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Ccs posted:Hideo Kojima shared the Japanese Murderbot covers. Character designs remind me of an old show about angels in a sort of orphanage that had a bit of a mystery plot but was mostly slice of life. Lol. I like them but it's kind of totally missing the point of the character.
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Ccs posted:Hideo Kojima shared the Japanese Murderbot covers. Character designs remind me of an old show about angels in a sort of orphanage that had a bit of a mystery plot but was mostly slice of life. wait is kojima going to make a murderbot video game because . . .ok 90s Cringe Rock posted:Tactical Murderbot Action but instead of half-hour cutscenes and codec calls you can pause at any moment to watch entire episodes of Sanctuary Moon. I'm here for it
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Lunsku posted:Started parsing through these on the train back home, and figured that no, Spinrad's Iron Dream is not going to be the book I'm going to start in a packed train. The cover art will raise questions that most probably will not be adequately answered by the cover itself. “Hmm, don’t know that one. Let me look up that cover right qui-“  90s Cringe Rock posted:Tactical Murderbot Action but instead of half-hour cutscenes and codec calls you can pause at any moment to watch entire episodes of Sanctuary Moon. 
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Lunsku posted:Given that I have metres of unread book waiting, and that I've accepted that at this point I am collecting paper more than collecting books, I really should not be allowed free at those few times when I'm traveling in somewhere with half decent bookstores and sf&f-antiquaries. But anyway, I just get joy from looking at the fresh, if small haul. It's plenty for my reading speed nowadays: Is it the Hitler on the motorcycle front on or 3/4 profile? Or th big nazi fist?
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Just found out Neal Stephenson has a global warming thriller coming out in a couple weeks, and uhhquote:One man – visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D. – has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?
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Please let this be modeled after Papa John and the solution is less black people because they absorb more sunlight
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Zoracle Zed posted:Just found out Neal Stephenson has a global warming thriller coming out in a couple weeks, and uhh Global warming: actually good? In this new novel I will
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Zoracle Zed posted:Just found out Neal Stephenson has a global warming thriller coming out in a couple weeks, and uhh I, billionaire Mr. Edward Chili, will solve global warming by producing so many of our world famous sizzling Chili's Fajitas® that the steam will form a protective cloud barrier against solar radiation!
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Zoracle Zed posted:Just found out Neal Stephenson has a global warming thriller coming out in a couple weeks, and uhh Zodiac the "Eco Thriller" was his last good book, so I'm slightly hopeful, even if it was 30+ years since then.
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Hel posted:Zodiac the "Eco Thriller" was his last good book, so I'm slightly hopeful, even if it was 30+ years since then. 
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Quorum posted:I, billionaire Mr. Edward Chili, will solve global warming by producing so many of our world famous sizzling Chili's Fajitas® that the steam will form a protective cloud barrier against solar radiation! shut up, the review embargo hasn't been lifted yet, they're gonna send jeffrey a takedown notice
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Tactical Murderbot Action but instead of half-hour cutscenes and codec calls you can pause at any moment to watch entire episodes of Sanctuary Moon. please
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branedotorg posted:Is it the Hitler on the motorcycle front on or 3/4 profile? Or th big nazi fist? Worse, it's the kind of bland cover art that strips all the absurdity out of the few English covers going around, so what you end up is 1/2 swastika, 1/2 Adolf, and extremely suspect at glance.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Please let this be modeled after Papa John and the solution is less black people because they absorb more sunlight Did you know Levar Burton wrote a scifi novel in the 90s called Aftermath in which one of the plot points is the hole in the ozone layer got way worse and rich white people farm black people for skin grafts so they don't get cancer? *Take a look, it's in a book!*
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D-Pad posted:Did you know Levar Burton wrote a scifi novel in the 90s called Aftermath in which one of the plot points is the hole in the ozone layer got way worse and rich white people farm black people for skin grafts so they don't get cancer? Lol that sounds awesome actually. Levar Burton ftw.
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D-Pad posted:Did you know Levar Burton wrote a scifi novel in the 90s called Aftermath in which one of the plot points is the hole in the ozone layer got way worse and rich white people farm black people for skin grafts so they don't get cancer? Holy poo poo now I need to find this Larry Parrish posted:Lol that sounds awesome actually. Levar Burton ftw.
