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Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XD75HGV/ The Long Way Down (Daniel Faust #1) by Craig Schaefer - Free https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JYIUH8O/
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fritz posted:Which one? The Hugo Book Club twitter posted some long screed about hosting the Hugos/Worldcon in Omelas that was very thinly a critique of China hosting, and did not like that it made people uncomfortable and just banned anyone who followed specific accounts that were critical, including several Asian authors who objected, and told their followers to do the same. I'm not even sure I directly interacted with them, just commented on them in a separate thread but still got the block
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Well, that's Goblet of Fire down. That book currently sets the Harry Potter record for "Most separate monologues explaining off-camera mysteries" for any book in the series yet.
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Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013HA6W92/
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Today I found and bought Caleb Carr's "The Legend of Broken" from a used bookstore - it is wild to me to find a one-volume fantasy epic from an author who sold a best-seller (the Alienist) and yet I've heard nothing about this? Has anyone read this book?
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Nope. Let me know if it's good though.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Nope. Let me know if it's good though. It's like 600 pages + 80 pages of footnotes so this is gonna take a while.
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If there's one thing I have, it's time. Finished book 3 of Tales From the Gas Station and I've enjoyed the series. It reminds me of those books by Koontz where the dude has that genetic disorder where he has to stay out of the sun. Weird poo poo happens, and the gas station dude is the guy who it happens around. No sun disease though. Book 4 isn't on KU so I'm gonna do a reread of the space team series instead.
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Legend of Broken early trip report: The author presents: back in the Dark/Medieval ages, when Rome was in its ongoing collapse and before any central authority existed in Europe, in the middle of what would become Germany there was a region called "Broken" - brocken? he talks about linguistics and spelling a lot - and that he's "found" a manuscript written by an anonymous author who witnessed a weird history there. Standard found footage, right? Well, the author takes it above and beyond: he includes commentary/discussion on the manuscript in fictitious letters between actual historians Gibbon and Burke, and - and! - 80 goddamn pages of footnotes that interleve actual history with fiction as he dives into any details in the manuscript he wanted to talk about. The manuscript itself opens with "hey check out these hobbits - no they're not hobbits or elves or dwarves clearly they're my new fancy small people, called Bane" and a fancy, meandering tone. It's weird and neat and I don't know if it feels authentic, but I'm enjoying it. (And the footnote that dug into "well clearly these people are small because of inbreeding, but also... what if there was a homo floresiensis? And the author is clear to be all "this isn't historical, but it's fun" It's weird, and I think I like it so far? At the very least I appreciate the amount of work the author put into this thing. I'd class it similarly to Mary Gentle's Ash so far, but definitely less grimdark/conspiracy-y. But that same mixture of history/not. I'm also feeling like the ER Eddison trilogy "Zimiamvia", what with the huge amount of footnotes and the almost historical feel to it despite being Not Real. Hell, toss in Lord of the Rings for bonus long, full of footnotes, maybe historical??? and yet definitely not real. I don't think this is up there, but it's a pleasant feeling to find something in that same genre!
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There was some kind of wizard book I read about in this thread, read a few pages of and was really hooked but had no time to read, and now I can’t remember pretty much anything about it and can’t find it again! I think there was some kind of wizard order and they had weird names, possibly like one-word noun names? Does this intensely vague description ring any bells?
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redcheval posted:There was some kind of wizard book I read about in this thread, read a few pages of and was really hooked but had no time to read, and now I can’t remember pretty much anything about it and can’t find it again! I think there was some kind of wizard order and they had weird names, possibly like one-word noun names? Does this intensely vague description ring any bells? Sockpuppet mode activated: you are thinking of Graydon Saunders Commonweal books, starts with The March North. (Spoilerific) thread for discussion of the series here.
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Has anyone read both Revelation Space and Matter by Iain M Banks? I swear I'm going crazy because no one else believes me when I point out the commonalities between the books' endings.
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FPyat posted:Has anyone read both Revelation Space and Matter by Iain M Banks? I swear I'm going crazy because no one else believes me when I point out the commonalities between the books' endings. Go on.
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FPyat posted:Has anyone read both Revelation Space and Matter by Iain M Banks? I swear I'm going crazy because no one else believes me when I point out the commonalities between the books' endings. I've read both and I'm willing to believe you, but I can't remember the ending of either book.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'd class it similarly to Mary Gentle's Ash so far, but definitely less grimdark/conspiracy-y. But that same mixture of history/not. I'm also feeling like the ER Eddison trilogy "Zimiamvia", what with the huge amount of footnotes and the almost historical feel to it despite being Not Real. This sounds dope, that was one of my favourite things about Ash.
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Just finished reading through the Cixin Liu short story collection (The Wandering Earth). Enjoyed it for the most part but his hilarious self-inserts in the Curse 5.0 story and the entire premise made me laugh out loud. That whole short story was just perfect for me. I now feel compelled to go look up translations of Pan Dajiao's work (or maybe I should just learn to read in Chinese...).
