Red Rising and Red Queen are both NYT bestsellers written by two different authors. They're also 90% the same exact story.

A Darker Shade of Magic and Nocturna are also NYT Bestsellers. They're almost word-for-word the same exact book. Written five years apart from each other.

Have you ever read YA fiction? Practically every book written in that genre is virtually the same, just with slight variances like character names and whatnot.

Actually, if you're a pretty avid reader, almost every book is fundamentally the same. Same plot structure and build-up, the same amount of worldbuilding, same character types... they're tropes. There's no escaping tropes, but there is a way in taking them and showing them in a different light.

Don't worry about someone beating you to your story idea. Believe it or not, someone already has, you just haven't found out yet lol. I can bet $1000 that there's a story or stories out there that are very similar to the one you're writing that are already published and on the market. There's nothing wrong with this, it happens even to the biggest authors out there.

But none of that matters, because every writer worth their salt knows that a good idea can only get you so far. It's the execution of that idea that matters. The way you markdown your prose, the delivery of your story. Those are the things that matter the most in writing.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Why? There are a lot of books out there that are telling the same story in a different way. That's not always bad, we humans love our classic tales. This story (for me) was so completely different and new. I've never seen anyone write like this. I read it two years ago and since then I've re-read it another 2 times with nearly the same amount of rapture.

EDIT: By the way with the titles you just mentioned (Enders, Dune, etc.) this will probably be right up your alley.

Campbells: BIOLOGY 6.9lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Campbell-Biology-10th-Jane-Reece/dp/0321775651/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485783159&sr=1-1&keywords=biology+textbook

Atlas of the Universe 5.8 lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Atlas-Universe-Tirion-Garlick/dp/1740893778/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1485782836&sr=8-3&keywords=Atlas+of+the+universe

Universe 5.1lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Robert-Dinwiddie/dp/0756698413/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485782970&sr=8-1&keywords=Universe+book

The World of Ice and Fire 4 lbs

https://www.amazon.com/World-Ice-Fire-History-Westeros/dp/0553805444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485782797&sr=8-1&keywords=World+of+Ice+and+Fire

Elements of Ecology 3.2lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Ecology-6th-Thomas-Smith/dp/0805348301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485784000&sr=1-1&keywords=elements+of+ecology+6th+edition

Last Words of Notable People 3.2 lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Words-Notable-People-Noteworthy/dp/0976532581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485782704&sr=8-1&keywords=last+words+of+notable+people

Illustrated Edition of Game of Thrones 3 lbs

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485782765&sr=8-1&keywords=illustrated+edition+game+of+thrones

These are the heaviest books off the top of my head, I'm not home so I can't look at my collection.

Moving my collection of books was not fun when we bought a house. I almost sold them all, but I'm glad I didn't. (I have like, over 1000)

Book 1: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Book 2: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Book 3: The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss

Nah, he just became the Incarnation of Death and has a kickass horse-car.

Source: Piers Anthony

I would recommend:

Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind


Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, or his newest series The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive).

If you made it all the way through Sword of Truth series, you probably will enjoy Jordan's Wheel of Time.

Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora is also very enjoyable.

If you are looking for another big one, enjoy the gritty and dark elements from Martin, Stephen Erikson's Malazan series might be up your alley. The first book is a little difficult to get through, but it picks up after that.

The Erogamer on QQ is probably the best story in that genre that I've read.

Something that borrows some of the elements is Threadbare, by Andrew Seiple, which was first posted as a web serial on SV. Not exactly rationalist, but still a fun read.

You might enjoy this book.

I started as a teenager with:

Piers Anthony Split Infinity

Piers Anthony On a pale horse

Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Fantastic stuff. The final book is scheduled for next March. Starts with Gardens of the Moon

Check out The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle it's a really fun sci-fi adventure concerning this incident.

Some LitRPG recommendations:

In terms of published Western LitRPGs, I'd say Ascend Online is my favorite. The central protagonist isn't a complete psychopath like a lot of LitRPG protagonists, and he immediately starts treating the highly intelligent AI NPCs as people. That's a huge selling point for me, since it's so rare to see LitRPG protagonists that are friendly to NPCs.

Also, rather than immediately jumping into save the world stuff, it's reasonably paced. The main character doesn't start out with any crazy game breaking abilities, and the setting itself feels largely realistic - it feels very similar to a futuristic version of Everquest.

My other favorite Western LitRPG is Threadbare, which focuses on a bunch of teddy bear (golem) gradually learning about the world around it, and undertaking a determined quest to protect his little girl “owner”. It’s both heartwarming and surprisingly insightful.

In terms of non-Western LitRPGs, Log Horizon is my favorite. The author has clearly played MMORPGs, and the tactics used in there - both by the main character and other characters - feel like the types of things real people would do in a MMO setting. Once again, the main character also takes NPCs seriously and treats them well, which is a big plus for me. Shiroe for Log Horizon is probably the closest character I've seen to someone with my own background in a book.

I also love So I'm a Spider, So What?, which is a hilarious story about a girl who gets reincarnated into an RPG setting as a tiny spider monster. Fortunately, she can grind to get stronger! It's a bit of a strange one, but tons of fun. Note that this one is not strictly going into a VR game - they're just reincarnated in a world with RPG stats. It's a little different, but similar.

If you like the idea of a protagonist exploiting a bunch of bugs, check out Kono Sekai ga Game da to Ore dake ga Shitteiru. I enjoyed the first book a ton. The second book started getting into tropes I didn’t enjoy quite as much.

One of my other recent favorites is The Tutorial is Too Hard, which focuses on a main character transported into a dungeon on “Hell” difficulty that needs to make his way through to the top floor. We see a lot of his analytical process, which makes the story much more enjoyable to someone like me. This is probably my favorite ongoing story.

It's been a while so I'm not 100% sure, but I think Soon I Will Be Invincible fits the bill. Literally superheroes/villains, I'd say comedy.

The Nightwatch series by Sergei Lukyanenko: Urban Russian tetralogy.

I've bought a fair amount of ebooks on Amazon recently and I think most of them are books that a lot of people here would enjoy (heck I heard about most of them through here!).

The Preorders:

Underlord - The sixth book in the Cradle series which is described as a Western Xianxia series. A lot of people here don't really like the Xianxia genre and I agree with their criticisms of how many main characters are very villainous, under-developed enemies and female characters, the economies of cultivation aren't logical, poor scaling in conflict as you go from one city to interstellar in scope, and awkward prose. But I bring up all of these flaws to say that the Cradle series completely avoids all of the typical flaws in Xianxia and has a very smart character who sets out to cultivate smartly instead of bullheadedly.

And the sixth book is coming out in March! (Get the box set. It has the first three books and is cheaper!)

Exhalation - Who here hasn't heard of Ted Chiang, the master of short stories that perfectly appeal to the r/rational crowd? The same guy that we literally use as an introduction to rational fiction. Well, if you enjoyed his first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, you'll love hearing that the second collection is coming out in....May! (Ugh....really May? I don't think I can wait that long!)

The books you can read right now!:

The Beginner's Guide to Magical Licensing - Has a similar start to Unsong where a magical college-graduate, minimum-wage, sweat-shop worker stumbles on a powerful spell and sets out to start his own business competing with the powerful. The parts of the story that follows afterward makes a whole lot more logical sense than Unsong however. (Used to be online for free, but now you'll have to pay the price for your ignorance if you want to read it! (Nah, I lied.))

Six Sacred Swords - If you liked the Arcane Ascension series, but wished there was more dungeonnering and less of school shenanigans, then look no further! In some ways it's a lot like reading a very good DnD session played by really savvy players who never follow the 'standard' way to solve problems.

The author of Six Sacred Swords made a recommendation for The Ruin of Kings. He said that it reads like a Locke Lamora-esque rogue protagonist, telling the story in a style similar to Kvothe, in a setting similar to Game of Thrones. I haven't bought the book yet, but the review was interesting enough that I wanted to include it in my list of recommendations.

Senlin Ascends - I haven't read this yet either, but skimming through it, I see some fair bit of social manipulation/combat that I think people here would like. Plus the Tower of Babel setting is something that appeals very strongly to me.

Polyglot: NPC REVOLUTION - A lot of people here seem to really like LitRPG and Artificial Intelligence, but almost no one seem to ever question the implications of the NPCs in LitRPG stories having human-level intelligence.

Small Medium: Big Trouble - It's by the same author who wrote Threadbare that people here really liked. Similar to Polygot where the NPC is the main character who needs to deal with players, but smaller scale in scope. There's a lot of fast-talking to convince selfish sociopaths to do what you say.

Q is for Quantum - I was going through my older ebook orders when I found this one. It's the single best introduction for quantum mechanics that I have ever read (not that I've read too many of those). It focuses on building an intuition for the subject and once you've read through the book, you will understand on a gut level what superposition means. Note that it's meant as an introduction for the subject, so don't expect it to cover everything, just what's need to get started learning about quantum mechanics. But I'd still recommend it to experts if only for a better way to explain their subject to their peers and laypeople.

Here are a few that I find myself recommending often, which also seem to fit what I think you're looking for:

1. Threadbare by Andrew Seiple - Game-like world, good world building and magic systems. Looks like a kid's book but it's not. Used to be available for free on Royal Road if you want to check it out first (it still is).
   
2. Completionist Chronicles by Dakota Krout - Kind of standard litrpg fare, but done really well with interesting systems.
   
3. Ten Realms by Michael Chatfield - Transported to game world, portal fantasy. Starts off kind of weird, but gets into the game pretty quick. Interesting world building, especially after book 1.
   
   I typically read, not listen, so I can't speak to the quality of the audiobooks, but I enjoyed all of these a lot.
   
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   Edit: Cleaned up links

https://www.amazon.com/Thrawn-Star-Wars-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511271 gonna go out on a limb and say it's even better than the original trilogy. Same author though - but now its cannon!

Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen

Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn

Brandon Sanderson - The Stormlight Archive

Peter Brett - The Demon Cycle

R. Scott Bakker - The Second Apocalypse

Joe Abercrombie - The First Law

Scott Lynch - The Gentleman Bastard

Patrick Rothfuss - The Kingkiller Chronicle

All excellent. Some slightly more excellent than others.

Hi r/Fantasy! Hope all’s well with you! Max Gladstone here, author of the Craft Sequence, of which the most recent volume is Ruin of Angels. And here’s the omnibus of the first five volumes. I haven’t been by the site in a while due to mounting deadlines, but I’ll be around more in the near future. At any rate—to the question!

What do you read that’s not fantasy? Are you a history buff, a mystery nut, do you spend 98% of your time in the travel section or on AO3? Is fantasy your bread and butter all day everyday reading choice, or do you reach for it only under certain conditions? If so, which ones?

There was a Michael Crichton novel about this that was a great read. Prey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061703087/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_DtjYzbEA98X5T

It might be helpful if you give us a list of any books you've read that you did enjoy or genres you think you might like.

