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Space opera with no Newtonian physics and FTL travel that ignores time-dilation? It's fine, it's just a light-hearted rom--whoah, the dinosaur mounts have loving scales instead of feathers?
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Do we even know if Dinosaur Lords takes place on earth? I doubt it's historical fantasy. Levitate posted:Malazan has giant space velociraptors with swords for hands, but you already think that series is dumb
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Sep 25, 2014 18:00
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Neuromancer by William Gibson is $1.99 on Kindle today--definitely worth a read if you haven't done so. Also, not Sci-fi and I haven't read this one, but I see it posted a lot: The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron is also $1.99. http://www.amazon.com/Neuromancer-William-Gibson-ebook/dp/B000O76ON6 http://www.amazon.com/The-Imago-Sequence-Laird-Barron-ebook/dp/B0070YQT4A
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mallamp posted:Do we even know if Dinosaur Lords takes place on earth? I doubt it's historical fantasy. It probably takes place on planet Pluto.
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Sep 25, 2014 19:32
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mallamp posted:Do we even know if Dinosaur Lords takes place on earth? I doubt it's historical fantasy. I just found that there's usually enough action in the first bunch of books that you can just ignore the poo poo you don't understand and enjoy the set pieces. Once you get far enough in some stuff starts coming together and the stuff that doesn't, don't worry about. But yeah, he likes to kind of hide stuff or show it later in some ways. If you read the whole series and then go back to the beginning and read it again you can see a lot of poo poo you missed the first time because you didn't realize it was relevant. But different people like different stuff
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Going to crosspost this here since folks that read this thread are more likely than the average SAMart browser to have what I want. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3667219 Basically I'm looking to get a bunch of the old DAW paperbacks, specifically ones with a yellow spine.
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Copy of Starfish and Maelstrom arrived. Goddamnit, the blurb on Maelstrom should have spoiler warnings...
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Are there any goon scifi book club things? I mean besides this thread. Something where chapters are set each week and discussed? I stuck with it through the first few books back when we read Wheel of Time and enjoyed it quite a bit and would like to do that again. Looked the TBB but didn't find one. If not, anybody feel like doing that?
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Are there any goon scifi book club things? I mean besides this thread. Something where chapters are set each week and discussed? I stuck with it through the first few books back when we read Wheel of Time and enjoyed it quite a bit and would like to do that again. Looked the TBB but didn't find one. If not, anybody feel like doing that? We have the Book of the Month and right now someone's running a mystery read-along but there's no current let's read for SF or F. I am going to make Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October next month's book of the month.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, this series might turn out to be poo poo, but this cover is amazing: The only way that cover could get better is if the guy on the dino was a Templar, and the premise was, "what if the murder of Jesus hadn't caused the extinction of dinosaurs - man's truest friend and ally since the first days in the garden of eden?" coyo7e fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 02:16
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We have the Book of the Month and right now someone's running a mystery read-along but there's no current let's read for SF or F. I am going to make Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October next month's book of the month. That sounds interesting, might get in on that. I'd be down for a let's read of some good SF.
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Ok... ... Ok... ... get a hold of yourself. Breathe, damnit. quote:The “Game of Thrones” co-executive producer is teaming with Spike TV to develop the sci-fi series “Red Mars,” an adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy novels. http://www.thewrap.com/game-of-thrones-producer-vince-gerardis-teams-with-spike-for-red-mars-sci-fi-series/ Also, I want those jackets.
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Figured it would be better to ask in here.. I am looking for sci-fi books that similar to my favorites: 1. The Fifth Head Of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe 2. Neuromancer - William Gibson 3. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman 4. Ship Of Fools - Richard Paul Russo 5. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson I am aware that numbers 2, 4 and 5 have sequels, but I have heard that they are nowhere near as good as the ones I listed which is why I've stayed away.
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So I finally got around to Blindsight by Watts. Great read and I understand why it has been discussed a lot here. Talk about bombarding you with interesting ideas, although the story line is somewhat similar to Revelation Space or Diamond Dogs by Reynolds. Also, gently caress vampires, that was probably the most uninteresting part of the story. How are his other books? I got Starfish on my Kindle along with Blindsight. genghis.khan posted:2. Neuromancer - William Gibson The sequels are still very good and I would recommend them. The anthology collection Johnny Mnemonic is also good. Similar stuff would be Neal Stephenson Snow Crash and for cyber punk the Takeshi Kovacs series, Market Forces and Black Man(Thirteen in US) by Richard Morgan. genghis.khan posted:3. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman Old Mans War by Scalzi. Starship Troopers by Heinlein as well. Depends on what you liked in The Forever War.
