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Evil Fluffy posted:This sounds like something you'd find in an underground Xcrawl arena, not to mention D&D clerics aren't supposed to use bows either. For me, the straw that killed my interest was definitely when he gave the Barbarian PTSD. I didn't finish that book and everything following I've just observed from afar with a grimace.
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fritz posted:I assumed that Anaander had bodies of all genders and races and etc. (Also I think Uran was gendered male in book two?) I think Anaander was mentioned as specifically being cloned, versus the Ancillaries who were various frozen POWs/political prisoners.
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fritz posted:I assumed that Anaander had bodies of all genders and races and etc. (Also I think Uran was gendered male in book two?) Anaander uses clone bodies exclusively except for that one time.
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That is why he hosed up in book 2. He messed up taking over Tisarwat because all of his implant stuff was specific to his brain and he didn't have any general purpose gear or real experience with other brains.
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Oct 10, 2015 20:29
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50 pages left in Traitor Baru. I'm getting so tense! I know it's building up to something, with all these hints about hidden secrets and things in the past half-remembered. I should be snuggling my boyfriend in bed right now but screw him, I'm staying up to finish this book!   
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I just got Traitor Baru as a late birthday/early christmas gift!  Wondering if I should read some cheerful, upbeat stuff first to act as a buffer.
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ToxicFrog posted:I just got Traitor Baru as a late birthday/early christmas gift! Read tLWtaSAP. It's great, and mostly upbeat.
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Trip report:  edit: Okay, now can someone who listened to the audiobook tell me how these loving names are pronounced?? Unuxekome Lyxaxu Xate Yawa Xate Olake Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 15:17
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So I got the first three black company books a while back and have been enjoying them. Are the rest of the books in the series / universe good or should I stop after the first three?
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Oct 11, 2015 19:00
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chrisoya posted:Can anyone recommend some books "like The Martian," for someone who loved it (and the film) but doesn't really read SF, or much at all? Ideally semi-recent paperbacks that I could find easily. Red Mars by Kim Stanely Robinson.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:So I got the first three black company books a while back and have been enjoying them. Are the rest of the books in the series / universe good or should I stop after the first three? The first few are the best. I thought the quality went down a bit after them.
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Oct 11, 2015 19:26
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Hedrigall posted:Trip report: x is pronounced "sh" in Aurdwynn, but I don't know 100% how the syllables break down. I read them as "You knew she comb", "Lie sha shu", "Shate Yawa" and "Shate O-lake".
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Oct 11, 2015 19:48
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They are pronounced exactly like they are spelled. HTH.
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On the subject of pronunciations, I truly feel for anyone who chooses to listen to the audiobook version of The Goblin Emperor.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:So I got the first three black company books a while back and have been enjoying them. Are the rest of the books in the series / universe good or should I stop after the first three? "The Silver Spike" is a side story but also my favorite in the series, the rest of the books go downhill and the last one is just plain no good.
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Yeah, that. The Silver Spike wraps up the Raven/Silent/Darling triangle and the Dominator's storyline and it's pretty good, but I could not get into anything after that one.
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Oct 11, 2015 22:36
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Please talk about Traitor in the BOTM thread =(
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Khizan posted:I am waiting for the 15th! What's on the 15th besides being 4 days closer to Halloween?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Please don't post any major spoilers till the 15th to give people time to read it. After that, discussion is fine, but please use spoiler tags. It was his idea!
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Yeah that rule may be causing more issues than it solves. Prob should just say use spoiler tags.
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Alright! Just got the offical "OK" for the new arc of Kraken Rising by Greig Beck! Airpost fiction meets lovecraft meets probably a 7 on the Reilly scale, so I got big hopes for this one.
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Hey General Battuta, Charlie Stross just gushed about your book in the comments section on his blog and said it'll probably be one of his Hugo nominations: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/10/it-could-be-worse.html#comment-1982478
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Argh. I've a long flight coming up and am saving Traitor and Ancillary Mercy to read on the plane. I don't know that I can last. Giving up smoking was easier than this...
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Kesper North posted:Hey General Battuta, Charlie Stross just gushed about your book in the comments section on his blog and said it'll probably be one of his Hugo nominations: Hey, awesome! Thanks for pointing that out.