I have never met a person who didn't love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but it may not be your thing if you don't like wacked-out sci-fi so some general idea of your interests could help a ton with suggestions.

A Short History of Nearly Everything is a solid non-fiction

Robot Dreams is a great set of sci-fi short stories

Ender's Game gets a ton of hate but is a pretty great sci-fi

On A Pale Horse is an older series that I'd consider fantasy but with sci-fi elements

Where the Red Fern Grows is well loved fiction

A Zoo in My Luggage is non-fic but about animal collecting trips for a zoo and is hilarious.

1. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
   
2. 10/10
   
3. Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure
   
4. The sequel to The Name Of The Wind, which I still consider one of the best written fantasy books out there. This one doesn't quite have the matching prose of the previous, but damn is it one good story. It's the continuation of the wizard Kvoth's story, day 2 rather.
   
5. Amazon would recommend reading Name Of The Wind first.

I recommend Shantaram. It's about an Australian that escapes prison and goes to live in India. Apparently a true story but I take that with a pinch of salt. http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram/dp/192076920X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253712007&sr=8-2

and also American Gods http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Novel-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060558121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253712023&sr=8-1

Are all the books (that are published) gonna be realesed in an Ilustrated version like this one?

I see A Clash of Kings also to be realesed in November 4th but is from another author. Any way to get news about this?

Red Rising series: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Rising-Book-ebook/dp/B00CVS2J80

Oh boy, I got just the series for you!

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

Each book is it's own story, with some characters reoccurring, making minor cameos. The star of one book might make a brief appearance in the next.

There is a big, over-arching story, but each book stands alone.

It's a world where magic is tied into everything people do. Where Craft users waged war with the gods and won, then had to pick up the pieces after things fell apart.

Anyway, check it out. I think it is very close to what you are looking for.

It seems there's also a pre-order for a bundle containing books I-V. Which is even cheaper than buying them separate:
https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Sequence-Books-I-V-ebook/dp/B01MUG3DLM

The first ebook of Dante's Immortality was recently published, and should fit your criteria. Dante basically distrusts everyone all the time, but because he genuinely doesn't know a lot he ends up committing some believably naive mistakes.

You might also like Threadbare - the main character isn't naive so much as innocent, given that he's a newborn golem for most of the novel. The combat system is all about skills and skill synergies, and the dialog is great (even though the main character can't speak).

There's also Everybody Loves Large Chests. Again the main character starts out a little naive, but that's largely because it starts from more or less zero Int. It doesn't become an asshole so much as a completely amoral monster, because that's what it is.

If you're willing to read serials that aren't published as complete books, you can try out the bifecta of combat LitRPGs on Royal Road: The New World and The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound are both great.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/20451/who-says-this-ol-cant-become-a-splendid-slime

Office Lady reincarnated as a slime. A little worried that the author's slowing down is turning into the author stopping this series.

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https://www.amazon.com/That-Reincarnated-Slime-light-novel-ebook/dp/B076H132D2/ref=pd_cp_351_1/131-0686409-1127854?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B076H132D2&pd_rd_r=1040ec8c-2170-481c-b955-6b04dc76527e&pd_rd_w=glHS3&pd_rd_wg=hzJUj&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=N3XZPC8B5H02AJQ4705Q&psc=1&refRID=N3XZPC8B5H02AJQ4705Q

Office Worker reincarnated as a slime. Really fun series, Eventually City management/politics with big battles.

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https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/20568/tree-of-aeons-an-isekai-story

Guy reincarnates as a sentient tree. Slow paced skill growth into city building/unit management.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CQMYQT5/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

Reincarnated as a Lovecraftian horror: Yuri princess edition

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Oh, just noticed you also said born as a monster....

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/8894/everybody-loves-large-chests

MC is a monster, one of the best litrpg monster series I've read, HOWEVER, it does have lots of raunchy NSFW content mixed in there. The Amazon versions (starting with https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076NSQ6JT/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title ) toned down the sex scenes but it does still have a lot of them.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NNWZT9M/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

A skeleton from an world set up like an RPG gets teleported in space and begins a Sci-Fi adventure on an abandoned spaceport.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078KGS4V4?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_pwh_calw_0&storeType=ebooks

Toy Golem leveling up and fighting to rescue his owner.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071LHHY85/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

A goblin joins a camp of bandits.

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So, so many reincarnated as a dungeon core novels, but not sure if that fits in with your "monster" request.

Agree with /u/Tur4 and /u/Salaris on their suggestions.

LitRPG I recommend are the following:

• The Land: Founding
  
• Arcane Emperor
  
• Way of the Shaman: Survival Quest

Well, my favorites are

The Moviegoer

The Road

A Confederacy of Dunces

Rendezvous with Rama

Watchmen

Snow Crash

Slaughterhouse-Five

Cat's Cradle

The Big Sleep

The Maltese Falcon

American Gods

A Clockwork Orange

Preacher

Fahrenheit 451

1984

Akira

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Lolita

Love in the Time of Cholera

Naked Lunch

Animal Farm

The Sandman

At the Mountains of Madness

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Brave New World

We

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Ahhh, well.. if you're a Pratchett fan than the obvious starting point is Good Omens which is co-authored by the both of them. If you like that I would either go to American Gods if you like the reworking old myths angle or Neverwhere if that 'london' writing feel does more for you. Any way around it you can't go wrong really. I've read everything he's written outside of a few short stories and not a word has been bad.

• His Dark Materials (3 books) series by Philip Pullman
  
• [The Dark Tower (7 books)](http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1249348911/ref=sr_kk_2?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=dark tower box set&tag=scoklablo-20) series by Stephen King
  
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Read about Johnny Appleseed here.

>Forty years after the Oblivion crisis, the empire of Tamriel is threatened by a mysterious floating city, Umbriel, whose shadow spawns a terrifying undead army.
>
>Reeling from a devastating discovery, Prince Attrebus continues on his seemingly doomed quest to obtain a magic sword that holds the key to destroying the deadly invaders. Meanwhile, in the Imperial City, the spy Colin finds evidence of betrayal at the heart of the empire—if his own heart doesn’t betray him first. And Annaïg, trapped in Umbriel itself, has become a slave to its dark lord and his insatiable hunger for souls.
>
>How can these three unlikely heroes save Tamriel when they cannot even save themselves?
>
>Based on the award-winning Elder Scrolls® series, Lord of Souls is the second of two exhilarating novels that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year by numerous outlets, including Spike TV, the Golden Joystick Awards, and the Associated Press.

Link to Amazon, Wikipedia, Random House.

Lord of Souls will be released in North America starting on September 27th. It will be available in the UK on September 23rd.

There is a second book as well, Lord of Souls. I really enjoyed both of them.

Yup. Timothy Zahn has a book out in the new Disney canon, and I believe he is (or will be?) in Rebels. I've not caught up on that series (yes, yes, bad me), so I'm not sure on that part.

Edit for book link: https://www.amazon.ca/Thrawn-Star-Wars-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511271

Below are my recommendations (in no specific order)

• Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka - It's a Baze/Chirrut book; a new title that came out this week. It's a short read but absolute sensational! (Events are leading up to Rogue One)
  
  
• Smuggler's Run by Greg Rucka - This is also a short title but takes place shortly after ANH. This is a Han & Chewie book that is a delight to read.
  
  
• Dark Disciple by Christie Golden If you enjoyed The Clone Wars you will really enjoy this one. It's based on unproduced episodes of Clone Wars.
  
  
• Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston
  
  
• Tarkin & Catalyst both by James Luceno
  
  
  
• Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
  
  
• Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka focuses on the lives of Rey, Finn, and Poe before the events of Force Awakens
  
  If I had to recommend one book over any other, it would be Guardians of the Whills. It's amazing, I've read it twice this week.
  

Just started CS Friedman's This Alien Shore. Female protagonist on the run, from what she doesn't know yet. Set within a far future universe and also entails an exotic computer virus let loose within the systems of the net... as usual very dense in plot and I am getting drawn in so far. Only other novel of her's I have read was In Conquest Born and that was a very good psi-fi/space opera.

Some older books/series you may like.

On a Pale Horse By Piers Anthony
The first book of the Incarnations of Immortality series. A little quip from the Amazon page: "Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered. For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position! Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others."

The Face of Apollo by Fred Saberhagens
Its the first book in the series "Saberhagen's Book of the Gods" (you have to add in the author's name because if you search 'Book of the Gods', you'll never find it). A little about this book: "a battle to the death between Apollo and Hades. Although Hades appears the victor, the face of Apollo is carried off by one of the sun god's human votaries. It ends up entering the body of 15-year-old Jeremy Redthorn, turning him into an avatar of Apollo who possesses many attributes of the god."

Both of these books are really good and have to do with mythology or other aspects of gods. I haven't read all of the series, so unsure how some of the other books are, but even if you just read these two, its well worth it.

You should read Stover's Heroes Die if you liked the RotS novelization. Dude knows how to write a fight scene.

The "Night Watch" series by Sergei Lukyanenko would be my recommendation.

Night Watch

Day Watch

Twilight Watch

Last Watch

I know Baba Yaga shows up in either the second-to-last or last one.

Yeah, it was the 10th anniversary edition, wherein Gaiman re-released it with some or all of the content he did not leave in the first time at the behest of his publisher. I can't tell you what changed since I never read the original version.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Tenth-Anniversary-Edition-ebook/dp/B004YW4L5K

It was released in 2011.

The entire Craft Sequence (5 book) series is currently available on Kindle for $12 here, which is incredibly tempting.

What do people on this sub think about that series? I haven't read it yet, but it seems freaking awesome.

I recommend Threadbare which is a series of three books and about ~320K words. Completed and on Amazon, also available on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity.

You have some good choices on your list. I was never a fan of Sanderson until Stormlight. Here are a few you should definitely check out:

• The Emperor's Blades, Book One of The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne, by Brian Staveley.
  
  
• Son of the Black Sword, by Larry Correia. He's a very entertaining writer, aside from his politics.
  
  
• Red Rising, by Pierce Brown. For some reason I started this a year ago, then never made it past the first chapter. It's technically Sci-Fi, but given your list, you will likely enjoy it.
  
  

I recommend you take a read

I, also, would recommend the Ex-Heroes series by Peter Cline.

I liked Austin Grossman's Soon I Will be Invincible which has chapters alternating between the POV of the main Villian and a Rookie who has just been drafted into their version of the JLA.

I have a few more recommendations if you want

Sounds suspiciously like "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller

>Adventure writer Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars is a first novel set in Colorado after a superflu has culled most of humanity. A man named Hig lives in a former airport community—McMansions built along the edge of a runway—which he shares with his 1956 Cessna, his dog, and a slightly untrustworthy survivalist. He spends his days flying the perimeter, looking out for intruders and thinking about the things he’s lost—his deceased wife, the nearly extinct trout he loved to fish. When a distant beacon sparks in him the realization that something better might be out there, it’s only a matter of time before he goes searching. Poetic, thoughtful, transformative, this novel is a rare combination of the literary and highly readable.

