So what's /tg/ reading?

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This guy's novel. As I am reading it and the vivid details of how Lucius is mercilessly savaging and maiming Dark Eldar wyches, I come to understanding how much GW values women....

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Not that far into it, just finished the earliest version of this tale in which Beren is a gnome. Seems like a good read if you are into Tolkiens works.

>>54984781

Is it good?

>>54985731
It's pretty good, gives insight into how the Mechanicanicus views the universe in the 41st Millennium, and what disgusts and delights them.

>>54984781
The Red Knight. Only halfway into it but it appears to be a twist on the classic Arthurian tale but from the perspective of Mordred.

>>54984781
>So what's /tg/ reading?
I'm too wary of spoilers to post what I'm reading.

I recently finished Betrayer and Kharn: Eater of Worlds. Both are good, although the latter is better.

>>54985974
Screw you, Redemption Corps was pretty good and Fire Warrior as well.
I genuinly don't understand The Unforgiven as well. Sure the ending is messy but the rest is solid.

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First book in the Powder Mage trilogy. I like it, although the author has some issues making the secondary characters seem interesting.

>>54985974
Bastion Wars deserves to be on Acceptable Tier, and there's no way that Emperor's Gift should be God-Emperor Tier.

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Damn awesome.

Just got the players handbook and marshall's guide for the 1999 deadlands. Not sure ill ever use them, but I fucking love 90s rpg books.

Also reading a biography of Cato, which is only tagentially related, because I deeply want to combine my love of yog sothothery and my love of roman history to run a cthulhu invictus capaign, but I doubt that will happen.

Oh, and I guess I am reading a pdf of base raiders, because it is the fate game I want to run.

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>>54984781
A Blade of Black Steel, second book in Alex Marshall's "Crimson Empire" trilogy. It's pretty good, although the slang is jarring at time, as is the fact that *every* character is a horny bisexual. But the story's interesting and the pacing is really nice.

Just finished Hero of the Imperium, and am now reading Defender of the Imperium.

Cain is truly best commissar

>>54984813
How is that one? Does it really read like a wych snuff film?

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Black Legion, The Seige of Castellax (for what feels like an eternity) and pic related.

Mostly Black Legion though.

Talon of Horus. Not bad so far, bought it because I'm hoping I like it enough to warrant getting the fancy edition of the sequel.

Utopia Communities in America: 1680 to 1880

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>>54984781

This. which now ranks as frankly the hardest yet weirdly rewarding book to read. I would describe as top notch beef jerky, extremely hard to get your teeth into without effort. Yet oddly morish.

>>54984872 - What's it like, I've only done LotR and Hobbit and that was ages ago. Is it any good?

>>54984781
Critique Of Practical Reason, a collection of 2016 best sci-fi fantasy shorts, random ospreys and osr dungeons when I'm tapped out on hard reading.

Went through Black Legion recently. It had a few fun moments.

>>54984781
anyone have the new adb book?

Want to read that, otherwise am reading old historical minutes from the RGS for my dissertation.

Just finished the sixth Dune book, and right now I'm reading Four Ways To Forgiveness by LeGuin. Planning to read all of the Hainish/Ekumen books eventually.

>>54989295
anyone?

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I'm reading the Corum books by Michael Moorcock.

I'm enjoying Moorcock's take on Chaos a lot more than Games Workshop's.

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About 35 pages in.

Is the main character a Sue? He kind of feels like one so far

>>54986637
>I genuinly don't understand


No, you wouldn't.

>>54990668
Ironic, since they used to be the same.

>>54984813

desu I like Lucius as a snide asshole. Where might I read this?

>>54990812
GW went in another direction and their version of Chaos. It's so rigid and predictable that I'm not sure if it even should be called Chaos anymore.

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>>54984781
Picked up the first two omnibuses of this at the local used bookstore, and ordered the next two the next day. Really fun and charming horror/mystery series, and I love when they bring in pseudo-contemporary events, like having a whole story arc based around the Body Worlds art exhibitions.

what should I read to get on the 40k universe is advancing train.
Currently plan to read the first 3 HH books. Then what? Only essentials.

Need to chose what to read next.

