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navyjack posted:Edit: Yeah; even as someone who really likes the series, it definitely is a bit up itself (and would probably benefit from a pro editing it.) But the good outweighs that for me.
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Cardiac posted:Too bad all that fluff is in a book which is utterly boring. It is like the author thought that a storyline is not needed compared to world building, making Sanderson appear as Dostoyevsky in comparison. I have read RPG manuals with better stories. Having a reasoned discussion about a series of books that are infamously hard to parse isn't promotion. You might just be a dick!
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The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJZT8GJ/
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Oct 15, 2021 22:18
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Hmmm, Iron Widow has my attention https://twitter.com/ragbonehair/status/1448665056606965761
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John Lee posted:Hmmm, Iron Widow has my attention Haha, that's amazing. I did really enjoy the book, and definitely will be keeping an eye out on her work from here out. I wish I did have it in physical though instead of Kindle as the art is great! I specifically bought Phoenix extravagant in physical for that reason. Disclaimer: I am also not the author as I've now commented about this book twice recently! Injera fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Lawman 0 posted:Should I read "Stormbringer"? If you mean Moorcock's novel, yes, you should. It's a tremendous piece of apocalyptic fiction.
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Jedit posted:If you mean Moorcock's novel, yes, you should. It's a tremendous piece of apocalyptic fiction. Yeah.
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shirunei posted:Having a reasoned discussion about a series of books that are infamously hard to parse isn't promotion. You might just be a dick! I'm pretty sure he's just mad that nobody talks about his own self-published stuff. It couldn't be a difference in quality, nah, definitely guerilla marketing at work!
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He thought it was 'interesting' that the left dislikes Richard Morgan despite his anticapitalism and then didn't answer when people explained Morgan is a TERF. Interesting that he drops these remarks and then doesn't respond to any follow-up! Almost like some kind of troll.
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Lawman 0 posted:Should I read "Stormbringer"? Yes. I'd suggest reading all the original Elric series, but I think Stormbringer stands by itself well enough.
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Moorcock's Elric books are up there with Glen Cook's Black Company and William Gibson's Neuromancer in terms of "Once you read them you will see their influence everywhere". If you do read them and ever find yourself going "Hey, this is just like <Other Fantasy Series>", you've got it backwards and they're just like Elric.
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Iron Widow was indeed a lot of fun. Definitely gave me big Red Rising vibes - only, y'know, set in future-China rather than future-Rome. I assume An Lushan isn't going to stay dead - he still needs to live up to his namesake.
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Darth Walrus posted:Iron Widow was indeed a lot of fun. Definitely gave me big Red Rising vibes - only, y'know, set in future-China rather than future-Rome. I assume An Lushan isn't going to stay dead - he still needs to live up to his namesake. I figure that because it’s future scifi China and he literally lives in her brain now he’ll get Rex’s at some point.
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Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0819W1L1W/
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ulmont posted:Commonweal spoiler (well, speculation): Yeah I'm excited to see where that goes. The main Commonweal already didn't use focuses and low-sorcery type stuff nearly as much as the Creeks even before the split, and most (all?) of the powerful conservative mages are in the original one. But the way the Commonweals are set up makes it really awkward for anyone who isn't a Line unit or carrying a limited token to leave, so maybe they just straight up won't have anything but rare, sporadic contact.
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This prompted me to check on e-book versions of Elric again, and they're finally getting released (in February), so at least I'll get them eventually.
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smackfu posted:Red Rising sequels worth reading if I was kinda iffy on the first one? Depends on why you were iffy, the writing’s not better but they’re less hunger games-ish
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smackfu posted:Red Rising sequels worth reading if I was kinda iffy on the first one? The first book was setup for the gigantic space-opera revolutionary war, the second two books actually deliver. The second trilogy has so far covered the counter-revolution where just about everything goes to poo poo. So if you're on board for that, you'll get what you want.
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Darth Walrus posted:The first book was setup for the gigantic space-opera revolutionary war, the second two books actually deliver. The second trilogy has so far covered the counter-revolution where just about everything goes to poo poo. So if you're on board for that, you'll get what you want. I liked them a lot more, they're a a bit silly, lots of bildungsroman mixed with faux Rome and 40k levels of violence.
