This, it's a very educated culture/community. Graduate degrees are quite common among Mormons and most are white collar. Very similar to israelites, but not nearly as neurotic and not as high IQ.
Two seasons are out, I THINK they finished filming S3 a while ago but it's not released yet. >is it a season per book?
It's unraveling so hard you can't really compare them like that anymore. Technically you could say they fit one book per season, but they have altered and skipped so much that it's barely the same story anymore. For example, season 1 technically ended with the Eye of the World and Tarwin's Gap, but they changed everything so much it's more like checking those names off a list than actually adapting the story. Similarly S2 technically ends with Falme, but it's not really the same story. Also, S2 was apparently supposed to combined books 2 and 3 and S3 is going to go into the Waste, so frick Tear and Callandor I guess. Nobody knows how the timeline is supposed to look going forward. It's not that it really matters, though, they have been stealing every important moment from Rand anyway (for example, the one who fought against Ishy in Falme was Egwene).
PBS did a cartoon adaptation of Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior, you can find the whole thing on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47bxnez06r_10WJ6p3MomNX29HUeHJJF
Broken Empire. I think Red Queen's War was a better series, but Broken Empire sets up some important world building for RQW to be a follow up series that would never air because the show would be cancelled before they could get to it
I came here to post this but it wouldn't possibly fly without heavy changes unless they stay true to the narrative device of every annalist skewing events according to his preference.
Around the fist half of the first book Croaker mentions the company pillages and rapes his way through the land like any mercenary army but he doesn't record it because he dislikes speaking ill about family.
>Around the fist half of the first book Croaker mentions the company pillages and rapes his way through the land like any mercenary army but he doesn't record it because he dislikes speaking ill about family
and he said this is a good thing too because they deserve it and the raped girl shouldn't touch weapons if they don't wanna be raped
Since I get the chance of discussing these books, have your read Port of Shadow? Other than it clearly being a sequel in disguise I found it hilarious because of his son watching anime 80 years old Cook is going through a weaboo phase.
no
in my country we only have the first three translated, I couldn't read it in English because I'm very attached to the translations of epithets
I tried reading Silver Spike, but I couldn't get used to the original names
I read the first three in my language then switched to english for the rest. I recommend reading everything, the quality drops a bit in the books of the south but picks up in the books of glittering stone. Lady as a company officer is very entertaining.
I'm betting anything it's actually a sequel. After Soldiers Live Croaker-Shivetya uses his power to send consciences time traveling to find a cure for Booboo.
Croaker is the cat (three-eyes), Lady is the new taken, Shukrat and Arcana are Kuro and Neko. Their effort is finding a skilled Necromancer (Precious Pearl) like Lady had mentioned to save their daughter.
Nah, it's basically "the Crusades + philosophy wank" (ends up being much better than that would sound). Also, his Nonmen are basically the only case I can think of where a fantasy race was actually not just "humans with [pointy ears/beards/whatever]"; they're actually psychologically different and feel somewhat alien.
Is he doing another book ever?
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They're very good, a bit philosophy/heavy/5deep4u kinda thing, but they're actually very good.
>Is he doing another book ever?
No, publishers won't publish him anymore because there's too much rape, cuckoldry, more rape, cannibalism, extra rape, cursing Likaro, cuckoldry, etc., and he's too old-fashioned to be willing to self-publish. Last I heard he was working on a barn, but that was several years ago so I'm sure he's moved on to something else by now, but the writing's probably over.
When you put it that way, it sounds perfect for HBO in the breasts/dragons dept.
I don't understand why, when we're on the cusp of the AI revolution that there's no cgi/animation styled interpretations of this kinda (fantasy in general) stuff.
Bakker's a mental case, but I love him. Is his sci-fi good too?
Yeah, there hasn't been much of any news since last year but apparently Joe wrote the script and Tim Miller directing.
I'll be quietly optimistic about this.
Who the frick's going to play Glokta?
well best served cold is supposedly being adapted with rebecca ferguson as Mercato but still no other cast announced. Assuming it's still happening I'd take Statham as Cosca.
>abercrombie
first law and the stand alone books were good, but the young adult series he did after rapidly went to shit. started off with a crippled prince having to survive by his wits and became another "petite girl beats up men three times her size" story that the moron was defending on twitter with "have you never heard of skill and speed"
couldn't get past the first book in the age of madness, everyone acted like a moron
I never bothered with the youth/lit shit, just not my field of interest, I'd probably watch an adaptation just because though.
I'm yet to start A Little Hatred, but I've got to be in the right headspace to read fantasy.
when I was reading fantasy in the 90s before self-publishing and DEI publishing, it was still a bunch of mediocre shit. maybe thousands of different settings of mediocre shit that I got sucked into. even the stuff that was good was mediocre jerkoff stuff. and there was so much baaaaad stuff from the 70s and 80s.
This - the problem is there's too many shitty nerds that want to be writers. Same in film, music, pretty much all creative disciplines, there's just a lot of wannabe's that will never be any good. It's why I'm so in favour of AI shaking shit up and in all honesty ass-raping the cash/profit out of it. People that want to create will still create and we need a reactionary "punk rock" moment where the next gen are so sick of the stagnation they create something new.
Now... that may well mean that writing becomes the pursuit of the wealthy dilettante and creates a bar of entry, but that's always been the case. Where's the Hubert Selby or Bukowski of fantasy?
Oh Fair enough. I've heard people call AoM YA. Pretty sure this is referencing AoM for example
>abercrombie
first law and the stand alone books were good, but the young adult series he did after rapidly went to shit. started off with a crippled prince having to survive by his wits and became another "petite girl beats up men three times her size" story that the moron was defending on twitter with "have you never heard of skill and speed"
couldn't get past the first book in the age of madness, everyone acted like a moron
<<< Is moronic post because he hasn't read the series.
>Is he doing another book ever?
Nope. At one point he floated the idea of writing 2 more books that take place after another 20 year time skip that deals with the No-God, but he had a mental breakdown after some real life shit happened and basically fricked off from society to live on a ranch and raise his kid.
I got pretty deep into the rabbit hole about a year ago and ended up getting in contact with Madness, one of the dudes thats been posting on bakker message boards for like a decade and was a beta-reader for the aspect emperor series and know bakker personally fairly well, and he gave me the lowdown.
The further I get from the series and reading it, the more I think more books in the sequence would just ruin it.
That ending has literally been seared into my brain for over 2 years now because of how goddamn good it is. Especially the actual last sentence of the entire story.
It was a masterfully done ending that had been telegraphed since- quite literally- the opening lines of the darkness that comes before - "one cannot raise walls against that what has been forgotten"
this is the correct answer in terms of impossible to adapt well
Is he doing another book ever?
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They're very good, a bit philosophy/heavy/5deep4u kinda thing, but they're actually very good.
this is the correct answer in terms of would actually be pretty easy to adapt and would probably be quite successful. in fact i'm mildly surprised they haven't been already
Blindsight was like Annihilation in that the book was half a great book and half a shit book randomly shuffled together. Maybe that means it would make for a decent movie like Annihilation
Peter Watts is great but it's so unfortunate that at some point he had this whole edgy anti-natalist David Chalmers epiphany and seemingly made it his whole worldview
The Rift books would make better movies anyway
I'm still mad about the sequel's ending. Frick you watts. Same thing with Ian Banks, book is fine then rugpulls at the ending, fricking commie authors love doing that too god damn much.
Yeah it's the best part of the book. I was surprised when I found out most people hated the ending. It has me cautiously hyped for the third book too, because I'm curious see how he can continue the story from that point.
