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quantumfoam posted:Recently finished reading a non-fiction book about a internet criminal kingpin that reads like a bizzare scifi/milscifi book series given the various schemes and plans the internet kingpin had going on. But it was all real apparently, and why I'm cross-posting this recap-review to a few book barn threads. I think that's the guy who was a coworker of a friend of mine. Edit: No, that was a different criminal involved with mercenaries and such. xcheopis fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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# ¿ May 15, 2024 03:46 |
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Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2019 16:22 |
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fez_machine posted:2010 (good FYAD pre-eat the eggs, transphobia, and the twitter exodus) soon after the publication of Mr. Shivers So? That doesn't say anything about the quality of his advice or his writing.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 00:55 |
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fez_machine posted:really defending the idea that easily mocked fake as hell Old-timey hobo dialect horror is unreflective of a person's writing The hilarity of believing everyone thinks of FYAD as the arbiters of good writing, much less anything else.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 17:56 |
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Gnoman posted:(This was inspired by a couple of joke posts in the milhist thread, where a question about historical dragoons (mounted infantrymen) was answered as if it was about Final Fantasy dragoons (spearmen who can Jump really high).) Your link isn't working.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2020 05:04 |
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"Everyone"
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2020 22:29 |
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Ninurta posted:Mr. Shivers was an ok first novel, and Jackson has improved since then with his City of X trilogy. There was just a strange, Goony lynch mob that hated anything he wrote and forced him out of this forum. Hence my use of "everyone"; because it wasn't "everyone" then and it's just some weirdo going on about it now.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 13:24 |
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Black Griffon posted:that's what you're supposed to do with all fiction in general We've had that for centuries.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 16:19 |
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wizzardstaff posted:Someone several weeks ago suggested Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward and I threw it on my list. Just finished it last night and thought it was pretty good; I enjoy "big scale" stories about the rise and fall of empires. ("Big" being a relative term here since the aliens are practically microscopic.) I thought all the sections with humans were unbearably plodding and slow with cheesy, overexplained dialogue that didn't use enough contractions--but about halfway through I started wondering whether that was a deliberate style choice for contrast. I liked the sequel just fine but it's not awesome and isn't necessary.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 13:33 |
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I was active on LiveJournal during racefail and it dragged in all sorts of issues. I think that might have been what really got N.K. Jemisin motivated to publish.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2020 01:25 |
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If Gandalf is illiterate, then how did he read the journal page Isildur left in Gondor?
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 17:11 |
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HopperUK posted:Is there a physical book I can get with the Lord Dunsany stuff in it? Everything on Amazon looks shady or low-quality or weird.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 00:38 |
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Cavelcade posted:Hi thread, I'm looking for some fantasy or Sci fi by a female author for a book club that wouldn't normally read that. I've read The Left Hand of Darkness recently and was thinking of suggesting the Dispossessed, but Kindred by Octavia Butler also looks good. Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle.
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