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packetmantis posted:Wild digressions are my favorite part of Stephenson books. Oh yes, it is definitely what he does best.
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m about 1/3rd of the way through The Curse of Chalion and, while I am truly enjoying the world and the intrigue, the 35 year old protagonist pining after a 19 year old girl is getting tiresome and a little weird. Does it get better? I actually posted about this when I was reading it a month or two ago, it doesn't really go anywhere and doesn't get really creepy, and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor #3) by Mark Lawrence - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FZN2S29/ Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1) by Sebastien de Castell - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TV2K5NC/
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Stuporstar posted:It’s like Piranesi but poo poo Glad someone said it. Tone was insufferable, and it felt like the very definition of style over substance. You’re meant to want to unravel the mystery, but there were no compelling people so it felt like an empty, self-indulgent exercise.
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Drakyn posted:Awww yeah share that sweet Stephenson dirt. The person who I think is the future SFF author David Mitchell posted in the SFL Archives using the handle "David Mitchell" <david@edenroad.demon.co.uk> Feel free to dig into SFL Archives Vol 21b and share them yourself.
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Between Two Fires was excellent, it's probably the best pickup I've had from this thread since The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Between Two Fires was excellent, it's probably the best pickup I've had from this thread since The Traitor Baru Cormorant. You might enjoy his other books too! The Blacktongue Thief, The Necromancer’s House, and The Lesser Dead were all excellent. None went quite as hard as Between Two Fires but still some of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
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A while back people talked about a book publisher in here that made fancy versions of books a la Folio Society. Pretty sure people were saying they were even more upscale though and I think they had a weird business model, either a subscription or you had to buy the rights to purchase a book before it was printed. Anyone know what I'm referring to?
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Between Two Fires: Pretty sure the guy she saves from the stockades is the apocryphal Wandering Jew, hence why they recognize each other
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Megasabin posted:A while back people talked about a book publisher in here that made fancy versions of books a la Folio Society. Pretty sure people were saying they were even more upscale though and I think they had a weird business model, either a subscription or you had to buy the rights to purchase a book before it was printed. Anyone know what I'm referring to? Subterranean Press? You generally need to pre-order one of their releases if you want to have a chance at getting one. It's definitely not more upscale than Folio Society, though.
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Audible rules when you're doing boring stuff at the gym like rowing. An hour will just fly by whilst you are listening to some epic sci fi battle instead of thinking about why your butt is going numb and oh god when will this end. Also when doing chores.
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Megasabin posted:A while back people talked about a book publisher in here that made fancy versions of books a la Folio Society. Pretty sure people were saying they were even more upscale though and I think they had a weird business model, either a subscription or you had to buy the rights to purchase a book before it was printed. Anyone know what I'm referring to? Suntup.
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Anyone read the new Adrian Tchaikovsky? Sounds like a straight up slice of space opera, which I could really go for right now.
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Junkenstein posted:Anyone read the new Adrian Tchaikovsky? Sounds like a straight up slice of space opera, which I could really go for right now. any word on which invertebrate species makes its sexy debut?
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buffalo all day posted:any word on which invertebrate species makes its sexy debut? The blurb makes it sound like this one might be a bit more straightforward, but it's not like I went into Children of Time expecting to fall in love with a bunch of spiders who make computers out of ants so......
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buffalo all day posted:any word on which invertebrate species makes its sexy debut? Space crabs that decorate themselves with bling/electronic advertising billboards.
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team overhead smash posted:Space crabs that decorate themselves with bling/electronic advertising billboards. It says something about this series that I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
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Ccs posted:You might enjoy his other books too! The Blacktongue Thief, The Necromancer’s House, and The Lesser Dead were all excellent. None went quite as hard as Between Two Fires but still some of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Also as Christophe the Insulter he worked the Ren Faire scene for a long time and is a generally solid dude.
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Seconding the Lesser Dead which was excellent.
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Deptfordx posted:Seconding the Lesser Dead which was excellent. Christopher narrates the audiobook himself and he is dang good at it imo. does all the voices. what a bleak book though. par for the course i guess. looks like he made his go fund me goal and also it turns out the injury isn't as bad as it first seemed, cool.
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Finished The Two of Swords by KJ Parker. A fairly satisfying ending to a satisfying series overall
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Kestral posted:It says something about this series that I can't tell if this is a joke or not. when he introduced the octopodes in children of ruin i was like oh man this guy just can't help himself
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buffalo all day posted:when he introduced the octopodes in children of ruin i was like oh man this guy just can't help himself He's living his dream
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:He's living his dream The Doors of Eden were like if a cosmic horror had a well balanced sane protagonist. Had all sorts of weird sapient races.
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Sibling of TB posted:The Doors of Eden were like if a cosmic horror had a well balanced sane protagonist. Had all sorts of weird sapient races. unfortunately at least to me, the Literal In-Universe Biology Textbook parts were a lot better to read than the actual plot
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Junkenstein posted:Anyone read the new Adrian Tchaikovsky? Sounds like a straight up slice of space opera, which I could really go for right now. it's not slice of life, first book of a series standard enjoyable AT
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I thought The Doors of Eden was decent, with a weirdish split between the aforementioned textbook sections and the main story portion. It does make me wish there were more books in the "explore a dozen different worlds", basically Sliders family. Actually, not that The Doors of Eden fits, but a monster-of-the-week approach is something I'd be interested in seeing more of in fiction. The same characters facing very different planets/monsters/whatever, short story or novella length, would be v. cool. Maybe this exists in Kindle unlimited and it just all sucks? 
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Aardvark! posted:I thought The Doors of Eden was decent, with a weirdish split between the aforementioned textbook sections and the main story portion. I think that sort of format used to be fairly common in older SF, when fix-ups were more common.
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eke out posted:unfortunately at least to me, the Literal In-Universe Biology Textbook parts were a lot better to read than the actual plot I mean you can say the same of Moby Dick
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Kestral posted:It says something about this series that I can't tell if this is a joke or not. It’s not a joke, though it’s also not a major part of the story. One member of the crew is a crab person and they run into another crab person or two, but there isn’t that xenothropological focus that you see in his other books.
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Aardvark! posted:I thought The Doors of Eden was decent, with a weirdish split between the aforementioned textbook sections and the main story portion. I think the old Sector General series kinda fits? Alien-of-the-week hospital drama. I’ve read a few and they were pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General Stuporstar fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I mean you can say the same of Moby Dick The Hunchback of Notre Dame, too, but with a thesis on architecture and an overwhelming sense of Old Man Yells At Neoclassical Building Quorum fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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https://www.tor.com/2020/03/17/a-guide-for-working-breeds-vina-jie-min-prasad/ Forgot this existed, and it's awesome.
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Thanks; that was fun.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://www.tor.com/2020/03/17/a-guide-for-working-breeds-vina-jie-min-prasad/ That was adorable!
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://www.tor.com/2020/03/17/a-guide-for-working-breeds-vina-jie-min-prasad/ Everyone should read this
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://www.tor.com/2020/03/17/a-guide-for-working-breeds-vina-jie-min-prasad/
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Stuporstar posted:I think the old Sector General series kinda fits? Alien-of-the-week hospital drama. I’ve read a few and they were pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General
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Because of you guys I just started on Between Two Fires and holy crap, this thing is, well, fire.
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