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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance #1) by NK Jemisin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZDJZO2/ Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations #1) by Michael J Sullivan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XWBUKK/ Coraline by Neil Gaiman - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0070XB0N6/ The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3S9TLS/
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Visiting New England, stopped in Providence. Had to snap a photo of HP Lovecraft's house:  No plaque or anything. I also visited the John Hay Library, which has the collection of his letters, but viewing is by appointment only, and not on Saturdays.
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branedotorg posted:i wouldn't personally, other than to read it as a document illustrating the author's psychosis, it's polarising, there are some fans but there's few fence sitters on this one. I'm reading Ubik now. Not what I expected but definitely more compelling than Radio Free Albemuth. It continues his fixation on teenage girls getting naked and hooking up with older men though.  I've heard the Three Stigmata of Palmer Aldritch highly recommended. What do you think of that one?
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Annath posted:Visiting New England, stopped in Providence. You should check out Lovecraft's tombstone too. It's in Swan Point Cemetery, which has some great memorials near the river, and there's often something weird done to Lovecraft's grave around this time of year. The grave itself isn't anything special tho
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Oct 7, 2023 20:41
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Annath posted:Visiting New England, stopped in Providence. Ha, I live like a 5 minute walk from there. And yes, his grave is a rather modest affair. 
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SimonChris posted:What's the best way to get the Commonweal books onto a Kindle? Do I really need to mess around with shady DRM removers? I’m reading the Commonweal books again and this quote just blitzed its way past my thinking brain into the lizard part. quote:’Comprehensive excellence’ ain’t a requirement. ‘Win the fight’ is a requirement.
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Oct 7, 2023 20:59
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secular woods sex posted:I converted them from .epub to .mobi using an online converter and then emailed them to my kindle and it worked fine. funnily enough I got this from Amazon just a couple days back, they've been threatening it for ages 
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Oct 7, 2023 21:15
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StumblyWumbly posted:You should check out Lovecraft's tombstone too. It's in Swan Point Cemetery, which has some great memorials near the river, and there's often something weird done to Lovecraft's grave around this time of year. Nuclear Tourist posted:Ha, I live like a 5 minute walk from there. Alas, the cemetery is closed on Saturdays from what I could tell, and we only had 1 day (we were visiting Boston, Salem, and Providence on this trip). I did get several snapshots around town for my HP Lovecraft Historical Society membership stamp though, as well as checked out the Lovecraft Arts and Sciences store.
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Oct 7, 2023 21:26
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Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection?
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I've heard the Three Stigmata of Palmer Aldritch highly recommended. What do you think of that one?
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Oct 7, 2023 21:34
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? Single author or multiple? For multiple author anthologies. How recent? At this very moment anything edited by Jonathan Strahan will be good. Going back a few years you can add Gardner Dozois to the list.
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Oct 7, 2023 21:36
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? How Long 'til Black Future Month is an excellent collection of NK Jemsin's short fiction. It's a mix of SF, fantasy, and urban fantasy. There are some absolute bangers in there, and a good number where I put the iPad down afterwards and just had a think or a feel about them. Related essay https://nkjemisin.com/2013/09/how-long-til-black-future-month/ Watch the linked video, Janele Monae slaps.
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Oct 7, 2023 21:58
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? How recent is recent? Do you consider Lovecraftian stuff close enough to SciFi? Redneck Eldritch is a hilarious take on the genre. Apotheosis: Stories of Human Survival After The Rise of The Elder Gods is much more serious/traditional. Lost Signals is "horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers stations, rogue transmissions, and other unimaginable sounds you only wish were fiction."
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? I recently read The Alchemy of Sorrow: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4VVQPYY/ Has a short story from M.L. Wang, the author of The Sword of Kaigen in it. Didn't blow me away but there were a fair few stories in there that I really, really enjoyed.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:And yes, his grave is a rather modest affair. What? No, that epitaph is baller.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:funnily enough I got this from Amazon just a couple days back, they've been threatening it for ages
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? Academic Exercises by KJ Parker. Most of the stories are available online, maybe find one and see if you like his style.
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thotsky posted:What? No, that epitaph is baller. No argument there, but it's still a tiny little unassuming grave marker in a huge old cemetery and you could easily walk right past it unless you know what you're looking for. I suppose the decorations that people sometimes put on it make it stand out a bit though.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:No argument there, but it's still a tiny little unassuming grave marker in a huge old cemetery and you could easily walk right past it unless you know what you're looking for. I suppose the decorations that people sometimes put on it make it stand out a bit though. I think it's appropriate. The dude was pretty unassuming at a glance. The marker absolutely fits him.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson Either collection by Ted Chiang are probably the best, assume you’ve read them?
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Annath posted:Visiting New England, stopped in Providence. Don’t feel too bad, even academics aren’t allowed to look at his letters in the John Hay, they’re in too bad condition. He has an astronomy notebook in there that hasn’t been digitized yet and they wouldn’t let me look at it for research for my Lovecraft and Astronomy book, and I’ve met the special collections librarian at a number of conferences prior. That being said they do typically have some of his papers on display in the hallway. Last time I was there they had his notes for At the Mountains of Madness in a display case.