I actually just recommended this in another thread, and it is a great blend of sci-fi and fantasy.

http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Die-Matthew-Woodring-Stover/dp/0345421450

Dystopian society sends "Actors" to an alternate earth using phase shifting technology. Due to the "different physics" (there's a bit of hand-waving here that gets explained a bit better later in the series) magic works on the alternate planet, making it a high-ish fantasy realm.

Caine, the main protagonist, is one of these Actors, broadcasting his experiences from fantasy-land so that people can "live" his experiences back home in scienceville through matrix-esque VR rigs.

It's a neat premise for a book IMO, and a heckuva lot of fun to read.

Just posting some useful tidbits from the Imperial Library.

Here are some comments by Douglas Goodall, a developer, around 2001, before Morrowind was released. There are a few comments about Khajiit there.

The Interview With Three Booksellers, also from 2001, is an interesting, Bethesda-approved commentary on Khajiit in general, including their moonphases.

I'd also recommend taking a look at the Infernal City and the Lord of Souls, as they have interesting sections on the Khajiit, as well as being a general good read for any fan of Elder Scrolls lore.

For the sake of completionism, despite it being mentioned by others here, the Pocket Guide to the Empire's section on the Elsweyr Confederacy and Mixed Unit Tactics are good reads, too.

And finally, here is a compilation of Khajiiti physiology, which attempts to helpfully explains the Lunar Lattice.

I know this is just a post full of links, but I hope this is helpful, and feel free, after having read the lore, to ask any further questions you may have.

In addition to Rebels Season 3, Timothy Zahn is writing a new Thrawn book https://www.amazon.com/Thrawn-Star-Wars-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511271/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473423312&sr=8-1&keywords=thrawn

In case you're not in the loop, I'm talking about this book: https://www.amazon.com/Thrawn-Star-Wars-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511271/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504637556&sr=8-1&keywords=Thrawn.

If you are arguing that this book isn't canon, I don't know what to tell you man.

If you liked Song of Ice and fire you might really like Erikson:

Malazan Book of the Fallen is a 10 book series, might take you a bit to get into in the beginning but once it gets going I was not able to put it down. It's extremely gritty and has a lot of characters and plot lines, but they are all done extremely well, it gets to a point that you just start following the bigger picture of what is happening even as you read the events that each character is involved in. (I highly recommend this series to anyone that likes fantasy in shades of gray)

Another great book I read recently was Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson is a very good page turner, had a couple of late nights not being able to put it down. The "magic" (don't know what else to call it really) in the books is really creatively done, his writing style keeps you reading late into the night.

And off the top of my head I also liked Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. This one is a fun read, not as involved as the others mentioned above.

Perhaps a change of pace? I suggest the Night Watch books...

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Book/dp/1401359795

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• Good Omens
  
• Howl's Moving Castle
  
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• American Gods
  
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American Gods is 3 bucks right now.

And the first Outlander is 4 if you like some time travel.

this reminds me a lot of Michael Chrichton's Prey

Link's for everyone's convenience:

Amazon

Wikipedia

[The dog stars - Peter Heller](https://www.amazon.com/ -Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476) Fantastic Story. Man and his dog surviving post super flu. I personally will read pretty much any post apocalypse fiction, but this is up there with The Road in quality. Beautifully written.

Read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality (link is Book 1, On a Pale Horse). In it, Satan is not actually a bad person... he just has a job to do. But everyone's perception of him is that he is evil.

Great series of books.

These novels cover a few key points from the last 200 years: Lord of Souls and The Infernal City.
I haven't actually read them so please don't ask for a TL;DR.

Helps that Timothy Zahn (the original author that created Thrawn) is advising them for the character, and wrote a book to go with the new canon.

Ooh, I didn't know there were gonna be even more Thrawn books coming out, this is great news!

Anyway, the first book in the new trilogy is just called 'Thrawn'
followed by 'Thrawn: Alliances'
and concludes with 'Thrawn: Treason'

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1519069793&sr=8-5

That one, the illustrations are beautiful and help you see what the author intended.

Try the Malazan Book of the Fallen. First book is Gardens of the Moon The best fantasy series I've ever read.

EDIT: I feel I should say more...coming from ASOIAF, it'll be an adjustment. You have to be halfway through the 2nd book before you're hooked. The first book isn't like any others in the series. It was written a decade before book 2, and you can tell the difference. Good rule of thumb, if you finish Deadhouse Gates, and you're not absolutely hooked, you can safely put the series down. Anyway, the adjustment is that ASOIAF is politically inclined low fantasy, MBotF is dark high fantasy. There are some EXTREMELY powerful beings in the books. Gods can (and sometimes are) viewpoint characters. It has just as large (actually probably a bit larger) of a cast as ASOIAF, and "main" characters also die in it, but it is the overall power level that is such a huge adjustment. I hope you give it a try. If you do, feel free to join us over in r/malazan.

Also, Steven Erikson gave an awesome AMA just a couple weeks ago.

I mean, you could continue to be pedantic. Or you could read it like... anywhere that a blurb is available. And yes, that includes descriptions on storefronts.

Hot take: I don't think Bradly Cooper sounded that great at the Oscars. Normally I wouldn't even subject myself to that dreck, but I was visiting family and it was what they wanted to watch.

In other news, American Gods was only $2.99 in the Kindle Store this weekend so I nabbed it up.

There is a scene like that the Atlantis plague book series by a.g. riddle. I don't think it's until the 3rd book though and it's a smaller part of the overall story. I enjoyed the series though. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C2WDD5I/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b00c2wdd5i

Teen Superheros:

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain by Richard Roberts (Three children of superheros develop powers and accidently become supervillains. Good writing, very clever worldbuilding and characterization. Interesting love triangle You've probably seen it advertised as "What if Harry Potter were steampunk?" but underneath the obvious cashgrab advertising is a great book)

Sidekicks by Jack Ferraiolo (Two sidekicks-One of a superhero, another of a supervillian, learn that they go to the same school, and develop a romance. Excellent Writing, especially for a children's book. Cute romance, and realistic characterization of the main characters at the age they're at without being either condescending or simplistic, interesting twist on superhero/supervillian dynamics. Be careful, since the title's genericness means its possible to get the wrong book)

The Vindico by Wesley King. (5 children are kidnapped by a team of supervillains in an attempt to train apprentices. Generally sold as "The Breakfast Club meets X-Men", which it somewhat lives up to. Good plot, nice twist both on traditional super villain roles and "school for supers" idea)

Realistic Fiction:

The Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke. (Two Orphans run away to Venice and join a group of runaways taken care of by "The Thief Lord", a child master thief. Clever Plot, and the writing really takes you in)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Written by 16 year old who really lived in similar conditions. Plot revolves around "Ponyboy", a member of a Greaser gang in the 60s, and his life after a gang fight goes wrong. You really care about people who would otherwise serve as hoodlums in another novel)

Sci-fi:

A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix. (A Prince, one of a few million of the rulers of a galactic empire, becomes tangled in a web of plots and conspiracies. Good sci-fi with excellent world building. Watching the main character learn how dangerous his life has become and slowly adapt to it)

Red Rising by Pierce Brown (After the death of his wife, a member of the lowest Red caste is disguised and made into a member of the ruling Gold caste in order to infiltrate the ruling society. "Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow" was the quote that got me into this. Lives up to it. Reads like a more violent Hunger Games, and goes places the HG didn't. Excellent read, and the main character's intelligence make him more than just an angry revenger. Some slightly guessable "plot twists", but does a good job exploring the theme of unfairness and winning against a stacked deck.)

Levithan by Scott Westerfield. (Alternate World War One, where the allies use genetic manipulation to create huge beasts of burden and war, while the Central powers use huge steampunk machines. Plot follows a girl who dresses as a boy to join in the ranks of an air force, who meets an Austrian Prince on the run from the German Empire)

Fantasy/Horror:

The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delany (Seventh son gets appreticed to the local spook, a man who fights magical threats around the County. Does a unique job of showing its monsters and boogeymen, with a plot that builds over the course of the books.)

Cirque Du Freak (Boy becomes a half-vampire, traveling with a circus of freaks. Most action takes place away from the circus and towards the other vampires in the world. 12 books that are really 4 trilogies, which ought to be 4 books. Nice job of presenting unique vampires. Actual horror varies, although I've heard good things about the Demonata series by the same author, which I haven't read.)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. (First line: "There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife." Plot is series of vignettes about boy being raised by a group of ghosts in a graveyard. Gaiman gets pretty good reviews overall, and for good reason.)

The Midnighters Series by Scott Westerfield (Girl moves to new town and discovers she is one of a very few who can access the "Secret Hour"- An extra hour when time is frozen at midnight, along with gaining new powers. Her and a few select others fight ancient beasts who were the last predators of ancient man.)

The following each only have one book sadly as not many books in the genre have a lot yet, some have second books coming soon.

The Game of Gods by Joshua Kern

The Great Filter by Russell Wilbinski

Advent (Red Mage) by Xander Boyce

Core Punk by Paul Bellow

First Song (Anthem of Infinity) by Blaise Corvin

This next one has three books but it also has a lot of sex, the story is good if you can get past that or enjoy that sort of thing.

Apocalypse Gates by Daniel Schinhofen

This next one is post-apocalyptic but the world ended a long time ago, it has 2 books. I should note that the "system" aspect is new in the book, it didn't happen when the world fell.

Radioactive Evolution by Richard Hummel

Lastly an honorable mention because while you wouldn't think it's post apocalyptic from the description it absolutely is which may be a spoiler but not big one. Again those the world ended a long time ago. It has three books.

Threadbare by Andrew Seiple

Given time i could probably think of a few others but these were just the ones that came to me the quickest and ones I can say having read them are all good. I also avoided the ones you mentioned or other people have already recommended. Hope this helps!

I'm currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's a really very interesting book about somewhat of a rivalry I guess I would call it between New and Old Gods

American Gods

I am specifically thinking of My Path to Magic and The Road to Magic ( Way of the Demon). There are probably others as well.

Edit: The Way of the Shaman may or may not be Russian in origin.

Check out the way of the shaman series. I think it's probably closest to what you are looking for.

https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Quest-Way-Shaman-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B00VQRW14E

WHere's the link for that? I see this which is $12 for 5 books https://smile.amazon.com/Craft-Sequence-Three-Serpents-Fathom-ebook/dp/B01MUG3DLM?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=max%20gladstone&qid=1495657585&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

Max Gladstone has a series called the Craft Sequence and it is only $12.00 for the first five on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Sequence-Three-Serpents-Fathom-ebook/dp/B01MUG3DLM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1494792339&sr=1-1&keywords=craft+sequence

And the sixth book comes out in September and is only $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/Ruin-Angels-Novel-Craft-Sequence-ebook/dp/B01MUSGCUG/ref=pd_sim_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J8G18G6HCZMH5V0BFVGH

Edit: Left the L off Kindle

Threadbare is my favorite example of this genre, though some of the violence in that is replaced by humor. If you're n audio book listener then I highly suggest getting these, if not then it's still more than worth it imo.

https://www.amazon.com/Threadbare-Stuff-Nonsense-Andrew-Seiple-ebook/dp/B078KGS4V4

Shameless plug for my own web-serial on Royal Road, it also takes place in its own world with an "RPGs magic system." Can't claim it's as good as Dante's, but it's free and I love hearing feedback!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19452/nameless-ascent

If you don't mind things set in our geography but with fantasy worlds added on there's:

The City and The City by China Mieville. I really didn't like it but lots of people do.

