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I needed to find a thread to brag about my sweet book find. I think this is the right one, but I was very close to posting this in the D&D thread. My local university is liquidating some of their old books and they are for sale for $1 each! I've always wanted to read The Dying Earth but I've never seen a copy until now. I picked these up as well as a bunch of other 70s sci-fi short story collections  
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oh that's some good poo poo right there
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Nov 14, 2022 21:48
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And some niiice covers!
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Nov 14, 2022 22:18
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Runcible Cat posted:And some niiice covers! Yeah I love 70's sci-fi/fantasy covers. They are in pretty decent condition too, I guess the university students take good care of the books for fear of graduating 
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Nov 14, 2022 23:40
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I love the Book of Dreams cover. Punch!
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Nov 14, 2022 23:50
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The Stone Sky (Broken Earth #3) by NK Jemisin - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7EQOFA/ The Fall of Babel (Books of Babel #4) by Josiah Bancroft - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y8LC51M/ Jade War (Green Bone Saga #2) by Fonda Lee - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H27TV1G/ Promise of Blood (Powder Mage #1) by Brian McClellan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0092XHPIG/ The Bone Ships (Tide Child #1) by RJ Barker - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MPW3GMX/
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pradmer posted:The Fall of Babel (Books of Babel #4) by Josiah Bancroft - $4.99  )
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Rutibex posted:I needed to find a thread to brag about my sweet book find. I think this is the right one, but I was very close to posting this in the D&D thread. My local university is liquidating some of their old books and they are for sale for $1 each! I've always wanted to read The Dying Earth but I've never seen a copy until now. I picked these up as well as a bunch of other 70s sci-fi short story collections Nice. I actually have three of those editions (City of the Singing Flame, The Face, and The Dying Earth) and they're good stuff. I would, however, recommend you drop The Knight and Knave of Swords in the recycling bin. That's the last Fafhrd and Grey Mouser book, written when Leiber was an elderly, depressed alcoholic writing stories filled with his icky fetishes. Really not worth the time, unless you're an absolute completist.
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Nov 15, 2022 00:37
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Tiny Timbs posted:I really like these books but I just finished #8 and can't help but feel like the author ended it abruptly because he felt done. I can see a path to a conclusion for the conflict from here but it was disappointing to see the main character pull an "aight imma head out" and then fin AKTUALLY I like his other series, Palladium Wars, better. Maybe just because there are fewer of them. I admit I've burned through several of these seemingly never-ending series, especially on KU, but it gets really hard to tell them apart and remember what happened when you don't hit them all in a series. I read about 10 pages of Frontlines book 8 and thought I missed something, but book 7 on my kindle was right at the end so I guess I didn't? Should wrap that one up, assuming that my brain is post-covid enough to read a goddamn space opera without losing focus.
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Nov 15, 2022 00:40
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pradmer posted:Jade War (Green Bone Saga #2) by Fonda Lee - $4.99 YEEEEEEESSSSSS! I've been waiting for this to complete my collection, since I didn't grab it on publication because I wasn't sure how much I liked Jade City. Yeah no Jade City is okay, but Jade War is great, and the Greenbone Saga as a whole is phenomenal. Jade War has arguably the most epic showdown between two characters who are clan leaders who just so happen to be women and Kaul Shaelinsan's entire arc in this book is so real it hurts.
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Nov 15, 2022 00:43
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Selachian posted:Nice. I actually have three of those editions (City of the Singing Flame, The Face, and The Dying Earth) and they're good stuff. I'll put The Knight and Knave of Swords at the bottom of the pile (its a big pile ) Does it matter what order I read the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories? They are all collections of short stories right, so they should all be pretty well self contained?
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Nov 15, 2022 00:46
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I have a £10 Waterstones gift card as comp for my copy of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes being delayed. Any recommendations?
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Rutibex posted:I'll put The Knight and Knave of Swords at the bottom of the pile (its a big pile Yeah, no particular order. They'll vary in quality so feel free to skip ahead if one isn't working for you, because the next one probably will. Absolutely read the Demon Princes books in order. They're an interstellar tale of revenge, with the highly competent protagonist going after the crime lords who ruined him. Really cool stuff, one of the foundational influences on the Traveller RPG.
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Jedit posted:I have a £10 Waterstones gift card as comp for my copy of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes being delayed. Any recommendations? The main thing I'd recommend that I read in the past year is Between Two Fires. There are special Waterstones editions of the Rivers of London books thouhg.
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Nov 15, 2022 01:31
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I'm on book 3 of Marko Kloos's Frontlines series now and still enjoying it quite a bit.
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Nov 15, 2022 01:33
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Best sex scene in fantasy fiction is in Harrow the Ninth where Harrow regrows Ianthe's arm bones and I don't care that there's no sex in it, it's absolutely a sex scene. Well, it's clear from that scene that Harrow was giving Ianthe a real bone(r)
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Nov 15, 2022 02:01
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Front lines is kind of confused and doesn't really work out in many ways, I feel. It probably should have just stuck to the Cold War in space tbh, those elements were always the strongest parts
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StrixNebulosa posted:I've hit a point where I'd like more sci-fi/fantasy novels to have sex in them not for horny reasons but for the emotional reasons. I want more romance in genre fic, damnit. I want the knight to romance the princess. I want starship pilots to kiss before the big battle. I want more complicated relationship drama for characters to sort through while they're trying to sell magic potions! Bookmarking this post so I can pass you a sci-fi thriller featuring a pugilistic prophetess who wants to get all up in the mechanics of her goth-bot partner. Once this art comes in.