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Nullkigan posted:I liked The Traitor: I don't see that to be honest. Falcrest alone has not much in common with Rome except that it is an Empire that doesn't discriminate because of race (which Rome didn't do much at least not for the first few centuries). The missing efficient central and bureaucratic structure and the total lack of understanding of monetary theory of the Roman Empire was one of its biggest deficits, while their army was one of their biggest assets, pretty much the opposite of Falcrest. Falcrest is far more like Venice during the Strato da Mar combined with the British Empire and various elements of periods of China in my opinion. I think General Battuta went out of his way to make every one of the cultures we've seen so far not a "Historic culture X but with a slight twist", but amalgams of known elements from our world, good and bad. Decius fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 14:11
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Hey SF goons! Got any recommendations for a guy who loved the The Jean le Flambeur Trilogy (Quantum thief, Fractal prince, Causal Angel) and Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest (Ughh I want the third book so bad)? Currently reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie and it's pretty decent so far. Would love something more "hi tech" or uh "hard" or whatever people call it though. Any ideas? 
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Try The Player of Games by Iain Banks.
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AEMINAL posted:Hey SF goons! Got any recommendations for a guy who loved the The Jean le Flambeur Trilogy (Quantum thief, Fractal prince, Causal Angel) and Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest (Ughh I want the third book so bad)? Revelation Space?
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AEMINAL posted:Hey SF goons! Got any recommendations for a guy who loved the The Jean le Flambeur Trilogy (Quantum thief, Fractal prince, Causal Angel) and Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest (Ughh I want the third book so bad)? A Deepness in the Sky would fit the bill -- the alien world depicted in it has certain similarities to the one in the Three Body Problem (whichever book by Vinge doesn't have the Tines, I can never remember). Also seconding the Player of Games because the book owns and that series is a clear inspiration for Leckie.
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Megazver posted:Try The Player of Games by Iain Banks. The Player Of Games looks very up my alley, loving what I'm seeing on the wiki page for "The Culture"! Thanks for the recommendations, goons are the best when it comes to good sci-fi
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uberkeyzer posted:A Deepness in the Sky would fit the bill -- the alien world depicted in it has certain similarities to the one in the Three Body Problem (whichever book by Vinge doesn't have the Tines, I can never remember). Also seconding the Player of Games because the book owns and that series is a clear inspiration for Leckie. Vinge wrote a third book a while back, and I couldn't make it through. I regularly read trash, this was just dull and boring and not worth it. Do not read Children of the Sky. Read The Culture. If you're a bored nerd and run out of Banks, there's an old licensed Doctor Who novel called The Also People which is a really blatant Culture knock-off. Edit: Huh. Ben Aaronovitch wrote that. His Rivers of London series is good urban fantasy. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Khizan posted:It was never about the Chandrian. It's always been about Kvothe and the events that led to him being some kind of folk hero. The Chandrian only ever mattered in that they were a motivating factor for him. Actually, it's about the Ctaeh. Kvothe just happens to be its current giggle producer.
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Drifter posted:The first few are the best. I thought the quality went down a bit after them. I see a lot of people dissing the Books of Sleepy in here. I found her one of my favorite narrators with a really easy to read style.
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mllaneza posted:I see a lot of people dissing the Books of Sleepy in here. I found her one of my favorite narrators with a really easy to read style. I liked the whole Black Company series and thought the ending was really satisfying. 
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Oct 13, 2015 02:16
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KJ Parker's latest thing, The Last Witness, was definitely a KJ Parker novella.
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Just finished Luna: The New Moon, and it's one of the better sci-fi books I've read in a while. It's the first Ian McDonald book I've read, really impressed. It's a little dark, has great characters and the world is one of the better descriptions of a believable near-future.
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Shadowmarch was good, a real page-turner. I was worried about liking it at the beginning (the chapters at the beginning introducing the Funderlings [Williams' dwarf stand-in] were very worrisome, but they became less goofy over time). Starting Shadowplay now.
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quote:The Dragons of Dorcastle (The Pillars of Reality Book 1) Kindle Edition This...has to be bad, right?
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I'm roughly a quarter of the way through An Ancient Peace by Tanya Huff and am enjoying it a lot. I'm really liking the "back home from the war" feeling of emptiness that's turned up to 11 with tension from speciesist animosity between the pacifist older races of the Confederation and the more recently spacefaring species who were brought in for their ability to wage war.
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