I'm not saying the ending was bad, I'm saying it was a bad end and that I'm mad about it. I wanted the self insert protag to FRICK the QT vamp. I knew it wasn't going to happen, but that doesn't change that I wanted it.
Understandable. I would have felt the same way if not for the fact that Daniel is a bad character to self-insert as.
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there's literally no other choice, a brother has to do what he has to do.
anyway I ship it self insertion or not. I think anyone with a pulse at least thought about it. didn't have to be a happy ending either, they could've fricked like once and I'd be content with that.
First of all, fantasy adaptions have like a 1 in 1000 chance to not be shit. Secondly, lmaoing at your life if those are really the kind of books y'all read.
Thomas Pynchon, Against the day. Trust me on this one if you like fantasy, especially historical fantasy, but want to branch out into "real literature".
You don't need to try to binge it, it's over a 1000 pages with about 100 named characters that sometimes reappear later and sometimes don't. Also the author is sometimes imitating literary styles of popular (at the time the novel is set) book genres, so don't be confused by that. If you feel like things are flying over your head, there is also a page by page wiki for the book. It's pure Reddit though, with one annoying gay liking everything to Evangelion so on: https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25
Of course I won't. Do you think this is my first name X and get a canned reply rodeo?
Since the only winning move is not to play, I'll just keep laughing at the sight of a posturing twitter addict.
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Why do you think anybody who uses "y'all" is a twitter addict? It predates twitter and most of its usage is outside of twitter -- naturally; as I said its superior to "you all" "you'se guys" etc etc
>Yeah I purposely wrote these out of order >I also added multiverse nonsense >The first book is not even the first story
I'm not sure why more wiener decided to do this bullshit. I read the final book without realising it was the final book since he wrote them all out of order.
Also they're pretty dull but also have interesting ideas like talking swords and dream worlds that are real dimensions. But also kinda dull for the most part.
That character is actually him being self aware about this flaw, in-universe she's supposed to come off as a complete moron. It just falls a little flat when every other "funny" character, even in the same book, is the exact same.
>futuristic combat android gets iskaied in roman like fantasy world >she is utterly OP
Its great fun. I really hope we see some more fantasy/litrpg movies soon. Primveal hunter would be another good one.
btw. Is it just me or is 90% of modern fantasy written by and for females? Just look at the upcoming books.
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=F
An entire cinematic universe about Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series.
>The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s. In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United States of America in 1862, therefore making good its attempt at secession and becoming an independent nation. Subsequent books are built on imagining events based on this alternate timeline.
I'd rather see an adaptation of Stirling's Draka series. It's basically the same concept as Turtledove's series but ten times more gonzo, and each book is already written like a screenplay.
I read his Worldwar and Colonization series, it was pretty decent having all the historical figures dealing with an alien invasion during WW2, I think it might make a decent series.
He ruined them himself. Bait and switch about heroic whites being attacked from within by immigrants that turn into monsters with future books being about how whites were really possessed demons.
First book is great and by third it is absolute unreadable garbage.
>your ancestors 100,000 years ago invaded this place and took it from the native ameri— parshendi >therefore maybe you should just stand aside while they slaughter everyone
The publishing industry is directly responsible for the utterly dire straights fiction is in. An author needs at least one of the following to get published these days:
1) a diversity checkmark
2) connections
3) past success from before the first two were a requirement
Note how only one of those requires actual talent, and those legacy authors have been getting lazier and lazier as the competition completely shits the bed.
It's also caused the great slop explosion of self publishing, because the people who would normally get 'tard wrangled by editors, or get forced to shape up or give up, now have avenues to bypass the process.
Sure it's allowed some previously gatekept talents to get their name out there, and sure it's hilarious that diversity authors who buy their way to awards and publishing deals get their sales figures utterly curbstomped by some self insert litrpg, but it's an absolute bastard trying to find anything good.
Publishing is almost completely female dominated now so these aren't easily reversable trends if even at all. I mostly resent how already established authors now feel obligated to include what feels like politically mandated content more out of fear than anything else. Still houses like Baen doing good stuff though. Sun Eater series is great.
Extreme autist named 'Rhaegar' got his >930 chapter book published that he was writing 3+ chapters per week.
Possibly the greatest world building by an author, simply from length; but it maintains coherence. It even has an ending.
The original version was maximum ESL and required decent literacy to parse properly so it is unfortunately being rewritten for publishing.
If you like serial adventures it's great. Rarely gets bogged down with character drama bullshit. It's 90% exploring and dungeons and cool shit.
when I was reading fantasy in the 90s before self-publishing and DEI publishing, it was still a bunch of mediocre shit. maybe thousands of different settings of mediocre shit that I got sucked into. even the stuff that was good was mediocre jerkoff stuff. and there was so much baaaaad stuff from the 70s and 80s.
It's only going to get worse with self-publishing + AI. It doesn't mean good work won't come out, it'll just be harder to find. Look at what fricking Twilight did to "horror"/self-publishing shit.
As an aside, I wouldn't even object to a "good" Robin Hobb adaptation, it's a bit light+girly, but could make a satisfying series
>twilight
that reminds me of something I've noticed for a while, which is the lack of breakout books for the past decade. Ever since Hunger Games, the industry has produced absolutely nothing with the power to break into mainstream success. It used to be that every few years there would be some book doing the rounds, but lately nothing has bridged the gap.
I know the industry is trying to force Sarah Maas, but i've not heard a peep about her whenever she's not being shoved into recommended lists
I think READING is dead, zoomers don't have the fricking capacity to read much more than a paragraph without checking their phones.
I'm not an aspiring writer - I'm not good enough, but I'm a pretty good DM. The new glut of players are fricking morons that aren't into fantasy, they're just trying to play because the element(s) of culture their into are pushing it. It's mind-blowing that kids these days just don't READ (motherfricker). Breaks my fricking heart, I'd rather deal with a fricking tween that's voraciously read all of Harry Potter than one that's watched Strangers Things.
It doesn't help that the YA market has been utterly murdered, so if kids aren't interested in reading adult material by the time they age out of children's books, they're shit out of luck for new releases unless they like reading the power and/or erotic fantasies of 40 year old legbeards.
I can't really blame lil' zoom for not being interested in that shit
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it's indeed pretty grim
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back in my day I had magic goth girl growing up in a glacier full of gyaru witches and fighting zombies with prince Chad and their wisecrackig animals
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sauce? Sounds kino
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I am Yrael, and I stand against you
That series really knew how to deliver simple lines for maximum effect
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>those horrendous interchangeable covers
What happened to an artist actually drawing a piece for the cover?
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expensive. also, rise in self-published books.
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>solo levelling
only book written for boys is shite like this
depressing
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I've read four of these. Three were breddy gud, the fourth was meh (and that was the most commercially successful of those four).
they seem to enjoy shit like litrpgs and progression fantasy
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>litrpgs and progression fantasy
there's some decent stuff, but holy frick is there a disgusting amount of poorly written trash
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After zoomers brought back connect-the-dots picture books it was just a matter of time until they discovered choose-your-own-adventure. We are rapidly approaching complete cultural infantilization.
fanfic is some of the only new stuff i read anymore, kind of embarrassingly, you have to go through a frickton of garbage to find anything remotely decent but it is out there, and you can pretty easily monkey branch out from authors or specific people you recognize who have good taste (in the discussions usually). the biggest problem is usually that the well written stuff isn't as popular as powerwank slop and the authors get discouraged and give up on it
You do you but are you aware novels have been around for almost a thousand years? If you don't like recently published works it would make way more sense to read older ones, with the added benefits that most run-of-the-mill shit from back then is already forgotten; so everything still available today must have had at least some appeal beyond the hype of the times.