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genghis.khan posted:Figured it would be better to ask in here.. Ship of Fools has a sequel? 
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thehomemaster posted:Ok... No one would be happier to be proven wrong, but I think this combo of producer and network will end up twisting the source material beyond recognition.
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Shitshow posted:No one would be happier to be proven wrong, but I think this combo of producer and network will end up twisting the source material beyond recognition. i'm expecting something less like red mars and more like the gangstas in space ending from saints' row III
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I don't if it's close to the source material as long as it's well-done scifi on TV
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Ship of Fools has a sequel? Not yet. The author has said he's working on it, though.
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Cardiac posted:How are his other books? I got Starfish on my Kindle along with Blindsight. Starfish is pretty interesting and, as you'd expect, pretty grim. It's worth reading. I would not immediately jump into the sequel to Blindsight. It has some interesting elements, but retreads a lot of ground, and I felt it was the inferior novel. It'd be a little samey coming right off Blindsight. Save it for when you're jonesing for something similar to Blindsight but don't want to reread it.
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Neurosis posted:Not yet. The author has said he's working on it, though. Sweet. Finished Ship of Fools the other week and thought it owned pretty hard.
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genghis.khan posted:5. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson This is currently being developed into a SyFy movie/series.
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genghis.khan posted:Figured it would be better to ask in here.. Have you read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe yet? You might also like Embassytown by China Mieville, it's his most sci-fi novel.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I don't mind all of those things because they're not trying to change dinosaurs. those loving idiot scientists with their analysis and fossils, they're just trying to ruin dinosaurs
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corn in the bible posted:those loving idiot scientists with their analysis and fossils, they're just trying to ruin dinosaurs *takes two thumbs, points to "PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET TO ME" shirt*
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It will always be a planet in my heart. 
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Sep 27, 2014 16:10
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Some astronomical whatsits still officially consider it a planet.
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Sep 27, 2014 16:37
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Chairchucker posted:Some astronomical whatsits still officially consider it a planet. Only the dumb ones.
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Piell posted:Only the dumb ones. Why? The definition of planets is made up by humans. A different group of humans can choose to use an entirely different definition if they want.
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Chairchucker posted:Why? The definition of planets is made up by humans. A different group of humans can choose to use an entirely different definition if they want. Yeah and they'd be dumb to do so if the reason for the new definition is that it supports objectively better taxonomy now that we know about Kuiper belt objects and exoplanets.
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Chairchucker posted:Why? The definition of planets is made up by humans. A different group of humans can choose to use an entirely different definition if they want. There is no possible definition of "planet" that includes only the eight planets plus Pluto other than "these are the ones that we called planets in the olden days."
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Honestly, when you get right down to it, that reason sounds completely sufficient to me. There's nothing wrong with being a little inaccurate for sentimental reasons.
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Cardiovorax posted:Honestly, when you get right down to it, that reason sounds completely sufficient to me. There's nothing wrong with being a little inaccurate for sentimental reasons. Haha, science usually discourages being inaccurate for sentimental reasons!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, this series might turn out to be poo poo, but this cover is amazing: I'm day one reading this book, I don't care that the writer is a libertarian poo poo; this is just straight up an idea I was already working on. I'm such a loving moron for dinosaurs.
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RVProfootballer posted:Haha, science usually discourages being inaccurate for sentimental reasons! Well, "planet" is kindof inherently vague as a scientific term anyway. Almost any definition of "planet" that isn't just the ancient greek for "wandering star" is somewhat arbitrarily vague. It's hard to not be vague and still include everything from Mercury to Jupiter.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I don't mind all of those things because they're not trying to change dinosaurs. Sorry about your faith-based Natural History.
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So are the Riverworld books worth reading? I've skimmed over the wiki page and I really like the setting idea.
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Nckdictator posted:So are the Riverworld books worth reading? I've skimmed over the wiki page and I really like the setting idea. I read the first and found it interesting, but the second book was a real chore and didn't seem to continue actually exploring the unique environment or even the theme. Your mileage may vary!
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Less Fat Luke posted:I read the first and found it interesting, but the second book was a real chore and didn't seem to continue actually exploring the unique environment or even the theme. Your mileage may vary! My experience is the same, I read the first one with relish but the second one was too much work to get through. I have all the books so I'll give #3 a shot some day.
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I read the Riverworld series when I was in high school. Awesome premise, but the latter books start getting weird. I'd read until your done and not really worry about leaving it unfinished. E: I finished Leviathan Wakes a few days ago and just started Caliban's War. The first good, enough for me to continue, but Caliban's War has started off awesome. The parts with Holden and crew are like Firefly in our solar system. LASER BEAM DREAM fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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