Eric of melinbroud
The first law trilogy
Black Company
Horus Heresy

What would you advice?

>>54991336
I would choose Elric since I consider it a must-read. However the first few HH books are good too. Really enjoyable.

>>54987363
8/10. I liked it.

And yes.

>>54991223
>>54991336
I tend to move between series after I finish a book or two so I don't blow out on them or start to glaze over and skim whole chapters. Opinions but, read a book or two of elric, read some HH, read some first law, then some black company, it'll give you more variety/contrast.

>>54991336
Elric
You need to become a veteran of a thousand psychic wars

>>54984813
What's the name?

Just finished the dark angels trillogy

Pdf dump you faggots

>>54993624
Stop being a poorfag. Books are some of the cheapest entertainment you can buy.

>>54993702
Im not going to the bookstore in the rain you turbo nigger

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Ciaphas Cain: HERO OF THE IMPERIUM

>>54987327
Same as this dude, started on Duty Calls today. I gave the first omnibus to my dad once I finished it, and he enjoyed the first short story, but I need to find a way to help him through some of the terminology and history of it. Loving it so far.

Truth be told, I got into it through the Blueblood mlp fanfic, which has been extremely good in my opinion.

The stargate SG-1 d20 rulebook.
The only thing I've ever played even near dnd was neverwinter nights 1. How mad is it to want to DM a game of this with no prior experience?
I just want to throw players through the gate and see what they do.
Someone link me a "how not to be a shit DM" guide or something.
Right now all I've got is high hopes and some ripped audio for backround sounds.

Mechanicum - after all these years finally went seen how theHeresy looks from Mars perspective

BTW is there a audiobook request thread (alive at that) where a guy can request some newest BL audios?

>>54990668
Whats the best book for starting w/ moorcock?

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Just finished 'Let The Right One In' (after putting it off for years)

Now starting the second Sam Wyndham book. They're detective books set in the British Raj just after WW1. Pretty solid colonial noir.

A lot of moorcock, actually
SUCH a good writer.

Maybe /tg/ can help me out. I'm browsing audible for fantasy novels, and the recommendations the app gives me are all for this genre called 'litRPG". I haven't touched any yet. Are they good? Or trash? I am skeptical.

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i need space westerns or space opera westerns

pls send help

>tfw space westerns died with firefly and no one has taken up the new mantle
>tfw other settings are rife with the capacity to have space westerns in them, but no one does it
>tfw space operas have taken over the entirety of space

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>>54984781
* Emilio Salgari - The Tigers of Malaysia & The Black Corsair series - Perfect source of inspiration for your swashbuckling campaign.
* Frank Herbert - Dune - Re-reading because I want to make a fantasy setting based on the stuff.
* Several PDFs and articles about Vietcong and their tactics - Reading Because the players are going to have fun in a forest infested with the little scaley assholes.

>>54999198

I spy me some Goto

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>>54985731

I enjoyed it. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn good. Has some neat depictions of a Secutor handling Skitarii troop deployments on both a micro and macro scale, and I liked the variety in the Magi (one basically chopped his brain into sections and stuck them in a stocky robot frame, another has various mechbods that he changes for various purposes). Plus, literally overclocking your brain is some pretty neat transhumanist shit.

But I'm an Ad Mech fan, so take my recommendation with a grain (or pile) of salt.

In which order to read Elric?

It is tooo big and I will never read all of them. WHat are key books to read?

expanse volume six
shit's getting boring, especially since it now dwells on belter monkeys for chapter upon chapter
before reading books 5&6 of the expanse I read firefall by peter watts and it was so riveting that the expanse, which was mediocre to begin with, looks even worse

>>55000121
if you want something good read the culture series by ian m banks, consider phlebas is the book to start with
if you want something more like western read expanse, although the quality is all over the place from book to book and from chapter to chapter

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>>54998020
I suppose Elric is a good place to start because it introduces recurring plot points, themes and characters. Moorcock just keeps getting better after the first run of Elric stories and he is great at world building.

It's also important to keep in mind that Elric is a bit of a cunt character at times because he was conceived as a postmodern antihero response to Conan and LOTR.

I've recently started The Dinosaur Lords. It's okay thus far.