Have you actually tried reading 3 Kingdoms? It's a piece of shit less eloquent than greentext which is entirely what should be expected of it.
Even Robinson Crusoe which is not remotely as old is basically illegible gibberish like trying to read zoomerisms.
Never read 3 Kingdoms, but I would assume the additional cultural divide makes it very challenging to read.
But Robinson Crusoe is definitely readable, I was born in 1990 and reading classic adventure books like Robinson Crusoe, Jules Verne or Mark Twain novels or Treasure island was still considered normal, if kinda nerdy, boy's behavior. At least until Harry Potter was unleashed onto the world.
The publishing industry is directly responsible for the utterly dire straights fiction is in. An author needs at least one of the following to get published these days:
1) a diversity checkmark
2) connections
3) past success from before the first two were a requirement
Note how only one of those requires actual talent, and those legacy authors have been getting lazier and lazier as the competition completely shits the bed.
It's also caused the great slop explosion of self publishing, because the people who would normally get 'tard wrangled by editors, or get forced to shape up or give up, now have avenues to bypass the process.
Sure it's allowed some previously gatekept talents to get their name out there, and sure it's hilarious that diversity authors who buy their way to awards and publishing deals get their sales figures utterly curbstomped by some self insert litrpg, but it's an absolute bastard trying to find anything good.
Two London detectives working for a secret division of the Metropolitan Police, who happen to be wizards, solving supernatural crimes involving old gods, elves, goblins, ghosts and dark magician gangsters.
It's one of the best selling novel series in the UK, not that you would know that as it's in the Sci-fi and fantasy section and Waterstones like to pretend that doesn't exist.
He was a prominent historian before the war, but was quashed for telling everyone that Churchill struck first and that Poland had been provoking Germany by abusing Germanics within Polish borders. He was slandered as a Holocaust denier, which he was not.
He was a proto SJW who was shoving diversity girlboss shit into Doctor Who media all the way back in the late 80s.
Married a black woman somehow despite looking like a furry bowling ball.
>It's one of the best selling novel series in the UK,
This means absolutely nothing best selling could mean 1,000 copies sold to million depending on who the author is. jk rowling is the only Uk writer that sells anything.
DOA, doesn't matter if a woman wrote it, a female lead character who allows herself to be taken captive and raped to save the white, male, king will never be allowed. Modern women have to be selfish prostitutes, you can be showing one who makes sacrifices to help others, it would destroy the narrative
This. I wonder what cause he'd allow himself to be raped for.
>bad guys capture the king who will unite the land and prevent world war >paladin chick offers herself to the bad guys in exchange for the king >bad guys accept since breaking a paladin means more to them >paladin chick is tortured and raped for a week >paladin chick's god heals all her wounds completely destroying the faith of all the bad guys >paladin chick doesn't even care she got tortured and raped cause it was just her body and bodies can heal
it shows rape is only as big a deal as you make it, which is the truth and why it will never be adapted
I remember that there were rumors about a tv adaptation a while back which o hope is true. It'd probably be difficult to cast a lot of gigachads and Stacy's though.
I am genuinely confused so many of Conrad's absolute bangers remain untouched. I mean you might have to rename "The Black person of the Narcissus", but in terms of pure character driven adventure novel he is unmatched.
Done right it would be kino.
I just know they would shift the perspective to Tully though, completely ruining the entire point of the story making us perceive a human as an alien creature.
It's 2024 anon. No reason to be in the closet nowadays.
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>I'm a heterosexual man.
No you are not.
I'm attracted to women and I like YA. Like Whitman, I contain multitude
what fricking trash taste. maybe he just reads a ton of slop and it's washing out the classics and I'm just not seeing them >jump to the bottom
oh it's bait
I genuinely dislike everything in the F tier. I hated LOTR, Elric and the Witcher. It's 100% legit.
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Multitudes, not multitude.
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I enjoy YA sometimes as well but the dialogue in Aurora was absolutely atrocious; I don't see how anyone could enjoy it, much less read any of the sequels.
what fricking trash taste. maybe he just reads a ton of slop and it's washing out the classics and I'm just not seeing them >jump to the bottom
oh it's bait
Actually based
You have your own taste and I can respect that.
You aren't the romance novel reader anon are you? He's given me some great recs.
What do you like about the aurora series spoiler free if possible?
I want another adaptation of Lord of the Rings. I love the 2001 version, but I want to see it tackled in a different way, one that isn't focused so much on the action or dumbs down characters. Seeing how borderline unwatchable the Hobbit series and Rangz of Powah were, my hopes in this regard are nothing more than a dream.
For me it's picrel, I love me some edgekino. Alternatively they could adapt Weeks' Lightbringer series since it's set around an analog of the mediterranean sea and the MC is canonically a nappyheaded mutt and everyone has green lantern powers that slowly kills you
>90s had publishers trying to get their hands on the next epic >2000s had publishers chasing the edge fantasy >late 2000s-early 10s had them courting the tumblr YA crowd >late 10s saw the rise of self published litrpg/isekai
I wonder what the next craze will be.
The lightbringer could adapt really well, the main characters are generally excellent and if Gavin/Kip/Karis/Andross/The white/Ironfist were cast properly some of the interactions would make for peak tv. I’d also really enjoy watching people react to the major twist in the first book, I don’t think most people have ever ever seen a twist like it and it’s primed to have a huge impact mostly because stories are just far too predictable, especially in regards to knowing how a main character is going to act (they always act within approved moral boundaries and it’s gay)
Anomander Rake. Highly recommend trying this series. Nothing else really like it.
Never happening, normies wouldn't be able to understand . One of the most kino swords in fantasy
It’s almost a perfect sell for these executives but even with so many “progressive” variables included, they’d still find a way to focus on the wrong aspects and ruin any subtlety in the characters.
Just finished the 10 book main story, starting on the Darkness trilogy. Anything else available with similar complexity? Someone recommended Shadow of the Torturer recently and the premise had me sold. What would you guys recommend? Doesn’t have to be fantasy.
Is the Rama series proof that israelites aren't interested in adapting woke properties and that the true goal is to destroy properties I like? >mc is a black mary sue heart surgeon, linguist, olympic althlete, world famous celebrity, supreme court justice, proud single mother and b***h-slapper of racists and seducer of kings. >literally has magic Black person powers and her destiny is to spread Black person DNA throughout the galaxy. >Hasn't been adapted for some reason
They don't need to ruin it all the work is already done for them. What gives?
Yeah the sequels are nuts. They're basically ultra left wing soap opera in space. There's even a clumsy attempt to justify pedophilia between a 60+ year old man and a 12 year old brown girl. Arthur C Clarke is still listed as a co-author but you'd never be able to tell if it wasn't written on the cover.
I hear this every now and then, what's the evidence for clarke being a pedo? Wouldn't that just make it even more bizarre that his shit doesn't get adapted?
>There's even a clumsy attempt to justify pedophilia between a 60+ year old man and a 12 year old brown girl
This is not an uncommon thing in decrepit writers, be they Piers Anthony or Fritz Lieber.
more like 40 years. The VGER spacecraft in that old star trek movie was originally supposed to be rama.
Can only hope one day CGI gets cheap enough they can do this and actually do justice to all the dragons, I wanna see my boy Ruth
A pern adaption would just be a bunch of Black folk raping white girls. Pern has this weird rape-but-not-rape thing going on where the guy gets to frick whichever girl who's dragon mates with his own dragon.
