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mdemone posted:They should spend the first season periodically flashing back (ahead?) to the party, which would be a good way to slowly reveal the factions & characters, and then have Boone get offed in the season finale. If they can get the right actor. Nadia will always remain the best character though.
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Torrannor posted:If they can get the right actor. Nadia will always remain the best character though. I'm getting excited now, and I should really know better. Maybe it won't be a clusterfuck, who knows?
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Mars4523 posted:Mind elaborating? Not sure what you mean. Yeah that kind of talk is what I mean, and his tendency to overdetail his magic systems. I really had a hard time with Mistborn. I know it's kind of his thing but a lot of his stuff that I've read comes across as an RPG sourcebook set to a story. At worst there are flickers of the "I wrote what happened in my AD&D campaign" thing that happens all the time in the TSR novels. Nowhere near as bad though. The guy can still craft a readable story most of the time.
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Clark Nova posted:At the very least, they'll probably rearrange things so that Boone doesn't get killed in the prologue. Yeah, and I pity anyone who read it in the order it was published in!
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Craig Schaefer's new book is out in the Daniel Faust series. A Plain-Dealing Villain. I'm about done with this and I have to again hype the series. Daniel Faust is what you would get if Donald Westlake had a brain baby with Jim Butcher. Dortmunder's ingenuity and planning, Parker's ruthlessness and instincts, and Dresden's magic powers and urban fantasy politics. This book was fantastic.
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All I could think of when I got to the end was "You.... magnificent bastard  "It's a hell of a ride, that's for sure.
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mdemone posted:I was going to mention Calibre but was skittish about not if you live in the usa since that violates the dmca
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:All I could think of when I got to the end was "You.... magnificent bastard If he keeps up his pace, the next one should be out in about 3 days, so no big deal.
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Torrannor posted:If they can get the right actor. Nadia will always remain the best character though. After watching a few episodes of Orange is the New Black I want Kate Mulgrew.
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Victorkm posted:I'm about done with this and I have to again hype the series. Daniel Faust is what you would get if Donald Westlake had a brain baby with Jim Butcher. Dortmunder's ingenuity and planning, Parker's ruthlessness and instincts, and Dresden's magic powers and urban fantasy politics. He's also got a good grasp of horror, body and otherwise. Absolutely recommend these books, I love them.
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boneration posted:Yeah that kind of talk is what I mean, and his tendency to overdetail his magic systems. I really had a hard time with Mistborn.
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Mars4523 posted:(I don't know what TSR refers to). TSR was once the company that published Dungeons and Dragons (before WotC bought the rights). They published novels - such as the Dragonlance Chronicles - that were literal novelizations of the authors' roleplaying campaigns.
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Shitshow posted:TSR was once the company that published Dungeons and Dragons (before WotC bought the rights). They published novels - such as the Dragonlance Chronicles - that were literal novelizations of the authors' roleplaying campaigns. They were poorly written, like a movie tie-in, but a massive amount of fun to read, especially if you were into D&D (2nd Edition for life!). Plus they gave some interesting backstories on the lands and characters from the different modules. Also, I think these are still being written?
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Well, the people who wrote them still write books.
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anilEhilated posted:Well, the people who wrote them still write books. I answered my own question with Google. http://dnd.wizards.com/products/fiction/novels In fact, it looks like R.A. Salvatore has a new Drizzt novel out in March. Drizzt: The character that just won't loving die.
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XBenedict posted:They were poorly written, like a movie tie-in, but a massive amount of fun to read, especially if you were into D&D (2nd Edition for life!). The Dragonlance books were my favorite in elementary through highschool (back in the 80s and 90s). I reread the chronicle and legend books more times than I can count. I reread them about four years ago and they were just horrible. I love the story and the nostalgia I feel when reading them but they just don't hold up compared to what I'm use to reading. I still recommend them to young readers but not adults.
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Like Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
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corn in the bible posted:Maybe you should recommend actually good books to young readers. I think it's still a good place to start because I don't have to worry about parents getting upset about violence and sex. I'm happy to recommend better books as well.
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SquadronROE posted:Like Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. If "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" were a person, he (pronoun intentional) would be pushing early retirement eligibility, and if you're going to dig up something from that era you can do better.
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SquadronROE posted:Like Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. I like reading Heinlein but I couldn't stand that one, I guess I didn't like reading everything as Kip. It's been awhile since I read it but I think Red Planet might be a better recommendation to younger readers.
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Sibling of TB posted:I like reading Heinlein but I couldn't stand that one, I guess I didn't like reading everything as Kip. It's been awhile since I read it but I think Red Planet might be a better recommendation to younger readers. If I were going to recommend a Heinlein Juvie to people it would be Citizen of the Galaxy.
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Only Heinlein book I ever liked was The Door Into Summer. Otherwise I found most of his stuff boring and some of it outright terrible - Stranger In A Strange Land in particular, especially since I seem to keep running into people who try to use "grok" in real conversation.
