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Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088SY4GSD/ The River of Silver (Daevabad) by SA Chakraborty - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q3FTXN4/ Heroes Die (Acts of Caine #1) by Matthew Woodring Stover - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MYA38W/ Under Heaven (#1) by Guy Gavriel Kay - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003NX7NEM/ Age of Ash (Kithamar #1) by Daniel Abraham - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0976XDNF2/
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I'm reading Hyperion for the first time and the melatonin I take to help me sleep also happens to give me really intense dreams, which right now happen to make me feel like I am constantly being stalked by the Shrike. 10/10 would recommend.
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it's unfortunate 9/11 broke dan simmon's brain, Ilium/Olympos were bad
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The Terror was still pretty good, though.
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thankfully, tying 9/11 to a 1800s Artic expedition was beyond him
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Edit: any suggestions on where to start with Mercedes Lackey? This is a lot of books... If I recall correctly, all of Lackey's work in Valdemar is fairly self-contained in series arcs, so as long as you read a series in order you shouldn't get too muddled. Arrows of the Queen/Arrow's Flight/Arrow's Fall is the canonical start, though that trilogy is a little less well integrated into the rest of the series just from being the first entries being written; I'd personally suggest The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy (Magic's Pawn/Promise/Price) if you ended up picking up that bundle, since I think you'd be interested in the Vanyel (and later, Stefan) character interactions in those books from what I recall from your posting.
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Jun 6, 2023 03:59
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What’s the word on the lengthy cli-fi book The Deluge by Stephen Markleu?
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shrike82 posted:thankfully, tying 9/11 to a 1800s Artic expedition was beyond him
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pradmer posted:Heroes Die (Acts of Caine #1) by Matthew Woodring Stover - $4.99 I keep hearing about this book so I’ll give it a try
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Jun 6, 2023 13:52
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Ccs posted:I keep hearing about this book so I’ll give it a try It’s wild, like Conan through a layer of 90s cyberpunk irony (in a good way?). Glad I read it though. The sequel is extremely unpleasant.
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Jun 6, 2023 14:24
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pradmer posted:Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey - $1.99 Under Heaven is very good; the sample is enough to grab you, for those interested. One of Kay’s top novels imo.
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Jun 6, 2023 14:39
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Ccs posted:I keep hearing about this book so I’ll give it a try It's an interesting book, one of my favorites, though I haven't read it in a few years. His few Star Wars books in the NJO era were really good.
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Jun 6, 2023 14:43
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Ccs posted:I keep hearing about this book so I’ll give it a try This series transed me im a dude now
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anilEhilated posted:It's still got Evil Gays. Be fair, it has a Good Gay too. You can tell he's Good because he refrains from doing Gay Stuff.
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One of the nice things about the Terror show was how they turned that Evil Gay into one of the more compelling characters while still having him be a horrible little man
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Jun 6, 2023 18:43
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PlushCow posted:Under Heaven is very good; the sample is enough to grab you, for those interested. One of Kay’s top novels imo. Can we please not quote the advertisement bot? Ignoring the account who just posts links to books and prices is a great solution to inline advertisement without being grouchy about it but it doesn’t work if people quote him. Just plug whatever book you like without the quote. I think Waybound mostly stuck the landing. It also had some interesting ideas of its own. If you’ve been living under a rock, or you don’t like to start series till they are finished, Cradle is good.
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Anias posted:Can we please not quote the advertisement bot? Ignoring the account who just posts links to books and prices is a great solution to inline advertisement without being grouchy about it but it doesn’t work if people quote him. Just plug whatever book you like without the quote. Pradmer is a real dude though e: right?? Going through their post history was a bit of an 'all work and no play makes jack a dull boy' experience
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Anias posted:Can we please not quote the advertisement bot? Ignoring the account who just posts links to books and prices is a great solution to inline advertisement without being grouchy about it but it doesn’t work if people quote him. Just plug whatever book you like without the quote. He’s not a bot and he’s repeatedly asked the thread if he should post book sales, which people in the thread have frequently and enthusiastically approved. They also often lead to good discussions. I don’t even think they’re even affiliate links.
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Jun 6, 2023 19:23
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pradmer is good and a real person and as mentioned when older books pop up on sale people ask about them and the thread talks about them, often books I would never have bothered to find out about otherwise
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Great. Sincerely, my apologies to prad. I will still have their account on ignore because just like people enjoy those sale posts, I do not, and ignoring them was a see less solution that didn’t require even this much disruption. It simply makes the thread much easier to read while allowing the people who want to read them to still see them. I don’t need them to stop posting, and in fact if they post something more topical than book name: price, please quote it when you respond. My only ask is that if we are going to have sale dumps in thread we avoid quoting them.
