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Thanks for Dawnhounds. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NERQRPI/ The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003U2TR6I/
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Doorknob Slobber posted:i started reading dawnhounds last week then i got too sick to read, im feeling a little better today though so maybe i can start back up soon username/post combo
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I've put The Dawnhounds up for free for a week, if anybody wanted a quarantine read and/or a plague book with a hopeful ending Thank you!
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Holy poo poo goons, y'all showed the gently caress up for me today Today's downloads are so high, they broke the graph.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Holy poo poo goons, y'all showed the gently caress up for me today 
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Black Griffon posted:read dawnhounds you cowards Yeah, it's real fuckin' good. (Didn't realize it was goonwritten when I read it, either.)
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If you're a particular kind of nerd, Dave Morris' Virtual Reality gamebooks (re-branded as Critical IF which is an awful and confusing name) are free on Kindle until Sunday. They're diceless, but you still have character attributes and gather possessions, so they're sort of like one step above Choose Your own Adventure. Anyway I enjoyed them a lot as a kid, maybe it's just nostalgia, but hey they're free. There's no shared series page for them but here's Down Among the Dead Men, a fun fantasy pirate romp: https://www.amazon.com/Down-Among-Dead-Critical-gamebooks/dp/1909905011
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Heart of Ice from that line is the best gamebook ever written.
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For some reason that's the only one that hasn't been discounted to free!
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freebooter posted:For some reason that's the only one that hasn't been discounted to free! Worth it though.
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Some recent repeats, but I'll include them just in case. Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XG6MG3Y/ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XB49BG4/ The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture #9) by Iain M Banks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081BU42O/ New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KT7YTO6/ Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations #1 & 2) by Michael J Sullivan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XWBUKK/
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Ah, balls, I checked the UK price and just assumed it was one of those deals where they only changed the US prices. I checked his blog and he said Amazon won't let him discount it for some reason, but you can read it online here: https://woodendice.org/flamekebab/heart_of_ice/heart_of_ice_v.1.0.7.html
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Holy poo poo goons, y'all showed the gently caress up for me today What’s the difference between lgbt science fic and straight science fic? like would an alternate universe where the CIA actually invents gay bombs and gender bending lasers count? cause that would be cool as gently caress
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the twist being that the target of the gay bombs were gah all along and couldn’t come out of the closet in the 1950’s. First book that casts the CIA as hero’s
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Genres are mostly marketing bullshit, Amazon's genres doubly so. It's sci-fi with queer characters in it; the shoe fit better than the rest of their lovely options.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I've put The Dawnhounds up for free for a week, if anybody wanted a quarantine read and/or a plague book with a hopeful ending Thank you! It's been on my "maybe check this out sometime" backlog for a while, maybe I'll get to it next.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Genres are mostly marketing bullshit, Amazon's genres doubly so. It's sci-fi with queer characters in it; the shoe fit better than the rest of their lovely options. lol I read that as "genders are mostly marketing bullshit"
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Clark Nova posted:lol I read that as "genders are mostly marketing bullshit" Also true!
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Bloodchild: And Other Stories by Octavia E Butler - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HALO0U/ Thief's Magic (Millenium Rule #1) by Trudi Canavan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EXTQV2A/ Sand Omnibus by Hugh Howey - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSXGYCK/ Any opinions on these? I know the authors but not these specific books.
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Read it a while ago so don't have the most specific memory of it, but I liked Bloodchild.
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Friendly reminder that Angry Robot has their entire catalog on sale at the moment for 50% off, no minimum or maximum, if you use the code SHELFISOLATION. I snagged 3 books I'd been looking forward to for not only cheaper than they would have been off amazon BEFORE the coupon, but with the coupon it came up to like 9 bucks.
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Global coronavirus lockdown has allowed me to: -put a dent in the backlog of fiction on my reading list (the less famous stories of HG Wells, unexpurgated Aristophanes, project gutenberg mystery stories collections, etc) -finally notice that John Ringo + Peter Watts have degrees in the same field yet are wildly different authors -figure out what kind of hard scifi story I really want to read Finished reading the Locke and Key Library, Classic Mystery And Detective Stories (published @1909) and Stanley Weyman's Fowl in the Pot short story was the standout story in the collection (its ending was  ). http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2038/2038-h/2038-h.htm#The_Fowl_in_the_Pot A good goon author like SurreptitiousMuffin could do wonders reworking it to modern standards.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Friendly reminder that Angry Robot has their entire catalog on sale at the moment for 50% off, no minimum or maximum, if you use the code SHELFISOLATION. Which ones are good.