I wanna get into BL novels again after a decade but they seem to have a massive hardon for either epub or hardcover with zero intention of going paperback, which is disappointing to me.

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my first 40k book

>>55000945
Dahan a best, Blaylock a worst

>>55002303
Not a bad choice. Though not an amazing one either.

>>54986402
It's a good book that, as is the sequel, but I'd stop there because it sadly goes downhill at the start of book 3

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>>54988881
Are you ACTUALLY reading Alexandria Quartet or is that just an aesthetic choice for a picture?

Because if you do... well that is an unusual choice around these parts of the internet.

>>55000071
Sadly, audible in general is a bit of a minefield.
I only ever get books I've tripled checked, or I've read before ( being a bit dyslexic means I inevitably miss parts when I read them Normally), since I was horribly rused the times I got them based on audible reviews.
On that note, avoid the shit out of Free the darkness, no matter how many recommendations you get for it, or how many good reviews it gets. It's wish fulfilment with a Mary Sue that gives Bella Swan a run for her money, and I'm not just using that term as shorthand for character I don't like, either.

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>>54984781
About halfway through pic related.

>>55003565
Finished that recently, great read.

I really wanna make an undead-focused campaign in a setting with similar necromancy now. I love how that does it.

>>55001310
The suspense and mystery kept that series alive. Glad I stopped at book 3

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I'm currently reading Red Stained Wood, a new adult fantasy novel featuring a humble cast of adventurers with varying degrees of guilt, self loathing and PTSD. And a relatively nice and balanced protagonist. Out to save the world from corrupt politicians (it's just like 2017!) and ancient evil (just like 2017!)

The US Kindle edition only cost me 99 cents
t.co/nbUYXvGSDI
Or 99p in the UK!
t.co/EK547AOoAt

Which I consider a real bargain, as someone with no stake in the matter.

>>55003780
Wow, I can't wait to read RED STAINED WOOD, I love adult fantasy novels!

>>54986566
Also just finished Betrayer, now I'm slogging through the Gathering Storm books to see what's up with 40k now. Kharn: Eater of Worlds is on my list though, along with Heart of the Conqueror and Kharn: The Eightfold Path

Monster hunter international, an impulse buy.

Cons:
The author is about as subtle as a brick with his political leanings, and it heavily colours the book. Don't really care personally, but I would fully understand if some do.
The wish fulfilment present in the MC is also strong. I won't go as far as saying Mary Sue, because he does have flaws that aren't just token, but it still makes the part just after the introduction a bit difficult to slog through
The twists and foreshadowing is pretty obvious
There's some pretty glaring inconsistency in some of the monsters' toughness, since they start off as being one man armies and eventually get mown down handily

Pros:
Hilariously over the top with the guns
Has enough of a light hearted style that the flaws don't come off as obnoxiously as, say, Sword of truth.
The author clearly realised he made his MC a bit too good, and did a decent job dialling it back about a third of the way through
Characters are mostly likeable
Audible narrator is pretty good

Overall I'd say about 7/10 personally

>>55000121
>Space Western.
Santiago, be Mike Resnik.
>>54991336
Elric if you want to know from where all those brooding antiheroes started to be common, the worlds moorcook are pretty interesting too.
The First Law if you want a more modern, character based tale. Shit setting tough.

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>>54990687
That's the one with Louis, isn't it? He's good at a lot of stuff, but he isn't really a Sue. Also, not really the point of the book, it's kind of an "OOH, TOYS" book rather than conflict-driven. Never really got into Niven as a whole, but Ringworld was good and Puppeteers A Best.

Personally I've just finished Master of Mankind and started Mechanicum, but I've mostly been reading the Uplift Trilogy(s) and Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga. Uplift is especially awesome, and I've found a GURPS book for it for about £40, so maybe I'll try it out. Never found anyone else who's read them, but it's got so much awesome worldbuilding I have to recommend them.

>>55002303
Should have started with Titanicus.

Of course everything after is downhill.

>>55003799
>slogging through the Gathering Storm books to see what's up with 40k now
I read the Eldar one. It was okay. Too many 'Very Fast Eldar Fighting at Incredible Hihg Speed' sentences. Needed more show and less tell.