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mllaneza posted:How Long 'til Black Future Month is an excellent collection of NK Jemsin's short fiction. It's a mix of SF, fantasy, and urban fantasy. There are some absolute bangers in there, and a good number where I put the iPad down afterwards and just had a think or a feel about them. Speaking of Janelle Monae, this is actually a pretty good book of collaborative sff short stories https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Librarian-Other-Stories-Computer-ebook/dp/B09B7JQX5H
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Chairman Capone posted:Don’t feel too bad, even academics aren’t allowed to look at his letters in the John Hay, they’re in too bad condition. He has an astronomy notebook in there that hasn’t been digitized yet and they wouldn’t let me look at it for research for my Lovecraft and Astronomy book, and I’ve met the special collections librarian at a number of conferences prior. Interesting. If even academics aren't allowed to study them, then what's the point? It isn't really preserving knowledge if no one can study it lol. What's the title of your book?
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secular woods sex posted:Looks like I need to reconvert to a new format, thank you for the heads up! I think anything you already have uploaded to your Amazon documents is safe, they're just not accepting new .mobi files from November.
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Chairman Capone posted:Don’t feel too bad, even academics aren’t allowed to look at his letters in the John Hay, they’re in too bad condition. He has an astronomy notebook in there that hasn’t been digitized yet and they wouldn’t let me look at it for research for my Lovecraft and Astronomy book, and I’ve met the special collections librarian at a number of conferences prior. Annath posted:Interesting. If even academics aren't allowed to study them, then what's the point? It isn't really preserving knowledge if no one can study it lol.
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Annath posted:Interesting. If even academics aren't allowed to study them, then what's the point? It isn't really preserving knowledge if no one can study it lol. Yeah, like Arsenic Lupin said, the paper quality tends to be very bad and they are extremely fragile, but thankfully almost all of them are digitized and can be viewed freely on the Brown library website. And my book is When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy: https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy
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Chairman Capone posted:Yeah, like Arsenic Lupin said, the paper quality tends to be very bad and they are extremely fragile, but thankfully almost all of them are digitized and can be viewed freely on the Brown library website. Awesome, I'll check it out!
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Chairman Capone posted:Yeah, like Arsenic Lupin said, the paper quality tends to be very bad and they are extremely fragile, but thankfully almost all of them are digitized and can be viewed freely on the Brown library website. I'll pick this up if I ever have the time to actually sit down and read a book again.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Did he write on really cheap paper? Given the state of Lovecraft's finances most of his life, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Stuporstar posted:Speaking of Janelle Monae, this is actually a pretty good book of collaborative sff short stories https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Librarian-Other-Stories-Computer-ebook/dp/B09B7JQX5H Sold!
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? If you're up for something a little more on the literary side, Sofia Samatar's Tender is amazing.
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The Washington Post has a lovely graphic short story ('graphic' as in 'graphic novel') about the Black fantasy writer Charles Saunders. Unpaywalled link.
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Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD46PQZ/ The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085C71YG5/ The Ships of Air (Fall of Ile-Rien #2) by Martha Wells - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKIA0/
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secular woods sex posted:I converted them from .epub to .mobi using an online converter and then emailed them to my kindle and it worked fine. Kindle takes EPUB right now with no issues and that’s the format they’re moving to.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Can anyone recommend a good recent science fiction or fantasy short story collection? pradmer posted:Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang - $1.99 Exhalation has some really great stuff. It's more thinky than exciting or emotionally engaging, but there are stories that will stick with you
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I listened to the first two Green Bone Saga books by Fonda Lee because they seemed like the right sort of book for audio (I generally use audiobooks for rereads or stuff that requires less attention). There was nothing outright terrible about them but they felt incredibly generic and besides the setting, which itself just felt like a pastiche of superficially spoofed Asian cultures, I found absolutely nothing memorable about them. Perhaps they just paled in comparison to Gideon and Harrow the Ninth which I was coming off of, and which I plan on rereading on my Kindle before I move on to Nona the Ninth. Does anyone have any other recommendations for good, recent-ish (last decade maybe?) sci fi or fantasy? If it's available on Audible, even better.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Washington Post has a lovely graphic short story ('graphic' as in 'graphic novel') about the Black fantasy writer Charles Saunders. Unpaywalled link. Recommended clicking on this. Very touching.
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Tosk posted:I listened to the first two Green Bone Saga books by Fonda Lee because they seemed like the right sort of book for audio (I generally use audiobooks for rereads or stuff that requires less attention). There was nothing outright terrible about them but they felt incredibly generic and besides the setting, which itself just felt like a pastiche of superficially spoofed Asian cultures, I found absolutely nothing memorable about them. Perhaps they just paled in comparison to Gideon and Harrow the Ninth which I was coming off of, and which I plan on rereading on my Kindle before I move on to Nona the Ninth. Tosk posted:Does anyone have any other recommendations for good, recent-ish (last decade maybe?) sci fi or fantasy? If it's available on Audible, even better.
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