Yeah the sequels are nuts. They're basically ultra left wing soap opera in space. There's even a clumsy attempt to justify pedophilia between a 60+ year old man and a 12 year old brown girl. Arthur C Clarke is still listed as a co-author but you'd never be able to tell if it wasn't written on the cover.
Is it possible it's just a bad series? From that description it sure sounds like it.
I'd give them licence to change the ending though, Absolution Gap kind of felt like he was contracted for a third Revelation Space book but wanted to write a different story so he just hammered it to fit
we need a 2 hour movie on the big screen about a shorty, busty, zombie raising chick who need to be constantly gangbanged by vampires and were-people so she doesn't die, with full nudity and penetration
I have been wondering when this would resurface, what with the obvious popularity of supernatural bodice-rippers
she's supposed to be latina, but I suppose that's too white these days
the rest of the novels only showed, however, that just like every other modern sci-fi/fantasy author, sanderson can't write stakes or suspense for shit. by book 3 the story basically devolves into shonen manga tier powerups and overcoming shit by the power of friendship
I'd say yeah, any difficulty comes from the way he introduces concepts/technologies just by their names instead of explaining what they do, so you need to infer that yourself from the way they are used in the story.
Modern hard scifi by an author who has phd in mathematical physics. This just blows so many other scifi books out of the water.
Great books, though the third one suffered a bit from the author getting fixated on the whole game mechanics thing and giving it too much spotlight IMO.
I've been reading S Craig Zahlers books after watching his films and was looking for anything similar, any recommendations? Also, are the DUNC books worth getting into or nah?
If it hasn't happened by now it probably won't.
Even a sample chapter (that wasn't cut from Dance, that is) would have the publisher ecstatic and ready to drive hype again.
The first Ringworld novel. Then again Denis is signed onto a Rama adaptation from what I have heard and that is quite close.
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik are also good for a movie
A fire upon the deep and a deepness in the sky
Seveneves was messy but I liked it. How would they handle the Musk stand-in though.
why are there so many mormon fantasy authors
Probably something about how joyless the religion seems to be.
More like heavily bounded, rule-based "joy"
So they are free when they write fantasy
For once
All the mormons I met seemed to be really well read and did well in school.
This, it's a very educated culture/community. Graduate degrees are quite common among Mormons and most are white collar. Very similar to israelites, but not nearly as neurotic and not as high IQ.
the high IQ thing is a myth based off a sample of 60 israelites at a high school that selected for intellligence
The Book of Mormon is basically a fanfiction.
The Wheel of Time series
i'm so fricking tired of getting monkey pawed
Ahahahhaha god I hate Hollywood. I don't even understand who they were trying to appeal to with the show. It seems like no one gives a shit about it.
> I don't even understand who they were trying to appeal to with the show.
Anyone with a pulse and an Amazon account
Clearly not, that might've actually turned out somewhat tolerable.
AI will fix it.
Fat black women will save it
is that still going?
The books? They've been finished for a long time now. The adaptation? Technically still going but nobody gives a frick about it.
what season are they on now? is it a season per book?
Two seasons are out, I THINK they finished filming S3 a while ago but it's not released yet.
>is it a season per book?
It's unraveling so hard you can't really compare them like that anymore. Technically you could say they fit one book per season, but they have altered and skipped so much that it's barely the same story anymore. For example, season 1 technically ended with the Eye of the World and Tarwin's Gap, but they changed everything so much it's more like checking those names off a list than actually adapting the story. Similarly S2 technically ends with Falme, but it's not really the same story. Also, S2 was apparently supposed to combined books 2 and 3 and S3 is going to go into the Waste, so frick Tear and Callandor I guess. Nobody knows how the timeline is supposed to look going forward. It's not that it really matters, though, they have been stealing every important moment from Rand anyway (for example, the one who fought against Ishy in Falme was Egwene).
how could a steaming piece of shit get ruined
>that thing you like? it sucks!
There doesn't have to be an assigned contrarian in every thread, you know
Yes there does, and it's me
I liked The Way of Kings. Unfortunately, the sequels couldn't hold a candle to it.
So bad they retroactively ruined WOK for me
Cugel is a based moron, too based for a proper adaption.
Give me this now before I kill everyone in this room. Vance saw some of his stories turned into movies but this would be something else.
We're not in a room, this is an image board.
fricking hell, anon
I'm surprised they haven't done this yet.
the rest of the books are good too
PBS did a cartoon adaptation of Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior, you can find the whole thing on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47bxnez06r_10WJ6p3MomNX29HUeHJJF
no blood? frick it
I AM THAT IS
MY SWORD SHALL WIELD FOR ME
only way they could shit the bed is if they could make the armor look like dogshit. good luck finding an ultra-chad indian to cast for Kaladin too
Broken Empire. I think Red Queen's War was a better series, but Broken Empire sets up some important world building for RQW to be a follow up series that would never air because the show would be cancelled before they could get to it
at least the first three books
>eliza dushku production went nowhere
shame
yes
I would have loved to have seen the live action version of one eye
I came here to post this but it wouldn't possibly fly without heavy changes unless they stay true to the narrative device of every annalist skewing events according to his preference.
Around the fist half of the first book Croaker mentions the company pillages and rapes his way through the land like any mercenary army but he doesn't record it because he dislikes speaking ill about family.
>Around the fist half of the first book Croaker mentions the company pillages and rapes his way through the land like any mercenary army but he doesn't record it because he dislikes speaking ill about family
and he said this is a good thing too because they deserve it and the raped girl shouldn't touch weapons if they don't wanna be raped
Since I get the chance of discussing these books, have your read Port of Shadow? Other than it clearly being a sequel in disguise I found it hilarious because of his son watching anime 80 years old Cook is going through a weaboo phase.
no
in my country we only have the first three translated, I couldn't read it in English because I'm very attached to the translations of epithets
I tried reading Silver Spike, but I couldn't get used to the original names
I read the first three in my language then switched to english for the rest. I recommend reading everything, the quality drops a bit in the books of the south but picks up in the books of glittering stone. Lady as a company officer is very entertaining.
>have your read Port of Shadow?
NTA, but I have. It's a pointless interquel everyone, including the Company, forgets ever happened.
I'm betting anything it's actually a sequel. After Soldiers Live Croaker-Shivetya uses his power to send consciences time traveling to find a cure for Booboo.
Croaker is the cat (three-eyes), Lady is the new taken, Shukrat and Arcana are Kuro and Neko. Their effort is finding a skilled Necromancer (Precious Pearl) like Lady had mentioned to save their daughter.
It's never happening so I'll just wait for AI to get better and then do it myself
I'm not familiar with these books but from the synopsis it seems like a Song of ice and fire knock off or is it?
>Song of ice and fire knock off
Not even close. It's also 100 times better than anything GRRM wrote. I'd recommend reading it
Well that sucks, those books are only in English and Spanish so I'm not gonna even bother
>those books are only in English and Spanish
it was translated into my eastern european slavshit language so I don't think thats true
Nah, it's basically "the Crusades + philosophy wank" (ends up being much better than that would sound). Also, his Nonmen are basically the only case I can think of where a fantasy race was actually not just "humans with [pointy ears/beards/whatever]"; they're actually psychologically different and feel somewhat alien.
>Is he doing another book ever?
No, publishers won't publish him anymore because there's too much rape, cuckoldry, more rape, cannibalism, extra rape, cursing Likaro, cuckoldry, etc., and he's too old-fashioned to be willing to self-publish. Last I heard he was working on a barn, but that was several years ago so I'm sure he's moved on to something else by now, but the writing's probably over.