>Kharn
My battle-brother. Beware of The Red Path. It has the worst written combat I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

>>55004281
Would you say that Titanicus is better than the Gaunt's Ghosts series? If you've read it, that is.

I've been meaning to read Titanicus but it reminds of Baneblade and I don't find following a vehicle crew that thrilling.

Johannes Cabal book 5 audio book to and from work, pissed at myself for not realizing it came out a year ago.
Reading Imagine Ourselves Richly before bed when I get the opportunity, also got the Deadlands corebook which I should power through so I can pressure my friends to play Deadlands

Speaking of Titanicus, anyone know why it's out of print?

>>55003565
my nigga.
Tim Curry's recording of it is God Tier

>>55007646
>>55003565
read the first 1/3 of the book and found it boringish?? No characters, the PC and an overpowered disney critter to accompany her.
No fights, just a depressing darkness to keep at bay.
Does it get better?

>>55003871
Larry Correia has got to be a /k/ommando. If you like his style enough to overlook the masturbatory parts, I've heard good things about his other series: the urban fantasy one set up as '40s noir.
Personally, I enjoyed his new book, the black sword one. It's more /tg/, is set in not!India, and really shows growth as a writer.

>>55004215
I just finished Mechanicum. Thought it was okay but don't think I'd recommend it.

>>55005465
Not that guy, but I tapped out after 6 GG books. First 3 were enjoyable, but it just didn't maintain interest for me. I prefer titanicus, tend to dislike serialized characters after about 3 novels. Titanicus has the gritty struggle of humans in wastelands, military politics, etc. that's in gaunts ghosts, but a more mechanicus/titan legion focus. If you like getting attached to characters and their struggles over long series though, there's a buuuuunch of gaunts ghosts.

>>55002908

No I am actually trying to read it, Durrell has lovely prose, I'm up to Nessim buying the summer house for Justine and the war about to start. Still super dense though!

>>55005465
Honestly I've never read Gaunt's Ghosts. I have a friend who loves the series but sadly he hasn't read Titanicus so...

Titanicus is one of my favorite books of all time. Seriously, I consider 40K books kind of my guilty pleasure series, but I will gladly display my copy of Titanicus alongside what I consider higher quality literature. No guilt whatsoever involved.

>>55005574
No idea. I had to get my copy used like a year ago or so? I'm actually not sure when I bought it exactly. I got it at a half priced books or something for cheap.

>>54984781
Last thing I read was was Neuromancer - William Gibson. Read much of it whilst listening to synthwave music, worked really well. Makes me want to try Shadowrun and pick up Netrunner again.

>>55008242
I'm genuinely impressed.
I personally never liked the book, and never finished it either. I think I picked it up too soon after reading Magus by Fowles, and Hopscotch (Rayuela) by Cortázar and I felt completely sick of yet another postmodern novel about troubled aspiring writer copying with identity crisis while going through a torrid love-affair with quirky and eccentric woman that he can't decide to love or hate while getting suck into an overlap of meta-textuality, metaphysical musings and first-half-of-20th century insecurities...
But it's a good book that I cannot but respect. Most of the literature of that time and tone shows some exceptional mastery of prose and subtle character working. I always ended up enjoying Fowles the most of the whole bunch (even if his stories are actually arguably the worst) just for how absolutely amazing his prose is. The love scenes and general work with femininity in Magus will probably never vanish from my memory. If you feel like you aren't completely sick of this genre after reading Quartet, Magus might be an interesting place to look for more of the roughly same tone.

>>54990668
How does Moorcock's Chaos differ from that of Games Workshop?

>>54991336
I found Black Company to be really good military fantasy. I definitely recommend it.

>>55008412

I won't lie anon, I haven't read the books on your list! I'm pretty bad with 20th century classics to be fair. I picked it up as my brother spent a while in Egypt and he said that it captured the vibe of what once was.

I like JG Ballard, Highrise is one of my favourite book, that and Laline Pauls the Bees.

>>55008053
I liked his first book, but the second one had a decreased impact. I would never said that but eventualy you get tired of seeing lovecraftian horrors getting shot at. Is the third one (last one?) better?

Tell me more about his urban fantasy and the current fantasy one.

