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What aspects do you enjoy most about your favorite sci fi or fantasy novels? Obviously it’s a mix of everything but what consistent themes do you find yourself returning to frequently?

To give an example, I tend to like complex and internally consistent magic systems or “hard magic” systems, eg Brandon Sanderson. He basically invents an alternative physics in a given series and there’s a whole set of stories around that.

I also put a lot of weight on complex characters, eg Game of Thrones. You know it’s good writing when someone can push a kid out of a window in the first episode and then somehow kind of make you almost like the guy later on.

If you don’t like sci fi and/or fantasy, what is it about the genre(s) that you dislike? And do you like one but not the other, or both or neither?

Mysth 1y ago

I’m not picky about the setting and story in general, but I hate unfinished stories.

I’ll never probably never read anything from GRRM (GoT) or Patrick Rothfuss (The kingkiller chronicle).

If you start with a novel, please make sure it’ll have a proper ending, or that you have a solid plan for the next book(s).

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Wenze 1y ago

So you don’t start with reading new series until they are finished? I’m guilty of the same but luckily others do, otherwise there would be no series!

Mysth 1y ago

Of course I would start a new series from any new author, or from authors that finish their stories like Joe Abercrombie.

I was just giving my opinion about what I dislike most, and for example if GRRM starts any new saga, I’m never picking up the first book until the last one is actually written.

Wenze 1y ago

💯

ButtercupRoberts 1y ago

I so wish for the final The Kingkiller chronicle…