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Stuporstar posted:Shikasta is a trip Yeah, I've got the omnibus of that whole series and I've never read anything by anyone that cared about the human condition more. Or cats, Lessing also gives a drat about cats. I'd say Le Guin is a better prose stylist, but Lessing will go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay deeper on a topic. Read and enjoy both, Lessing has a lot of really good stories in her.
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Parable of the Talents (Parable #2) by Octavia E Butler - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HALPHC/ The Tower of Fools (Hussite #1) by Andrzej Sapkowski - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZZ22J48/
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mllaneza posted:Yeah, I've got the omnibus of that whole series and I've never read anything by anyone that cared about the human condition more. Or cats, Lessing also gives a drat about cats. I'd say Le Guin is a better prose stylist, but Lessing will go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay deeper on a topic. Read and enjoy both, Lessing has a lot of really good stories in her. I prefer Le Guin too, both prose and content but Lessing won the Nobel for literature, not something most of this threads favourite authors (or posters) can claim.
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mllaneza posted:Yeah, I've got the omnibus of that whole series and I've never read anything by anyone that cared about the human condition more. Or cats, Lessing also gives a drat about cats. I'd say Le Guin is a better prose stylist, but Lessing will go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay deeper on a topic. Read and enjoy both, Lessing has a lot of really good stories in her. I was introduced to Doris Lessing because Ursula K. Leguin wrote about her foray into science fiction. I love how her switching from lit fic to scifi was inspired by her conversion to Sufism. I still have to read the rest, with The Marriage Between Zone Three, Four and Five still on my tbr pile. Doris Lessing is rad
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I haven't gotten around to reading The Sentimental Agents or The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 yet but I'm definitely going to. I do think the series flows a bit better if you go straight from Shikasta to The Sirian Experiments, since The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five is so different from the other two.
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Is this any good? Lotta not so thrilled reviews.
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eke out posted:those people are also the remnants of a conquering army that say something about how they're totally willing to earn their wives the hard way or something similarly completely antithetical to their values I got the impression that (about the world building): leaving one of the controlled countries was basically a death sentence because all land that isn’t claimed by the Commonweal or some rear end in a top hat God-King is infested with like sentient malice and body snatching fungus and aggressively hegemonising swarms of wasps and stuff
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Stuporstar posted:I was introduced to Doris Lessing because Ursula K. Leguin wrote about her foray into science fiction. I love how her switching from lit fic to scifi was inspired by her conversion to Sufism. I still have to read the rest, with The Marriage Between Zone Three, Four and Five still on my tbr pile. Doris Lessing is rad We read some Lessing stuff at school. I remember vaguely that she liked Frangipani trees, and a kind of lyrical description of a farm in what was presumably Zimbabwe.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I got the impression that (about the world building): leaving one of the controlled countries was basically a death sentence because all land that isn’t claimed by the Commonweal or some rear end in a top hat God-King is infested with like sentient malice and body snatching fungus and aggressively hegemonising swarms of wasps and stuff Don't worry, the claimed land is like that too!
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Larry Parrish posted:Don't worry, the claimed land is like that too! Edit: Cleaning up mention of stuff only in the Google Group. Danhenge fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Should we split off commonweal chat into its own thread? Genuine question
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im fine with it here even though i have no interest in commonweal, i like the action and fast pace of this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3R3VRPOpao
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we split off commonweal chat into its own thread? Genuine question I mean there's only 5 books and probably 10 people who've read the drat things in the whole thread. Idk why it would need one.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we split off commonweal chat into its own thread? Genuine question I think the chat about it is likely to die down in a week or two.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:It'll be a lot more hassle running all these accounts over multiple threads.
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Has anyone in here read any book where the author swaps between first and third person pov in different scenes? Juliet E McKenna has been using it to masterful effect in her works.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has anyone in here read any book where the author swaps between first and third person pov in different scenes? Juliet E McKenna has been using it to masterful effect in her works. Don't remember if there is 1st/3rd specifically, but Ancillary Justice has some really fun perspective swap... kinda... stuff?
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Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. this book owns completely but it will make you cry like a small child. i finished it on an airplane and the people sitting next to me were definitely concerned about me
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we split off commonweal chat into its own thread? Genuine question Well, there is a Malazan thread, a Sanderson thread and a Pratchett one as well, so why not. Bonus feature: we will find out whether the posting here is promoting the book series or whether there is a genuine interest in a self published fantasy series in sore need of an editor.
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