Okay gang, we've knocked out Animorphs (all bangers, even the starfish one) and Everworld (B tier start, S tier middle, D tier ending), now it's time for us to finish what our pal Epicurius started way back in 2020 and read The Remnants! Here's the summary as per wikipedia: quote:
So maybe mash together Voyager and Farscape, I'd say Battlestar, but this predates the reimagining and I don't remember the original well enough to recall what it was about, aside from the cylons looking way more awesome than just pretend humans, idk, i never finished the reboot. Who knows how this will go! Maybe you do! Did you read this as a youth? Do you have fond memories of it? What are we getting ourselves in for? Also: Let's get a better thread title! Post your thoughts on this series and your idea for a title, we'll begin this tomorrow.
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 00:24 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:38 |
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I know absolutely nothing about this series but the summary sounds bizarre so I'm here for it.
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 00:55 |
Coca Koala posted:sounds bizarre so I'm here for it. we got our first contender for thread title!
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 01:47 |
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I remember these books taught me who Bosch was and made me consider the question "what if a girl was a hive mind of alien worms???"
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 02:32 |
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Never heard of Remnants. Having read the whole Everworld thread, I need to know... does Remnants have an ending? And does it have a good ending?
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 03:53 |
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Remnants: it's giving Mother... I'm so sorry
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 04:09 |
I was barely even aware of this series' existence and certainly never read it before. The ending of Everworld sucked so let's see if that was because all the quality transferred over to this series.poop chute posted:I remember these books taught me who Bosch was and made me consider the question "what if a girl was a hive mind of alien worms???"
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# ? Jan 10, 2024 19:04 |
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And we're off! Okay, so number 1. We got some names in this book. Wow. Number 2, Jobs has a Something Awful account. Number 3, we're getting right into thing, hell yeah! Also lol at working autodriving cars in 2011 quote:
So it looks like we'll be getting multiple POVs a book. I like Mo.
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# ? Jan 11, 2024 04:59 |
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I think the weirdest part of this setting so far isn’t that they had self-driving cars in 2009, but that the first self-driving car was shipped by Ford, of all companies. I guess it’s being set ten years in the future and 2001 was still a few years before detroit really started making GBS threads the bed?
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# ? Jan 11, 2024 20:53 |
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three chapters in and we're already justifying murder, hell yeah!!! quote:
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 16:04 |
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This series has incredible names.
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 17:49 |
WrightOfWay posted:This series has incredible names. YEAH I can't wait for D-CAF and Mo'Steel to hang out!
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 17:52 |
Is this series mostly written by Grant? Animorphs and Everworld definitely had the same voice but this feels wildly different so far.
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 18:27 |
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God Remnants scared the poo poo out of me as a kid, in a way that I didn't feel again till years later when I read Annihilation. So much so that I never finished it, so I'm looking forward to finishing it here.
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# ? Jan 12, 2024 19:14 |
/\/\/\That's awesome, please post about the stuff the freaked you out when it comes up!Remalle posted:Is this series mostly written by Grant? Animorphs and Everworld definitely had the same voice but this feels wildly different so far. I could see that. I think Epi mentioned as much waaaaay back in the animorphs thread when we were discussing what series to do next. quote:
And we have another kid. No girl character yet, will that be Cordelia? quote:
Okay well lol, I ask a question and it's immediately answered. But there's no way this series doesn't have a “fem” in it. Oh god, this slang is sure is something. I do find these characters a bit endearing. I'm already invested in Jobs and D-Caf, I like seeing what Mo'Steel is gonna pull off. Psychic russian kid has potential. What are folks impressions so far?
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# ? Jan 13, 2024 05:52 |
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Well, the voice is definitely different to the other two series. The distant future of 2011 is an odd setting. The other series always made a point of being very grounded in the here-and-now, and I wonder if this series will suffer a bit without that grounding. That said, aside from The Pipe and self-driving cars for schoolkids, we haven't seen anything too egregiously weird yet. So far, the worse the character's name, the more sympathetic the character is. Russian Trauma Kid makes for dull reading, while Mo'Steel's (ugh) chapter was fun. Finally: I absolutely love stories about the days before the end of the world. (I almost feel like it will be a disappointment when the story leaves the doomed earth behind.) Something about that idea is so compelling. What would you do with your last week on earth? On that note- anyone read On The Beach? There's a classic end-of-the-world novel, perhaps one of the first.
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# ? Jan 14, 2024 07:11 |
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Yeah the setup seems interesting but I'm also still grappling with the psychic damage of the setting being "the distant future of over ten years ago"
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# ? Jan 14, 2024 19:20 |
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This book was published in 2001 so it takes place in the distant future of 10 years from then which makes some of the tech even more wild.