When you put it that way, it sounds perfect for HBO in the breasts/dragons dept.
I don't understand why, when we're on the cusp of the AI revolution that there's no cgi/animation styled interpretations of this kinda (fantasy in general) stuff.
Bakker's a mental case, but I love him. Is his sci-fi good too?
I'll be quietly optimistic about this.
Who the frick's going to play Glokta?
>cursing Likaro
I loved this, LOL'd every time it came up
Nah man, it's the most unique take on fantasy in a long while, despite having the vaguest Crusades era historical influence
He manages to make evil objectively so and other races definitively non orc inhuman.
He completely avoided the reuse of Tolkien archetypes and races without struggling to create new ideas.
Is he doing another book ever?
They're very good, a bit philosophy/heavy/5deep4u kinda thing, but they're actually very good.
well best served cold is supposedly being adapted with rebecca ferguson as Mercato but still no other cast announced. Assuming it's still happening I'd take Statham as Cosca.
Sheeet. I'd be happy with that IF they can make it work. Statham would be great casting too.
Yeah, there hasn't been much of any news since last year but apparently Joe wrote the script and Tim Miller directing.
>abercrombie
first law and the stand alone books were good, but the young adult series he did after rapidly went to shit. started off with a crippled prince having to survive by his wits and became another "petite girl beats up men three times her size" story that the moron was defending on twitter with "have you never heard of skill and speed"
couldn't get past the first book in the age of madness, everyone acted like a moron
yeaa.. stephen pacey didn't narrate it either so didn't bother with that shit
his second trilogy really shows how much fantasy has changed for the worst in the past decade or so
I never bothered with the youth/lit shit, just not my field of interest, I'd probably watch an adaptation just because though.
I'm yet to start A Little Hatred, but I've got to be in the right headspace to read fantasy.
This - the problem is there's too many shitty nerds that want to be writers. Same in film, music, pretty much all creative disciplines, there's just a lot of wannabe's that will never be any good. It's why I'm so in favour of AI shaking shit up and in all honesty ass-raping the cash/profit out of it. People that want to create will still create and we need a reactionary "punk rock" moment where the next gen are so sick of the stagnation they create something new.
Now... that may well mean that writing becomes the pursuit of the wealthy dilettante and creates a bar of entry, but that's always been the case. Where's the Hubert Selby or Bukowski of fantasy?
>Where's the Hubert Selby or Bukowski of fantasy?
Brian Jacques
Sweet, thankyou Sir.
>Age of Madness is YA!
>How?
>I-It just is OK!
I hate this meme.
i'm assuming this anon means the actual YA series, shattered sea.
Oh Fair enough. I've heard people call AoM YA. Pretty sure this is referencing AoM for example
<<< Is moronic post because he hasn't read the series.
>Is he doing another book ever?
Nope. At one point he floated the idea of writing 2 more books that take place after another 20 year time skip that deals with the No-God, but he had a mental breakdown after some real life shit happened and basically fricked off from society to live on a ranch and raise his kid.
I got pretty deep into the rabbit hole about a year ago and ended up getting in contact with Madness, one of the dudes thats been posting on bakker message boards for like a decade and was a beta-reader for the aspect emperor series and know bakker personally fairly well, and he gave me the lowdown.
As a reader, that's a shame, but good for Bakker, doing what he needs and I hope he's well.
The further I get from the series and reading it, the more I think more books in the sequence would just ruin it.
That ending has literally been seared into my brain for over 2 years now because of how goddamn good it is. Especially the actual last sentence of the entire story.
It was a masterfully done ending that had been telegraphed since- quite literally- the opening lines of the darkness that comes before - "one cannot raise walls against that what has been forgotten"
this is the correct answer in terms of impossible to adapt well
this is the correct answer in terms of would actually be pretty easy to adapt and would probably be quite successful. in fact i'm mildly surprised they haven't been already
just looked it up, Best Served Cold is getting a movie adaptation
It's great that you are self-aware but go away, Netflix
Really, nothing at this point. Movies should be movies, books should be books.
Actually, scratch that. They need to adapt the short story "Riders of the Purple Wage", because it's the realest shit in a modern context.
>author of a childhood fantasy series told producers to frick off unless he gets creative control and refused to sell out
One of my favorites but it would be too hard to translate to screen.
I also don’t trust Hollywood to adapt a female protagonist.
This one could have been a low budget CBBC 3 part mini series back in 2006
Great book
Mah homie. Imagine a Vampire Hunter D style animated adaptation.
Sandersonslop is fricking garbage. You have terrible taste.
>blindsight
sadly that short movie is the closest we'll ever get
Blindsight was like Annihilation in that the book was half a great book and half a shit book randomly shuffled together. Maybe that means it would make for a decent movie like Annihilation
based
rifters would unironically be great films too
Peter Watts is great but it's so unfortunate that at some point he had this whole edgy anti-natalist David Chalmers epiphany and seemingly made it his whole worldview
The Rift books would make better movies anyway
I'm still mad about the sequel's ending. Frick you watts. Same thing with Ian Banks, book is fine then rugpulls at the ending, fricking commie authors love doing that too god damn much.
The ending of echopraxia was about the best bit
Yeah it's the best part of the book. I was surprised when I found out most people hated the ending. It has me cautiously hyped for the third book too, because I'm curious see how he can continue the story from that point.
I'm not saying the ending was bad, I'm saying it was a bad end and that I'm mad about it.
I wanted the self insert protag to FRICK the QT vamp. I knew it wasn't going to happen, but that doesn't change that I wanted it.
Understandable. I would have felt the same way if not for the fact that Daniel is a bad character to self-insert as.
there's literally no other choice, a brother has to do what he has to do.
anyway I ship it self insertion or not. I think anyone with a pulse at least thought about it. didn't have to be a happy ending either, they could've fricked like once and I'd be content with that.
I think Kings of the Wylde would be a fun movie
A Mistborn show like Arcane would be awesome
First of all, fantasy adaptions have like a 1 in 1000 chance to not be shit. Secondly, lmaoing at your life if those are really the kind of books y'all read.
Ok but this begs the question: what books do YOU read butthole?
Thomas Pynchon, Against the day. Trust me on this one if you like fantasy, especially historical fantasy, but want to branch out into "real literature".
Thanks anon, I'll give this a read
You don't need to try to binge it, it's over a 1000 pages with about 100 named characters that sometimes reappear later and sometimes don't. Also the author is sometimes imitating literary styles of popular (at the time the novel is set) book genres, so don't be confused by that. If you feel like things are flying over your head, there is also a page by page wiki for the book. It's pure Reddit though, with one annoying gay liking everything to Evangelion so on: https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25
Cheers for that I'll give it a go
>y'all
The anon is pretending to be a moronic twitter addict
Y'all is the superior second-person plural pronoun. Name a better one?
And to think you have the balls to pretend you're well read
I notice you couldn't name a better one.
Of course I won't. Do you think this is my first name X and get a canned reply rodeo?
Since the only winning move is not to play, I'll just keep laughing at the sight of a posturing twitter addict.
Why do you think anybody who uses "y'all" is a twitter addict? It predates twitter and most of its usage is outside of twitter -- naturally; as I said its superior to "you all" "you'se guys" etc etc
This the WembGOAT thread?
Pretty wholesome tbh
Love this lady
Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels and Coldheart Canyon, if they were made into masterpieces.
Hellraiser movies were absolute shit but book was kino.
