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I'm reading an unreleased fantasy novel right now (not Sunforge don't worry Sascha) with a style I really didn't like at first, but it's been growing on me and I see the value. I'm probably going to blurb it and then people are going to think I'm stupid.
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General Battuta posted:Have you read ASH A SECRET HISTORY It's on my kindle but I think it got lost in the shuffle; I hate the current kindle interface, it's designed to make you buy new stuff, not remember the things you have already bought. Thanks for the reminder.
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May 13, 2024 18:03
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zoux posted:Spear Cuts Through Water is like nested three narratives deep or something? Yes. There’s a kid whose grandmother is telling them stories, there’s that kid in a dream at a fantastical play, the play that’s being acted out is the story the grandmother is telling them. The narrative follows several characters within the grandmother story and the play story. There’s the kid point of view in current day, the kid point of view in dream state; and then multiple points of view of characters in the story. It all happens in the same universe (I think), despite the kid and the grandmother being in a modern day setting.
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May 13, 2024 18:05
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General Battuta posted:I'm reading an unreleased fantasy novel right now (not Sunforge don't worry Sascha) with a style I really didn't like at first, but it's been growing on me and I see the value. I'm probably going to blurb it and then people are going to think I'm stupid. Like more stupid than before?
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May 13, 2024 18:23
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Battuta are there any plans for a pulp-sized paperback release of the Baru books? Failing that, maybe an omnibus edition? I'd like to get a matching set of the three but my local bookshop carries mismatches.
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May 13, 2024 18:31
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I really want to like Daevabad. I really do. But the Edward Cullen-rear end kinda love interest is just so annoying to read, both in first and third person, that I don't know if I can finish. The second book at least didn't feature him much and when it did nobody was mooning over how dreamy he was. It is funny how often he seems to think that genociding and lying will fix all the people mad at him about being a genocidal liar though.
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May 13, 2024 18:40
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Awkward Davies posted:Yes. There’s a kid whose grandmother is telling them stories, there’s that kid in a dream at a fantastical play, the play that’s being acted out is the story the grandmother is telling them. Yeah, no thank you.
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Ravenfood posted:I really want to like Daevabad. I really do. But the Edward Cullen-rear end kinda love interest is just so annoying to read, both in first and third person, that I don't know if I can finish. The second book at least didn't feature him much and when it did nobody was mooning over how dreamy he was. I felt this way too, the romance felt pretty overwrought and was way more of a focus than I really wanted from a book like that, and the love interest (his name escapes me) was almost cartoonishly evil at times. And there was a lot of good stuff in the first couple books! But proportionally there was way too much of the dumb central romance/love triangle and generally way too much padding or fluff that wasn't interesting or relevant enough to justify the way it dragged on the pace of the rest of the narrative.
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Ravenfood posted:I really want to like Daevabad. I really do. But the Edward Cullen-rear end kinda love interest is just so annoying to read, both in first and third person, that I don't know if I can finish. The second book at least didn't feature him much and when it did nobody was mooning over how dreamy he was. My biggest problem with Daevabad was the djinn were all way too human. Like, the protagonist and other half-djinn sure, but there’s a total lack of mystique about these mythical beings that really bugged me. And the romance really didn’t help with that I recommend the Adventures of Amina Al-Serafi instead. Her writing has improved in every way, it’s so much better
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Stuporstar posted:My biggest problem with Daevabad was the djinn were all way too human. Like, the protagonist and other half-djinn sure, but there’s a total lack of mystique about these mythical beings that really bugged me. And the romance really didn’t help with that Agreed. I read Amina first and didn't realize Daevabad was her first series, so was hoping for more and longer.
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The Spear Cuts Through the Water was great, loved the style and the stylistic changes between the nested narratives. Loved the play with switching POVs and especially getting the brief glimpses of the inner thoughts of random passers by, which was like an antidote for what I usually don’t like about epic fantasy. What I didn’t care for was the OTT moments of sudden torture or sadism. They weren’t gross or horrifying (unlike the really effective stuff with the turtle god), just kind of tedious. Like they were expected and had to be slotted in, though in fairness they were less prominent later on. Has anyone read The Stone Dance of the Chameleon by Ricardo Pinto? At least so far it’s oddly similar in a few ways to Spear - raised highways across the desert, brutal imperial control, odd fantasy animals, casual violence - but somehow it does this angle better. Less stylistically interesting and the characters aren’t as good but one book in and it’s working. Maybe because it feels more ‘in the world’, almost claustrophobically so, with its own bone deep and seemingly unchangeable ethical systems. Like a slightly Mesoamerican-tinged version of Gormenghast.