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>>55008788
Its more 'eternal struggle across multidimensional acidspacetime between the forces of Law and Chaos that provide the balance that is life' less 'all consuming entropy personified in 4 general forms attempting to corrupt the real'. More actually chaotic instead of just violent. Absolute Law is fucked up too, total stagnation and flatness. The reading is still possible with warhammer chaos but it seems less intentionally open.

>>54991336

Black Company's the only good series out of that list.

>>55008914
I personally found the second book was written a lot better, since it dials back the power fantasy, and the author had a lot more nuanced approach to politics/institutions he didn't like.

Book 3 focuses on Harbinger, mostly.
The scale is a lot lower, and it's mostly about him dealing with the consequences of his past coming back to bite him.

>>54986637
The picturefag has shit taste. Don't try to make sense of it.

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Prepping for a (theoretical) Ars Magica campaign. Also been reading through the Conan stories, but who'd care about that

>>55009098
40k does this struggle to a certain extent with the Emperor representing Law.

>>55008914
There are currently 6 Monster Hunter books, but I honestly didn't make it past the third. It was a fun, guilty pleasure, but failed to keep me interested in the series. I know nothing of the grimnoir series, but apparently it's 20s gangster style with an allegedly fresh magic system. Probably even more racist.
Son of the black sword is about a Lawful Autist paladin in a world with a rigid caste system and corrupt laws. He has a bloodthirsty sword, murder machine fighting skills, and super stunted social/emotional development. He eventually learns people are better than the uncompromising law and fights for the resistance. I can't wait for the second book, but be warned of many, many instances of "honor before reason".

>>55009372
Oh yeah, its there. Its just less explicit. Moorcock writes prose about the eternal struggle between cosmic forces all the time, of which chaos is but one, where as warhammer is weirdly unipolar a lot of the time. Tactical marines have arrows of law on their shoulders to contrast the 8pointed star of chaos on their opponents, its a clear reference. Its just not framed as 'Law vs Chaos', law isn't really an overtly mentioned force. Its maybe coming back with more references to 'the forces of order'. The tone and direction of 8th is noteabley different than before.

>>55008893
>I haven't read the books on your list!
There is no reason to lie either: it's not like they are regular or mandatory reading. Most people don't bother with these mostly super-intellectual (and I don't mean that necessarily in a positive sense) self-indulgent postmodern "deep" stuff usually focusing in spoiled young intellectuals...

But if you are interested... I think Magus is almost /tg/ related, too. It's a story of a young selfish aspiring writer and a teacher of English literature caught in a torrid and self-destructive love affair with a troubled, unique but spoiled woman. Sounds familiar?

Except then he moves to a small Greek island owned by a old, creepy millionaire and gets caught in this bizarre mystery that feels almost like a larp happening around him. The old due starts constructing various bizarre scenarios for the hero around the island, toying with his perceptions, engaging in various mind-games with him...
It's really quite interesting, and because of the seriously kinda GM/player like relationship between the protagonist and the titular "Magus", I would say I'm even justified to mention it here.

Hopscotch is a story about similar kinds of people, but in more "realistic" scenarios, more like Quartet.

20th century classic literature can be fun if you have the patience, by the way. Suprising amount of it is focused on magical or supernatural too.

I wish more people had the courage to try it out around here. Shit like Chazarian Dictionary, Borges and his short stories, History of Famas and Cronopios, Bulghakov's Master and Margharita, Zamyatin's "Us", and of course Kafka and Schulz...
Basically every single one of them is some really great prime inspiration material, full of strange stories, magical creatures, absurd situations...

I never read any of the authors you mentioned though, I have to look the names up.

>>55009455
in the old fantasy lore Law Gods were present and they were coming from the south pole. ANd they were as horrible as chaos. Then ot was forgotten/retconned. ANd now it seems lizards are the incarnation of Law.

>>55009455
>unipolar
Figured out what I mean. Moorcock's Law vs Chaos is framed as two different but interwoven magical universal forces competing over/through the world, and everyone in the world knows it as such. Warhammer 40k chaos is framed as being an exterior reality that corrupts the world, but law is in/of the world and the people in the world don't think of Law as a magical cosmic force.