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Trampus posted:The Dragonlance books were my favorite in elementary through highschool (back in the 80s and 90s). I reread the chronicle and legend books more times than I can count. I reread them about four years ago and they were just horrible. I love the story and the nostalgia I feel when reading them but they just don't hold up compared to what I'm use to reading. I still recommend them to young readers but not adults. I completely agree. They were pretty much the first books I ever read as a kid and got me into reading in a big way. That said, I tried a re read a few years ago and I didn't make it very far. I was actually considering doing a re read of Weis and Hickman's The Death Gate Cycle once I'm done the book I'm on and I'm hoping it holds up better than Drangonlance did.
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anilEhilated posted:Stranger In A Strange Land in particular, especially since I seem to keep running into people who try to use "grok" in real conversation.
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I think it's probably because I've only ever listened to the audio rendition of Have Spacesuit. So having Kip tell me a story wasn't weird at all. Plus it was an awesome story about engineering and why it's great to be an engineer.
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johnsonrod posted:I completely agree. I read the Death Gate Cycle books a bunch of times too. Let me know if they're any better.
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As a point of reference, seems like I was pretty wrong and getting a Hugo can in at least some cases make a big difference in your writer income. Like jumping from four figure to solid five-figure income.
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Trampus posted:I read the Death Gate Cycle books a bunch of times too. Let me know if they're any better. Read those when I was younger, they're marginally better than the Dragonlance books but not necessarily *good*.
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General Battuta posted:As a point of reference, seems like I was pretty wrong and getting a Hugo can in at least some cases make a big difference in your writer income. Like jumping from four figure to solid five-figure income. I think that's fair for big awards, but take the Aurealis awards in Australia - I doubt they have any impact on sales. Just something nice to receive and would help with future publication.
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I just got done playing Consortium on the pc which had a nice little Sci fi whodunit/mystery/conspiracy type of storyline, and I haven't read enough books lately. Anybody got a good suggestion for a mystery aboard a spaceship / station?
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Webasaur posted:I just got done playing Consortium on the pc which had a nice little Sci fi whodunit/mystery/conspiracy type of storyline, and I haven't read enough books lately. Anybody got a good suggestion for a mystery aboard a spaceship / station? Might as well read Leviathan Wakes if you haven't. The Prefect by Reynolds is a solid entry in the subgenre too. What am I forgetting?
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Trampus posted:I read the Death Gate Cycle books a bunch of times too. Let me know if they're any better. Ohhhhh....I remember loving the Death Gate books when I was a teenager. I don't think I could read them now for fear of ruining my rose tinted glasses and seeing how awful they really are.  I do remember the various elemental worlds and magic system being really creative (moreso than Dragonlance). I also remember everything being over explained in footnotes and essays at the end of each book. I've grown to prefer ambiguity in my sci fi fantasy. Yeah no. I'll leave the Deathgate Cycle and Dragonlance to nostalgia and memory. Didn't Weis and Hickman have another series where everyone was mages, and to be born without magic was to be born dead? Deathsword? I remember it ending with them being invaded by the armies of the "dead" space marines from Earth with laser rifles and such. Ahh...memories. 
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Snuffman posted:Yeah no. I'll leave the Deathgate Cycle and Dragonlance to nostalgia and memory. Didn't Weis and Hickman have another series where everyone was mages, and to be born without magic was to be born dead? Deathsword? I remember it ending with them being invaded by the armies of the "dead" space marines from Earth with laser rifles and such. The Darksword Trilogy.
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Darksword also came with Darksword Adventures. The weird, incredibly incomplete RPG that could be played with 10 sided dice *or* hand gestures. I believe they recommended the hand gestures...
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oTHi posted:Darksword also came with Darksword Adventures. The weird, incredibly incomplete RPG that could be played with 10 sided dice *or* hand gestures. I believe they recommended the hand gestures... What, like rock-paper-scissors? I'd play that.
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oTHi posted:Darksword also came with Darksword Adventures. The weird, incredibly incomplete RPG that could be played with 10 sided dice *or* hand gestures. I believe they recommended the hand gestures... A jazz-hands based combat system, how did this not supplant AD&D?
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Recently read and enjoyed Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch, and now I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some good Urban Fantasy books that are more serious in tone? (Excluding the Dresden Files which I've already tried and hated.)
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Declare by Tim Powers might be in your wheelhouse, if you're looking for fantasy set in modern times, serious in tone, and relatively low-key in terms of fantastical elements. Bonus points if you enjoy Cold War espionage thrillers. Basically he takes the story of Kim Philby and fills in all the blanks with a looming supernatural element that the US and USSR are fighting over in the shadows.
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Vorik posted:Recently read and enjoyed Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch, and now I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some good Urban Fantasy books that are more serious in tone? (Excluding the Dresden Files which I've already tried and hated.) Twenty Palace series by Harry Connolly Daniel Faust series by Craig Schaefer London Falling by Paul Cornell Fated series by Benedict Jacka (Sort of like Dresden but not as campy/happy) Felix Castor series by Mike Carey Infernal Game series (only 2 released) by Rebecca Levene
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