I haven’t read any fantasy books specifically dealing with this and I’d like to.
Hell, if you know of any books not of the Fantasy genre that fit this feel free to say those as well.
Steven Erikson has confirmed that his in-progress Witness Trilogy, a sequel to his classic Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence (1999-2011), will now be a quartet.
Erikson published the first book in the series, The God is Not Willing, in 2021 to considerable acclaim and success. His previous two Malazan novels had been the first two books in the Kharkanas Trilogy, *Forge of Darkness* (2012) and *Fall of Light* (2016), but had sold relatively poorly, necessitating a shift to a new project.
Erikson had planned to conclude the Kharkanas sequence, writing several hundred pages of the third book, Walk in Shadow, before his publishers convinced him to return to the Witness series. Erikson was hundreds of pages into the second book, No Life Forsaken, before realising it was really two books. After this realisation came about, Erikson pressed on to complete both books before submitting them to his publisher.
This process is almost complete (he had two months’ work left to do, two …
Who is the hands throwingist, take a bullet for youist, most fuck it we ball character in fiction?
My picks:
Samwise Gamgee: The OG. Trendsetter. Had not problem carrying Mr Frodo up that mountain because he’d already been hauling around two titanium balls the whole trip.
Jean Tannen: Stonefaced killer. Stacks bodies, drops panties. Peerless, because mans can’t see shit.
Illyana Rasputin: IYKYK. Ruled hell, decided being Scot Summer’s hype-man was more fun. Platonic as fuck.
What are the greatest duels in the fantasy genre? The best pure one-on-one fights, where everything is staked on two people going at it without everything they got?
I love a good villain. It makes or breaks the story. Now give me a villain that’ll scare me to no end.
A Comprehensive Guide to /r/Fantasy Genres
aka No Dear, I can’t come to bed, because Someone is WRONG on the Internet.
Right, first things first. This post is here to be helpful, not proscriptive. Human brains are literally designed to categorise things, and we love to subdivide things into ever more overly specific groups that have practical meaning to fewer and fewer people.
^^Eggnog, ^^Flax ^^and ^^Laguna ^^are ^^all ^^obviously ^^different ^^shades ^^of ^^yellow ^^and ^^it ^^was ^^apparently ^^vitally ^^important ^^to ^^my ^^cousin ^^to ^^have ^^the ^^right ^^one ^^in ^^the ^^right ^^place.
Secondly, new Genres and subgenres are regularly being invented by people, often to create a marketing niche. There is no high and mighty Council of Sages determining what genres are called and where something belongs.
^^Although ^^if ^^there ^^is ^^I’d ^^love ^^an ^^invite
Thirdly, just because it started out like that, doesn’t mean it still is today. Language evolves …
EDIT; I appreciate that I ruffled some feathers! Some info as to HOW this happened and why it went so long; I had a list of recommended titles that were Hugo award winners or “because you liked x” books and had them downloaded to my kindle. I’ve been going hard into reading again so I’ve been powering through multiple titles a week so when it was time to jump into this title I didn’t know what I was getting into/the actual plot/etc. I kept trudging through it because I honestly didn’t know what to expect and because I thought the point of the first part was a play at being edgy / author showing off their research / plot twist galore. 🥲 y’all I’m just trying to disassociate like the rest of you.
I was slogging through The Forever War by Dexter Filkins and finally 20% in it and wondering when the sci-fi was going to start coming into play I googled the synopsis and realized my mistake 😬
The forever war - filkins; observations on assignment about the Afghanistan and Iraq war from an …
It appears that vote manipulation happened in the voting for the Hugo’s? This seems like a big deal.
If you are a fan of space opera sci-fi and “weird lit” by authors such as China Mieville or Jeff Vandermeer, do I have a series for you.
Adrian is best known for “Children of Time” but is quite a prolific author who’s other works I didn’t quite care for, but this trilogy made the 20+ hour long audiobooks fly by for me this week.
Without spoiler’s, let me highlight some of my favourite aspects:
The Architects: these are moon-like entities that appear suddenly and target planets that have sentient beings for destruction; as to why nobody knows. Why they’re called architects is because they take planets apart and then restructure them into elaborate “artwork” that is as beautiful as it is atrocious.
The Essiel: described as giant clams similar in shape to white lilly’s, they have eye stalks and tendrils that they wave around to communicate. Their translators often use grandiose, elaborate and quite frankly super …
Both it and its sequel (Parable of the Talents) were written in the early/mid 1990s but seem just a little too relevant to our modern day society some 30 years later.
I’m not sure if there’s a term out there for “that specific date where a novel ‘set-in-the-future’ comes around”, but this date would be exactly that.
Are there any other examples of this you can think of?
And in a broader conversation, let’s discuss these two books and their relevance to the modern (USA) political situation. It’s kind of shocking how much Butler got right about the future of the USA.
It is somehow the most optimistic and least optimistic book I think I’ve ever read.
Maybe I am looking for this in wrong genre but SF is my favourite so, maybe you folk could give me some advice.
I am more looking for books where you can sense something is wrong but its subtle and you can’t tell why. But I will also take”wrong from get go” types.
Any recommendations?
I love old robots.
Bonus points if they get philosophical and still have to struggle with old programming or memories.