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Finished Hummingbird Salamander and honestly I’d probably skip it if you’re on the fence. It’s basically a dystopian detective novel set in the near future, the narrator abandons her family and career for the thinnest sketch of a mystery, and the final reveal just isn’t big enough to justify the rest of it. Made it through KSR’s Red Mars (third attempt I think?) - it gets better after they actually make it to Mars and start spreading out from the initial base. Funny how things like watching live TV seem so quaint now after just a few years of streaming/on demand services. Any opinions on Blue/Green Mars?
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Red Rising is surprising good considering how Hunger Games/generic YA the first one skews with the death games and caste system. I had to enjoy the first one part-ironically, but 2 and 3 are genuinely good space opera about overthrowing genemodded space rome.
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Another Dirty Dish posted:Finished Hummingbird Salamander and honestly I’d probably skip it if you’re on the fence. It’s basically a dystopian detective novel set in the near future, the narrator abandons her family and career for the thinnest sketch of a mystery, and the final reveal just isn’t big enough to justify the rest of it. Sax really comes into his own as a viewpoint character in Green Mars. I'm iffy on Blue Mars but it gives some semblance of emotional closure to the characters.
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Another Dirty Dish posted:Finished Hummingbird Salamander and honestly I’d probably skip it if you’re on the fence. It’s basically a dystopian detective novel set in the near future, the narrator abandons her family and career for the thinnest sketch of a mystery, and the final reveal just isn’t big enough to justify the rest of it. otoh I really loved The Killing, the first season of which is basically exactly this.
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When's the new Cradle? I vaguely recall soon, ish.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:When's the new Cradle? I vaguely recall soon, ish. November 2nd
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Another Dirty Dish posted:Finished Hummingbird Salamander and honestly I’d probably skip it if you’re on the fence. It’s basically a dystopian detective novel set in the near future, the narrator abandons her family and career for the thinnest sketch of a mystery, and the final reveal just isn’t big enough to justify the rest of it. Great news! Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088DPRZPJ/ Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GYI9C4/ Old Man's War by John Scalzi - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEIK2S/ Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HF2ZK75/ The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003U2TR6I/ Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GV95CWZ/ Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0879FRJ9X/ The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #1) by Brian Staveley - 2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FCQQCX6/
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Another Dirty Dish posted:Finished Hummingbird Salamander and honestly I’d probably skip it if you’re on the fence. It’s basically a dystopian detective novel set in the near future, the narrator abandons her family and career for the thinnest sketch of a mystery, and the final reveal just isn’t big enough to justify the rest of it. I agree with this summary, I just never got the motivation from her at all given what was presented, although a friend questioned her faithfulness as a narrator and that gives some additional nuance to the thing. Sucks because I have loved everything else by him I've read so far.
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Just finished Inhibitor Phase. Pouring one out for the good but extremely naughty ship Nostalgia for Infinity
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Finally getting to K.J. Parker's Shadow after buying it on sale forever ago and I'm realizing it's literally Candide, are th other two books in the series patterned after famous treatises too?
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Bilirubin posted:I agree with this summary, I just never got the motivation from her at all given what was presented, although a friend questioned her faithfulness as a narrator and that gives some additional nuance to the thing. Sucks because I have loved everything else by him I've read so far. I really like VanDerMeer's style and the atmosphere he brings into his works, but from Borne onwards I have kept waiting for his next book to be an absolute masterpiece and been underwhelmed in one way or another. That being said, I genuinely think VanDerMeer has a masterpiece in him still.
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Hey I don't know if anyone here goes to TOR.com, but apparently they've been owned and are actively trying to download malware onto visiting browsers, so maybe don't go there right now.
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Patrick Spens posted:Hey I don't know if anyone here goes to TOR.com, but apparently they've been owned and are actively trying to download malware onto visiting browsers, so maybe don't go there right now. It’s just their free ebook of the month program
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:It’s just their free ebook of the month program god drat
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First 6 books of Will Wight's Cradle series are all free. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP/
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:It’s just their free ebook of the month program 
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Strategic Tea posted:Red Rising is surprising good considering how Hunger Games/generic YA the first one skews with the death games and caste system. Thanks all, will give the second one a shot. Mainly didn’t like the first one once it got to the endless hunger games thing.
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