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GhastlyBizness posted:Has anyone read The Stone Dance of the Chameleon by Ricardo Pinto? a long time ago, but it seems he's put out a second edition that turns the old 3 book series into a 7 book series of smaller reworked books it was interesting and, if I remember correctly, bleak
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Doktor Avalanche posted:a long time ago, but it seems he's put out a second edition that turns the old 3 book series into a 7 book series of smaller reworked books Yeah bleak isn’t the half of it. I’m reading that second ed (which may actually be shorter overall?) and am partway through the second book.
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mewse posted:Like more stupid than before? They're going to continue believing I'm stupid
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mdemone posted:Battuta are there any plans for a pulp-sized paperback release of the Baru books? Failing that, maybe an omnibus edition? I'd like to get a matching set of the three but my local bookshop carries mismatches. I haven't heard anything like that, sorry. 
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The Golem and the Jinni (#1) by Helene Wecker - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008QXVDJ0/ The second book is still on sale as well. On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LLII12/ Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MD95S5V/ City of Bones by Martha Wells - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSD4SYSJ/ Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088SY4GSD/ The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NFHF0Q/ The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083JLBLQM/ Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11A6/ The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTSL3843/
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Ravenfood posted:Agreed. I read Amina first and didn't realize Daevabad was her first series, so was hoping for more and longer. Thankfully it’s gonna be a trilogy as well. Unfortunately its expected release date is sometime late next year
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General Battuta posted:Have you read ASH A SECRET HISTORY I've read both this and Between Two Fires and while I liked BTF more, Ash was also a trip. But for anyone who likes Buehlman, don't sleep on The Necromancers House. It's also very good. A few years ago it was annoyingly difficult to find an e-book for. However Amazon now shows that there is both an ebook and it's available through Kindle Unlimited. There's also an audiobook.
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Finished the sword unbound by Gareth Hanrahan. Continued to be solid. Maybe not as good as the first, but still worth reading if you’ve liked his other stuff imo.
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Buehlmans vampire novel, The Lesser Dead is good as well.
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tildes posted:Finished the sword unbound by Gareth Hanrahan. Continued to be solid. Maybe not as good as the first, but still worth reading if you’ve liked his other stuff imo. Agreed. He does a decent job of not over-explaining what's happening, so it suffers a little from losing some of the mystery but it's still a good read.
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I just finished Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi, published in The Far Reaches (2023), and loving hell that novelette gave me chills for how utterly imaginative and open-ended it is. I need more science fiction to be like this.
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Awkward Davies posted:Yes. There’s a kid whose grandmother is telling them stories, there’s that kid in a dream at a fantastical play, the play that’s being acted out is the story the grandmother is telling them. To some extent though I don't think the structure really matters. It's not really confusing unless you're trying so hard to find hidden meaning in everything that you get all worked up over it. Most of the "kid" and "play" stuff is relatively short bits
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I probably have to put deals on pause for awhile. I unexpectedly found a 4 week old kitten in my yard (mother never came back for it), and taking care of it eats up all the time I used to have. Aurora Rising (Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies #1) by Alistair Reynolds - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081YZY8YR/ Rosewater (Wormwood #1) by Tade Thompson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077MGY96X/ The Rosewater Redemption (Wormwood #3) by Tade Thompson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NCXLDP5/ The Witchwood Crown (Last King of Osten Ard #1) by Tad Williams - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IAUG3FM/ The Folding Knife by KJ Parker - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035IICZO/ The Company by KJ Parker - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002B9MHQ8/
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Post the kitten
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pik_d posted:Post the kitten 
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pik_d posted:Post the kitten I would like to see the baby.
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pik_d posted:Post the kitten This is a fabulous idea, right there. What’s the kitten’s name?
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train the kitten to post the deals for you 
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Name the kitten Sci-Fi Megathread.
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I'm not pradmer and this is not their kitten, but I cannot pass up kitten chat. Sometime back in March a family friend found a 4 week old kitten they couldn't keep and so I wound up with a kitten. Four weeks old, 0.9lbs. That's a regular 16.9oz water bottle for size comparison in the first picture.   11 weeks old, 2.5+ lbs:   She's named Luna, because I was thinking of kitten names around the time of the eclipse.
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Extremely good kitten-posting.
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Name the kitten “Deals”
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pik_d posted:Post the kitten
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pik_d posted:Post the kitten and fritz posted:Name the kitten “Deals” and Subjunctive posted:Extremely good kitten-posting.
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Aubrey & Maturin has cats- and while its not SF&F if you have somehow been under a rock it is a very good series.
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pradmer posted:I probably have to put deals on pause for awhile. I unexpectedly found a 4 week old kitten in my yard (mother never came back for it), and taking care of it eats up all the time I used to have. In honor of this kitten, I will now be re-reading the Chanur books.
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The pics! I think it's a girl but waiting on vet visit in a few days. Unnamed so far. She's a little cutie!   
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pradmer posted:The pics! I think it's a girl but waiting on vet visit in a few days. Unnamed so far. She's a little cutie! The Cuddly Baru Meoworant
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She's adorable. Please look after her!
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