Just curious what you all will recommend. Thank you!
Edit* Go see them in theaters if you have the chance!! I saw Fellowship yesterday and going to Twin Towers today. Also, thank you all so much for the suggestions. Please keep them coming! <3
I was going to specify more of my tastes at first but figured a general consensus would be cool to start with. Some things though- Labyrinth is my fav movie of all time. Anything Jim Henson really. I also loved the Dungeons and Dragons movie that came out last year. I’m a fantasy nerd but not necessary an avid one or anything. Like I’m obsessed with Elden Ring but couldn’t list a ton of other media. So, yeah, just want to hear from you all. Thank you :)
For this I mean a true Magic School, a school where you go to learn magic. Spells, casting, summoning etc. Not a school where you learn to fly magic dragons, not a school that because it floats is considered magic.
Honestly, I adore the premise of a School for Magic. And I’ve read several but I am curious what other ones everyone else has read and enjoyed?
I was just on the thread about wizard school books like Harry Potter, and someone mentioned A Deadly Education. It sounded interesting so I began researching, but all I find are toxic discussions about whether the book was racist or not. I saw the passage about dreads, I’ve seen the character is biracial (but only in touch with their white side I guess?), I just want to know if the book is good. I don’t want a chronically online think-piece.
Did you like it? If so, why? Try to keep it spoiler free!
I hope this is a forbearer for other animated adaptation of Western Fantasy. There are three book in the series and Netflix is interested in adapting all of them.
source: (japanese): https://natalie.mu/comic/news/576607
I love when people explain the plot of movies poorly so I want to hear some of your best bad description of a fantasy book/series is.
I’ve got 2 to start
Ginger farm boy realizes he’s adopted and promptly goes insane.
Man struggles with his sexuality after falling in love with his grandpa’s court jester. Court jester says “it’s not gay because I’m non-binary”
Not just reading a book in one go, and not saying you needed to read the whole series without stopping to sleep or anything like that. However, what series did you read start to finish, or at least what’s been published so far, without needing to read a palate cleanser or different genre in the middle of the series?
I don’t understand how it became so popular, because it was terrible. I was only able to read it for the reason that it is divided into three parts, otherwise I would have thrown it out long ago. What’s wrong with that? I will tell.
About the plot. Bad socialists are destroying the country’s economy, the heroine is trying to save the business and along the way find out where most entrepreneurs and creative people have gone.
So that you understand this is the plot of the book, which was divided into three parts, where each has 400+ pages. How did it happen? And it’s simple, most of the books are monologues and a love triangle. I’m not kidding, she just repeats her ideas, without presenting anything new in them, and they are all based on “Objectivism is good, Capitalism is cool, and the rest is shit on the sole.”
There are two ideas that are being preached here. I like the first one: “Love what you do.” This is a good idea, but I …
We know he’s one the biggest and most consistent selling authors for the gen x’ers and millennials on here. We know he’s still very much well read today.
But will his novels still be read in the same that Poe, Asimov, Lovercraft, Henry James are? (just using those as horror/speculative writers as an example)
I didn’t love the book, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I just want to share some of my irrelevant thoughts. I also have some questions. Please don’t get offended. I’m a dumbass so all symbolism etc probably flew over my head.
What was Amaranta’s deal? She loved Pietro Crespi sooo much that she sabotaged his marriage with Rebeca, but when he comes to love her, she rejects him and he kills himself? She goes on to kind of egg on Gerineldo Marquez, but she rejects him too. A while after, she engages in an inappropriate relationship with her nephew who’s like a toddler or something? What’s up with her?
What’s up with Colonel Aureliano Buendía? He wants to marry a nine-year-old child who still wets her bed, but later Ursula says she’s sure he never loved anyone at all? Why was it that he fell in love with a literal child then? What’s that supposed to represent??? Perhaps, I’m looking at this from a modern perspective, but so much …
i assure you, i’m a bit of a snob when it comes to stuff like this. i saw a “silly” pen name, that his work was free online serialized on a blog, and the first work i heard about was a novel set in the “scp” universe
i promptly rolled my eyes and went about my day.
i couldnt have been more wrong - i have no idea why he isn’t a ‘real’ published author
“There Is No Antimemetics Division” is fantastic, and i’m currently reading “fine structure” and have been blown away how he’s able to write a story that can at some points entirely jump to another narrative, and then tie it all together in a way that isn’t some stupid gimmick - but add to the novel in really interesting ways (dont want to spoil by saying anything more)
the author i can compare him most to from what i’ve read is Hannu Rajaniemi (quantum thief) - you’re going to be lost at some points, but trust that he’s a good …
Looking for books kinda like The Matrix or the Rabbits books and podcast by Terry Miles, where something is wrong with the world and the character/s start noticing weird things or are becoming paranoid.