Older warhammer fantasy had gods of law and chaos but they got phased out over time.

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>>55002303
Pedro best chapter master. Cortez becomes a bit annoying though.

>>55009557
Yeah, the AoS stuff seems like its trying to get back to Law vs Chaos and multidimensional conflict too, so that could be what's up. Haven't had time/interest in AoS nearly as much.

>>55009576
>>55009455
Most Moorcock influences were long expunged.
>>55009403
I've read all save the last one, and really, it's the people besides the MC that get me to keep reading it. I agree with the above anon that the author is a /k/ommando for sure, and his politics are on his sleeve, as well as his worldliness (the gnomes made me roll my eyes).

>>55009612
AoS in general feels like if Michael Moorcock was reimagining He-man while suffering from a delirious fever.

>>55009673
I want to like it, I don't even mind the end times. But AoS just feels really halfassed. I might be stuck liking the thing I liked when I was a kid though.

>>55009735
AoS feels even more shamelessly like an advertisement to sell GW minis than anything else they ever did in WHFB or 40k. Maybe they will straighten it out in a few years time.

>>55009623
I found the author's blonde, blue eyed, buxom, tacticool waifu character to be unintentionally hilarious.

>>55009801
>blonde
I thought she was a brunette?
Amusing more is how the MC is pacific islander.

>>55009801
The waifu is a brunette, IIRC. The blonde is a hardass former stripper.

>>55009996
I think he was talking about the stripper, not the MC's wife.
>that scene where he describes her getting her brains blown out, the bullet tumbling and yawing thru her head
Brutal.

>>55009904
Oh, that's right. Guess it's time for a reread. Wish I had some custom modded 3-gun gear with silver bullets.

>>55010071
Helps when you know an autistic machinist who can also reassemble Frankenstein.

>>55010096
I unironically loved Frank from his first appearance, despite the author's hateboner for feds.

>>55010158
Frank was great precisely because he was played off as a dick who knows precisely how unfuckable he is.
I like characters who are powerful and know it.

>>55010158
>that moment where both his arms get paralysed so he charges in to a group of spiny, poisonous, hell beasts and starts head butting them to death

>>54984781
I really liked Forge of Mars generally, but especially Archmagos Kotov.
He's one of those non-action protagonists we hardly ever get in 40k, and him slowly becoming a complete badass was cool.

The moment when he just goes "Right, I'm in charge here" and anime-duels Telok through the Speranza's datasphere Neo-style was pretty fucking cool, especially when he wakes up and casually walks off being impaled. He wrecked the shit of a DaoT flagship as a SIDE EFFECT of his duel. Nice to see the Mechanicus being competent for once.

>>54986402
Bad Tom is one of the only times I've seen that particular brand of characer done right, without being pointlessly edgy or retarded.

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>>54984781
Just finished reading The Problem of Pain, by C.S Lewis. It was a really interesting read.

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>>55009478

I've promised myself I would get through Justine in the quartet. I'll add magus to the list, it sounds interesting.

JG Ballard is nice though, empire of the sun is him as a boy under the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, it's an amazing book and the sequel the kindness of women is also well worth a read. You should try under major doom minor and sisters brothers by Patrick Dewitt, they aren't long books but they are well written. Under Major Domo is sort of TG related... desu so is the Sisters Brothers

>>55010609

What's it about, I've only done Narnia!

Can anyone share titanicus as a pdf?

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Current read.

>>55009623
>Most Moorcock influences were long expunged.
Moorcock is essentially the bedrock of this shit so you can't really expunge him.

>>55009623
Getting rid of Law doesn't make the ideas any less plagiarised.

>>55000121
The Expanse

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>>54984781
John Gray's The Silence of Animals, Stuart Clark's Vanities of the Eye, Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog. The last of which is extremely, unexpectedly funny, and pretty short too by the looks of things, so I'd recommend it pretty solidly. I'm also rereading the Kalevala but very slowly, as I'm using it to help me learn the language.

I guess I'm reading through some WHFR materials and the Infinity core rules as well. Should be having my first proper game this weekend.

>>55009612
AoS is much more of a good/evil dichotomy than a law/chaos one.

