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Predator: Concrete jungle by Lawrence Watt-Evans Anonymous 08/09/2022 (Tue) 06:26:35 No. 542 [Reply] >>543

Based on the comic book by Mark Verheiden. This was the first licensed predator story following the first film and precedes the sequel. published in 1989 this tells an alternate but very similar predator 2. The major difference is this has Arnold back for round 2 instead of danny glover. and also without any of the concepts from 2 such as the Yautja being a race obsessed with honor and fairness. We are shown a take with the Predators being a very advanced species that has a drunken redneck problem. They dont have nukes to hide tech. They dont give a damn about man. They just wanna fight and are spiteful bastards. What they do care about are trophies and no pred would ever let themselves be made a trophy. This gets fucking insane. A fun read which quickly turns into an X-com prequel. The first of a three part series spanning all the way to 2001. You can see the roots of what will become predator 2 though, a Big city (NY not LA) a Heatwave, Big Willy the voodoo king, no feminist chick detective though, or annoying reporters, or basically all the shit that sucked in the actual sequel. Whats missing? basically the entire ending is completely different with the lore being established in a very different direction. Updates later on the direct sequel Cold War

>>543

Anonymous 08/09/2022 (Tue) 06:27:47 No. 543

>>542 >It says its by Nathan Archer Its a pen name of Lawrence Watt-Evans. not that it matters since hes just writing a treatment of a comic book. Which was written by another guy I already mentioned.

Horus Rising - Horus Heresy #1 - Warhammer 40k Anonymous 07/11/2021 (Sun) 06:37:22 No. 1 [Reply]

The first book in what will become a very long series. Dan Abnett. What the Black Library call their best. Hes an okay author, and by the end of all this we are going to look back fondly on this novel anyway. The introduction of Horus himself of course, but also Garviel Loken, and a score of "remembrancers" who will become more important later but here mostly just get drunk, and abused by locals and demons. Well it's pretty good, and short so there isn't much I can say that you wouldn't read shortly anyway.

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Scribe 10/10/2021 (Sun) 03:16:05 No. 348 >>351

>>344 Honor guard. Yeah it's not bad. Sometimes called the first in the saint saga. The bullshit is minimal. But yeah it's there. Still an enjoyable jaunt. The next one is the guns of Tanith. Should be good.

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Scribe 10/29/2021 (Fri) 02:39:49 No. 351 >>532

>>348 Okay finished like ten more of these. Damn things are addictive. Yeah, I recommend the series as a whole. It's good.

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Anonymous 06/23/2022 (Thu) 05:00:00 No. 532

>>351 The are fucking good right?

The Flight of the Eisenstein - James Swallow - Horus Heresy 4 Scribe 07/17/2021 (Sat) 03:15:38 No. 129 [Reply] >>363

We start at the mayhem of the betrayal of Istvaan 3. We end in the airless vacuum of the moon's surface. In both there is blood. In both there is Only War In the first chapter we meet the true cast. The warships of Horus. And slowly the mere immortal Astartes, and lower still human crew. Anons we gonna see some gut ripping action. A ship making for earth with no Gellar field. Pursued by the might of Horus, hounded by daemons. Oh yeah action galore.

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Scribe 08/02/2021 (Mon) 07:17:34 No. 282

A good book

Scribe 11/20/2021 (Sat) 04:10:08 No. 363

>>129 Sooo. Are you just not gonna do the Fulgrim books? Because those are next.

Anonymous 06/23/2022 (Thu) 04:59:20 No. 531

>>131 So we have the last loyalist group of Deathguard marines led by Nathaniel Garro. Who is indeed cool as shit.

Gaunts Ghosts Scribe 05/15/2022 (Sun) 22:57:29 No. 523 [Reply]

The first omnibus.