Not to give much away but towards your fantasy point [spoiler](/s"The story is set in a city that overlaps with another. There aren't other races etc though.")

Alternatively his Perdido Street Station has those of other species in something like our modern times.

Also I'm surprised to have not seen American Gods in here.

Check out Drood by Dan Simmons. I picked it up on a whim, and couldn't be happier that I gave it a chance. It's a total trip, and suspenseful in a laid-back / behind-the-scenes sort of way.

Also, I find anything by Michael Chrichton to be utterly "un-put-downable". I'd recommend starting with Congo or Prey, but definitely give Sphere a shot before you move on.

Edit: Sorry I meant Micro instead of Prey. Prey was "meh" but Micro is great. Also definitely check out Timeline! (Sorry, I'm basically obsessed with Chrichton)

Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, is another favorite of mine. But, it's been so long since I last read it that I can't really remember why. I'm going to be rereading that one again soon.

The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller

Gimme a fucking break.

FOUR entries for Hugh Howey? And three of them are about the same (meta)series?

What a joke.


Obvious omissions include:

The Dog Stars

The Passage

Through Darkest America

I Am Legend

And more...

The Dog Stars by Peter Wellers is all kinds of great.

https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

I recommend the novel The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. About a post apocalyptic world where a guy and his dog have a small plane and survive in and around the mountains of Colorado.

Just thought of some non-fiction as well, that also parallels the sailing aspect of Robinson Crusoe. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told. Not all of the are survival, but quite a few are. I enjoyed them all!

There are also loads of other books about survival in the world wars as well as other wars. I am sure with some digging several good ones could be found.

Lastly, as said above, Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild is another great non-fiction recounting of survival in the world, not just the Alaskan wilderness.

I've never delved too deep into the classics but a more modern pick is Peter Heller's 'The Dog Stars'

“A dreamy, postapocalyptic love letter to things of beauty, big and small.” –Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

“A book that rests easily on shelves with Dean Koontz, Jack London or Hemingway." —The Missourian

The hooded man is a better cover than the original one. I've definitely seen that one pop up on some lists of bad covers.


And yes, bump it up the list!

The darkest, AND best dark sf/fantasy book series I've read is (and its arguable whether this sf or fantasy) The Acts of Caine by Matthew Stover.

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025

Amazon?

Well it will depend on your definition of 'Affordable'.

Under 30$


Funko Pop's! A good choice for <12$. And there's a wide variety of characters to choose from.

Thrawn is a good re-introduction to one of the most memorable Star Wars villains.

Battlefront II: Inferno Squad serves as a companion piece to the new game coming out next week.

Over 30$

Smuggler's Bounty Box A subscription box by Funko. One Box =25$ 12 month subscription (6 boxes) =150$

LEGO Kylo Ren's TIE Fighter You're never too old for LEGO! Also Available: BB8, Resistance Bomber, First Order Heavy Assault Walker

Battlefront II Might be a good choice if your kids are into gaming. I've played the beta, and loved it despite some flaws. But be forewarned, this game has been getting slammed online for it's loot-box/progression system. Also available on Playstation 4 & PC

Black Series Helmets

Stormtrooper shown. Poe Dameron, Shadow Trooper & Kylo Ren are also available.

Black Series Lightsaber

Darth Vader shown. Luke Skywalker, Rey, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Kylo Ren are also available.

A Custom-made Lightsaber:(Very pricey!)

Ultrasabers, Vader's Vault, Saberforge

That price seems a bit high even for Australia but it might be the illustrated editions coming out here.

There are graphics novels for the first two books. There is an Illustrated edition for A Game of Thrones that was released in 2016: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044

The illustrated edition of ACOK will be out in November: https://www.amazon.com/Clash-Kings-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/1984821156

However I don't believe there is anything in the main series that is illustrated other than locations in the TWOIAF.

The Wise Man's Fear. I've been sucked into this series right proper.

They talk about going to the library. Somebody in Nun yesterday (sorry don't remember who) suggested that a book has Chronicle in the title:
http://smile.amazon.com/The-Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller/dp/0756407915

Amazon lists Gardens at an average of 3.7 and GoT at 4.3. Goodreads lists GoT at 4.4 and Gardens at 3.8. Are you saying only fanboys use two of the biggest book sites on the internet?

I admit I have judged Erikson purely on the first book in the Malazan series. IMO anybody who finishes that book and wants to read another book from him is likely to be overly charitable regarding the sequels. The numbers back you up though, Memories of Ice clocks at 4.4 on Goodreads, which is higher than Feast's 4 or Dance's 4.1, but a hair lower than the score for Storm of Swords.

Other works of fiction that contain the concept of a metaverse;

Books

• The Otherland series, by Tad Williams, beginning with City of Golden Shadow (sidenote, this series also has an MMORPG based on it, currently in closed beta, and recently (October of last year) brought back from the dead)
  
  
• The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons, beginning with Hyperion.
  
  
• The Golden Oecumene, by John C. Wright, beginning with The Golden Age.
  
  
• Accel World, by Reki Kawahara, beginning with Kuroyukihime's Return. (If you are familiar with the manganime Sword Art Online, this is by the same author, and shares the same universe)
  
  
• This Alien Shore, by Celia S. Friedman. (amazon link)
  
  
• The Sprawl Trilogy, by William Gibson, beginning with Neuromancer.
  
  
• Accelerando, by Charles Stross. (free e-book link)
  
  Anime and Manga
  
  
• The .hack series, specifically .hack//SIGN
  
  
• For a lighter feel, there's Summer Wars (available on CrunchyRoll) and the INCREDIBLY similar second Digimon movie, Our War Game!. Also I guess by extension, but not really explored as much, the entire Digimon series, as it takes place in an analogy for the internet.
  
  
• Serial Experiments Lain
  
  
• Okay fine, here's Sword Art Online (CrunchyRoll link)
  
  Film
  
  
• The Singularity is Near, a speculative documentary based on the Ray Kurzweil book of the same name.
  
  
• The Thirteenth Floor, a crime thriller about the owner of a VR simulation company getting murdered.
  
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  I know I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the genre, because if there's one thing humans are good at, it's writing fucktons on what we like.
  
  So feel free to comment additions to this list, or opinions on what I've currently included. I have by no means read/watched all of these, so having someone with actual experience with each of these weigh in would be nice.

There's always the Other Night Watch series :-) Also, have you read China's The City and The City?

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, would be my top suggestion. It is my favorite book series.

I would also suggest, though this is more parallel reality fantasy, City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer.

The Night Watch books by Sergei Lukyanenko. I guess it's popular in the original Russian, but I've only met a couple people in America who've read it in English (one of who I lent the books to!). It's an urban fantasy series that sort of explores the dividing line between Dark and Light, and how fuzzy that line can be. Dark Others are defined by their emphasis on personal freedom, while Light Others want to do good for people, but they all draw their power from normal people. Both sides have agreed to a treaty that keeps them from making war and destroying the world (since they need humans for their power), but they keep trying to get ahead, so you've got these great intrigues with plans and counter-plans laid by the leaders of each side, and the pawns/actors in their schemes trying to figure out what's actually going on.

If you aren't Familiar with Brandon Sanderson... I'd check him out immediately!

His Mistborn series is amazing and finished (At least the first Trilogy), his other series are just as amazing, but no where close to finished so could be a long wait if you get as engrossed in them as I have.

Books are:

• The Final Empire -- First book in Mistborn Trilogy
  
  
• Way of Kings -- First book in Stormlight Archive Series
  
  
• Elantris -- Standalone novel he plans to write more in this world
  
  
  He also finished Robert Jordan's epic tale Wheel of Time when Mr Jordan passed away before completing the last 2 or 3 books.
  
  

Swan Song - Robert McCammon Of the books I read last year this was my favorite.

Old Man's War - John Scazi - It's a pretty fun Military Sci-fi series

Leviathan Wakes - S. A. Corey - Near space, space opera.

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson - Epic Fantasy with an interesting magic system, good place to start with a popular author

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie - "Grimm Dark" fantasy, he does an interesting thing by playing with a LotR style quest.

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks - Interesting Magic system, one of my favorite ongoing fantasy series. Much better than his first trilogy IMHO

Midnight Riot - Ben Aaronovitch - Funny urban fantasy series that takes place in London

His Majesty's Dragon - Namoi Novik - Napoleonic* war + dragon's, fun quick reads.

Sevenes - Neal Stephenson - Stand Alone sci-fi novel about human's trying to survive in space as the world ends.

I can suggest more if you want, and I assume you've probably read at least some of these. Hope you enjoy some of them at least though.

It's worth noting that they do not fly perfectly in sync with the entire flock. They fly in sync with the bird next to them. If you watch a flying V formation, you can notice that changes ripple through the flock.

This way of reacting allows complex patterns to emerge efficiently from very simple rules. You can find this in the studies of emergence, complexity, agent-based programming, and min spec management (as seen in academic literature, although it hasn't caught on yet as a mainstream concept).

Michael Crichton wrote a fun novel about this kind of programming. The book is called Prey

Want to be terrified, read Crichton's Prey.

I always reminisce about when I read Prey by Michael Crichton on a whim in high school. I loved it! Thought it was intriguing and exciting.

1. Prey-Michael Crichton
   
2. 10/10
   
3. Science Fiction, intense, page turner
   
4. There are so many twists that aren't even expected, don't try and predict what happens next.
   5.http://www.amazon.com/Prey-Michael-Crichton/dp/0061703087/ref=la_B000APZK46_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1343335663&sr=1-10

Seconding Soon I Will Be Invincible.

After The Golden Age was pretty good.

I have a copy of Powerless in my classroom, and my kids seem to enjoy it. It's a YA novel.

You might enjoy Soon I Will Be Invincible.

One thing I like in fanfic is deconstructions. Two deconstructions I've enjoyed are Soon I Will Be Invincible and Redshirts.

There is this really good book called Soon I Will Be Invincible about Superheroes in the same realistic vein that Worm resides in. It's told from alternating POV's of a Super villain and a new Superhero.

> However I do think superheroes in film have had essentially no evolution the way other genres have, and they've stagnated massively. Essentially every Marvel film is identical, and for some reason the few unique ones all choose for the ultra edgy grimdark path. At least with Westerns, a similarly long-beloved genre, new ones are expected to innovate. Not so with superheroes.