I wish I never started reading the name of the wind series, fricking poofter is never going to finish the final book like that Martin hack.
if you want to keep reading after that second book i have no words
I read this, it sucks. Take a shower.
You haven't read anything
>Yeah I purposely wrote these out of order
>I also added multiverse nonsense
>The first book is not even the first story
I'm not sure why more wiener decided to do this bullshit. I read the final book without realising it was the final book since he wrote them all out of order.
Also they're pretty dull but also have interesting ideas like talking swords and dream worlds that are real dimensions. But also kinda dull for the most part.
Actual passage from a published book by multi-millionaire fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.
>I am le stick
If someone made a reddit chatbot and asked it to write a fantasy novel that’s a page it would shit out
Fug dis, I am to write a book to
hehahah I take back everything I said in this threat about the mediocrity of fantasy books in the 90s and 80s
I don't know why Sanderson keeps writing in characters described as witty when he is so bad at it.
Sanderson is a very pedestrian writer. But he knows the business.
That character is actually him being self aware about this flaw, in-universe she's supposed to come off as a complete moron. It just falls a little flat when every other "funny" character, even in the same book, is the exact same.
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
A must-read in the zombie post-apocalypse genre
why haven't they adapted it are they moronic??
>futuristic combat android gets iskaied in roman like fantasy world
>she is utterly OP
Its great fun. I really hope we see some more fantasy/litrpg movies soon. Primveal hunter would be another good one.
btw. Is it just me or is 90% of modern fantasy written by and for females? Just look at the upcoming books.
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=F
homie get some fricking taste. Nobody expects you to discuss Stoner next week on Cinemaphile, but you have more intellectual capacity than that.
>way of kings
>generic fantasy slope
>taste
Bro reading is about having fun. Not to compensate for your small penis online.
Anon, many people only read as some elitist shit to hold over others.
Women love trashy literature of any genre that can have softcore pornograpgy shoehorned in
its been done, battle whatever Alita
Kek this will never be adapted but a man can only dream.
An entire cinematic universe about Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series.
>The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s. In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United States of America in 1862, therefore making good its attempt at secession and becoming an independent nation. Subsequent books are built on imagining events based on this alternate timeline.
I'd rather see an adaptation of Stirling's Draka series. It's basically the same concept as Turtledove's series but ten times more gonzo, and each book is already written like a screenplay.
I read his Worldwar and Colonization series, it was pretty decent having all the historical figures dealing with an alien invasion during WW2, I think it might make a decent series.
Nice anon, good taste
There aren’t enough actual men left in the film industry to fill out half the parts in an Ellroy novel
i remember there were rumours circa '08 of HBO doing a miniseries of american tabloid but yeah..
At the mountains of madness or The case of Charles Dexter Ward.
reread this recently.
one of the earliest chronologically and a good villain. would love to see a series with good looking cg.
I find it amazing they haven't done a mistborn series
i'm more surprised there isn't a videogame, it reads 100% like a game novelization
He ruined them himself. Bait and switch about heroic whites being attacked from within by immigrants that turn into monsters with future books being about how whites were really possessed demons.
First book is great and by third it is absolute unreadable garbage.
>your ancestors 100,000 years ago invaded this place and took it from the native ameri— parshendi
>therefore maybe you should just stand aside while they slaughter everyone
ever stop to think about how much mediocre fantasy books are out there that people think is good. its all the same shit.
The publishing industry is directly responsible for the utterly dire straights fiction is in. An author needs at least one of the following to get published these days:
1) a diversity checkmark
2) connections
3) past success from before the first two were a requirement
Note how only one of those requires actual talent, and those legacy authors have been getting lazier and lazier as the competition completely shits the bed.
It's also caused the great slop explosion of self publishing, because the people who would normally get 'tard wrangled by editors, or get forced to shape up or give up, now have avenues to bypass the process.
Sure it's allowed some previously gatekept talents to get their name out there, and sure it's hilarious that diversity authors who buy their way to awards and publishing deals get their sales figures utterly curbstomped by some self insert litrpg, but it's an absolute bastard trying to find anything good.
Publishing is almost completely female dominated now so these aren't easily reversable trends if even at all. I mostly resent how already established authors now feel obligated to include what feels like politically mandated content more out of fear than anything else. Still houses like Baen doing good stuff though. Sun Eater series is great.
>Sure it's allowed some previously gatekept talents to get their name out there
has it really?
Extreme autist named 'Rhaegar' got his >930 chapter book published that he was writing 3+ chapters per week.
Possibly the greatest world building by an author, simply from length; but it maintains coherence. It even has an ending.
The original version was maximum ESL and required decent literacy to parse properly so it is unfortunately being rewritten for publishing.
If you like serial adventures it's great. Rarely gets bogged down with character drama bullshit. It's 90% exploring and dungeons and cool shit.
when I was reading fantasy in the 90s before self-publishing and DEI publishing, it was still a bunch of mediocre shit. maybe thousands of different settings of mediocre shit that I got sucked into. even the stuff that was good was mediocre jerkoff stuff. and there was so much baaaaad stuff from the 70s and 80s.
It's only going to get worse with self-publishing + AI. It doesn't mean good work won't come out, it'll just be harder to find. Look at what fricking Twilight did to "horror"/self-publishing shit.
As an aside, I wouldn't even object to a "good" Robin Hobb adaptation, it's a bit light+girly, but could make a satisfying series
>twilight
that reminds me of something I've noticed for a while, which is the lack of breakout books for the past decade. Ever since Hunger Games, the industry has produced absolutely nothing with the power to break into mainstream success. It used to be that every few years there would be some book doing the rounds, but lately nothing has bridged the gap.
I know the industry is trying to force Sarah Maas, but i've not heard a peep about her whenever she's not being shoved into recommended lists
pretty noticeable when you go into a bookshop and the fantasy and science fiction sections contain nothing but old books
I think READING is dead, zoomers don't have the fricking capacity to read much more than a paragraph without checking their phones.
I'm not an aspiring writer - I'm not good enough, but I'm a pretty good DM. The new glut of players are fricking morons that aren't into fantasy, they're just trying to play because the element(s) of culture their into are pushing it. It's mind-blowing that kids these days just don't READ (motherfricker). Breaks my fricking heart, I'd rather deal with a fricking tween that's voraciously read all of Harry Potter than one that's watched Strangers Things.
It doesn't help that the YA market has been utterly murdered, so if kids aren't interested in reading adult material by the time they age out of children's books, they're shit out of luck for new releases unless they like reading the power and/or erotic fantasies of 40 year old legbeards.
I can't really blame lil' zoom for not being interested in that shit
it's indeed pretty grim
back in my day I had magic goth girl growing up in a glacier full of gyaru witches and fighting zombies with prince Chad and their wisecrackig animals
sauce? Sounds kino
I am Yrael, and I stand against you
That series really knew how to deliver simple lines for maximum effect
>those horrendous interchangeable covers
What happened to an artist actually drawing a piece for the cover?
expensive. also, rise in self-published books.
>solo levelling
only book written for boys is shite like this
depressing
I've read four of these. Three were breddy gud, the fourth was meh (and that was the most commercially successful of those four).
>Stephen King
>Raold Dahl
The frick?
they seem to enjoy shit like litrpgs and progression fantasy
>litrpgs and progression fantasy
there's some decent stuff, but holy frick is there a disgusting amount of poorly written trash
After zoomers brought back connect-the-dots picture books it was just a matter of time until they discovered choose-your-own-adventure. We are rapidly approaching complete cultural infantilization.
no one reads or buys books so its all good. They keep creating shit that no one knows exist or care about.