Two for free? WAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!! 04/22/2022 (Fri) 01:06:53 No. 426 [Reply]

Todays books are two extremely fun reads. We take you amongst the xenos ranks on this excursion to literary delight. The first is an ork vs mechanicus slobberknocker that truly entertains with sheer absurdity. The coldly rational mechanicum cannot comprehend the madness of the orkish Waaaagh. Second we have Necrons vs. Necrons vs. Everyone else. Where two giant robot nerds prank each other across millennia. If you don't have a good time with tonight's selection then your a fag or something idk. Never read warhammer? Start here! As one of the highpoints in the black library these are a sure fire funtime with all the info needed also presented. Have fun and remember. THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

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Anonymous 04/22/2022 (Fri) 04:37:42 No. 428 >>430

For blind niggers. A sample of the audiobook. If people like it I may zip and post the rest to catbox.

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Scribe 05/07/2022 (Sat) 17:41:22 No. 430 >>518

>>428 Fine. No audio book then. Blind bitches can suck it.

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Adventurer 05/09/2022 (Mon) 02:37:48 No. 518

>>430 U mad

Forge of mars: the omnibus by Graham McNeill Scribe 11/21/2021 (Sun) 22:05:54 No. 365 [Reply] >>366 >>396

Collecting all three of Mcneills mars books in one we have a grand adventure spanning the entire mechanicus. A good one guys. The Martian Mechancius's thirst for knowledge is insatiable, and when Archmagos Lexell Kotov learns of an ancient expedition that went in search of the very source of life in the universe itself, he immediately assembles a powerful Explorator fleet to follow in its footsteps. Not only does Kotov have the powerful engines and warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus to call upon, even the troops of the Imperial Guard and the vaunted Space Marines join his crusade. The way, however, is treacherous and fraught with perils both within and without the fleet. There are marvels and wonders at the edge of known space, discoveries beyond price, but there are those who believe the secrets of the universe should stay hidden and beings there who pose a danger not only to the fleet but to the Imperium itself.

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Scribe 11/21/2021 (Sun) 22:07:01 No. 366

>>365 C'mon anon at least post the cover art.

Scribe 03/01/2022 (Tue) 20:59:31 No. 396 >>399

>>365 Which 40k books are plagiarized again?

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Anonymous 03/01/2022 (Tue) 22:27:49 No. 399

>>396 I wasn't aware any were.

Daemon - Daniel Suarez - Daemon 1 Scribe 08/20/2021 (Fri) 02:17:21 No. 311 [Reply] >>397

An interesting near future scifi book. I believe the author is a practicing medical doctor. At the very least he finished med school. Theres a strange horror he brings to the part with his knowledge of anatomy. And then he starts having fun. Ai controlled motorcycles with chainsaw arms, a video game nazi gains AI sentience and begins saving the world from jews. It is bizarre and quite a bit of fun. Theres some sjw shit at the end of book two where it gets all preachy about revenge being pointless, but other than that you got the burned man. Ripped off bot from fallout online, but from the idea of a swat guy going through anons killhouse. So the story is a brilliant game designer dies, and his last gift is a program that turns on that destroys all society, and rebuilds it into a better form. Book one mainly deals with that. And it gets fucking messy. So much cool action in this. I spent the last month wanting to reread this but couldn't find the title. A duckduckgo search for near future scfi written by a doctor about nazi video games returned nothing obviously. But today I found it. So anyway I'm starting this again now. It's good I recall.

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Scribe 08/22/2021 (Sun) 03:13:12 No. 320

Part one is okay. I like it, part 2 has issues that bug me. But it also has the oberstleutenant. A video game nazi given the power to act in the real world through robots. Robots with a thousand knives. And what does this AI do? It tortures feds to death. In fairly graphic detail. Easily my favorite parts.

Scribe 03/01/2022 (Tue) 21:34:49 No. 397 >>398

>>311 How is being opposed to revenge "SJW"?

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Anonymous 03/01/2022 (Tue) 22:26:03 No. 398

>>397 Well it's been 7 months, but I think there was some boohoo poor indians stuff. Lots of muscle chicks what don't need no man. That kinda eye rolling silliness. But ignore those bits, cause they suck and add nothing to the story, and its enjoyable enough. I guess having badass robodude break down crying because he gets massively downvoted by sjw types at the end of book three still pisses me off.

