[ SECRET POST #5571 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5571 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[philstar22]

Dark fantasy/scifi, where awful things happen, but where there are at least one or two genuinely heroic characters. And bonus if there is a semi-hopeful ending.

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any book recs but I do have some webtoons that are kind of along the lines of fantasy/horror I guess.

https://alpha-scans.org/manga/princess-imprints-a-traitor/#
^ Korean webtoon "Princess imprints a traitor". Fantasy that has the Mc go back in time to change things. Very romance focused but the plot and world is pretty interesting and kind of screwed up. Ongoing.

https://bato.to/series/81767
^ Also Korean webtoon "black June"
This is a very well done and well researched horror comic that features priests, demons and angels. Themes of guilt and sin but that's religion I suppose. More along the lines of mystery with some very well done side romance plots. Prob one of the most well drawn webtoons I've ever read. Ongoing.

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

I always rec Matthew Stover's Acts of Caine.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheActsOfCaine

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

- Alistair Reynolds, probably the modern standardbearer for dark space opera / hard sf. he is really good, although he may lean on the darker / more pessimistic side compared to what you're going for
- Jack McDevitt - maybe not super dark, but trending in that direction, really good, classic, meaty science fiction
- The Outside by Ada Hoffmann. a lot of fun, and it definitely has Lovecraftian themes; a sequel came out recently but I haven't read it
- Iain M. Banks can definitely be dark, although maybe slightly more in a "depressing" sense rather than a "grimdark" sense
- John Barnes, I sort of hesitate to recommend, because some of his fiction can have a nasty streak that can be really unpleasant if you're not looking out for it, and should come with content warnings. But he's a really imaginative science fiction writer and his work can definitely be dark.
- the Expanse series is obviously massively popular and definitely goes into dark territory at times

Lastly, Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series fits exactly what you're looking for. it does have the slight problem that Simon R. Green is only marginally competent as a writer, but it's not bad if you go into it with the right mindset.

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. Skulduggery and Valkyrie are awesome and travel to some dark places but not grimdark. There are loads of great characters and lots of humour as well as action. Plus magic.

I’d also recommend The Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor. The people at St Mary’s are time travelling historians and Jodi writes some great humour and Max, the main character, has some wild adventures.

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read Gideon the Ninth?

Re: Book recs (or any rec)

[(Anonymous)]

I first read this one in my teens and absolutely loved it.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2031004.The_Broken_God