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SimonChris posted:If the birthdate was part of a larger bio, I wouldn't think too much about it, but this definitely seems odd. Sorry what's the red flag here? Is it linked to the Nazi 1888 thing? I was born in 1988 too but yeah I'd never put that in my bio.
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freebooter posted:Sorry what's the red flag here? Is it linked to the Nazi 1888 thing? I was born in 1988 too but yeah I'd never put that in my bio. I haven't looked into her beyond a very quick google after reading the piece, but who is the author? Has anyone found anything else they've done?
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I haven't looked into her beyond a very quick google after reading the piece, but who is the author? Has anyone found anything else they've done? It's an alias Likely chosen from a short story by Ian R MacLeod (which doesn't mean he wrote the piece in question), called Isabel of the Fall
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Best wishes Battuta, I hope everything will get better for you soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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I had read a little bit of Resnick's stuff back in the day and was underwhelmed, so his latter day antics were what I remembered him as, glad to see it's being talked about.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon. But also ravenkult posted:What's going on with B?
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon. But don't share anything you don't feel comfortable sharing, look after yourself.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Best wishes Battuta, I hope everything will get better for you soon. Same. Also, got Monster Baru Cormorant for Christmas and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Anyone got recs for good horror sci-fi? Last thing I read (for the second time) that came close was Blindsight. Also, some sections of The Expanse.
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone got recs for good horror sci-fi? Last thing I read (for the second time) that came close was Blindsight. Also, some sections of The Expanse. Steel Frame has a few horror elements, since you mentioned the Expanse and may not need full-on horror. It's a neat book about mechs and giant rusting battleships.
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone got recs for good horror sci-fi? Last thing I read (for the second time) that came close was Blindsight. Also, some sections of The Expanse. Luminous Dead, Hull Zero Three, the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation et al)?
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone got recs for good horror sci-fi? Last thing I read (for the second time) that came close was Blindsight. Also, some sections of The Expanse. Ship of Fools (Unto Leviathan if you're in the UK)
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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Thanks for the sci-horror recs, keep them coming if you have them!90s Cringe Rock posted:Steel Frame has a few horror elements, since you mentioned the Expanse and may not need full-on horror. It's a neat book about mechs and giant rusting battleships. Read mech and giant rusting battleships, headed to the store page and read "centuries old mech" and "permanent unnerving storm in space" and bought it without thinking twice. It's like all my favorite food at once. How did you know.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Steel Frame has a few horror elements, since you mentioned the Expanse and may not need full-on horror. It's a neat book about mechs and giant rusting battleships. Steel Frame is one of the best books of my recent reads. A good self contained story with a nice flow and cool setup.
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Iron Council by China Miéville - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1TH6/
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon. Hey lack of insurance sucks, let us know if we can crowd fund some health care for you.
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cptn_dr posted:Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon.
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tima posted:Hey lack of insurance sucks, let us know if we can crowd fund some health care for you. Oh poo poo, is that what's happening?
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ToxicFrog posted:Oh poo poo, is that what's happening? Not to invade gb's privacy, but if you look him up on Twitter he has been talking about it for the past few days.
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tima posted:Not to invade gb's privacy, but if you look him up on Twitter he has been talking about it for the past few days.
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I honestly don't know what's going on with him, but I'm assuming that he's working through some depression. He had some issues with it either last year or so. That's my guess, anyway. No idea about the tweets since they are protected. Depression sucks, and I hope he checks in here and sees the feedback we have for him. He's a good dude.
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Anyone read Winter World by A. G. Riddle and have thoughts? Premise seems cool, reviews drawing similarities with Dan Brown makes me skeptical.
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Solidarity to the General. Incredible cover for his next Baru book. So excited for it. If you haven't seen it link.
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pseudorandom name posted:Shout outs to one of my favorite posters, General Battuta, who’s having a very rough time of it. Please get well, we care about you.
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ed balls balls man posted:Solidarity to the General. That is indeed pretty sweet.
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ed balls balls man posted:Solidarity to the General. I thought Tyrant was his title for the last book? I hope things pick up for him.
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Jedit posted:I thought Tyrant was his title for the last book? 
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ed balls balls man posted:Solidarity to the General. Great cover! DACK FAYDEN posted:I also thought Tyrant was going to be book 4 and also hope things turn around for GB Judging by the page length (752) vs 401 and 449 for books 1 and 2, maybe the publisher realized it was better to re-merge the forced split to a quadrilogy, so now Tyrant is the last book?
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There was William Gibson chat happening earlier, bringing it back up so certain peeps can get their privacy on. Never saw Gibson as a great counter-cultural writer, always saw Gibson as the scifi precursor version of Bret Easton Ellis. Both are peak white boomers, both had one or two interesting mega-selling novels early in their careers, both aged (hard) out of their writing comfort zones, both have focused on increasingly shallower and shallower stories as society/events outraced their wildest ideas. Resnick death: Mike Resnick wrote the same generic main character in his stories time after time after time after time, but that was good enough for sci-fi during the 60s/70s/80s. That's why nobody really remembers any of his stories outside of the Fall of Mankind/Birthright collection. Resnick's conduct towards female writers and female fans at scifi conventions was terrible in the Isaac Asimov/Harlan Ellison way. Things got shushed down because Resnick was best friends with the people that ran the conventions/had seniority at scifi panels/had anthology editorship power. Thinking back about Isaac Asimov, and his #MeToo gropiness: guess that's why Asimov wrote so many robot/3 laws of robotics stories. Robots can't speak out or fight back when they get groped or worse.
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