Inferno! -Chris Claremont Scribe 01/12/2022 (Wed) 19:18:45 No. 377 [Reply]

Strike the match…fan the flames…and light the Inferno! Limbo’s demon lords corrupt two of the X-Men’s nearest and dearest — Colossus’ sister, Illyana Rasputin, and Cyclops’ wife Madelyne Pryor — and use them to bring a horde of demons raining down on New York City! But as Illyana battles to regain her soul, Madelyne threatens to cast a spell that will merge Earth and limbo permanently — with the sacrifice being her own innocent son! And when Mister Sinister brings his own agenda into the mix, secrets are revealed that rock Cyclops to the core! The X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants face their most harrowing ordeal ever — with the fate of the world in the balance! https://getcomics.info/marvel/x-men-milestones-inferno-tpb-2019/

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50 shades of Führer Anonymous 11/27/2021 (Sat) 02:59:25 Id: 000000 No. 510 [Reply]

I had an idea for a steamy taboo romance. Making something in the likes of 50 shades of gray but with a nazi male protagonist. Like for example she is a regular girl who believes in BLM and almost gets raped by a pack of blacks. But them the hero appears and saves her. He behaves all mysterious and hard to get while showing he has a heart of gold in the process but then she discover his secret and start trying to convert him. He gives her a ultimatum and asks her to submit to his whims. Then the 50 shades shit starts and he teaches her to feel like a real submissive traditional woman. While all her friend reprimand her. We could make some and try to get the media reverse hyped about it. How its despicable and racist and all that and then take advantage of the forbidden fruit effect to make women want to read it. It would be just so easy marketing. The idea is precisely to exploit that taboo thing to arouse interest. There's psychological research on it that says people will show more interest for an article if the researcher mentioned previously it was banned or something. It could be such a success. But more for ego boost for the writer. Because selling this would be a nightmare. Anyone wants to do it?

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Anonymous 11/29/2021 (Mon) 05:27:38 Id: f35f94 No. 515 >>517

Okay meta notes. I like writing here because it brings notice to anons board and I like him, and I like drawing attention here, this is a much more sfw board than >>>/lit/ however and this book can't really be finished here, so I'm gonna do what we can here before eventually moving the whole thing to /lit/ Heads up for future notice, when it happens I will announce it and provide a link. Probably a month from that happening though. Anyway as always thanks to anon for keeping a clean, spamfree board to write in, and thanks for his help when it's needed on projects. Looking forward to finally finishing a story for once, let's hope this is the one that actually gets to those magic words. "The end."

>>517

Anonymous 11/29/2021 (Mon) 06:44:33 Id: 998a5e No. 516 >>517

The idea is silly as shit, but more power to you. That said, no steamy BDSM smut on muh precious ded board.

>>517

Anonymous 11/29/2021 (Mon) 19:13:36 Id: 000000 No. 517

>>514 >I needed him violent off the bat, because I find that easier to write Just remember the target are regular white girls. Don't take it too far. I think being as violent as a marvel movie is a safe bet >>515 Godspeed anon >>516 kek

50 shades of Führer Scribe 11/27/2021 (Sat) 03:03:08 No. 370 [Reply] >>371

I had an idea for a steamy taboo romance. Making something in the likes of 50 shades of gray but with a nazi male protagonist. Like for example she is a regular girl who believes in BLM and almost gets raped by a pack of blacks. But them the hero appears and saves her. He behaves all mysterious and hard to get while showing he has a heart of gold in the process but then she discover his secret and start trying to convert him. He gives her a ultimatum and asks her to submit to his whims. Then the 50 shades shit starts and he teaches her to feel like a real submissive traditional woman. While all her friend reprimand her. We could make some and try to get the media reverse hyped about it. How its despicable and racist and all that and then take advantage of the forbidden fruit effect to make women want to read it. It would be just so easy marketing. The idea is precisely to exploit that taboo thing to arouse interest. There's psychological research on it that says people will show more interest for an article if the researcher mentioned previously it was banned or something. It could be such a success. But more for ego boost for the writer. Because selling this would be a nightmare. Anyone wants to do it?