I think thats a combination of the superhero genre only becoming really big recently and the monopolization of the films under the Marvel/DC label. Marvels had success with making their films light so theyve become hesitant to step outside their wheelhouse with regards to film (TV is completley different however) and DC seems to think that darkness is the only way to react to the "fun" of Marvel. My hope is we'll see more interesting films play with the concept as the "superhero age" drags on someone will take on the melancholy Soon I will be Invincible or the bleak realism of Worm and succeed outside of the Marvel/DC wheelhouse and hopefully impact the genre for the better

Half of Soon I Will be Invincible is from a supervillains point of view, aaaand it's awesome, full of gems like:

>You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing.....there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where these things get done.

and

> Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.

The Dog Stars, survival with a post-apocalyptic flair.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

Dozois's Year's Best Sience Fiction is a good compilation of short fictions. This year's was especially great. I like my science fiction idea-based, exploring concepts and hypotheticals, and I thing the short-story format really lends itself to that.
Rudy Rucker keeps publishing great novels.
By other authors, Nod and 2312 were both very worth my time. Intrusion was excellent, The Dog Stars was excellent, there is just a lot of good books published if you look around for them.

Hey, he wrote one of my favorite childhood books.

On a Pale Horse

The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.

Its 7 books, the first one being "On a Pale Horse."

The story is set in a not-so-distant future kind of world (only slightly more advanced technology than us) that has also incorporated magic and mixed magic and science together. There are seven Incarnations: Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Good, and Evil. The Incarnations are actually "offices" held by people who were once human but who, upon taking office, gained temporary immortality and special powers along with their office.

By far the first book ("On a Pale Horse" which deals with the Incarnation of Death who is actually a really nice guy) and the 6th book ("For Love of Evil" which deals with the Incarnation of Evil who even more surprisingly started out as a VERY nice guy!) are the best books in the series. I read them as a teen but they were my brother's copies and he took them when he moved out. I was lucky enough recently to find 6 of them at a cheap book sale for 50 cents each, except for book 6 (my favorite!) and so book six is on my wishlist.

This series is so cool and so intriguing, I guarantee if you read book 1 you will be hooked. The nice thing is that the books are not too long and they read easily and they all work in plot details together to weave one giant story of many Incarnations' lives.

Edit: Here is a link to the first book!

On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony.

Off topic but, Heros Die by Matthew Woodring Stover is an amazing book

In many cases author has little to no say so on the cover of the book. The publisher does all that. Naturally there are cases where the artist didn't read the book, and just get a short description of something to draw.

There are authors that get more of a say so, depending on their popularity and such. I mean are there covers that just don't reflect the book? Certainly.

Here is what my first copy of Royal Assassin was. It doesn't really reflect a book at all. Gives off a fantasy Titanic vibe to it while books are not like that at all.

This is a cover for Heroes Die. One of the more smart and brutal violent books out there. The cover gives a hint of cheesy romance. While there is...emphasis on relationship between main character and his estranged wife, this book is not something people should read if they want a romantic story.

I just shrug really. I appreciate a neat cover, but I don't make my judgments based on it.

Read this instead
http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Die-Matthew-Woodring-Stover/dp/0345421450

The cover is supposed to look like a cheesy movie, so don't judge by that.

The only real books there are of TES are "The Infernal City" and "Lord of Souls" which tell of some events between TES IV: Oblivion and TES V: Skyrim.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017
http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

Well I mean theres the OBVIOUS choice
http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320577705&sr=8-1-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320577705&sr=8-2-spell

The two Elder Scrolls Novels that bridge some of the gap of the 200 years and also bring a lot of the back story and history into play.

Actually I meant in-game books, but yes, there are indeed books. Some in-game-like versions in a limited order and the two-parter novel from Greg Keyes I can recommand:

http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454184380&sr=8-1&keywords=the+infernal+city

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454184380&sr=8-2&keywords=the+infernal+city

1.) Something that is grey: Sculpy! From my cosplay wishlist! :D

2.) Something reminiscent of rain: This hair accessory from my Silly Fun list! I don't know if they're meant to, but the blue bits remind me of raindrops. <3

3.) Something food related that is unusual: Food picks from my Silly Fun list! Maybe not super unusual in Japan, but here in America I doubt you'd see them often.

4.) Something on your list that is for someone other than yourself: This book off my Books wishlist of course! It's for my husband, who's a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls games. I like them, too, but I doubt I'd ever read this.

5.) A book I should read: The Invisible Gorilla, again, off my Books list. I read almost a third of this book while hidden in a book store one day. It's an absolutely fascinating study (or rather, collection of studies) about how much trust we place in our own faulty intuitions.

6.) An item that is less than a dollar, including shipping... that is not jewelry, nail polish, and or hair related: Barely, but this nautical star decal! Unfortunately, it's not on any of my lists.

7.) Something related to cats: Another from my Books wishlist! I'm pretty sure I already know my cat wants to kill me, but this book looks funny anyway.

8.) Something that is not useful, but so beautiful you must have it: Stationary, from my Silly Fun list. I have no one to write to, but I have an obsession with pretty stationary and cards and things. I'm usually too afraid to write on it, even, because nothing ever seems worthy of the pretty paper...

9.) A movie everyone should watch at least once in their life: From my Movies/TV list: Braveheart! Because FREEEDOOOOOOM!!!!!

10.) Something that would be useful when the zombies attack. Explain: Survival knife from my Adventure wishlist! Secluded, unpopulated areas are best for hiding from zombies, and this thing even comes with a firestarter! HOW CAN YOU SAY NO?

11.) Something that would have a profound impact on your life and help you to achieve your current goals: This book which is, strangely, on my Semi-Practical list. I'm a Math/Physics major, but I haven't been in school in quite a while. I'm about to go back very soon, and I'm a little petrified of failing out.

12.) One of those pesky Add-On items: Red Heart yarn from my Crochet wishlist!

13.) The most expensive thing on your list. Your dream item: The PS4 from my Video Games list. I'm an avid gamer. Video games are how I relax. It's one of the few things that, no matter how crappy my day was, always manages to raise my spirits and help me forget about it all.

14.) Something bigger than a bread box: Apparently bread boxes are way bigger than I thought, so I'll go with this desk off my Semi-Practical wishlist. Surely that's big enough! XD

15.) Something smaller than a golf ball: Turtle earrings off my Silly Fun list! THEY'RE SO CUTE!

16.) Something that smells wonderful: Teavana's Blueberry Bliss tea off my Silly Fun list (yet again). If you've never been in a Teavana store, go this second and just...inhale. <3

17.) A (SFW) toy: Frog mitt from my Practical list. I'm fairly certain this isn't supposed to be a toy, but I get the feeling I'm going to spend more time using it as a puppet than as an oven mitt.

18.) Something that would be helpful for going back to school: This backpack from my Semi-Practical list! I want it so badly!! IT'S STUDIO GHIBLI HOW AWESOME IS THAT?

19.) Something related to your current obsession, whatever that may be: 12 Hole Ocarina from my Ocarina wishlist. It's so beautiful and it comes with a Lord of the Rings songbook and I just LOVE IT SO MUCH.

20.) Something that is just so amazing and awe-inspiring that I simply must see it. Explain why it is so grand: Shark sleeping bag from my Silly Fun wishlist! You need me to explain it's awesome?? REALLY? IT'S A SHARK SLEEPING BAG. It looks like the shark is eating you!! Plus it's called the "Chumbuddy" and that just makes me laugh way harder than it should.

Fear cuts deeper than swords!

HOLY CRAP HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

Thrawn, is an anti-hero in the Star Wars universe. His standalone book is really just set in the universe, only really contains the Emperor and Tarkin as characters you might know.

The original Thrawn Trilogy is why your description made me think of him, but he is the antagonist, so you mostly follow the protagonists. It is much more of a Star Wars book, reading Luke/Leias stories as they fight him, but he is always one step ahead. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command.

You don't have to be a star wars fan to enjoy Thrawn, but the trilogy might take some admiration (but is still a good read).

The 20th Anniv AGOT is illustrated and beautiful
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2D0QQ6RQ6MXD7&keywords=game+of+thrones+20th+anniversary&qid=1565525801&s=gateway&sprefix=game+of+thrones+20th+anniver%2Caps%2C660&sr=8-1

There are illustrated editions of the books.

A Game Of Thrones illustrated edition

2. The pictures are from The Illustrated Edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044
   This edition only exists for the first novel, it was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first book.
   
   As for buying the entire series: I prefer the 7 part set where the third and fifth novel are spilt in two parts, because these are a larger format than the 5 part set. But if you don't mind pocket editions, the 5 part set is probably cheaper. Or you could also buy them in hardcover or leatherbound, but those are more expensive, definitely the leather ones.

Another classic example: "Why is the Maer looking at hairy balls?"

• The Wise Man's Fear

I used to hate it when authors and instructors say "Show, don't tell." I hated it because most of the time, they didn't tell me how to show. I'll try my best to help you do that with this critique.

Showing is simply describing a thing as it exists, or as it happens.

Your telling, in particular, comes out through fancy language and excessive blocking.

I like where you began with your story. When a character committed some great crime, beginning the story in a prison cell is usually a good place to start from. The reader will forgive the exposition, because prisoners kept in solitary confinement have nothing but time to contemplate how they ended up there. That said, exposition from a lonely prisoner has to be interesting, and it has to sound like something they'd think to themselves in the dreary solitude.

There are elements to keep me interested, but MC isn't an interesting person. You are trying to make him interesting, and it isn't working because you're falling into the trap that ensnares fantasy writers in the early drafts. That fancy language, and the painstaking description. Don't worry, We all do it. I do it. But it's a habit you need to break, as it will yank the reader right out of your story.

I want to know more about your story, but it reads like stage directions from an aspiring English Ph.D student.

Used properly, lengthy blocking and florid descriptions can make a scene pop. For example, in The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss describes his character on the business end of a bitch-slap that seemed to call all of time, space, and gravity into knocking him on his ass:

> "If I say she slapped me, you will take the wrong impression. This wasn't the dramatic slap of the sort you see on a stage. Neither was it the offended stinging slap a lady-in-waiting makes against the smooth skin of a too-familiar nobleman...
>
> ...A slap is made with the fingers or the palm. it stings or startles. Vashet struck me with her open hand, but behind that was the strength of her arm. Behind that was her shoulder. Behind that was the complex machinery of her pivoting hips, her strong legs braced against the ground, and the ground itself beneath her. It was like the whole of creation striking me through the flat of her hand, and the only reason it didn't cripple me is that even in the middle of her fury, Vashet was always perfectly in control..."

There's so much description happening, but it's happening in the service of describing the power and control of a skilled martial artist who's just slapped a man silly. This also came after pages and pages of tension-building between these two characters.

