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Kindle Unlimited adds a lot of numbers, everyone that samples for free and don't finish is still counted. Looking at the top 24 at SF-bok — Swedish SF/Fantasy/Horror bookstore — one fourth of the books there are Brandon Sanderson. Three are Yarros but it's only two titles, one Maas, and well...

I'm probably not typical in that I tired to read the first trilogy in the beginning of the pandemic. I gave up because it was really not good. So for me it's a pass. I'm certain it's different with people who have nostalgia for it and who read it when they were 15 as opposed to in their 40s.

We were in out 20s, so yeah, probably. But it is to this day still the only book I've thrown against a wall.

Me and some friends encased one of our copies — might have been mine might have been someone else's —in concrete and dumped it in the sea.

For me, first-person present tense brings to mind American Psycho and the Sandman Slim series. Would not classify either as teen wish fulfilment.

Yeah, Yeah. Would actively avoid all books about mushrooms that have been published after 2022 just to be safe.

Many magazines have had to temporarily close submissions because of a morass of AI stories. And there are also self-published "authors" on Amazon selling their prompt stories without indicating that they're 100% AI written. Publisher mandated AI books? Not so much since there's no copyright and...

Newer books by women authors that might fit in with the thread name: Joanna Maciejewska's Pacts Arcane and Otherwise series. Martha Wells' Witch King Melissa Caruso's The Tethered Mage Anna Smith Spark's The Court of Broken Knives Jen Williams' The Copper Promise T. Kingfisher’s The Clocktaur...

She was very explicit that it inspired her to write it, but also she wasn't going to do a carbon copy because that would not have been her.

Katherine Kurtz you mean. Kerr is the Deverry books and they're two different persons. My personal favourite is Patricia A. McKillip. Amazing language and even in her LotR-inspired The Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy it's a very different mood and themes compared to most — still. And she expects...

For me, it tends to be gritty fantasy adventures where outright magic is rare but weirdness and sense of wonder isn't. If something promotes fascist values, then that work's genre is "trash" no matter what shelf it's sorted on. (I personally is far more of a Elric person than Conan.)

There is a market for sword and sorcery: New Edge is the proof of that, same with Beneath Ceaseless Skies. As with sword and sorcery of old, magazines is where it's at, not novels. But if you want explicitly S&S like Robert E Howard, then they might not work for you because it's 2025 and not...

For real yes. And she was not on the side of the Sad Puppies as much as being a core of them. If one want to read about how that all happened with a lot of receipts from the SP themselves, I really recommend Camestros Felaptron's Debarkle. (Exists as a free ebook as well as his website with a...

I'd say the big issue there is probably that people don't seek them out then. Because if we continue to look at the Hugo's, there were fix nominees and three were pretty famous (Leckie, Scalzi and Wells) and three were not so much (Chakraborty, Chandrasekera, and Tesh) and out of those Emily...

Going in and looking at fantasy display shelves has always been "hot sellers right now!" unless the store has employees following the genre or it being a specialist shop. I'd say the difference there is that previously you were probably just more in tune with what was selling. There's no shame...

Steven Brust is a huge Zelazny fan, and I think you can tell from his writing — especially the science fantasy Vlad Taltos series. (It's not new new but it's also has two books left so not finished. Which makes it current.) But yeah. a Zelazny "replacement" is hard to pinpoint.

It wasn't something I stole, but when I was planning my Halloween DnD game I did a What Would Ursula Do in terms of some plot/characters. (Plot summary: A Brain In A Jar tried to lure a Dullahan to the village with decapitating heads as a breadcrumb in order to get the best body.)

The Hugo's however are not made up by a "critics class". It is and has always been a very populistic award nominated and voted on by the Worldcon visitors — it's super-audience driven. So the Carreia's and the SP argument that it has been taken over has always been full of naughty word. (Especially...

Feel like it's been like this for years now even if it's getting worse. It doesn't help that postal services all over seem really embarrassed about handling mail and want to penalise people using them. (Cheapest postage for an international letter here in Sweden is now about $4. It's awful and...