>>371

Scribe 11/28/2021 (Sun) 09:13:52 No. 371 >>373

>>370 "Closing in ten minutes!" A bored looking male barista with two earrings lets out in a falsetto. Sheila glances down at her half finished macchiato, then puts away her iphone with the buzzfeed article half read. I'll finish it on the subway she thinks as she sips her cold milky coffee. Zipping up her purse she stands and heads towards the exit. A black youth sitting in the back smiles and stands up, following her towards the exit. Sheila doesn't get more than ten steps out of the starbucks before wondering how those inhuman police could have gunned down that innocent African-American. He had just finished highschool and was applying to yale the article on buzzfeed had said, and she just couldn't understand those racist savages in blue, pausing on the sidewalk she unzips her purse to get at her iphone. Suddenly her arm is grabbed and she feels herself being pulled into the narrow alley between the starbucks and the borders book store. "You say anything and I'll cut your fucking throat bitch" a low black voice utters into her ear as she feels something sharp prod her in the small of her back. Stifling a cry she tries to turn and find out what's going on when another hand clamps over her mouth. She is thrown into a dumpster and falls as the hot red blood gushes from a gash on her forehead. "Fuck it we gonna have some fun first whore" She look up through the red haze as a black male who looks to be about 16 advances towards her with a rusty switchblade held blade up in his right palm, a large smile splits his face, and suddenly she understands what is happening but not why. So she does the worst thing she could do and screams. His smile disappears and his face lights up with rage "Goddamnit you cracker whore I told you what was going to happen!" The barista passes the alley, the streetlights showing sheila him in full detail as his face jerks away from the scene and he steps away.

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Scribe 11/28/2021 (Sun) 09:14:33 No. 372 >>373

Obviously wont be in any final version book or otherwise, but here's what is probably blasting from his stereo as our hero makes his escape from a biased justice system. >a file had a format not allowed by the server. >mp3. Ugh lets try this then https://files.catbox.moe/d4rk7t.mp3 https://files.catbox.moe/i5pc0b.mp3

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Scribe 11/28/2021 (Sun) 23:01:20 No. 373

>>371 I started reading it expecting just some pol humor greentext kind of thing but this is pretty good anon. The biker stereotype fits pretty well. Just remember he has to be high status like CEO or something >Sheila Not a better name? kek >Sheila can't believe this is happening, she attended a BLM protest last month, and always donated to the NAACP. This feels a bit of a caricature though. I think it would be better like >Sheila couldn't believe it. How could she deserve it? She attended a BLM protest last month, and practiced everything she learned at the african-american studies subject. She has always fought racism. Idk I think mentioning NAACP feels unnatural. Normies are pretty ignorant >he is white, and he is violent Kek >>372

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Infinity Cup & advertising Scribe 07/13/2021 (Tue) 23:03:10 No. 101 [Reply]

How about we try our luck with this thing? There's currently no team that owns the /lit/ name and it could help garner us some anons without having to go out of our way to advertise it.

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Scribe 07/14/2021 (Wed) 07:53:27 No. 122 >>123

>>120 big letters can play on that entire side, small letters can play only in that specific side not pictured: goalkeeper, which is the lone guy who stands in the goal area >>121 /v/ only plays as zzz/v/ and Mark's /v/ only has a Gamergate team afaik

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Scribe 07/14/2021 (Wed) 07:55:49 No. 123

>>122 Yeah whatever the GG team. Hell if they already have a team we could move that forward to august. Or even late july really.

Scribe 11/25/2021 (Thu) 20:27:33 No. 369

Anon.cafe/pol/ recently got purged, you can have our team if you want. https://anon.cafe/icup/res/1662.html

unabomber manifesto scrybe 11/20/2021 (Sat) 12:11:29 No. 364 [Reply]

industrial society critique

Challenger's Hope - David Feintuch - seafort saga Scribe 08/19/2021 (Thu) 05:56:44 No. 306 [Reply]

The second book in the series. Im including the 1995 hardcover book club edition art, because I have always liked it better. And it conveys Seafort's complete and total hatred for satans children. Which all xenos must be. So here we get to see probably the the second longest campaign waged against the fish in these books. It picks up more in the third, but here we really start to rack up the kills. And then disaster once more. With no way home, food and air running low. A crew made up of the worst offenders, and impressed colonists. Only two functional lasers. Stranded in deep. Awaiting the casual hand of death. Damn this is my favorite of the whole series. The only thing that can hold the ship together, and see anyone home alive is the Captain's fanatical discipline, and complete and totally unshakeable will. Highly recommended. You will have fun.