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FPyat posted:Has anyone read both Revelation Space and Matter by Iain M Banks? I swear I'm going crazy because no one else believes me when I point out the commonalities between the books' endings. the commonality is that they both had rocks fall and the author couldn't figure out how to end this smoothly type endings. actually in banks case it almost certainly was the point since the entire book is basically about the futility of existence.
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In my quest to understand this thing I'm reading, I found this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...b501_story.html quote:
And honestly, Elizabeth Hand is one of the most... odd/interesting authors working currently, imho. Her stuff is wild, and I still struggle with Waking the Moon.
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Oh this is neat - John M Ford's final work got published a few days ago. https://bookriot.com/sff-new-releases-april-2022/ quote:Aspects by John M. Ford
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FPyat posted:Has anyone read both Revelation Space and Matter by Iain M Banks? I swear I'm going crazy because no one else believes me when I point out the commonalities between the books' endings.
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StrixNebulosa posted:In my quest to understand this thing I'm reading, I found this: Well this sounds bewildering! I read the first Alienist book because I'd watched the TV show (I will watch Daniel Bruhl in almost anything) and quite liked it, but the second one was from Stevie's PoV and I didn't like it at all. Now I'm curious. e: ordered a paperback, let's see about this thing HopperUK fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DDGX4KY/
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pradmer posted:The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - $3.99 Great fantasy, about 20% of the way through I got hooked hard. It's also pretty long so $4 is still a great deal. Now if I only I could get my daughter to try reading it, I know she would love it but I refuse to spoiler it even somewhat.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh this is neat - John M Ford's final work got published a few days ago. So excited Ford is getting republished. Snapping this up ASAP.
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HopperUK posted:Well this sounds bewildering! Apparently there's going to be a third (fourth?) book in the series coming out maybe this year called The Alienist at Armageddon.
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RDM posted:"We awoke a planet-level threat poking around in ancient ruins" isn't exactly an uncommon scifi trope, and that's about the total of the similarities. And the characters were using spacesuits with similar capabilities to descend into a layered megastructure at the end of which the protagonist deals with the alien threat by detonating the antimatter charges within their head
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RDM posted:"We awoke a planet-level threat poking around in ancient ruins" isn't exactly an uncommon scifi trope, and that's about the total of the similarities. No, they also end the same way. character approaching mysterious orb/menace that is going to destroy the world triggers implanted antimatter bomb to avert mysterious orb/menace at cost of own life e: god drat it
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Tars Tarkas posted:The Hugo Book Club twitter posted some long screed about hosting the Hugos/Worldcon in Omelas that was very thinly a critique of China hosting, and did not like that it made people uncomfortable and just banned anyone who followed specific accounts that were critical, including several Asian authors who objected, and told their followers to do the same. I'm not even sure I directly interacted with them, just commented on them in a separate thread but still got the block Whoever runs the Hugo Book Club Twitter account is thin-skinned and mean. I also got the block from them during that incident.
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General Battuta posted:No, they also end the same way. character approaching mysterious orb/menace that is going to destroy the world triggers implanted antimatter bomb to avert mysterious orb/menace at cost of own life So the ol pondering the orb meme taken to its logical conclusion.
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Squandering the orb, if you will.
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Tars Tarkas posted:The Hugo Book Club twitter posted some long screed about hosting the Hugos/Worldcon in Omelas that was very thinly a critique of China hosting, and did not like that it made people uncomfortable and just banned anyone who followed specific accounts that were critical, including several Asian authors who objected, and told their followers to do the same. I'm not even sure I directly interacted with them, just commented on them in a separate thread but still got the block Oh yeah I'd forgotten all about that, the cowards blocked me too.
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Hahaha, I pretty much never post on twitter and definitely have never interacted with the Hugo Book Club account in any way that I know of, but they blocked me too! I'm guessing they just used one of those block lists that automatically blocks a person and all their followers or something like that? Goofy.
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Any recommendations for independent fantasy authors? I've got an itch to explore some self-published stuff just because it has the potential to be something different and weird that might not make it past publishing houses, but a lot of self-published stuff frankly sucks. I'd like to find a few good authors and support them but there's also a sea of crap to wade through, so just kinda looking for some direction here.
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Have you heard of my books, published under the name Graydon Saunders on Google Books. Probably the best example of 'this is self published because it's too deeply weird to be successful' rather than the more normal 'self published because it kind of sucks'.
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Have you heard of my books, published under the name Graydon Saunders on Google Books. Probably the best example of 'this is self published because it's too deeply weird to be successful' rather than the more normal 'self published because it kind of sucks'.
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Have you heard of my books, published under the name Graydon Saunders on Google Books. Probably the best example of 'this is self published because it's too deeply weird to be successful' rather than the more normal 'self published because it kind of sucks'.
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That's impossible. I'm Graydon Saunders.
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But doctor, I am Graydon Saunders.
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