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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes. This hurt my brain to read but also I want this in my life
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The Well-Built City trilogy trilogy by Jeffrey Ford is on sale and more people should read those books; I can't think of any other fantasy that manages to combine the mundane, bizarre and dreamlike in quite this fashion.
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McCoy Pauley posted:it wasn't Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (nothing else is), but overall it was a good read at a time when I was in the mood for a historical fantasy like that That’s good enough for me! Strange and Norrell is a hard act to top, but having some of that flavour is a good recommendation for a book.
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MockingQuantum posted:This hurt my brain to read but also I want this in my life GB releasing something cozy and optimistic with "glompcore vibes" would be a preorder for me, ngl.
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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes. *finger reaches for the custom title button*
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Beachcomber posted:
In addition to Bridge of Birds, look up Lawrence Watt Evans, specifically The Misenchanted Sword and Ithanalin's Restoration
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:*finger reaches for the custom title button* edit: sorry, I'm sorry, that wasn't very tenderpilled or whatever. do it, good friend
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anilEhilated posted:The Well-Built City trilogy trilogy by Jeffrey Ford is on sale and more people should read those books; I can't think of any other fantasy that manages to combine the mundane, bizarre and dreamlike in quite this fashion. Bizarrely, the link for me (in the US, if that matters) leads to a page with the three books and no way to buy them, and the entire series is no longer listed as available except by third-party sellers. Unfortunate.
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What is General Bautistas nom de pen
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zoux posted:What is General Bautistas nom de pen Seth Dickinson. I said, after glancing guiltily at my paperback copy of the first Baru book that I haven't read yet. The UK cover is really nice though.
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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes. 
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HopperUK posted:Seth Dickinson. I said, after glancing guiltily at my paperback copy of the first Baru book that I haven't read yet. Oh wow I thought he was a self pubbed guy not like a legit author of a book I've heard of e: hmmm his wikipedia page omits his SomethingAwful.com membership
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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes. The ending of Baru 3: Falcresti Drift was the closest to hopeful and optimistic you've ever been, so I'm choosing to interpret this unironically.
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Finally reading Baru I: The Phantom Menace and can see what the fuss is about
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The Futurological Congress (From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy #3) by Stanislaw Lem - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008IGK68O/ Phule's Company (#1) by Robert Asprin - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6529CQ/
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Sailor Viy posted:Just finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. I assume it won't be a surprise to this thread if I say it was excellent, but can I get recommendations of other single-author short story collections? Could be any brand of SF or fantasy, but what I really liked about this one was the way all the stories reflected a singular voice and set of themes, rather than just a grab bag of "here's some stuff I wrote". The last one I read was Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth and it was fab. Ken Liu is one of the translators. Curse 5.0 had me laughing out loud. EDIT: The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart is on sale for $1.99 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084FY6ST8/ Has anyone read this? I'm intrigued by the premise in the blurb but put off by the cover quote from Sarah J. Maas, because the writing in Throne of Glass sample chapters was atrocious enough to make me DNF and resolve to never read any more SJM. Leng fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Thanks for the short fiction recs, I am scribbling them down furiously. Regarding Bridge of Birds, it is a childhood favourite of mine, but I recently read some comments online saying that it contains some rather unpleasant attitudes towards women. IIRC there is a scene where a character murders all of his wives and it's depicted as being cool/funny because, well, they were a bunch of bitches to him, really. I haven't re-read it recently enough to judge for myself, but I thought it would be worth flagging if people are recommending it as "feel good" fiction.
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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes. Oh god I smell toast.
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Sailor Viy posted:Thanks for the short fiction recs, I am scribbling them down furiously. I'm pretty sure it was just the one wife, who was also planning a coup that would inaugurate her reign of blood over all of China.
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm pretty sure it was just the one wife, who was also planning a coup that would inaugurate her reign of blood over all of China. Yeah. The more on point critique would be that it's more than a little Orientalist but even there its clear the author is writing out of genuine love for Chinese mythology and the intent is positive Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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General Battuta posted:Yeah I'm a total tenderpilled hopecel. I'm basically going hyggemode and I'm giving glompcore vibes.
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i am going to read Baru Cormorant and squee constantly, i'll hate every single squee, they'll escape my lips like Andy crawling up the pipe in Shawshank, but, with grim resolve, I will read your books and I will squee until you find some way to Eternal Sunshine those terrible words from my brain
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Tiny Timbs posted:Please uninstall/block twitter
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ClydeFrog posted:Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is extremely good SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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OwO The Wuvable Baowo cowamont
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:OwO The Wuvable Baowo cowamont thread title
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a foolish pianist posted:thread title
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The ending of Baru 3: Falcresti Drift was the closest to hopeful and optimistic you've ever been, so I'm choosing to interpret this unironically. I'm hoping the series continues with ever more awful labels for Baru. The Serial Killer Baru Cormorant?
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The Motherfucker Who Keeps Stealing My Food From The Fridge Even Though It's Clearly Labelled And On My Shelf Baru Cormorant
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:The Motherfucker Who Keeps Stealing My Food From The Fridge Even Though It's Clearly Labelled And On My Shelf Baru Cormorant Baru Cormorant and the Falcresti plum thief Wait that's not right.
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The General Really Loves It When We Roll Out This Meme Baru Cormorant
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No one is ever going to beat whoever came up with Blindright for The Actually Sci-Fi Baru Cormorant .
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The Tedious Overdone Joke Baru Cormorant.
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The Joyless Joke-hater Bazza Cuzza
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Sailor Viy posted:Just finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. I assume it won't be a surprise to this thread if I say it was excellent, but can I get recommendations of other single-author short story collections? Could be any brand of SF or fantasy, but what I really liked about this one was the way all the stories reflected a singular voice and set of themes, rather than just a grab bag of "here's some stuff I wrote". How Long 'til Black Future Month ? by NK Jemisin has some truly excellent short stories in it. The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith is worth a second recommendation, there's some really good stuff in here. Oddly Baen had most of his stuff in electronic editions, but no more. Weird.
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sebmojo posted:The Joyless Joke-hater Bazza Cuzza The VP of Marketing Baru Cormorant And now I need to actually order and read these books because despite needed to go into work today at 5:45 AM and thus getting enough sleep, I stayed awake reading Hench in one sitting. drat that book was good.
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Everyone posted:The VP of Marketing Baru Cormorant Yeah it owned so much lol. I burned through it in the same way. Man reading till I get sleepy has worked since I was a kid, but sometimes it really backfires.
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the assassination of tain hu by the coward the ocean
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Sailor Viy posted:Just finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. I assume it won't be a surprise to this thread if I say it was excellent, but can I get recommendations of other single-author short story collections? Could be any brand of SF or fantasy, but what I really liked about this one was the way all the stories reflected a singular voice and set of themes, rather than just a grab bag of "here's some stuff I wrote". I read David Brin's Otherness last Christmas, it was quite good. A mix of short stories and essays (which I could take or leave, but the stories were worthwhile). I had this recurrent feeling of "Oh, that's where Peter Watts was coming from", though a good deal less nihilistic.
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