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Everybody’s a critic.

from Requiem Infernal by Peter Fehervari, more from the novel here.

victusinveritas:

Australian Sci-Fi: Like British sci-fi but on a beach.

German Sci-Fi: A sincere commitment to testing the limits of how much despair they can possibly wring out of a story before it collapses under its own angst.

Scandinavian Sci-Fi: It’s vaguely the future. Things are going poorly but there’s hope. You are very lonely but, all in all, it’s okay.

Possible second avenue of French Sci-Fi:

A group of sci-fi people faces overwhelming odds in an alien setting, ends up tragically weirder in the end. Somehow this is a metaphor for Foucault’s ideas on human nature.

Chinese Sci-Fi: Math.

Russian Sci-Fi: Something BAD happened to world and main character still has to wake up and be garbage man.

Czech Sci-Fi: You will not understand this. That’s okay, nobody else ever will either, and you are not important enough for anyone to care.

Polish Sci-Fi: You will not understand this. I would say that’s okay and only natural, but the world will suffer for your failure, and know that you are to blame for it.

Argentinian Sci-Fi: The congruity of the realms beyond comprehension will fail. Our only hope is to find the manliest man with the biggest testicles ever recorded and have him fuck the Chaos Goddess.

lotrheritageposts:

aro-ace-from-outer-space22:

theaudientvoid:

manicpixiedckgirl:

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

LOTR Heritage Post

5. The author’s moderately disguised PTSD

TL;DR need high school book recs. More:

I’m looking for books about going to high school. Books taking place in high school work, but preferably the book is at least somewhat focused on the actual school experience, both academic and social (as opposed to high school student isekaied onto Jupiter (unless they then must go to high school there)).

Third person is heavily preferred to first. YA books are good but everything from high-brow literature to genre fiction to adult satire is welcome.

Books with lgbtqia+ protagonists or ensembles are best, cishet boys and girls are fine too. Books by lgbtqia+ authors are also great, but even books about the trials and tribulations of being a high school girl written by an adult male are fine, “Carrie” by Stephen King is the closest I’ve read so far to what I’m looking for.

Newer is better, the closer to modern schools with iphones and internet and fentanyl and tiktok are preferable to Charles Dickens and DH Lawrence. Sports books are okay, i don’t even know enough about them to know if they’d help, so they couldn’t hurt to look at.

Good books are good, bad books and even problematic ones can help inform what I’m working on. The actual project I’m working on is an adaptation so pitfalls are as helpful to me as peaks.

Messages from people who have opinions about high school set books and the tropes thereof are also very welcome, I’m interested in hearing what people love and/or hate to read when it comes to the genre.

Thanks anyone for anything!

youlikeiloveit2:

dreadbirate:

There are 6 genres of sci fi

Hornblower IN SPACE!!!! (Star Trek, Battletech)

Bright White Boy saves the day (Project Hail Mary, The Expanse)

Space Wizard acheives enlightenment (Star Wars, Dune)

If you look at this goo you’ll go CRAZYYYY (HP Lovecraft)

Cowboys IN SPACE!!!!! (Firefly, Cowboy Bebop)

Even Worse Capitalism but you get cool robot arms (Snow Crash, Cyberpunk 2077)

Just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Highly recommended to fans of my Valhalla books. You can see my thoughts and some clippings from it at my reading blog here.

The best “save the cat” moment I’ve read, from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

That does sound spicy…

no-where-new-hero:

Angela Carter and the “So Fucking What” Approach to Writing