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⌈ Secret Post #5114 ⌋

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Comments

[tabaqui]

I am not sure what you mean by LitRPG - is that kind of 'choose your own story' stuff? (Which, for the record, I loathe.) And what does 'stats being an 'actual universe' ' mean?

I am not up on this hip lingo.

The whole Expanse series is a bit thriller/cop story, except without much in the way of actual cops, heh.

I wish they would, too; there is good stuff there, but it shouldn't be 95% of the damn shelf.

[(Anonymous)]

(CWA)

LitRPG is err... stories that use Role Playing Game style worlds as the setting of the story. And some of them make RPG stats actually IN story important. Like they mention them in the story somehow. But at the same time I've seen books like Sean Frazier's The Call of Chaos use DnD as a comparison book, b/c it is very much a DnD style adventure, without using actual statistics in the story.

There are probably some in the scifi genre. Most I've run across are fantasy. It's really popular on Royal Road, I know that much. Amazon does have a category set aside for it. Most indie scifi I've come across outside of Buroker is tedious space exploration/one man army/lost fleet types. Buroker's Star Kingdom series is at least Star Wars meets the Big Bang Theory (in very obvious ways) so it's sort of fun. (I haven't read the rest of hers. For someone who has a huge backlist, she's not too bad.)

They call portal fantasy isekai these days. The "hip lingo" confuses me too.

I think book store buyers don't know anything good that's new or don't think it will sell b/c small store problems. I honestly don't know how Asimov still sells. Color me confused. He can be so DRY. I've read all of Foundation and I can't remember a THING about it. I put it away and said "never again."

[tabaqui]

Wow. I think reading a story with DnD type stats as *part of the story* would just be really...dumb. I can't imagine.

I used to play a ton of DnD as a teen/twenty-something, as well as Champions and Gamma World. They were cool to play, but I can't imagine books. I think I read a couple DnD style/inspired books ages ago that my littler brother liked, but I wan't impressed.

Isekai. Huh. :D

I hate that small bookstores have to cater to the absolute lowest common denominator and/or the most most most popular thing, because they so desperately need sales. Meh.

I read maybe two Asimov books in my time, did not enjoy them at all. I did in the last year read the first Murderbot book, and liked it, but haven't had the funds to buy any more.

[(Anonymous)]

(CWA)

I have NO idea. Like, it doesn't sound like something I'd think would feel smooth in the story. But I guess some readers really like it. I have yet to actually read one. They keep being taken down and thus deleted from my wish list on Amazon. I'll have to find one on RR.

Samesies. Sometimes you can tell it's just for the local HS crowd who needs to read Tolkien for class.

Asimov's "murderbot" books style are completely different than everything else he wrote. I liked them the best. That and Nemesis, even if Nemesis is rather dry in places. The story was neat. Lack of funds is why I'm not up to date on what's the latest and greatest in scifi, I guess Harrow the Ninth? I haven't read it. The Grishna Universe was recced everywhere for Fantasy and my sis gave me like book 5 or 6 and I went "Uh... well, I see the germ of a good universe here." I guess Scalzi's been putting out new scifi.

I think I'm going to sit here and work on my scifi WIPS slowly and poke at my more episodic Mandalorian fanfic. I do plan on reading more indie stuff this year. I'm just not sanguine about it.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I generally can't stand Asimov either but I would bet Foundation is on approximately 95% of all "So You Want To Get Into Science Fiction" rec lists ever written

[(Anonymous)]

(CWA)

You'd be correct. There are huge arguments in the SFF community over putting books like Herbert and Foundation series into these "introductory to SFF" lists. B/C they aren't geared towards today's reader and are more likely to put someone off of SFF instead of drawing them into it.

I also heard Foundation got a TV series green lit. But err, that was a few years ago and I've heard nothing since. I was like "that, well, maybe if they edit half of it out."

[(Anonymous)]

Dune doesn't bother me so much - at least if it's clearly messaged in a, like, "only read this if you already know you like sweeping secondary-world epics already" sort of way. There's clearly a massive readership for that kind of thing, and Dune is a classic in the subgenre for mostly good reasons, so, fair enough.

Asimov is much stranger to me bc practically nobody even writes that kind of SF anymore, and Asimov wasn't really a very good writer. Totally baffling. Asimov is representative of an era in science fiction that is totally past. He is a writer of almost entirely historical interest.

But I guess nerd credibility is a thing that still matters to people, so. At least Foundation is fairly short.