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pradmer posted:Zodiac by Neal Stephenson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008UX8SNU/ Best thing Stephenson ever wrote. (The Eli Monpress books are fun too, fantasy heists, not too serious.)
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Kalman posted:Best thing Stephenson ever wrote. This is one of the few Stephenson books I haven’t read, purchased
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Kalman posted:Best thing Stephenson ever wrote. Same
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The only thing I disliked about the Eli monpress series ended up being the loving weird choice of romance style genre covers for a series that is most assuredly not romantic. The only relationship that's vaguely romantical at all is like a weird abuser/victim stalker kinda thing. It's not even presented as a good relationship either (thank god) There's literally nothing in there I can remember that would warrant those kinda covers.
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Awkward Davies posted:This is one of the few Stephenson books I haven’t read, purchased
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Jul 4, 2023 01:35
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I thought it was Pretty Good
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RDM posted:It's garbage. 80s supermarket checkout thriller about nonsense. You think Toxic Spider-man is nonsense?
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RDM posted:nonsense, It's 80s supermarket checkout thriller about garbage. Yes.
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Kalman posted:Best thing Stephenson ever wrote. RDM posted:It's garbage. 80s supermarket checkout thriller about nonsense. The book summary posted:Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places... Or can they?
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It's good, but it's bad.
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Imagining some dope doing a Bogey impression, wearing a wetsuit and inhaling a Jolt is more entertaining than any novel could be.
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Zodiac is better than it has any right to be. the protagonist’s favorite drug is nitrous oxide because, he says, it is a small molecule and therefore less harmful than alcohol
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StumblyWumbly posted:Hmm, both these reviews can't be right... After the protagonist describes riding his bike through an intersection in Boston: quote:“Pedestrians and winos applauded. A young six-digit lawyer, hardly old enough to shave, cruised up from ten cars back and shouted out his electric sunroof that I really had balls. I said, “Tell me something I didn’t know, you loving android from Hell.”” I feel like Elon musk would think this book is really cool
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I had absolutely no idea that Stephen Baxter put out a new book last year, The Thousand Earths.
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Goodreads review says "This Earth is both low in tech (horse-drawn carts instead of cars), and has some extremely advanced stuff like smart plants e.g. transparent smartwood or ‘ready meal’ smartcrops." They don't have cowtrees to feed them milk, so things can't be that good.
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Awkward Davies posted:I feel like Elon musk would think this book is really cool Probably not, the book is about a guy who's job is finding new negative externalities and staging media ops to embarrass the corporation and sabotage said negative externality; the dipshit who is selling automatic firetruck ramming cars probably thinks negative externalities are great. OTOH Elon Musk is astonishingly stupid and probably couldn't understand the point of Zodiac if he read it. He obviously doesn't understand The Culture and is naming all his worthless rockets like Culture ships.
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https://amazingstories.com/2023/06/every-quiver-of-each-of-them-by-simon-christiansen-free-story/ I have a story out on* Amazing Stories, so I thought I would share it  .* Not in Amazing Stories since the magazine is on hiatus, but it is on their website. I'll take it.
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Awkward Davies posted:I feel like Elon musk would think this book is really cool
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Drakyn posted:The feeling was mutual as of 2015ish, when neal stephenson wrote seveneves and had notelonmusk help save humanity. I think a Termination Shock has a little aside where it basically states that Elon wasted his opportunity to help people with his billions by going after fame. What the world really needs is an even bigger billionaire.
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We thought he was Tony Stark, but it turned out he wasn't. We need the real thing.
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pseudorandom name posted:
This makes a lot more sense if you consider that Elon Musk thinks he is a Mind.
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Poldarn posted:Termination Shock has a little aside where it basically states that Elon wasted his opportunity to help people with his billions by going after fame. What the world really needs is an even bigger billionaire. Neal sits at his desk, sweating. He carefully writes out: 'trillionaire?????' and then bursts into tears.
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Leng posted:Baru was most definitely the correct answer and I shall be rectifying my error in judgment today. I have now finished a reread of Baru 2 and I want to say two things: 1. The Monster Baru Cormorant posted:By sundown she owned a restaurant and a flophouse, the Fiat Bank branch by the docks was on fire, and two pirate captains were dueling for her hand as she sold prostitutes in lots of half a hundred. 2. If you haven't read Baru you should read Baru Okay actually three things: 3. If you have read Baru, you should read Baru again.
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SimonChris posted:https://amazingstories.com/2023/06/every-quiver-of-each-of-them-by-simon-christiansen-free-story/ I read this. It’s an interesting idea and I’d be curious to see it taken further. e: I also read Gateway by Pohl earlier this week. Fuuuuck that protagonist. Also the therapy framing story didn’t work for me. I have the third Heechee book on my bookcase but I tossed both of them into the giveaway bin. Too bad, I liked the concept of the world. Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Elon is like if you ordered Tony stark from an even shittier version of wish. I know the behold humanity series is basically just hfy feel good stuff, but in reading through the atomic hooves novel and holy poo poo the feels. I think I'm gonna have to check out the other books in the series besides the BH ones.
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FPyat posted:We thought he was Tony Stark, but it turned out he wasn't. We need the real thing. We wanted Musk to be Tony Stark, but it turned out that he was Justin Hammer.
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pseudorandom name posted:OTOH Elon Musk is astonishingly stupid and probably couldn't understand the point of Zodiac if he read it. It’s this. He would think it’s great even though the whole point says he sucks.
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CIRCE by Madeline Miller - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074M5TLLJ/ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006IE2IO8/ Babel by RF Kuang - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MD95S5V/ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084357H23/
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Funnily enough, this entry in the SF Encyclopedia about edisonades managed to explain everything about Elon Musk to me. It's a classic American archetype, the inventor-turned-CEO who is at heart a con man who aspires to becoming a prophet of his own supposed genius.
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Congrats to CaptainCrunch for All In being published. I just ordered the paperback.
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Everyone posted:Congrats to CaptainCrunch for All In being published. I just ordered the paperback. Hah, thanks! I appreciate it. Only reason I didn't say anything is I didn't want to wear out my welcome with excessive self-shilling around these parts.
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CaptainCrunch posted:Hah, thanks! I appreciate it. You're a Goon Author. Shill 'til you're shrill, I say.
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https://www.amazon.com/Capacity-Serve-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B0C9TRVQ4Q If we are shilling, I just published a small collection of my stories .
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Everyone posted:You're a Goon Author. Shill 'til you're shrill, I say. Fair enough! Vampires, shapeshifters, magic and Las Vegas, All In has it all!
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Enjoying the latest Lost Fleet book that just came out on AMERICUH DAY! (Implacable) but good lord, one chapter. I know it was written months ago before the IRL event which makes it feel so weird to see a rich rear end in a top hat Oceangating himself and a bunch of paying passengers. It's so weird when authors feel like time travelers.
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Hmm some authors are so prolific. I just found out KJ Parker is coming out with 3 new books near the end of the year. One each month from October through December called Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead Saevus Corax Captures the Castle Saevus Corax Gets Away With Murder Each supposedly around 400 pages.
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FPyat posted:We thought he was Tony Stark, but it turned out he wasn't. We need the real thing. I mean, the popularity of the Marvel cinematic universe would suggest that plenty of people "need" a fictional billionaire whose main traits are a gigantic ego and mystical inventing powers, but that kind of a person is just that - fiction. I think someone earlier in the thread was talking about how the prevalence of that kind of character is a major problem in steampunk.
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