Royal Road exists.
I tend to bundle that into self publishing, since that's where most of the authors who do well end up taking it anyway.
fanfic is some of the only new stuff i read anymore, kind of embarrassingly, you have to go through a frickton of garbage to find anything remotely decent but it is out there, and you can pretty easily monkey branch out from authors or specific people you recognize who have good taste (in the discussions usually). the biggest problem is usually that the well written stuff isn't as popular as powerwank slop and the authors get discouraged and give up on it
You do you but are you aware novels have been around for almost a thousand years? If you don't like recently published works it would make way more sense to read older ones, with the added benefits that most run-of-the-mill shit from back then is already forgotten; so everything still available today must have had at least some appeal beyond the hype of the times.
Have you actually tried reading 3 Kingdoms? It's a piece of shit less eloquent than greentext which is entirely what should be expected of it.
Even Robinson Crusoe which is not remotely as old is basically illegible gibberish like trying to read zoomerisms.
Never read 3 Kingdoms, but I would assume the additional cultural divide makes it very challenging to read.
But Robinson Crusoe is definitely readable, I was born in 1990 and reading classic adventure books like Robinson Crusoe, Jules Verne or Mark Twain novels or Treasure island was still considered normal, if kinda nerdy, boy's behavior. At least until Harry Potter was unleashed onto the world.
by new i just mean newly written, it's nice to have an active community around something ongoing that i enjoy
stop spreading lies, any idiot can get published now because most people don't read. You can just self publish and put your crap on amazon.
>You can just self publish and put your crap on amazon
Did you finish reading his post, anon?
>because most people don't read.
>doesn't read the post
Are you being ironic, m8?
So none of my manuscripts will ever be published?
You might get lucky, but even before the publishers were completely rotten to the core, it was always a long shot.
River's of London
Two London detectives working for a secret division of the Metropolitan Police, who happen to be wizards, solving supernatural crimes involving old gods, elves, goblins, ghosts and dark magician gangsters.
It's one of the best selling novel series in the UK, not that you would know that as it's in the Sci-fi and fantasy section and Waterstones like to pretend that doesn't exist.
Is publishing as israelited as the movie biz now? I swear every second author is a israelite these days.
Publishing is the bleeding edge
publishing has been israelited for a good century, see truman capote's statement on the subject and the career of AJP Taylor
Great thread, way better than thebusual on Cinemaphile
>the career of AJP Taylor
Please explain, all I know of him is that he seems like a silly English gentleman revisionist.
He was a prominent historian before the war, but was quashed for telling everyone that Churchill struck first and that Poland had been provoking Germany by abusing Germanics within Polish borders. He was slandered as a Holocaust denier, which he was not.
i read one of this guy's books and he spent most of it jerking off about how amazing and superior Black folk are
He was a proto SJW who was shoving diversity girlboss shit into Doctor Who media all the way back in the late 80s.
Married a black woman somehow despite looking like a furry bowling ball.
>It's one of the best selling novel series in the UK,
This means absolutely nothing best selling could mean 1,000 copies sold to million depending on who the author is. jk rowling is the only Uk writer that sells anything.
Of all fantasy author you choose sanderson
Sanderson is unreadable and if you like him you're an NPC.
surprised they havent adapted this Stronk Female Lead bait
they'll never adapt ACTUAL strong female characters
Tell me about it.
Are these any good?
DOA, doesn't matter if a woman wrote it, a female lead character who allows herself to be taken captive and raped to save the white, male, king will never be allowed. Modern women have to be selfish prostitutes, you can be showing one who makes sacrifices to help others, it would destroy the narrative
there's gotta be a better way to portray self sacrifice than letting yourself be raped. That's just fricked up and backwards
This. I wonder what cause he'd allow himself to be raped for.
>bad guys capture the king who will unite the land and prevent world war
>paladin chick offers herself to the bad guys in exchange for the king
>bad guys accept since breaking a paladin means more to them
>paladin chick is tortured and raped for a week
>paladin chick's god heals all her wounds completely destroying the faith of all the bad guys
>paladin chick doesn't even care she got tortured and raped cause it was just her body and bodies can heal
it shows rape is only as big a deal as you make it, which is the truth and why it will never be adapted
"Morning Star"
>Picture of a sickle.
>hey god, check it out, I turned myself into a sickle!
Denotes the average intelligence of 'Red Rising' readers.
I remember that there were rumors about a tv adaptation a while back which o hope is true. It'd probably be difficult to cast a lot of gigachads and Stacy's though.
yeah this shit would need to be animated. not castable.
ewwww gamma fantasy slop
Bring back the Terry Goodkind kino for redblooded heterosexual males like me
The righteous slaughter of pacifists might be a bit of a hard sell
Good morning sirs.
Qrd?
A shame no non-German under 50 has read this, it would go crazy as a big budget chinese tv series.
I am genuinely confused so many of Conrad's absolute bangers remain untouched. I mean you might have to rename "The Black person of the Narcissus", but in terms of pure character driven adventure novel he is unmatched.
The Secret Agent (1996) is the best adapation. Christian Bale, Patricia Arquette, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins, Gerard Depardieu
Agreed his works convert well to movies and its a shame more havent been.
Was genuinely unaware this existed, thanks for the recommendation.
was there ever an attempt at a pern adaptation? Seems like it would have been popular
Nothing, I want to keep the pictures in my mind and not warped by DEI Hollywood slop.
2,500 years and still no adaption of the greatest adventure story ever written
>inb4 The Warriors
it's not the same
Done right it would be kino.
I just know they would shift the perspective to Tully though, completely ruining the entire point of the story making us perceive a human as an alien creature.
that man be DROWNING in pussy
unfortunately all the cat women look male and got ugly faces
Here's a series that is completely unadaptable. And not only because one of the two main settings is a planet where owning clothes is illegal.
Well that and people potentially daring to enter his magical realm
The Aurora Cycle series
Starbound series
Of Thieves series
Bladesmith series
Darth Bane trilogy
Supreme bait pic, gonna save that for later use.
I know this is bait but Aurora Rising in S? Holy shit homie, have a nice day immediately.
>Aurora Rising in S?
Yes
what the actual frick
at least tell me you're a woman or gay
I'm a heterosexual man. I also have a huge mousepad of pic related on my desk and the team logo bumper sticker on my car
It's 2024 anon. No reason to be in the closet nowadays.
I'm attracted to women and I like YA. Like Whitman, I contain multitude
I genuinely dislike everything in the F tier. I hated LOTR, Elric and the Witcher. It's 100% legit.
Multitudes, not multitude.
I enjoy YA sometimes as well but the dialogue in Aurora was absolutely atrocious; I don't see how anyone could enjoy it, much less read any of the sequels.
>I'm a heterosexual man.
No you are not.
damn someone put a lot of work into making the worst opinion of all time
>oh look it's printed slop!
what fricking trash taste. maybe he just reads a ton of slop and it's washing out the classics and I'm just not seeing them
>jump to the bottom
oh it's bait
Actually based
You have your own taste and I can respect that.
You aren't the romance novel reader anon are you? He's given me some great recs.
What do you like about the aurora series spoiler free if possible?
into the trash just for the fact you even read Yahtzee's books
sneed
Almost impossible to adapt but would be curious how it would turn out.
>even if they would probably get ruined
Why would you ever look forward to that? Are you a masochist?
I want another adaptation of Lord of the Rings. I love the 2001 version, but I want to see it tackled in a different way, one that isn't focused so much on the action or dumbs down characters. Seeing how borderline unwatchable the Hobbit series and Rangz of Powah were, my hopes in this regard are nothing more than a dream.