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I liked the Jay posey outrider books - although I don't think he'll ever finish them. Kameron Hurley is reliable, her latest light brigade is a good read.
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Zartosht posted:Biogenesis by Tatsuaki Ishiguro. Totally unlike anything you've read before, I guarantee it. Got this for free on Kindle with this 10 dollar credit thing! Sweet!
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I grabbed Sixteenth watch by Mike Cole. I did enjoy one series I can't remember the name of but it has Known Devil as one of the books. Decent urban fantasy cop series. Basically each book will probably cost you somewhere in the $2 to $4 range so it's not like it's going to be a bank breaker if you pick a bad one.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Friendly reminder that Angry Robot has their entire catalog on sale at the moment for 50% off, no minimum or maximum, if you use the code SHELFISOLATION. Thanks for the tip! I don't remember seeing it mentioned in this thread, but Humble Bundle is having an SF/F bundle available for the next 3 days: Celebrating 25 Years Of Sci-Fi & Fantasy From Tachyon Pay €1: The Sword & Sorcery Anthology edited by Jacob Weisman and David Hartwell Ancient Rockets by Kage Baker The Best of Michael Moorcock The Wall of America by Thomas M. Disch Locked contentPirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling Stable Strategies and Others by Eileen Gunn Steampunk Revolution edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Pay €7.50 also adds: Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel The Apes of Wrath edited by Rick Klaw Beyond Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James Morrow The Monstrous edited by Ellen Datlow Starlings by Jo Walton How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen The People's Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas Pay €14 also adds: Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory The Last Tsar's Dragons by Adam Stemple and Jane Yolen The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley Slipping by Lauren Beukes
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I am doing one last poke, because nominations close tomorrow; after this I  to never self-promote in the thread again. WorldCon is going digital but the awards are still on, and this would still be huge career-wise. If you liked the book, please chuck a nomination my way. SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I tend to avoid posting/engaging in discussion about my own book because it feels very Self-Important Writer Online, but if you liked The Dawnhounds please consider nominating me for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel this year.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I am doing one last poke, because nominations close tomorrow; after this I I only got about 20% through it before everything went to poo poo and I decided to comfort-read old favorites that didn't require me to think anymore, but I liked what I read and so I nominated it.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Anyway, how did y'all feel about Blackfish City? I enjoyed it. Badass lesbian Inuit grandma was great.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I am doing one last poke, because nominations close tomorrow; after this I Noted, and good luck!
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Cythereal posted:I enjoyed it. Badass lesbian Inuit grandma was great.
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Book #1 of CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series is $2.99 on Kindle, https://www.amazon.com/Foreigner-10th-Anniversary-Book-ebook/dp/B006JHXPDW/ I've been reading her Gene Wars series, and all I can say is give it amiss unless you're a completionist. It's good, I like the characters, and a few interesting things are going on, but it's loving interminable. Book 1 just went on and on about nomads in a desert, book 2 looks like Alliance-Union but a millenia in the future, after a nanotech/genetic engineering war with a mysterious alien species. And it's not nearly as entertaining as that premise sounds. I'll finish book 2, but I just want it to be over.
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Volume 01 of the SF-LOVERS digest reminded me just how long certain SF&F authors have been around for. C. J. Cherryh won the 1979 Hugo Best Short Story award, and was also a runner up for the same years Best Novel Hugo. Orson Scott Card was a runner-up for the 1979 Hugo novellete award, while Stephen R. Donaldson won the 1979 Campbell award for best new writer.
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googling for more giant book series to check out as covid continues and it's Kate Elliott again: "the description stuck with me: an Afro-Celtic post-Roman icepunk Regency novel with airships, Phoenician spies, and the intelligent descendants of troodons." I'm going to have to pick up her Spiritwalker trilogy really really soon because I need to see how the hell this mashup works
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 My books made it! I now have Kate Elliott's chonker of a trilogy and two standalones by Saintcrow - perfect quarantine reading, along with the rest of my hoard.
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The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30) by Terry Prachett - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R33QWY/ Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GUK7JQ/ The Killing Moon (Dreamblood #1) by NK Jemisin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005SCS4IK/
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan #1) by Steven Erickson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KYHZLQ/ The Player of Games (Culture #2) by Iain M Banks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002WM3HC2/ War Dogs by Greg Bear - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II3KY1Q
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