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Larry Parrish posted:Those are the prequel ones right. Those are actually good yeah. But it's definitely weird as gently caress reading an Asimov setting without his signature style. I mean frankly it's for the better, but it gives me dissonance I mostly remember the uhh Benford one which felt extremely like he had a book he wanted to write and someone had paid him to make it a foundation book instead of a standalone (the one where, despite being in a setting where the earth is totally forgotten, they have simulations of Voltaire and Joan of Arc)
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Kestral posted:Gene Wolfe books are so dense with subtle elements that you won’t catch them all even on the second, third, and fourth reads - he’s famous for it. Don’t try to get everything, you won’t manage it; if you’re enjoying the experience, you can quite readily just let the text wash over you like a glorious fever dream. Not sci fi (or IS IT??) but I was reading V. as I was recovering from covid and it was pretty much the same experience.
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Steel Frame enthusiasts, FYI: Origin Complex just dropped
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Kesper North posted:Steel Frame enthusiasts, FYI: Origin Complex just dropped Yay. But is there really no print edition at all? Is that usual nowadays?
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genericnick posted:Yay. But is there really no print edition at all? Is that usual nowadays? Depends on your publisher, but it's not that unusual (though it's a bit lovely if it's not the author's choice).
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I think they pretty often sell a digital edition as soon as it's ready because it's like 100x faster to make and eventually they sell in print later.
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Just got an Amazon reminder that the third in Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children Of..' series CHILDREN OF MEMORY has just dropped, so that's my next evening or two sorted.
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Kesper North posted:Steel Frame enthusiasts, FYI: Origin Complex just dropped
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Just got an Amazon reminder that the third in Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children Of..' series CHILDREN OF MEMORY has just dropped, so that's my next evening or two sorted. We're going on an adventure!
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Just got an Amazon reminder that the third in Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children Of..' series CHILDREN OF MEMORY has just dropped, so that's my next evening or two sorted. I still have to wait until January in the US >: ( Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:I still have to wait until January in the US >: ( Oops, All Publisher Machinations! I never understood stuff like this, especially if the early release is in a small market and the big market doesn't get it til after, it's like you're asking for a hefty slice of piracy. Globally synced releases please.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Oops, All Publisher Machinations! I never understood stuff like this, especially if the early release is in a small market and the big market doesn't get it til after, it's like you're asking for a hefty slice of piracy. Globally synced releases please. I will slice this gordian knot by preordering and then finding a copy.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I still have to wait until January in the US >: ( That is ridiculous to have that much delay. I wonder if it’s because they don’t want to split ebook and paper release dates and there is a backlog on paper publishing?
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my disappointment in seeing i can't get that book has been slightly tempered by learning this has a title.quote:Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture)
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hmf I got the 'Book available' message this morning,  go to download it and it's nowhere to be seen; look at the store page and  Make your mind up pls.
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And now, new in trippy Horror - Sci-fi genre: eventual consistency! (Probably not, really).
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MockingQuantum posted:Any opinions on Steel Crow Saga? I enjoyed it well enough when I read it last year, though the thing I remember the most about it is a scene with a hardcore chicken that wants to bathe in the blood of its enemies.
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Kesper North posted:Steel Frame enthusiasts, FYI: Origin Complex just dropped I just came here to post this. I enjoyed Steel Frame and have been anticipating another book from Andrew Skinner. Eager to hear folk's impressions of this one.
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Just finished up The Cipher by Kathe Koja and i think it’s the grimiest book I’ve ever read? I felt unclean just reading it. I think it could work well as a Cronenberg flick. It’s also a great snapshot of late 80s slacker culture: everybody’s a skinny underemployed artist, smoking cloves and skipping showers, showing up at the main guy’s apartment to drink awful beer and swap insults. You really get the sense that (nearly) everyone in the book would let you down in increasingly depressing ways. Objectively, it could use a bit more plot, or explore a bit more of the concepts they do introduce (what’s up with the runes on the bug wings? Why have the guy imply he’s dream-writing the poetry of the damned and then he never writes another poem for the rest of the book? What are the “paths” everyone else sees in the cursed videotape?), but I guess some questions are best left unanswered Also read The Raven Tower and it was fine. The ending kinda fell flat for me, and I’m not sure I understood Hill’s motivation, but I liked the whole “all gods can only speak the truth” thing.