Now here's your description of a man taking your MC by the chin:

> "Minar stepped close and reached out toward him with one hand. His wrist twisted as it passed the metal rods separating them and he stroked Narius under the chin with one finger, pausing just before it slipped off. Narius was forced to tilt his head back as Minar lifted his hand slightly. They locked eyes. Minar moved in closer. He smelled like pine sap and Narius clenched his teeth, responding to the uncomfortable advance and the fading memory of the outdoors. Minar’s finger curled and his thumb rested on the point of Narius’ chin. He opened his mouth slightly and broke his stare, instead casting his eyes downward."

You see the difference? there's a lot happening, but what, exactly? And why?

Reading through your draft, I get the impression you're building tension between these two characters by swinging the balance of power. Narius, confident and clever, has the upper hand in his own mind. But Minar has news that will annihilate Narius's confidence. The scene begins with Narius having the upper hand, and ends with him crumbling into a hollow and pathetic shell. This is great! Psychological intrigue is as essential to a good fantasy story as politics, battles between armies, and wizarding duels. But you're spoiling the intrigue in this scene in the following ways:

1) Leaving nothing in your MC's mind to our imagination, thereby preventing us from identifying with him:

> Narius’ wide eyes fixed themselves where a rod flawlessly met the floor. What felt like hours passed, though Narius knew better than to assume they would leave him unguarded for more than ten minutes. It was difficult for the prisoner to comprehend anything beyond his own swirling emotions. He felt his exposed fingers and toes become numb from the cold. Every so often, he saw wisps of ghostly mist swirl from the corner of his eye, catching firelight.

2) Occasionally describing him in a way he hasn't described himself (i.e. "The prisoner")

3) Describing every last detail of where every thing is, and how the characters interact with those things:

> Two thin shadows blocked sections of the sparse light that leaked under the heavy metal door. Through the wall of bars to his left, Narius watched the entrance and heard the latch snap as it released. Minar, captain of the guard at the high security prison where Narius was held, knocked twice before barging in. Narius wished he wouldn’t knock. The metallic ring resounded off the barren walls of the near empty room and lingered in his sound sensitive ears.

> Minar’s smile died as his gaze fell upon a rickety desk in the corner diagonal to Narius’ cot. Atop it rested a wooden tray. Cold steamed vegetables, a stale roll, and diced meat smothered in a gravy-like sauce lay largely untouched.

4) In addition to being painstakingly described, sometimes your description of the things isn't even consistent with how your main character feels about them:

> He placed to stool before the bars and sat. He was careful to mind his outrageously long, brown horns, which grew at a sharp backward angle from the top of his head. They cascaded in a gently arced fashion vertically down his back and stopped hear his hip bones, the ends curving slightly away from his body. Narius thought they were garish.

I won't repeat the critiques that have already been made about structure. But getting back to what I was saying about florid language, you seem to dip in and out of that mode of storytelling, and I get the sense you aren't completely at ease with it. That's fine, as long as you pare down your language so the reader can understand you. For example, this sentence reads like you are putting on a show of Narius's carelessness for the reader:

> “Is that a promise?” Narius carelessly dropped the roll on the floor, strode back across the cell, and sat once again on the cot, mirroring Minar with his own legs.

But this sentence reads like Narius is putting on a show of carelessness for Minar:

> "Is that a promise?" Narius tossed the roll to the grimy floor and sat on the cot, mirroring Minar's cross-legged pose.

Be yourself. High fantasy doesn't become high fantasy by trying to imitate the writing styles of Tolkien and Brooks and Martin. You have to let your ideas take it there, and you have to get your language out of the way.

I've gone through your draft and made suggestions throughout. I'm happy to answer any more questions you might have, either in this thread, or over PM.

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (and The Name of the Wind, the first in the trilogy, is also good). I only came across them a year ago or so, but they are absolutely fantastic and beautiful books. It takes restrain to read other books rather than these two over and over again.

Malazan, Book of the Fallen

If you're looking for a "massive big world" you should read Gardens of the Moon (Malazan).
It's not for everyone, but I liked it a lot.

Book six? You're stronger than me - I got through the first three before giving up. I've not heard anything that makes me want to go back and try again. A couple of other fantasy series suggestions (with links to the first books):

• The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson
  
• The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Photoshop? Because I just went to the same book (here if anyone is interested) and the ebook version is 7.99, not the 11.66 you have in your screen shot.

This Alien Shore is one of those single books that actually make me want to read more in that universe.

Stranger in a Strange Land is controversial, thought provoking, and while a couple of characters will show up in later Heinlein books, it isn't part of a series.

+1 Anathem (2008) by Neal Stephenson

+1 The Speed of Dark (2002) by Elizabeth Moon

I would suggest C. S. Friedman. She has a lot of the flawed character thing going on in many of her books. She does a bit more sci-fi than fantasy, but honestly either way she's great.

This Alien Shore is good, and a stand-alone:
http://www.amazon.com/This-Alien-Shore-C-S-Friedman/dp/0886777992/ref=la_B000AQ1TUO_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410005630&sr=1-9

Feast of Souls is the start of a good trilogy:
http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Souls-Magister-Trilogy-Book/dp/0756404630/ref=la_B000AQ1TUO_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410005630&sr=1-5

And Black Sun Rising is also the start of a good trilogy:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rising-Coldfire-Trilogy-Book/dp/0886775272/ref=la_B000AQ1TUO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410005630&sr=1-1

Really good sci-fi book that plays around with this question.

If you're interested in some Russian fiction, and a bit of fantasy. Nightwatch has served me well for those needs. Enjoy!

Sorry I meant to link the movies... but yea movie.

They are. And they are quite good, but very different. That said, Night Watch is the title of quite a few books, so I'll leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Lukyanenko_novel%29
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Sergei-Lukyanenko/dp/1401359795/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1375474897&sr=8-4&keywords=night+watch

You shouldn't gift me, because I consistently leave work 15 minutes early. Mostly to go off and read books like this one.

Like I want anything from YOU.

Want to try some fantasy with grim elements and plenty of action? Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is an excellent trilogy. Efficient world building and character development that doesn't drag on or leave you behind. Terrific pacing with an engaging story, definitely worth a read. Mistborn: The Final Empire digital

Brandon Snaderson's Mistborn series.

If you're into fantasy, I really love the Death Gate Cycle Series. I think Death Gate Cycle is fairly underrated as a fantasy series and would like more people to read it. It's funny, heartbreaking, and just has amazing characters that unfold throughout the series. You think you have it all figured out, but then things end up being very grey and you no longer know who to trust and things. The first book is hilarious, second is thrilling, third and fourth books are a little slow but important for character development, and the last three are really fantastic.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is also fantastic and along the same lines of young adult fantasy. I would actually probably recommend that over Death Gate given the other books you said you like, but both are pretty quick reads and worth checking out.

I just finished reading American Gods and really enjoyed it. It's about old Gods being every day people and there's lots of twists and turns.

Here's a good review: Released from prison shortly after the accidental death of his wife, ex-con Shadow finds himself free, but bereft of all the things that gave his previous life meaning. As he bids his farewell to the fragments of that life, an eerie stranger named Mr. Wednesday offers him employment. Wednesday needs someone to act as aid, driver, errand boy, and, in case of Wednesday's death, someone to hold a vigil for him. Shadow consents and finds himself drawn unsuspectingly into a cryptic reality where myth and legend coexist with today's realities.

Amazing!

[American Gods] (http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Anniversary-Edition-ebook/dp/B004YW4L5K/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=36V58PM2YWEKL&coliid=I3OQ30F0I7KD34) is a book that I've been wanting to read. It has been recommended to me about a dozen times from different friends and even people at Half Price Books. I love reading and fly through books.

I am currently reading James Patterson's, Alex Cross series. I usually read more romantic comedy/popular fiction, but the crime drama appeals to me since it is written so well. It feels like immersing yourself in an action movie. For me, they are an adventure to read. I'm reading Double Cross currently. I usually get them used at Half Price Books. I also have a few John Green novels on my kindle that I just finished. I really enjoyed Paper Towns. There are a lot of internal struggles that the main characters go through. There is a coming of age theme that almost anyone can relate to.

I do have a first generation kindle and have really been wanting to get my boyfriend a kindle so that we don't have to share anymore. That probably sounds very lame- but it's a fight over it at night before bed since we both enjoy reading- That's part of why I've been buying paperbacks again. Also his birthday is coming up so that's a bonus! Thanks so much for an awesome contest.

This is a very generous contest. Thank you for gifting!

After loads of reading on the bus to work every day, here follows my reading list for military aviation:

Modern

• Viper Pilot - memoir of an F-16 Wild Weasel pilot who flew in both Iraq Wars
  
• A Nightmare's Prayer - memoir of a Marine Harrier Pilot flying out of Bagram.
  
• Warthog - Story of the A-10C pilots and their many varied missions in Desert Storm
  
• Hornets over Kuwait - Memoir of a Marine F/A-18 pilot during Desert Storm
  
• Strike Eagle - Story of the brand new F-15C Strike Eagle pilots and their time in Desert Storm
  
  

  Vietnam
  

• The Hunter Killers - look at the very first Wild Weasels, their inception, early development, successes, and failures
  
• Low Level Hell - memoir of an OH-6 Air Cav pilot
  
  

  WWII
  

• Unsung Eagles - various snapshots of the less well-known but arguably more impactful pilots and their missions during WWII (pilot who flew channel rescue in a P-47, morale demonstration pilot, etc.)
  
• Stuka Pilot - memoir of the most prolific aviator of Nazi Germany (and an unapologetic Nazi) who killed hundreds of tanks with his cannon-armed Stuka
  
• The First Team - more academic historical look at the first US Naval Aviators in WWII
  
  
  

  Overall/Other
  

• Skunk Works - memoir of Ben Rich, head of Lockeed's top secret internal firm and his time working on the U-2, SR-71, and F-117 including anecdotes from pilots of all 3 and accounts of these remarkable planes' exploits.
  
• Lords of the Sky - ambitious attempt to chronicle the rise and evolution of the "fighter pilot" from WWI to the modern day
  
• Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs - the story of the long-top secret group of pilots who evaluated and flew captured Soviet aircraft against US pilots to train them against these unknown foes.
  
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage - story of the US submarine fleet starting at the outbreak of the Cold War and their exploits
  
  
  
  

  Bonus non-military aviation
  

  I highly second the recommendations of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Diamond Age. I would also recommend:
  
  

• Neuromancer - defined the cyberpunk genre
  
• Ghost in the Wires - memoir of prolific hacker Kevin Mitnick
  
• Starship Troopers - nothing like the movie
  
• The Martian - fantastic read
  
• Heir to the Empire - first of the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy and the book that arguably sparked the growth of the Extended Universe of Star Wars
  
• Devil in the White City - semi-fictional (mostly non-fiction) account of a serial killer who created an entire palace to capture and kill his prey during the Chicago World's Fair
  
• Good Omens - dark comedy story of a demon and an angel trying to stop the end of the world because they like us too much
  
• American Gods - fantastic story about how the old gods still walk among us
  
• Dune - just read it
  

Check out American Gods by Neil Gaiman:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YW4L5K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

It is also a mini series on Starz.