Sigmar good, Chaos evil.

>>55013027
At least in WHFB Chaos could manifest as a non malign deity.

>>55013263
Even the Chaos aligned tabletop factions had more nuance in WHFB.

Norscans, for example, were a warlike culture that worshiped dark gods and did unspeakable things for the ruinous powers. But when it came down to it, they were pretty much just people with another religion to the southlands. They had their own peasants, their own laws, their own customs, they traded and worked as mercenaries with peeps from all across the world, etc.

They weren't just an endless horde of samefaced roided-out cartoon bad guys like Chaos is in AoS, who have no real culture of society beyond KHOOORNE or TZEEEEENTCH.

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POST PDFS NOW

>>54986912
probably the best 40k novels in the last year
custodes are portrayed perfectly in this

>>55013431
The entire setting had more nuance. Maybe AoS will some day too, but it's not this day.

Switching between a Borges compendium, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and the Bas-Lag Trilogy.

Running a Planescape game leads to you going to some very eclectic sources for inspiration, and I'm loving it.

Death in integrity
Is cool to see b-tier chapters interact and on the spotlight although the novamarines are kinda stuck up

Also great depiction of wearing Terminator armor

>>55013458
Stop being poor

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I've been reading The Knife of Never letting Go, a nominally YA book.

It's set on a failed colony world where the women have all died out and the remaining, slowly aging male population are all psychic due to biological fuckery, which is represented throughout the book in a really fucking cool way (see pic).

Then the MC finds a girl, a supposedly impossible thing, realises he's been lied to his entire life, setting off the plot.

I'm fully aware of what the gender stuff makes it sound like, but it's handled pretty tastefully. Really neat setting, and the author isn't afraid to go into more serious adult themes just because the book's labelled YA.

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>>54984781
It's okay.

Before this I just got done with reading the Bobiverse books. Those were pretty good but Bob is a huge pussy desu.

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>has a book thread
>doesnt post pdfs

>>54984781
Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner.
I like the story, and the style reminds me of Philip K. Dick, who I'm a big fan of.
The problem is it keeps breaking off into (at least seeming) irrelevancies. I'm feeling it's usually setting building, or analogy for things to come, but it's wearying.

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Just finishing up a series reread then I'm picking up Ian McDonald's River of Gods. I've covered most of the classics, but I'm definitely open to any cyberpunk literature suggestions folk may have.

Just dropped Crown of Slaves by Weber and Flint. How the fuck do people manage to read these two? The book was all hypercompetent rugged individualist militaryman-gods talking about how civilians and politicians suck. Like the worst parts from both authors.

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Very slowly working my way thru

>>54985974
What's wrong with the iron warriors omnibus?

>>55019721
Is that the guy who wrote honour Harrington, and secured the engineers being arrogant tits meme for eternity?

>>55004281
I'll keep that in mind once I'm done with Rynn's World.

>>54991336
Black company is a must read.
First law is nice.

>>55010829
Its non-fiction. It talks about why pain exists and how even though its something we don't want in our lives its a necessary part of our existence as individual entities. I'm still digesting it so to speak but its making me think, which I like.

>>54986912
Agreed, one of the better black library novels for sure.

>>55000945
What's the title of this book?

>>55019444
Read that too. Good set of young adult scifi. I like how authors can get away with fucked up fonts in YA novels too.

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>>55021808
>Edge Chronicles is considered YA
> despite the wig wigs, twilight forest, screed, rotsucker and more
In a way I'm glad the book market considers children made of sterner stuff than most give them credit for

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>>54985974
>fifteen hours
>good

>>55019534
I like how Bob apparently can't figure out what an air gun is and spends literally decades slamming entire drones into things to do the work of a 18mm lead slug.

>>55021931
The young adult publishing industry is weird, some stuff slides through I'd never have expected and other things don't in ways that are obscure to me.

Some kids can be pretty resilient though. Usually more than people give the credit for.

>>55019948
Book's set in the Honorverse, no less. How are those books so popular anyway?

>>55023088
Probably similar reasons as SoT and Twilight

>>54985974
But Guy Haley's Death of Integrity was a good one though

>>54984781
The Beast Arises series. P good thus far.