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# ? Jan 14, 2024 20:58 |
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I dropped out of Applegrant's work some time during Everworld so I've never read any of these, the first few chapters are promising!
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# ? Jan 14, 2024 21:42 |
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i'm enjoying the prose style a lot so far, but yeah the voice definitely does feel quite different from Animorphs and Everworld! extremely lmao at this kid naming himself after steve jobs, it feels exactly like something a 7 year old would do
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# ? Jan 14, 2024 21:55 |
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goddamn these names, but 2face seems really interesting, so perhaps the “worse the name/better the character” idea holds up. We also have our girl character. quote:
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 01:45 |
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Oh cool, next chapter we get to meet Phresh*Beetz and their crazy friend, YoMaMa
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 02:57 |
i don't even know if your joking
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 03:26 |
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the names are so late 90s/early 2000s tween internet that it's physically painful, i love it
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 03:29 |
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Soonmot posted:/\/\/\That's awesome, please post about the stuff the freaked you out when it comes up! You’ll notice when we get there lol. These books go some PLACES.
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 16:46 |
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This is starting pretty crazy. Assuming Cordelia has to come up - she has gotten a lot of screen time. I am also assuming it will turn out like the hibernation chambers don’t work on the adults so it will only be the kids left alive.
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 17:53 |
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quote:“Pi to six places divided by yesterday’s date I get,” the agent said. “What were the interposed letters?” I could have sworn I'd never even heard of this series before it came up in the Animorphs thread but for some reason this line is incredibly familiar.
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# ? Jan 15, 2024 19:28 |
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We are on page 35 of 70 And wow, do we have a great villain in Yago. What a loving cock. Intersting that this is 2011 and they have a Black woman in a mixed marriage winning the presidential election in 2008. Also interesting the degree of genetic manipulation humanity has, even if it is probably only for the rich. I'm most interested in hearing how Black folk view the changes he's made to his own body.
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# ? Jan 16, 2024 03:08 |
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Having people arrive on the ship and having an antagonistic presence definitely helps bring some structure to the story in my mind. Also man, it’s always fun to read these chapters and see the cultural touchpoints from 2001 that are being imagined 10 years in the future. Of course the cop is eating a Krispy Kreme donut, they just went public and their stock is on the rise! Absolutely zero chance they’ll miss earnings and have a C&D issued against them by the SEC!
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# ? Jan 16, 2024 18:07 |
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Coca Koala posted:Having people arrive on the ship and having an antagonistic presence definitely helps bring some structure to the story in my mind. I've been re-reading Green Mars this week. I love that book but it's showing its age; it hinges on humans establishing a self-sustaining colony on Mars in 2024, and still using faxes in 2050ad. That said I can imagine a world without social media being a lot less terrible. Maybe that's the inflection point for history.
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# ? Jan 17, 2024 00:59 |
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Basically every sci-fi story from the 60s/70s/80s envisions the Soviet Union lasting indefinitely
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# ? Jan 17, 2024 08:55 |
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I really do like the rapport between Mo and Jobs, it looks like 2face is going to slot into that relationship pretty well too. quote:
Yeah, I guess there was more for Cordelia. RIP
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 02:13 |
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Uh
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 02:55 |
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Well that does at least set the tone for the series. Nope, the love interest does not get to sneak on the rocket. They get a 2x4 through the chest in a nuclear blast.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 02:57 |
Mods, can we get a title change to Let's Read The Remnants: ...Uh...
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 03:06 |
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Soonmot posted:I really do like the rapport between Mo and Jobs, it looks like 2face is going to slot into that relationship pretty well too. This is one of the parts that's stuck with me for twenty years. That hard swerve away from what you think is going to happen into "haha no this all sucks" sets the tone for basically everything else that happens.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 03:55 |
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poop chute posted:This is one of the parts that's stuck with me for twenty years. That hard swerve away from what you think is going to happen into "haha no this all sucks" sets the tone for basically everything else that happens. Yeah, WTR everybody. Strap the gently caress in.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 17:38 |
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Man as soon as that chapter started i was like “huh I wonder what convoluted plotline is going to get Cordelia from San Francisco to the ship”? Anyways,
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 18:08 |
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Despite Cordelia commenting on her cousins I have had the impression that every character so far is incredibly rich. Usually techbro working rich but still. Which sort of makes sense since they're able to get seats on the last hope rocket.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 19:27 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:38 |
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I'm not sure how the logistics of getting people on an IRL hope rocket would work, let alone deciding who gets a ticket. I feel like it would involve something a little more dramatic than the FBI heading out to the burbs to pick up families who know about the doom comet. Does the wider world know about the Rock yet?
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 21:55 |