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Rutibex posted:I'll put The Knight and Knave of Swords at the bottom of the pile (its a big pile Very self-contained, here's my thoughts I posted earlier in the thread fez_machine posted:Basically, my recommendation is read the middle three books, Swords Against Death, Swords in The Mist, Swords Against Wizardry, and maybe The Swords of Lankhmar and the first 3/4s of Swords and Ice Magic. Everything else is not worth the trouble. mllaneza posted:Absolutely read the Demon Princes books in order. They're an interstellar tale of revenge, with the highly competent protagonist going after the crime lords who ruined him. Really cool stuff, one of the foundational influences on the Traveller RPG. The Demon Princes books stand alone so if you don't have all of them it's fine as each is pretty self-contained but you should read what you have in order because they get better and better and more focused over time. Absolutely keep the book of dreams for last as it reads best having read most of the others.
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Goodreads readers choice award voting has begun, here is the sci-fi list: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2022 I have to admit I only know three books there; Kaiju preservation Society, Nona the Ninth and Leviathan Falls. Any other ones books you would recommend from this list? Leech looks interesting.
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I've heard of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, but the reviews I've seen said it was mediocre.
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How's Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist series? I just finished re-reading The Fifth Head of Cerberus and am looking to buy some more Wolfe. It's either Soldier of the Mist or Book of the Long Sun.
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said forums user Everyone, who thought puns were funny by default posted:Well, it's clear from that scene that Harrow was giving Ianthe a real bone(r)
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Orc Priest posted:How's Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist series? I just finished re-reading The Fifth Head of Cerberus and am looking to buy some more Wolfe. It's either Soldier of the Mist or Book of the Long Sun. e: Looking at that Goodreads list: anyone read Leech? That's the only one that just grabs my interest (apart from the new Mur Lafferty which apparently isn't very good..?) anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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Nov 15, 2022 18:52
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Orc Priest posted:How's Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist series? I just finished re-reading The Fifth Head of Cerberus and am looking to buy some more Wolfe. It's either Soldier of the Mist or Book of the Long Sun. first two are great, third one does the late Wolfe thing of everyone explaining the plot to each other all the time.
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I didn't think I liked sex in books, but I'm 1/3rd of the way through Garth Merenghi's TerrorTome and I now realize he's the first (and only) author to do it right.
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Nae posted:I didn't think I liked sex in books, but I'm 1/3rd of the way through Garth Merenghi's TerrorTome and I now realize he's the first (and only) author to do it right.
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anilEhilated posted:Care to spoil the joke? I'd like to get the book but explicit sex scenes are a no-buy for me. 90s Cringe Rock posted:He whisked off her shoes and panties in one movement, wild like an enraged shark, his bulky totem beating a seductive rhythm. Mary's body felt like it was burning, even though the room was properly air-conditioned. They tried all the positions: on top, doggy, and normal.
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Welp, missed that. Not gonna lie, that's pretty great.
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Nov 15, 2022 22:07
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That quote's from Darkplace, actually, but he is a master of the craft (writing sex).
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I had a look at the preview on Amazon and the protagonist of the first story *starts* by shagging an evil typewriter so I foresee only good things.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:That quote's from Darkplace, actually, but he is a master of the craft (writing sex). actually it's from his long lost classic Juggers but it's an easy mistake to make. 
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HopperUK posted:I had a look at the preview on Amazon and the protagonist of the first story *starts* by shagging an evil typewriter so I foresee only good things. That typewriter ruins him anilEhilated posted:Care to spoil the joke? I'd like to get the book but explicit sex scenes are a no-buy for me. Good news! Garth Merenghi makes sure to tag every sex scene* by stopping and warning you that you're about to have the most erotic experience of your life, one his editors--and the public at large--swore was against good taste. *maybe one tenth of the sex scenes
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anilEhilated posted:Welp, missed that. Not gonna lie, that's pretty great. That hell beast needs to show up in other books. A lot of other books. We could probably give it a list of names.
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Grimwall posted:Goodreads readers choice award voting has begun, here is the sci-fi list: Fantasy list here: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fantasy-books-2022 I'm stoked to see two books that started out as self-pubbed endeavors: Legends & Lattes and The Atlas Six, both of which were picked up by Tor after going viral. Not that I've read either of them in full the sample for The Atlas Six turned me off massively a couple of months ago with its pretentious and edgy prose, plus a typo on page 2 on the "newly revised and edited" version post Tor acquisition did not bode well.I've heard good things about Legends & Lattes but it keeps getting bumped down my TBR because, I don't know, I guess the idea of cosy fantasy isn't super compelling to me. Daughter of the Moon Goddess is...fine if you can get past the modern YA-ness of ~deep thoughts~ accompanying teen angst and zero subtlety about the themes involved. The Golden Enclaves is a satisfying ending to a fun series and way better written. In a real, bizarre change of pace for me, I have not yet binged The Lost Metal within a day of release. I've read the preview chapters and it is a book I want to read but Tor wants $14.99 USD for the ebook which I'm just like, sorry, no. I'm gonna wait until it's available at my library.
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i can't imagine wanting to read anything less than legends and lattes lol
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Leng posted:In a real, bizarre change of pace for me, I have not yet binged The Lost Metal within a day of release. I've read the preview chapters and it is a book I want to read but Tor wants $14.99 USD for the ebook which I'm just like, sorry, no. I'm gonna wait until it's available at my library. If you think that's crazy I saw some Laundry Files book listed on Kindle for $19.99 which one of the most expensive Kindle fiction releases I've ever seen. The hardback was like $7-8 by comparison.
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Horizon Burning posted:i can't imagine wanting to read anything less than legends and lattes lol Is it a litrpg? If not that could make me want to read it less
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