Age and Birthday seems to have been removed from Goodreads profiles and the group is no longer designated as being 18+.+

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𓀐 @-P5VN=se: I am hung up on the how, anon. I would love to do this. There has to be something wrong with my process.+

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𓀐 @*wrJJ9oE: >finishing the unholy consult >finally get to the part where we are meant to meet the cool aliens that have been manipulating things behind the scene for millennia and are the cause of 95% of the world's problems >they're immediately killed in the space of paragraphs and it's revealed that it was Bakker's pet self-inser--i mean the dunyain that were actually controlling everything and the aliens were puppets so incredibly retarded and disappointing. why would i ever want to hear more about Bakk…+

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𓀐 @4D=j_JkL: He gets his ass kicked by everything and everyone and gets launched into space Why are there literal maiar who seem more powerful than him+

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𓀐 @SLCiV_Z5: Has the quality of fantasy writing declined?+

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𓀐 @a9ARFRt_: Any books with this feel?+

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𓀐 @UA4XWTF5: "Coworker that finds out you read fantasy" final boss+

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𓀐 @7kSp=LWH: It's not original but nothing matters anymore. Book of the New Sun is a strict example where everything* is supposed to have technology powering it, even though it's described as magical. Prince of Thorns is one where it's revealed that atom bombs tore open the world of the dead and that's why there's magic. Dying Earth in general uses it as a setup for various plots. But it doesn't matter. You can write anything again. Nobody's going to notice+

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𓀐 @ZvrQTLfz: Do people even read anymore? I mean, I do, but normies? They're all on TikTok now. TTS is going to result in AI being used by subliterates.+ 1

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𓀐 @MgB~+gk?: No, unfortunately. Reading is a niche hobby now. Even stuff like romantasy or shounen in book form like Sanderson's isn’t really that popular compared to movies, video games, anime and comics.+

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𓀐 @UXGFkZWt: dumbfuck retards in here read so little they can't even comment on stuff like this+

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𓀐 @iUJ_fw__: It's a novel premise and a good pulpy adventure. It's too long. It's sometimes off the wall. For instance, the premise is the souls of the dead coming back and possessing people in a far future spacefaring civilisation. And in one chapter, the ghost of Al Capone comes back, and you think it's just for colour, like 'yeah, I guess if all the souls that have ever died are on the other side, some of them will be famous, haha'. But it's not for colour. For the rest of the series notorious gangster A…+

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𓀐 @-iAM3B=a: I think worldboooolding is spiritually reddit if you overfocus on it while ignoring the other parts of a story+

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𓀐 @xHg3-k9e: It's about an elderly rape Hitler who tries to commit suicide, but during the suicide gets transformed into a 17-year-old for some reason. He then disguises himself as his own son and befriends his former rape victims. It triggers a lot of people, apparently.+

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