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The Blade Itself (First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TOT9LDK/
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Are you guys aware of any good high seas fantasy ? I don’t mean Tim Powers, I mean is there a (good) fantasy series that is set in the 17th c. Caribbean with the serial numbers filed off instead of 14th c. Europe with the serial numbers filed off
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Ken Liu’s Dandelion Throne series has plenty of seafaring. It’s a Southeast Asian island pastiche though, not Caribbean.
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That’s fine. I notice that a lot of fantasy series have seafaring folk in the background but never about the seafaring folk themselves. I suppose the ideal series would be Aubrey and Maturin sailing around in Middle Earth E: googling around I see a lot of recs for Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb, anyone read that? zoux fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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zoux posted:Are you guys aware of any good high seas fantasy ? I don’t mean Tim Powers, I mean is there a (good) fantasy series that is set in the 17th c. Caribbean with the serial numbers filed off instead of 14th c. Europe with the serial numbers filed off I've got Child of a Hidden Sea and A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix both hanging out in the to-read pile - can't vouch for their quality, and they're both YA if you prefer to avoid that kind of thing. Deeplight by Frances Hardinge is aces though (still YA, but she's definitely one of the writers who transcends the category).
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Hardinge is the absolute tits, she's fantastic
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zoux posted:That’s fine. I notice that a lot of fantasy series have seafaring folk in the background but never about the seafaring folk themselves. I suppose the ideal series would be Aubrey and Maturin sailing around in Middle Earth I really liked all of Robin Hobb’s stuff. I don’t remember exactly what liveship traders was about but I think it spent a lot of time in port. For high seas fantasy I think the baru series has a bunch of sailing, and 2nd book of gentleman bastards by scott lynch e: not fantasy but tai-pan by james clavell is a swashbuckling book that’s a fictional account of the opening of hong kong by european traders mewse fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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Oh I’ve read all of Clavell I ended up grabbing Liveship Traders, I’ll let y’all know how it is. I’ll probably check out deeplight as well
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Runcible Cat posted:Deeplight by Frances Hardinge is aces though (still YA, but she's definitely one of the writers who transcends the category). Deeplight owns. It's grotty and atmospheric and full of gorgeous worldbuilding details, and the relationship between the two main characters is really unique, nuanced and heartbreaking.
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zoux posted:Are you guys aware of any good high seas fantasy ? I don’t mean Tim Powers, I mean is there a (good) fantasy series that is set in the 17th c. Caribbean with the serial numbers filed off instead of 14th c. Europe with the serial numbers filed off William Hope Hodgson wrote a bunch. I don't know if I'd call them good.
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zoux posted:Oh I’ve read all of Clavell Fair warning, for me and a couple others at least, the beginning drags, until suddenly everything picks up and stays up
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anilEhilated posted:Awesome, getting to it right after I wrap the new Twenty Palaces. Bruxism posted:I just came here to post this. I enjoyed Steel Frame and have been anticipating another book from Andrew Skinner. Eager to hear folk's impressions of this one.  I'm about 4/5ths done with it Book good We're learning a lot more about what the gently caress happened and why. The answers are quite satisfying, and an equally satisfying set of new mysteries have been revealed. I'm in the endgame of the book now - we've been running parallel to the events in Steel Frame and I suspect we may run into the NorCol survivors soon.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Just got an Amazon reminder that the third in Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children Of..' series CHILDREN OF MEMORY has just dropped, so that's my next evening or two sorted. Going to need to find time for this in between playing Tactics Ogre and finishing The Lost Metal.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Just got an Amazon reminder that the third in Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children Of..' series CHILDREN OF MEMORY has just dropped, so that's my next evening or two sorted. ??? Amazon says Jan 31, 2023.
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Benefit of an Amazon UK account from my time living in London
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It appears that they have added complications to the old "change your shipping address to 10 Downing Street" trick. :-/
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zoux posted:That’s fine. I notice that a lot of fantasy series have seafaring folk in the background but never about the seafaring folk themselves. I suppose the ideal series would be Aubrey and Maturin sailing around in Middle Earth If you haven't read the Temeraire books they started as A-M fanfic but with added dragons. Only read until you stop enjoying them.
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