Scribe 08/19/2021 (Thu) 09:38:13 No. 307

Two books in is a good time to talk about the cap'n. I am not entirely sure what the authors intent is for several scenes. Nick comes across as slightly deranged. It reminds me of zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. In that the author there was an asshole, and didn't know it. So his character's tend to do weird fucked up shit. Similar here, although the extenuating circumstances that Nick goes through could explain his behavior. I think we are supposed to be seeing a man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. When he is likeable it is despite his massive character flaws, or perhaps it is when he isn't concerned with trivialities. Very little Vax in this book. A shame as he is an interesting character in his own right, and is seen very little of in the third book. What these characters are feeling, or why they behave as they do is troubling to me. I don't know if its inconsistent writing or if David had a point. Or maybe he understood people better than me. If he did I wish I knew what exactly he knew about humanity.

The Guns of Avalon - Roger Zelazny - Amber 2 Scribe 08/15/2021 (Sun) 01:43:25 No. 303 [Reply]

Ah Corwin, our beloved heroic protagonist, rightful King of Amber, and currently a blind prisoner in it's dungeons. Yeah somehow we start in worse place than the first book. But it ends with Corwin deciding this fantasy universe needs M-16s. Ignore the Darla parts as much as possible. She sucks.

Midshipman's hope - Seafort Saga 1 - David Feintuch Scribe 07/30/2021 (Fri) 11:32:20 No. 271 [Reply] >>285

I shouldn't make threads at this ungodly hour. I can barely see. Oh well Midshipman's Hope! We meet our fucked up asshole of a hero. First midshipman Nicholas Ewing Seafort. The man who pisses everyone in the galaxy off, I love him. Ah what a prick, that motherfucker. So the germ of this book was ole Davy saying to himself, what if a captain was incompetent, and worse everyone knew, and worst he knows hes incompetent and everyone knows. The plot needs him unable to resign so that's what the customs of his government, training, and religion give him. So there we are deep interstellar in a world that sees ships take years to reach colony worlds, and bang hes captain. Oh it gets good, and oh so bad. Anons David can't write a convincing woman to save his goddamn life. Which is probably why his chicks seem so real. Inscrutability can be a benefit. We also meet Vax Holser, Sandy Wilsky, and Alexi Tamarov. All semi interesting in their own idiosyncrasies. We get full scale mutinies, boarding actions, corridor firefights, drunken brawls, first contact ever and immediately afterwards aliens get blown to stardust. A yes. A strong christian government that brooks no heretical hellspawn or mutiny against Gods own government. Shit what we don't get in this first book we get in spades in the truly impactful sequel. You ever felt hunger pangs? Well prepare for Davy to give you PTSD. I defy you not to lose weight reading the sequel. Ah but we can plug that later. Anyway where was I. Can't remember. Post time.

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Scribe 08/02/2021 (Mon) 09:39:32 No. 285

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Fulgrim - Horus heresy 5 - Graham McNeill Scribe 07/30/2021 (Fri) 09:55:28 No. 269 [Reply] >>270

Ah book 5. Here we are finally leaving Horus' shadow and narrative for a bit. Graham is pretty good, it's unfortunate that insane artists are only marginally interesting to me. So we see Fulgrim take the road to damnation. Demons in swords. Genes fucked up. And finally an orgy of death. Ah emperor's children. Always with the raping. Yeah this was kinda fun. Needed more ferrus manus.

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Scribe 07/30/2021 (Fri) 10:20:40 No. 270

>>269 Oh yeah theres a cool murder suicide thing. And a serial killer. I mean basic emps children shit basically. All involving remembrancer artists.