You are trying to figure out who Mr. Wednesday is, and other people you meet that are actual Gods.

They are all well written.

The Old Gods are threatened by the New Gods. Media, Mr. World, and Tecnology/Internet/Whatever the boy represents.

Mr. Wednesday has a plan for war, he's a bit of a con-man, has two ravens spy for him, set events in motion to meet Shadow Moon once he left prison, etc. Meets with other Old Gods to see if they would join him to fight the New Gods.

Even if he looks like an old man or Columbo with a glass eye, he is more powerful and dangerous than you think he is, and things always seem to fall in place for him. Once he gets a Sword he is a badass with it.

I think there is even a comic on it now:
https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/30-430/American-Gods-Shadows-1

TL;DR - You need to have a story a lot of people think is good. Your story will become more visible as people pump you up with good reviews. That's how horribly stupid books still get attention: somehow they still get positive reviews.

Long story:

I don't know how some of the self-published authors on Amazon make any money. I'm not at all published, and am nowhere near it yet, so what the hell do I know, right?

However, as a reader of fiction, I can say that I have read PLENTY of dumb books by unknown authors who somehow make it into the Amazon Books of the Month, or books that go on clearance sales. I think the secret behind it is the number of 4 or 5-star Amazon reviews received versus the total number of reviews. If 90%+ of readers give it a 4 or 5 star, and there are 800 reviews, then I think Amazon's super smart computer algorithm guesstimates that the book will generate some revenue. Then the book gets bumped to the top in terms of advertising and running deals on the book.

However, I don't understand how most of the 4 or 5 star reviewers think. Are these people able to tie their own shoes in the morning? An example is the book by self-published author A.G. Riddle The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller. It has a TON of awesome acclaim, averaging 4 stars with 8,000+ reviews. I thought that this must be a great story. It's a conspiracy, science fiction, has historical references...great! I read the whole damn thing and I just couldn't see it. I didn't see what they were talking about. How did this guy get up in the ranks???? Somebody must have already passed out the magic koolaid and I showed up late to the party after it ran out. Or maybe I'm in the minority. Who knows.

I'm not going to buy the other 2 or 3 books in his series. I guess I get what I pay for when I make a $1.99 purchase.

Have you read The Atlantis Gene (Book 1) and the Atlantis Plague (Book 2)?

I actually just finished them.

the entire basis for the two novels The Atlantis Gene and The Atlantis Plague

The Wool series by Hugh Howey. Ebook of the 1st part is free, so you can see if it's something you like.

The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

Both these series are excellent, and will keep you up at night. Both these series have been optioned for films, and are in development.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Clare North.

Red Rising + sequels by Pierce Brown.

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie.

If you liked hunger games try this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Red-Rising-Book-ebook/dp/B00CVS2J80/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00CVS2J80&pd_rd_r=316b5b43-264c-11e9-bd5b-dfbc5f26256b&pd_rd_w=jmG3z&pd_rd_wg=Mj7Ol&pf_rd_p=29a85b27-a36a-4f8d-94ca-61aa962c5f39&pf_rd_r=YHFTSYMKAK9373BAQ82Q&psc=1&refRID=YHFTSYMKAK9373BAQ82Q

I have read 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 but have only seen the Hunger Games movies.

I used to be of the opinion that I would be willing to take a 10-20% pay cut if it meant that everyone had to so that everyone could be lodged and fed and other basic things. Then I lived in Africa for a while and I saw that it's better to have someone forced to learn to fish than to give him a fish. I think globalization is good for humanity as a whole but it will be sad to see our kids having a harder life than we did.

Now I mostly worry about what my kids will be doing as far as life and career goes.

Red Rising by Pierce Brown. SF.

Wool by Hugh Howey. Post-Apoc.

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. YA Fantasy.

The Remaining by DJ Molles. Horror/Military Thriller.

I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Thriller.

I'm reading Red Rising now, and I'm liking it quite a bit. I'd say it's dystopian Sci-Fi, but it's set far enough in the future that it may as well be fantasy, and genetic modification and discrimination are central to the plot.

The Land is pretty ok, you just have to get past A.K.'s writing idiosyncrasies. Everybody Loves Large Chest is an online serial. It's very gory, weird, and weirdly sexual. Ascend online is a great fantasy mmorpg. Really well written. Awaken online is very good book from the perspective of the "villain". Dark. Survival quest is pretty good Russian translated litrpg. Patch 17 is from a guy stuck in a mmorpg hell. Dragon's wrath is kind of just a town building litrpg, but is enjoyable enough. Unbound deathlord is pretty good dark book about the underdark, or whatever he calls it in that book.

Here are some good litrpg books on kindle for newbies to the genre:

1. Way of the Shaman - https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Quest-Way-Shaman-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B00VQRW14E/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212440&sr=1-3&keywords=way+of+the+shaman
   
   
2. Ascend Online - https://www.amazon.com/Ascend-Online-Luke-Chmilenko-ebook/dp/B01M01ET8E
   
   
3. The Dragon's Wrath Series - https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Wrath-Virtual-Dream-ebook/dp/B00W2L8VGU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212376&sr=1-1&keywords=a+virtual+dream
   
   
4. Viridian Gate Online - https://www.amazon.com/Viridian-Gate-Online-Cataclysm-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01MU0DYXW/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1495212396&sr=1-2&keywords=viridian+gate+online
   

And this is where I clean the cobwebs out of my brain, because wow I botched that title.

The entire series is on sale super cheap right now: https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Sequence-Three-Serpents-Fathom-ebook/dp/B01MUG3DLM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1505858322&sr=8-2&keywords=craft+sequence

Or if you don't like ebooks, they're available in dead tree as well. The two starting points are either Full Fathom Five or Three Parts Dead (I liked Full Fathom a tad better, but I think Three Parts Dead is the first one published). The only ones more than loosely connected are Two Serpents Rise / Last First Snow (and Last First Snow is a prequel to Two Serpents Rise, so you really could read them in any order).

I think that chronologically they might work in number order (so Last First/Two Serpents/Three Parts/Four Roads/Fathom Five), but I need another rereading to try and work it out.

I went to scout this out on Amazon, and found the first five books bundled for $18.

https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Sequence-Three-Serpents-Fathom-ebook/dp/B01MUG3DLM

My bad, I misspelt the title. Here's the first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threadbare-Stuff-Nonsense-Andrew-Seiple-ebook/dp/B078KGS4V4

This is a book based on that theme

https://www.amazon.com/Threadbare-Stuff-Nonsense-Andrew-Seiple-ebook/dp/B078KGS4V4

I've been told this is a good book

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An ebook would be great, beautiful :)

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It seems like these 3 codes are all interrelated:

https://www.amazon.com/Atlantis-Gene-Thriller-Origin-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00C2WDD5I

https://www.amazon.com/Atlantis-Gene-Thriller-Origin-Mystery-ebook/dp/B007FG9LIE

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Anyone ever read The Atlantis Gene series? It's fictional but has a lot of these theories in it about Antarctica and the global elite and ancient beings. Fun read.
https://www.amazon.ca/Atlantis-Gene-Thriller-Origin-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00C2WDD5I

This is a good trilogy. It is a thriller and some sci-fi throw in.

I'm gonna go with Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It reminded me a lot of Blood Song, but I think it was actually even better, and it was science fiction rather than fantasy.

Thanks for the heads up! Btw, it looks like Amazon has the kindle version of Red Rising on sale for $1.99. Here's the link :)

Try some LitRpg? The Way of the Shaman is pretty good. I'm waiting for the 3rd book to finish being translated.

You might enjoy the LitRPG novels or Rational fiction. Try Play to Live, Survival Quest or Two Year Emperor.

You said you weren't looking for fiction, but other people might come to your thread looking for those kinds of suggestions, so sorry to leave you hanging, but I'll put a few out there, because I've enjoyed this genre.

Opening Moves Aliens have taken over and ostensibly done away with war, but the main character finds out the stakes in the aliens' "Game" may be just as high.

Solarversia We've got a sort of reality show VR game where a hundred million players duke it out over the course of a year to win a big prize. It's easy to get sucked into this one as a gamer, because the author really captures this sens of video game action. There's pseudo-ai personality modeling based on social media, and even a fanatical AI doomsday cult.

Survival Quest Don't let the name turn you off here. In this trilogy the biggest MMO has become so big that prisoners are actually sentenced to server their time in VR capsules mining resources for paying non-prisoner characters. Where standard players get to choose their class and have access to outside materials like guides and wikis, the protagonist here (who's unjustly charged, of course!) gets his class selected for him, and must learn the nuances to this underplayed Shaman class, as well as figure out how to earn respect, while simultaneously earning his way out of prison. The third book just came out on the 10th, and I wouldn't have found out about it if not for writing this, so thanks! And enjoy!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VQRW14E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_88-4CbAKJAZY9

[Sufficiently Advanced Magic]
[Survival Quest]
[Occultist]
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If you haven’t read any of the Russian LITRPG, I’ve found I really enjoy them in Audible. Like many, Way of the Shaman was my entry-level but recently I’ve loved the Disgardium series and the Npc Path series.


https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Rogue-NPCs-Path-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07B4Y1WJ9


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Well , no so far fetched now the world of Way of the Shaman

You might enjoy the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. It's not exactly this but similar.

Max Gladstone's The Craft Sequence Kindle US - 5 book omnibus has a great, gritty world where the Gods are at war, their churches are corrupt, the cities dependent on the Gods to survive. Necromancy is part of 'The Craft', and practitioners of 'The Craft' are in high demand. Like lawyers or accountants in our world, international corporations practice 'The Craft'.

For anyone new to the series, it's worth noting that it looks like there's also a compilation of the first five coming out soon: £5.39 uk / $6.75 us which is a steal. I definitely recommend the series - just finished Four Roads Cross myself, and will definitely be picking up this one.

Ebooks! I'm not sure it'll differ for you, but in Australia, the bundle is currently $8 for 5 books. Craziness!

You should give us a little insight as to what genre you like, since every reader is different. Here are a few of my favorites from some random genres.

Fantasy: A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, Neverwhere, American Gods.

Sci-Fi: The Illustrated Man, Gold.

Dystopian Fiction: The Stand, The Road.

Classic Fiction: Flowers For Algernon,

Philosophy: Thus Spake Zarathustra, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Whatever Else: Fight Club, Fast Food Nation

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Toss up between Stephen King's The Gunslinger and Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Some of my favorites:

• The Myth of Sisyphus for philosophical essays.
  
• The Road and The Stand for dystopian fiction.
  
• American Gods or Neverwhere for fantasy.
  
• Brave New World, The Picture of Dorian Gray or Les Miserables for classics.
  
• Harry Potter is my favorite book of all time. It's pure story that is fun to read, evokes emotion and has great depth.
  
• The Beach is good to begin with, better if you're a traveler or like utopian type fiction. (Think of it as a dirtier, contemporary version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.)
  
• The Autobiography of King Henry VIII for historical biographies. Note that this one is fiction, but well researched.
  