Kind of like the works of Philip K. Dick, though I’d prefer something with a less psychedelic narrative.
I also really like the ‘game’ element of Rabbits where there’s a strange challenge, and you have to look through old message boards to find solutions to riddles to find the answer to what’s wrong with the world. Maybe a little like Ready Player One or the Dan Brown books but on a more existential level.
Hi! I love reading fantasy and sci-fi, but I find that sometimes I need a break from magic and space. Especially because these genres tend to have tons of books in a series and I just don’t want to commit to that upfront. So I’m looking for some standalone novels with a unique spec-fic concept that is not too steeped into typical fantasy or sci-fi tropes.
Some of my favourites:
A Short Stay In Hell
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Bird Box
I Am Legend
A Psalm for the Wild Built
All of these books have a simple concept which aren’t too tropey, and execute on that concept through the whole book.
Do you have any reccommendations?
Today yet another post is at the top of this sub, rightfully wondering what the hell is going on with F&SF. People are paying subscriptions for six issues a year and have received so far this year just one. By comparison, Asimov’s and Analog have released their third issue of the year and are about to have their fourth on the newsstands next week. The reasons for F&SF’s delay seem to primarily relate to printer issues, though it’s getting harder to justify even a printer issue when the March/April issue is nowhere to be seen mid-June.
There are good summaries elsewhere on the drama of F&SF. Like this one which cites my thread on /r/printsf where I mistakenly infer from the new WINTER edition that it’s moving to quarterly. Turns out they’re still saying it’s bimonthly but also most likely less frequently than quarterly this year. Rusch’s summary here goes through a lot of the problems F&SF is having. As a Google Document …
TLDR: The author commentary is available here under hugo-nebula anthology 1993/hugo/novel/vinge/
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A Fire Upon The Deep is one of my favourite science fiction novels out there. While perusing its Wikipedia article, the following caught my attention:
Besides the normal print book editions, the novel was also included on a CD-ROM sold by ClariNet Communications along with the other nominees for the 1993 Hugo awards. The CD-ROM edition included numerous annotations by Vinge on his thoughts and intentions about different parts of the book
I was of course very curious about this extra content, and immediately went looking for it online. Unfortunately, it was harder to find than I expected. At first, I only came across things like this thread or this Usenet post, which either contained only dead links or were apparently too ancient to have links.
Ultimately, I found the original 1993 Hugo awards collection on the Internet Archive which included what I was looking for. From what …
Thinking about older franchises that tried to continue on with a new MC or team replacing the old rather than just starting from scratch, I couldn’t really think of any franchises that survived the transition.
Ghost Busters immediately comes to mind, with their transition to a new team being to bad they brought back the old team.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull brought in Shia LaBeouf to be Indy’s son and take the reins. I’m not sure if they just dropped any sequels because of the poor response or because Shia was a cannibal.
Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool also tried to bring in a “long lost son” and have him take over for the MC/his dad, and had a scene where they literally passed the torch.
Has any franchise actually moved on to a new main character/team and continued on with success?
It’s not often that you get the pure, untainted joy of seeing iconic movies and cultural moments from my boyhood through the eyes of someone who has, up until now, had no way to contextualize all these things. We watched The Terminator (1984) the other day, and while I was sitting there fretting because many of the effects have not aged well, and I was afraid he might find it cheesy and unwatchable. But he was RAPT - he found the relentlessness of the T-800 absolutely terrifying and completely convincing. It was just so delightful. And tonight, we followed it up with Terminator 2. Every time some cultural touchstone came on screen (“Hasta la Vista, baby!”, “I’ll be back”, “Come with me if you want to live!”, the final thumbs-up scene, and many more), he’d go “Oh oh oh! Dad! Is THIS where that came from?!” And I’d just sit there and giggle, watching him all bundled up under a blanket, just absolutely wide-eyed and …
Early in his career Matthew McConaughey was known for his RomComs (Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, Fool’s Gold) and for his shirtless action flicks (Sahara, Reign of Fire) and he has admitted that he was stuck being typecast in those roles. After he accepted the role in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past McConaughey announced to his agent that he would no longer accept those roles.
This meant that he would have to accept roles as the lead in much smaller budget indie projects or smaller roles in big budget projects. What followed was, in my mind, an incredible four year run that gave us:
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