A series that did Gondor, Denethor and Faramir justice would be ideal, but that sure as hell is never going to happen.
imagine once they get into sanderson's shard autism and the crab people. and the audience would be confused as to why nobody has sex.
For me it's picrel, I love me some edgekino. Alternatively they could adapt Weeks' Lightbringer series since it's set around an analog of the mediterranean sea and the MC is canonically a nappyheaded mutt and everyone has green lantern powers that slowly kills you
>90s had publishers trying to get their hands on the next epic
>2000s had publishers chasing the edge fantasy
>late 2000s-early 10s had them courting the tumblr YA crowd
>late 10s saw the rise of self published litrpg/isekai
I wonder what the next craze will be.
The lightbringer could adapt really well, the main characters are generally excellent and if Gavin/Kip/Karis/Andross/The white/Ironfist were cast properly some of the interactions would make for peak tv. I’d also really enjoy watching people react to the major twist in the first book, I don’t think most people have ever ever seen a twist like it and it’s primed to have a huge impact mostly because stories are just far too predictable, especially in regards to knowing how a main character is going to act (they always act within approved moral boundaries and it’s gay)
I knew Cavill was shitposting here. Frick off, Henry, Kaladin is like 16 in this book. You’ll make a good Zahel though
As badly as they’d frick this up, I’d still like to see it on the screen
I'm getting Drizzt vibes from this dood who is he? O,o
Anomander Rake. Highly recommend trying this series. Nothing else really like it.
It’s almost a perfect sell for these executives but even with so many “progressive” variables included, they’d still find a way to focus on the wrong aspects and ruin any subtlety in the characters.
Just finished the 10 book main story, starting on the Darkness trilogy. Anything else available with similar complexity? Someone recommended Shadow of the Torturer recently and the premise had me sold. What would you guys recommend? Doesn’t have to be fantasy.
Glen Cook's an obvious influence, but in general no there's nothing like it.
Never happening, normies wouldn't be able to understand . One of the most kino swords in fantasy
I just want to see Siege of Pale bankrupt whoever decide to adapt the material. And it's in the opening of the first episode.
Is the Rama series proof that israelites aren't interested in adapting woke properties and that the true goal is to destroy properties I like?
>mc is a black mary sue heart surgeon, linguist, olympic althlete, world famous celebrity, supreme court justice, proud single mother and b***h-slapper of racists and seducer of kings.
>literally has magic Black person powers and her destiny is to spread Black person DNA throughout the galaxy.
>Hasn't been adapted for some reason
They don't need to ruin it all the work is already done for them. What gives?
Wtf, I don't remember this being the plot of the book. Is it from the sequels?
Or he's just finally gone fully insane.
Yeah the sequels are nuts. They're basically ultra left wing soap opera in space. There's even a clumsy attempt to justify pedophilia between a 60+ year old man and a 12 year old brown girl. Arthur C Clarke is still listed as a co-author but you'd never be able to tell if it wasn't written on the cover.
Clarke was a well known israeli pedophile
It's really a shame he was israeli
I hear this every now and then, what's the evidence for clarke being a pedo? Wouldn't that just make it even more bizarre that his shit doesn't get adapted?
>There's even a clumsy attempt to justify pedophilia between a 60+ year old man and a 12 year old brown girl
This is not an uncommon thing in decrepit writers, be they Piers Anthony or Fritz Lieber.
This has been in pre-production for 20 years now.
This was the movie they pretended they're making in Argo.
more like 40 years. The VGER spacecraft in that old star trek movie was originally supposed to be rama.
A pern adaption would just be a bunch of Black folk raping white girls. Pern has this weird rape-but-not-rape thing going on where the guy gets to frick whichever girl who's dragon mates with his own dragon.
No it is not.
Oh shit, it was, initially.
Is it possible it's just a bad series? From that description it sure sounds like it.
>Leper
>Outcast
>Unclean!
My spanish teacher loved this one and got annoyed when I dropped it about 70 pages in. Worth picking up again?
yeah you need to keep reading for my homie saltheart foamfollower
It's a bit clumsy with metaphor, but I'd watch it. Not sure I'd read it again though.
Is this a WEG thread now?
Qrd on this? Is it some kind of VN game? That girl is cute.
I'd give them licence to change the ending though, Absolution Gap kind of felt like he was contracted for a third Revelation Space book but wanted to write a different story so he just hammered it to fit
Would probably upset our friends over in India (?), but a helluva sci-fi Sword and Sorcery romp.
Can only hope one day CGI gets cheap enough they can do this and actually do justice to all the dragons, I wanna see my boy Ruth
we need a 2 hour movie on the big screen about a shorty, busty, zombie raising chick who need to be constantly gangbanged by vampires and were-people so she doesn't die, with full nudity and penetration
I have been wondering when this would resurface, what with the obvious popularity of supernatural bodice-rippers
she's supposed to be latina, but I suppose that's too white these days
The japs did a fairly high budget mediocre adaption of this.
There's no way ever ever
EVER
but Angus Thermopyle is the greatest heel-turned-face in history
Ya it’s just a Starship Troopers ripoff but it’ll be fun once I can feed it to a movie AI
way of kings was great
the rest of the novels only showed, however, that just like every other modern sci-fi/fantasy author, sanderson can't write stakes or suspense for shit. by book 3 the story basically devolves into shonen manga tier powerups and overcoming shit by the power of friendship
Modern hard scifi by an author who has phd in mathematical physics. This just blows so many other scifi books out of the water.
Can a layman understand it?
I'd say yeah, any difficulty comes from the way he introduces concepts/technologies just by their names instead of explaining what they do, so you need to infer that yourself from the way they are used in the story.
Great books, though the third one suffered a bit from the author getting fixated on the whole game mechanics thing and giving it too much spotlight IMO.
Yes because its just magic at that point anyway
>Magic
What makes it "hard" sci-fi then?
The underpinnings aren't just handwaved but the extremes of technology they're facilitating in the books is functionally magical.
>thank you, Djinni, you are my greatest ally
It would make for a great TV series
I've been reading S Craig Zahlers books after watching his films and was looking for anything similar, any recommendations? Also, are the DUNC books worth getting into or nah?
Dune yes, the rest? Frick no.
Jurassic Park and The Lost World true to the books though not the Spielberg action movie moronation.
I don't want any books I actually like to ever get adapted.
But this could be a comfy Europa Report style movie
Since the dust is never going to settle, what are your thoughts on winds of winter?
Personally i used to say that it would come out eventually but we would never see dream of spring. Now i doubt we'll even see winds....
We will get a version of it, not the finished version (like aDoD) but a version,eventually
T. Hopium enjoyer
If it hasn't happened by now it probably won't.
Even a sample chapter (that wasn't cut from Dance, that is) would have the publisher ecstatic and ready to drive hype again.
AI will finish it and it’ll be better than whatever his fat ass comes up with
The first Ringworld novel. Then again Denis is signed onto a Rama adaptation from what I have heard and that is quite close.
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik are also good for a movie
A fire upon the deep and a deepness in the sky
Seveneves was messy but I liked it. How would they handle the Musk stand-in though.
The only thing I would be okay with being changed is the drink on Cloral. It's literally called sBlack folk.
which of the books in this thread are the most gooner friendly?, most books nowadays are goonerphobic
Sword of Truth. By the 5th book you get to read about the evil dominatrix villainess being psychically forced to give a blowjob to the emperor.
>50% of all modern novel sales goes into romance.
>80% of all novel purchases are done by women
Grim.