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Larry Parrish posted:Yeah the ending is real bad. I was like hey I'm still reading here Amazon, where the gently caress is the rest of my book. I looked around for like 2 minutes and didn't see a sequel, do you know what the name is?? tbh it was just a random blog post that said it was part 1 of a 2 parter, but heres hoping. Crippled lawyer girl and bodyguard, climbing a ladder to nowhere endlessly Corta bossman in a spacestation plotting revenge younc Luca having to man up, will his sister and family be alive in the bunker and the fuckin' sabotage worm in the crucible platform, tell me that wasn't the Itchy and Scratchy Fireworks Factory all over  Yep, ideal place to end.
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pseudorandom name posted:reminder that all plant life will die because there's insufficient CO2 in the atmosphere in 600 million years Save the trees, burn fossil fuels.
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at the date posted:Save the trees, burn fossil fuels. I expect this to be a gop talking point in a week
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Amethyst posted:"This HP lovecraft story is dumb because the lowly humans apparently didn't even MATTER to the ageless horrors of the depths? So who cares. the humans got to drive the speedboat
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at the date posted:buhhhh but CHARACTERS if there aren't CHARACTERS then it's a bad story! I demand an EMPOWERED WOMYN a REGRETFUL HAUNTED VETERAN and a HARDBOILED DETECTIVE WITH A HEART OF GOLD in every story because a sheaf of DnD bios complete with flashbacks to formative traumas is what the Internet calls a story. Just like Asimov is a bad writer because he can't write a character you get invested in within his epic sweeping world building and technology circle jerk, Watts is also a writer who gets far too caught up in his ideas and forgets why people read fiction and not tech documentation for fake future tech. There are lots of writers that make a cohesive world and then have decent characters running around in that world like Kim Stanley Robinson. Just because you are writing genre fic doesn't give you a get out of jail free card WRT arguably the most important part of a narrative.
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Asimov is a very good writer.
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i like his short stories, but his novels suffer from the characters being just wikipedia dispensers
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Hogge Wild posted:i like his short stories, but his novels suffer from the characters being just wikipedia dispensers half his novels are just short stories stapled together though
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Janitor Prime posted:you guys are just love to poo poo on things that other people enjoyed yeah its the reason i mostly skim this thread and yospos in general but occasionally some good poo poo gets posted
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Janitor Prime posted:you guys are just love to poo poo on things that other people enjoyed i don't think you realise why yospos exists
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Nintendo Kid posted:half his novels are just short stories stapled together though this is also a bad thing short stories should be stand-alones decent short stories that are smashed together turn into bad novels, eg. i liked moorcock's elric short stories when i read them from anthologies, but they didn't work at all as novels
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Hogge Wild posted:this is also a bad thing That's as much a sign of the time when it was published than anything though. The foundation series is no martian chronicles but still thought provoking, which is a sadly high bar
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Nov 10, 2015 18:59
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Hogge Wild posted:this is also a bad thing
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Nov 10, 2015 19:14
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I aspire to one day be as derided as Asimov
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Asimov's style (or lack thereof) is so goddamned good that it drives lesser writers nuts in trying to categorize it so they can hate on it.
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Nov 10, 2015 19:30
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at the date posted:Mr Darcy sipped his tea and chuckled at his own joke about Pakistani laborers. His comments would have been considered distasteful among 19th century landed British gentry. Britain herself was at the center of a globe-spanning empire of colonies, and citizens of the island benefited from an imperialist policy that often trod on the rights of the conquered. Eliza, for her part, kept her face ancillary-still and tapped into the biofeed of Mr Wickham. lol would read, though
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i chewed through p much all of asimov in my teens and haven't read any since. i keep meaning to revisit hist stuff, but people keep releasing new books and i just can't keep up
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Nov 10, 2015 20:22
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amazon caved on ebook prices so everything in the Asimov library is like $10. its loving lame. amazon should have crushed every publishers balls.
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Shaggar posted:amazon caved on ebook prices so everything in the Asimov library is like $10. its loving lame. amazon should have crushed every publishers balls.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:53
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he dead and he family don't need the money just saying
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yeah i guess. i just like the idea of cheap ebooks cause it promotes both the content and the medium but w/e publishers are dumb as poo poo and i hope they all die along w/ the authors that support them.
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For a while you could buy the hitchhikers guide books separately at like $6 each or the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which was the 5 books all together for $14 I think they might have fixed the prices to make sense by now
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Nov 10, 2015 22:11
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Nintendo Kid posted:For a while you could buy the hitchhikers guide books separately at like $6 each or the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which was the 5 books all together for $14 The later books are pretty much worthless so it wasn't that far off
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Nov 10, 2015 22:19
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Shaggar posted:Asimov is a very good writer.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:43
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Janitor Prime posted:you guys are just love to poo poo on things that other people enjoyed nah, they just genuinely have a flawed idea of what good fiction can be.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:44
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writers like Italo Calvino don't create """"good"""" characters either but you don't hear smart critics whining about it because they know he has a different, and worthy, artistic goal the same thing applies to asimov
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Nov 10, 2015 22:48
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I finished Count Zero last night and im on to Mona Lisa Overdrive
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Shaggar posted:I finished Count Zero last night and im on to Mona Lisa Overdrive i read them this summer and they were good i gotta read more gibson
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Shaggar posted:I finished Count Zero last night and im on to Mona Lisa Overdrive is this the first time you read them?
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Shaggar posted:Asimov is a very good ideas guy.
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Amethyst posted:writers like Italo Calvino don't create """"good"""" characters either but you don't hear smart critics whining about it because they know he has a different, and worthy, artistic goal Look at this loving hotshot
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Shaggar posted:I finished Count Zero last night and im on to Mona Lisa Overdrive I just re-read mona lisa overdrive not too long ago and it's still good
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Tanith posted:is this the first time you read them? yeah
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gunna watch this sometime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2QfzF6FrrU (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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