💥 Trainwreck Gloria Tesch / Sofia Nova - Author of the Maradonia series turned Republithot

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MysticMisty said:
You beat me to it. But yeah Eragon ripped off quite a few sources. It's just that Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are the two most well known franchises ripped off by Eragon is all.

Maybe Gloria would've been noticed by a few more people if she ripped off Star Wars and/or Lord of the Rings instead of the Bible.
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She could but then again she might get sued by the author of Eragon, not to mention possible lawsuits from the Tolkien Estate and Geroge Lucas (or in this case Disney since they own Star Wars if I recall correctly.)
 
Surtur said:
Reading is gay, tahahahahaha.
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So does that mean I'm gay? Not because of MLP or not liking the Dark Brotherhood or Kamen Rider Black christening me as gay (among other things related to a character) but because I pretty much read these post? If so, then where can I find a book about :pickle:?
 
I don't like high fantasy. It's so restricted by its genre, with the exception of "Game of Thrones" and even that devolved into shit by book four.
 
Yeah I don't like high fantasy either. It does absolutely nothing for me.

Though I do kind of like the more pulpy, sword and sorcery stuff like Robert E Howard's Conan stories.
 
Artard said:
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She should take the advice written on that red bar behind her.
 
DykesDykesChina said:
Same here, high fantasy sucks IMO. I don't like stories where there's Absolute Good vs. Absolute Evil.
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And the prose in these things are a fucking slog to read through. Seriously, no other genre could get away with that shit without some editor giving them the major red pen treatment (though I know a couple editors and they are all quite lazy, so who knows).
 
bradsternum said:
I don't like high fantasy. It's so restricted by its genre, with the exception of "Game of Thrones" and even that devolved into shit by book four.
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Heck, I'm a (luckily unpublished) fantasy writer and I don't really like much of modern high fantasy either. I'm not saying there's an occasional good work out there, but be very, very, very afraid of everything that's being sold as Epic Trilogies™®©. :)
Most of the fantasy fans I know actually just call themselves fantasy/scifi/horror fans.
 
bradsternum said:
It's true. High fantasy is one genre that seems to be immune to editing. Most of the novels are bricks that could stand to lose 500 pages or so. "Epic trilogy" has lost all of its fucking meaning by this point.
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Yep, my favourite fantasy authors right now are Andrzej Sapkowski (of The Witcher fame), who is busy trying to convince the rest of the world that yes, you indeed can do just as awesome fantasy stories and worldbuilding in short story format, and Terry Pratchett, who can generally keep his novels relatively short.
 
Most High Fantasy is just Tolkein redux. There is a reason I prefer Sci Fi and Horror.
 
If you guts want to try some fantasy that's a bit out of the norm Joe Abercrombie (The First Law series) and Scott Lynch (The Gentleman Bastards series) are both writing really original stuff. Abercrombie is a bit better, he takes the standard fantasy bullshit and twists it sideways then arseraeps it.
 
Hellblazer said:
Even most modern horror is Bits of Lovecraft, bits of Poe, and bits of King. Everything tends to be derivative, it's just how you piece it together that makes you special.
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A brief reminder of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of fantasy/scifi/horror is crap, because 90% of all media is crap. :)
Personally, as a speculative fiction fan and as someone who tries to write this stuff too, I think it's always necessary for the authors to strive to look for interesting new ideas. The danger of ending up writing boring derivative crud is not a new threat by any means.
(Straying a little bit offtopic, I guess, but hey.)
 
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