Attila the Hutt he/him Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 I've always been a sci-fi guy. From Card's Enderverse to King's Dark Tower series. And then like Alice taking a leap of faith down a rabbit hole I picked up "The Final Empire" on the suggestion of my brother. Now, I have been swept away by the sheer magnitude of the Cosmere. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 I've found it comforting to avoid thinking about books in terms of their genres and think about them as stories instead. If the book is a portrait, then the genre is the background - useful for providing context, but not the focus of the piece. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Complexityspren Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Hello and welcome. I never got through The Dark Tower... I should try it again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRyan he/him Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 @Attila the Hutt Welcome to the 17th Shard and to the Cosmere! I, too, am a big sci-fi reader (check out "the Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu if you have not read it) but I think Brandon Sanderson has officially taken over as the most ambitious author I will ever read. 40+ books spanning thousands of years all with some sort of over-arching theme but yet each one unique and incredible in its own right. Just. Wow. Also, just a warning, there are a TON of spoilers for the different series/books in the forums so tread carefully. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modal Seoul he/him Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Welcome. Have a cookie. (Also, watch out for buggers. They're really annoying.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attila the Hutt he/him Posted April 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 @Complexityspren The Dark Tower is one of my favorite reads! Once you get to Roland's backstory in the Wizard and the Glass you will be hooked! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 hard fantasy and sci-fi are actually rather similar, with magic taking place of technology. of the two, i tend to prefer fantasy because (when well-written) it makes more sense. I mean, I know a lot about science, and I like to overanalyze things, and any sci-fi book will have some inconsistencies in the way it describes science. also, science carries several implication about the overall tech level. one thing that I never could really digest about star wars is that for all their technology, they had actual people aiming turrets. even in our time we have radar-aimed machine guns that can destroy a missle mid-flight; certainly a computer is cheaper and more accurate than a human operator for that task. I see luke and ian going to the turrets to repel the enemy fighters, and I can't avoid thinking "with the tech level they have, there's no plausible justification for them not having auto-aimed automated turrets. it's like an itching in a place i cannot scratch. with magic instead the rules are completely arbitrary. you can have a magic that lets you teleport without letting you fly, and it has no consistency problem. try writing a sci-fi with a civilization that can make teleports but not airplanes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaronator17 Posted April 28, 2017 Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 Personally, I like to think that almost every Cosmere book so far straddles the line of sci-fi and fantasy so well that they could very well be considered 'Science-fantasy' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCremling Posted April 28, 2017 Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) DONT EAT THE COOKIE!!!! IT WILL LEAD TO YOUR DOWNFALL!!!!!!! Edited April 28, 2017 by TheCremling spelling error 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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