• A few final random ones are Flowers for Algernon, Angela's Ashes and Italian Folktales.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

What about A Short History of Nearly Everything? Or Seal Team Six? Or The Magicians? What about American Gods, Hyperspace and The Grand Design

What I'm saying is 18 is too few. Get cracking.

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The End is Coming:

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Firstly, what are you reading? Are you feeding your mind? You have a professional obligation to be reading voraciously. Required reading, Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. A very cute tongue in cheek novel about a superhero and a supervillain, but also a very compelling page-turner.


As deeper research, you might want to read Mutants And Mystics, a book of essays about the origins of superhero comics. Did you know a lot of the guys who create the superhero genre were themselves having profound mystic/supernormal experiences? Back in the 50's, if you told people you were having a "kundalini awakening" like they talk about in yoga classes these days, guys in white coats would show up in a van and cart you off to the nearest asylum. So they had to sublimate these stories into fiction as a way of working out what in heaven was happening to them.


On a more fundamental level, I'd start outlining your characters. Not just their powers, but who they ARE as people. For instance, maybe your strongest superhero is really strong, but he's a health freak. He's a 100% raw vegan who only eats organically grown fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. And it's complex. He has to get a certain amount of calories, or (psychosomatically) he believes he'll lose his superpowers. And if you know anything about raw vegans, it's hard to get enough calories eating that way. Fruit is basically just water. Many people binge on raw nut butters and then pass out from all the fat, or sit around eating dozens of bananas at once, and then crash from the sugar. (30 bananas a day is an online community for raw vegans). This is just one example. Tie in your superheros with real life things people do to try and be superhuman. You could have a super-genius superhero who hangs out with "Masters Of The Universe" on Wall St. And maybe he believes that he has to make $250,000 per day on the stock market or he'll lose support of the big corporations who are doing dark rituals or something to empower him. Maybe his power comes from the "mastermind" council of these corporate overlords, and if he doesn't maintain that profitability with his supermind, they'll stop doing the ritual and he'll be cut off, or killed or something.


These are just some examples. It's just raw creativity, man. Like a painter or a tattoo artist (hopefully) grinds their own ink, you have to sit down and grind on your characters. As you learn more about them, the story ins and outs will become at least clear enough for you to get started. I wouldn't invest a lot of time in a super duper detailed outline of the whole book, because as you're writing more things will occur to you, and that will pull you off your outline. Stay agile. Be willing to go on digressions. Just get to a point where your characters are dynamic and fun enough to write and then play jazz with the story, you can always fix inconsistencies in post.

Funny you should ask. I'm a novelist in this genre as well, and I've done a bit of research on the market. As you might imagine, this is a fairly niche space. I'd probably be making more money if I wrote vampire romances, but you gotta write what you love, right?


Anyhow, the advice about the Fantasy>Superheroes category on Amazon is real good. There are a lot of books directly tied to licensed properties, like DC and Marvel characters, but I can't tell you much about those since I work in my own universe. There are also excellent lists on GoodReads. Here are some of the examples I used to figure out my keywords and categories (I haven't read any of these yet, but they're on my list):


Soon I will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. I hear this is awesome.

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain by Jim Bernheimer.

Good Intentions: A Supervillain Story by Michel Crider.

Meta by Tom Reynolds.

The Second Super by Logan Rutherford.

ULTRA (The Last Hero Book 1) by Matt Blake.


And, I hope this isn't a violation of the self-promotion rules (if it is, please let me know and I'll edit this out), but I can't help but add my own novel, The Hero Beat!

Soon I will be Invincible made me laugh, its told from the villains point of view.

I'm 3/4 of the way through the The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo. It's a little bit different to your usual post-apoc in that the apocalypse happens very slowly instead of a massive apocalyptic event. Set in a rural area of italy it slowly charts the breakdown of society into anarchy. An awesome slow burner.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Standing-Davide-Longo/dp/1623650348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397683579&sr=8-1&keywords=davide+longo

Also check out The Dog Stars. It's very similar to The Road.

http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397683690&sr=1-1&keywords=the+dog+stars+by+peter+heller

"The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller and "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy are both part of the modern canon, IMO.

Try The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. While not as bleak as The Road, I wouldn't call it happy:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

My favorite might be the way he is depicted in "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony.

Apparently, it's being turned into a mini-series.

You certainly aren't the only one. You might like these.
Our Name is Melancholy, by Leilah Wendell
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On a Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony

They're about a few different people that take on the mantle of the 'Incarnations'; including, but not limited to: Chronos, or father time; Mars, the god of war; and the three sisters of fate, just to name a few :)

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[](/rderpwizard "I'm me.... Aren't I?" )

Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die

You're welcome.

Heroes Die.

"Page turner" isn't even really a good word because sometimes it was so violent and intense that I had to put it down to calm my nerves. The subsequent books are also great.

The Twelve Kingdoms is Japanese. You can find the translations here:
http://www.eugenewoodbury.com/downloads.htm
or get the out of print Tokyopop releases.

Each book focuses heavily on character vs self conflict and using other conflicts as a means for developing that.
It is steeped in Chinese mythology. Also, most of the serious conflict is internal to the country, not between countries.

Matthew Stover writes really hardcore, violent, fantasy / sci-fi crossovers. Lots of moral grey areas and a unique setting make it worth looking at.
https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Die-Matthew-Woodring-Stover/dp/0345421450/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1481223987&sr=8-4&keywords=matthew+stover

Ah, I've heard that quote before. I like it. :)

The inspiration is from the sci-fi/fantasy novel Heroes Die, by Mathew Stover. First of a series. I highly recommend it/them/him.

Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover. It and its sequels would be, I believe, classics in the fantasy genre were it not for the realistic and gut wrenching depictions of violence. If you can stomach such things, these books are not to be missed.

The Infernal City and it's sequel Lord of Souls.

http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319648547&sr=1-1

For real ?

I found 2 Novels:

@https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025

@https://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0345508017&pd_rd_r=Y3FGAMZWWSPXRJEZMGAJ&pd_rd_w=WjoFf&pd_rd_wg=9lJLz&psc=1&refRID=Y3FGAMZWWSPXRJEZMGAJ

And there're Titan Books which I've already placed the order.

There are Elder Scrolls books.

The Infernal City

Lord of Souls

Lord of Souls I just realized I bought the sequel -__-

It's just called "Thrawn"

10/10

Thrawn

There is also a new canon book called Thrawn by the same author, Timothy Zahn.

I think it's this one?

this illustrated Game of Thrones just came out a few months ago but I'm not sure if it's fully illustrated like Harry Potter or just has the occasional illustration.

When I was a kid my parents had this copy of the Hobbit which had full-page illustrations from the cartoon movie that came out in the 70s. (I wonder if my parents got rid of that when they moved because if they have it and don't care about keeping it, I want that shit). I can't find the copy of Lord of the Rings that I have on Amazon, but it had full-page, color illustrations before each chapter. Not on every page or anything, but still really nice.

What the difference between the two illustrated editions? Why is there a price difference b/w the two?

https://www.amazon.in/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044/ref=sr_1_2?crid=39JU7DYR52PPX&keywords=game+of+thrones+illustrated&qid=1554680331&s=gateway&sprefix=game+of+thrones+illu%2Caps%2C415&sr=8-2

The other one is out of stock currently but costs lesser than the first one.

I think the most important thing to call out in this video is that Hai is reading one of my favorite books, Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. You can barely see it at 16:44.

I read in The Wise Man's Fear that civilization literally means "no one shits in the well", and I've never thought it more applicable than right here.

The Name of the wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss based on your fantasy preferences

For you: this and this

Together they are just under $25. I see you're a GoT fan and you will 100% enjoy these books.

For me: This

Just above $25 but it's the only thing I have on there that's in that range.

This is an interesting series of novels. Not really necessary to read them in any particular order, but set in the same universe with some really neat ideas. Expendable, James Alan Gardner. I'm a stickler, so I like to read in order and this is the first.

http://www.amazon.com/Expendable-League-Peoples-Bk-1/dp/038079439X/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267371733&sr=8-8

I'd also add C.S. Friedman, This Alien Shore

http://www.amazon.com/This-Alien-Shore-C-S-Friedman/dp/0886777992/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267371906&sr=1-8

And if you haven't read them, the Halo book series is surprisingly good.

http://www.amazon.com/Books-Flood-First-Strike-Reach/dp/0345473043/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267373681&sr=1-4

Have you read This Alien Shore by CS Friedman? It might cover some of what you are thinking of.

This Alien Shore by C. S. Friedman. I'm not sure how many people have read it, but I don't see it mentioned very often, which is a shame because it's a great book.

David Brin's Uplift Series is exceptional (at least the first three are: Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War)...Startide won the most awards, but imho it's the least fun of the three.

There is a really interesting stand alone that a lot of people haven't heard of called This Alien Shore, by C. S. Friedman...It's a hell of a book, and not as well known as it deserves to be.

This one looks better. Still looks like something a high school student would draw with one year of art class behind his belt. Something like this I'd consider a great cover art for a fantasy novel. Not just mishmash of generic stuff with some filters all around, but something that tells a story and looks great as a stand-alone piece. Or something that shows the character, like one of the Mistborn's covers. In the end, it's your choice. I'd consider spending a bit to attract people. Minimalistic style seems to be in fashion nowadays, so you might want to look into it too.

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Pedantic Definition of Terms! Steel tools are for the birds! We’ve got an X-Men situation on our hands! Real life has plot holes! Magic as body of knowledge! Hogwarts is a segregationist fantasy! The world is run by a secret cabal of….. Wizards….Gross! Ladies are magic, better lock ‘em up! We arrive at a legitimate question about the human condition!

Recommendations:

Kraken by China Miéville

Final Empire (Mistborn Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson

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Amazon has them for Kindle.

Ebook please! Sandhouse just got prime! Thank you for the contest!

Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

• Mistborn: The Final Empire
  
• The Well of Ascension
  
• The Hero of Ages
  
  I'm currently on #2, and I love it. excellent series.
  
  Edit: Sorry, I missed the zero romance part. Mistborn has a little bit, but to me it wasn't distracting.

Piers Anthony is waaaay ahead of you.
The Incarnations books touch on most of this threads discussion.

Okay, this is a bit of a pet peeve for me; please excuse me. The idea that humans originated occurred on another planet is implausible. This idea might have sold back in the Golden Age of science fiction, but based on the current state of science, it's naive.

Aliens could have visited us at sometime in the past, and perhaps kidnapped our ancestors & ported them off-world. Damocles by SG Redling.

Or they might have messed with our ancestor's genes here on Earth The Atlantis Gene by AG Riddle.

But we didn't evolve on another planet. We are too similar to our closest relatives, and the fossil and genetic evidence of our Earth origins is too overwhelming to suggest xenogenetic origins.

Night Watch

Day Watch

Twilight Watch

The Last Watch


hmm... thats only 4.... And I hope they serve beer in hell