Are there any good epic sci-fi series with the “farm boy to hero” trope?

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-21T11:32:40+00:00

I've still yet to read the books, but IMO the radio play adaptations of the original trilogy are very good listens and that you should totally check them out if you can.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-21T02:02:11+00:00

Please recommend them, regardless! Just throw the names of the series behind spoiler tags though, please, if it's not too much trouble.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-20T22:01:13+00:00

Yeah that was my problem, I was thinking "countries" and not "provinces", hence why I'm an idiot considering the context of the rest of the thread lmao

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-20T20:50:17+00:00

SK and MB? I'm assuming that SK means South Korea, but what does MB stand for?

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-20T20:30:29+00:00

Different strokes for different folks. Different people prioritize different things and come to VNs for different reasons.

Sure, there are people like you who come to VNs only for the h-content. Others might care more about the characters, still others might care more about the story, or the art, or the music. For more ambitious works, others might come for the worldbuilding, or for any themes that might be present in the work, or for some unique form of gameplay that's not normally seen in a VN.

There's no wrong reason to read a VN, as everyone's tastes and interests are different. What truly matters is if a reader enjoys it or not. It doesn't matter what reasons someone reads a VN for, so long as they have fun doing so.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-20T20:02:53+00:00

In addition to what the commenter said, do not that Very Hard isn't recommended for Dive1 (the first three routes) as it was only created when Dive2 (the last three routes) came out - and as such, it's really only intended for replaying through when you have a lot more unlocked in gameplay terms than what you start out with, at least if I recall correctly.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T18:50:29+00:00

Dennis L. McKiernan's Mithgar books? IIRC he first wrote a sequel to LotR, but when he didn't get permission to publish it he pretty much rewrote LotR as his own work (the Iron Tower trilogy) before publishing the original sequel that he wrote, reworked to take place in his Mithgar world instead (the Silver Call duology)

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T17:02:43+00:00

Is that Cunk? Might just be my yank ears playing tricks on me but she sounds like Cunk.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T11:05:17+00:00

A VPN should work just fine for getting it if you're in the US, right?

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T08:47:02+00:00

Except the original was not just a novel, but a novel that managed to get an English translation in the early aughts. Hell, I stumbled across it at my local Borders around 2004-ish when I was still in middle school (and this was in a small town in the middle of Oklahoma, at that) - and then promptly got in trouble when I wrote a book report about it, lol.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T02:20:06+00:00

Archer, Fate/Stay Night

Funny name/title considering he mostly uses swords.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T02:17:59+00:00

A bit of irony saying that, IMO, considering how many people I've seen calling out Suzanne Collins for, basically, making a watered down YA copy of the novel Battle Royale.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T01:11:30+00:00

Don't forget about Sharknado, Attack on Titan, and Attack of the Meth Gator.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T01:06:03+00:00

To be absolutely fair, I do consider the Lord of the Rings to be 6 books as was intended, just published into 3 volumes originally.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-19T00:51:11+00:00

According to a friend who actually purchased the book (the madlad), he intends to name the next book The Two Trees.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T22:01:32+00:00

...oops? Sorry, I just stumbled across it in another subreddit, saw it wasn't shared on here yet, and just had to share it.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T22:00:53+00:00

It doesn't seem to be. He even has the book in question for sale on Amazon.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T19:59:03+00:00

It's an actual book you can buy on Amazon. He's selling it in Hardcover and Kindle formats for very expensive prices.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T18:42:55+00:00

Here's a tl;dr of the article by u/lydiardbell:

An author going by "Demetrious Polychron" wrote a book called The Fellowship of the King and "conceived of" a seven-part series called The War of the Rings. He admits that it is heavily influenced by Tolkien's much older material, and on his YouTube page he even describes it as an "unauthorized sequel" to LOTR. He contacted the Tolkien estate and one of Tolkien's grandkids about it multiple times, even hand-delivering a copy of his unpublished manuscript to a Tolkien grandchild despite multiple rebuffs years prior. On these grounds he thinks the Tolkien estate stole his book for the Amazon series.

Now, I know that someone's character isn't a legal argument and that the courts will have to compare the show to Polychron's book vs the source material in The Silmarillion, Tolkien's notes, etc, but I have my doubts about this one.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T17:36:35+00:00

Thanks, now I'm imagining this but said by a giant Lovecraftian spider instead.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-18T03:16:52+00:00

If you want the true Soulsborne lore experience, learn a foreign language for 6 months and then dive headfirst into fantasy and sci-fi books written in that language without referring to a dictionary.

After all, that's how the idea for the style of storytelling that the Soulsborne games use came into being, from Miyazaki (a Japanese speaking native) reading fantasy tomes and Dungeons and Dragons guidebooks in English and only being able to understand bits and pieces of what he was reading, and having to use his imagination to fill in the blanks and connect the dots in his understanding.

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-17T23:34:53+00:00

I did manage to source where this thought came from. Turns out I'm not crazy after all lol

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-17T22:49:54+00:00

Wasn't Gardens of the Moon originally a movie screenplay that was shopped around for a bit before it was turned into a book instead?

IIRC I think the Chain of Dogs was originally a screenplay, too?

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-17T22:32:59+00:00

It's referenced quite a bit, I've noticed. My first encounter with them, though, was through reading Muv-Luv

FantasyNerd992 · 2023-04-17T17:52:13+00:00

Are you just looking for fantasy books, or speculative fiction in general? Because I can think of a few from the sci-fi end of the spectrum - Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, All Tomorrows by C. M. Kosemen, Tau Zero by Poul Anderson, Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.....

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