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Jun 6, 2023 19:33
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Jun 6, 2023 19:36
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People quote them to comment about them, recommend them, etc, and I don't see how that's not the type of content you'd want to have here, in the thread about certain genres of fiction in The Book Barn, the forum for talking about and/or recommending books.
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Jun 6, 2023 19:40
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I think that's a pretty unreasonable request. I love seeing the posts, and the discussions around some of the books is great.
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Jun 6, 2023 19:43
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Pradmer is doing a great service to this thread and is directly responsible for me being able to buy almost everything Lem ever wrote for under three euros per book. Thanks Prad!
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I finished Neuromancer for my book club. What a weird prose style. The stream of consciousness is nuts. Who's Gibson trying ape there? Next book up is: Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy Book 1) - by Tade Thompson - $6.99 https://www.amazon.com/Rosewater-Wormwood-Trilogy-Tade-Thompson/dp/0316449059/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1683299189&sr=1-1 I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's like the anti-Neuromancer. The setting is bonkers (what if alien-zombie-psychics-Nigeria) but the prose is so relaxing and thorough that it seems very digestible. Would recommend so far.
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I like Kindle deals, but I find their website and even their emails pretty annoying to deal with. eg., although I'm signed up for SF/F deals they still include random Janet Evanovich novels in their email digest. And even books that are ostensibly fantasy are often in a subgenre I am not at all interested in. Or it'll be a book you've never heard of before with a generic cover art and the worst blurb you've ever read, and it somehow has thousands of 5 star reviews and Amazon keeps wanting to show it to you all this to say I very much appreciate pradmer's posts and it is an unexpected joy when people quote him and add their opinions, because that kind of straightforward recommendation (or discouragement) is something that is extremely hard to get online
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Pradmer is doing a great service to this thread and is directly responsible for me being able to buy almost everything Lem ever wrote for under three euros per book. Thanks Prad!
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tokenbrownguy posted:I finished Neuromancer for my book club. What a weird prose style. The stream of consciousness is nuts. Who's Gibson trying ape there? Seconding this recommendation. I just finished all three and they were a worthwhile read
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WarpDogs posted:I like Kindle deals, but I find their website and even their emails pretty annoying to deal with. I went through a period where I was checking several sites a day for ebook deals but it just turned out the most efficient way was adding a bunch of books to a wishlist and checking that every day as when they drop in price from when it was added to the list you can see it. It still sucks and requires active participation but the best focused way i found (most books are ones mentioned in this thread at some point in the past few years)
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Just ask your library for the books, it’s free.
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FYI there's a new Ann Leckie Imperial Radch book out, Translation State
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pradmer posted:Age of Ash (Kithamar #1) by Daniel Abraham - $2.99 I read this a while back. I really enjoyed Abraham's Long Price series, but was lukewarm on Dagger and Coin. I wanted to like Age of Ash, but I just didn't. It has an interesting conceit, and could have gone in interesting directions, but one of the main characters story lines was just not what I was interested in. I doubt I'll end up reading the sequel.
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Stuporstar posted:Seconding this recommendation. I just finished all three and they were a worthwhile read
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I think my favorite dated anachronism from reading old scifi is 21st Century Soviet Union.
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People have the weirdest hang ups in this forum sometimes, how hard is it to scroll past a post lmao Anyway, just finished the dispossessed - loved it, but didn't feel much closure with the ending. I wish we'd have gotten a direct sequel to it.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Pradmer is doing a great service to this thread and is directly responsible for me being able to buy almost everything Lem ever wrote for under three euros per book. Thanks Prad! I salute anyone who saves me money, so I agree. Ty prad for doing the work of finding these deals, because I definitely could not
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yeah I really appreciate the deals; they remind me of cool stories to make recs about
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neongrey posted:yeah I really appreciate the deals; they remind me of cool stories to make recs about Cowards use the ignore function. Heroes use a scroll wheel.
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The ignore function is fine. I imagine it improves people's enjoyment of my posting immensely. 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I liked the first one, so you think I'd like the other two as well? I think so. They’re a solid continuation of the first book that tie up the story definitively. I read the other two a year after the first, and there were a lot of details to remember because it builds on all the characters and situations already established. It definitely goes places (I don’t want to spoil in what way) pseudorandom name posted:Just ask your library for the books, it’s free. I do this, but I browse the kindle sales to see if anything piques my interest enough to put on hold at the library. If an ebook seems like one my library will never bother to pick up, for whatever reason, I’ll buy it though
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