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WarLocke posted:Weber did the Prince Roger books which are kind of like that but I don't think they're what you're thinking of. Also The Excalibur Alternative which is a stand-alone 'primitive humans get kidnapped to be alien mercenaries' book (which seems to be a whole subgenre in itself). Actually it's part of a shared universe already and the short story Sir George and the Dragon was expanded to Excalibur Alternative. In the last session they talk about "The Romans" who were the lost legion kidnapped a thousand years earlier than Sir George.
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Kesper North posted:Well, nobody likes waiting, but for personal reasons I have a set amount of time that I can devote to this experiment before I have to go back into the software industry and can't write full time anymore. (I know from long experience that if I'm not writing full time, I don't write at all; I just can't maintain the headspace I need to be in.) There's a really good thread here, either in Creative Commons or ask/tell that helped get a rl friend a publishing deal. (Yes there's at least one woman goon with four novels to her name). Maybe find that and give it a read?
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Here's our occasional reminder that there's a fantastic site for fact-checking the science in your spaceships. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php
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General Battuta posted:The most important part of your submission to agents will be your cover letter. Please feel free to bounce it off me. It is really important that you get it right, as important as the actual novel itself. Thank you! I will take you up on that when the time comes. I figured that was probably the case - having someone who's gone through the process themselves to bounce it off would be invaluable.
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WarLocke posted:Weber did the Prince Roger books which are kind of like that but I don't think they're what you're thinking of. Also The Excalibur Alternative which is a stand-alone 'primitive humans get kidnapped to be alien mercenaries' book (which seems to be a whole subgenre in itself). There's a guy in the sci fi fantasy thread who reviews the mmo-turns-real sub genre and it's pretty cool. Maybe someone will take a stab at this human space mercenaries sub genre. I'll check out these Damned books after my current book, will report back
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WarLocke posted:Weber did the Prince Roger books which are kind of like that but I don't think they're what you're thinking of. Also The Excalibur Alternative which is a stand-alone 'primitive humans get kidnapped to be alien mercenaries' book (which seems to be a whole subgenre in itself).
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Wrong thread herp derp SPACESHIPS
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FastestGunAlive posted:the mmo-turns-real sub genre ... this is a thing? 
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WarLocke posted:... this is a thing? Getting transported into a video game is a pretty common story in cheap sci-fi.
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WarLocke posted:... this is a thing? In asian fiction/media it's turned into a whole industry. There is even mmo-turns-real mmos. thotsky fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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WarLocke posted:... this is a thing? Anime in particular is rife with the drat things. Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, .hack....hell, I just found an article full of ones I've never even heard of. Yeah, it's a thing.
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WarLocke posted:... this is a thing? "litrpg" is a term you should not google.
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The Three-Body Problem did that too (in a way), now that I think about it.
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There was also a Laundry short story where they get trapped in a Neverwinter Nights server.
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Kassad posted:The Three-Body Problem did that too (in a way), now that I think about it. Kinda I guess although the way it was used there was interesting and made sense.
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Yeah, I mean it seems like a different take on that idea now that people mention it's a widespread thing.
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Browsing lots of Amazon self published sci fi/fantasy I've also seen many books based upon people being teleported into tabletop rpg games. The one I did buy gave me a few laughs
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FastestGunAlive posted:Browsing lots of Amazon self published sci fi/fantasy I've also seen many books based upon people being teleported into tabletop rpg games. The one I did buy gave me a few laughs https://www.amazon.com/Kobold-Wizar...llick+iii+dildo You're welcome Washout fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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EVGA Longoria posted:Getting transported into a video game is a pretty common story in cheap sci-fi. And major motion pictures, like TRON.
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Shoutouts to Piers Anthony
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Danknificent posted:Shoutouts to Piers Anthony The only shouts that should be made out to Piers Anthony are of the "GET THE gently caress AWAY FROM ME OR I'M CALLING THE POLICE" variety. With the occasional "PLEASE NEVER PUBLISH ANOTHER BOOK" just to mix it up.
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Well, in a sense it's appropriate that he'd be the one to spawn such a loathesome subgenre.
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Danknificent posted:Shoutouts to Piers Anthony I'm totally downloading the blue adept series right now!
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Trig Discipline posted:The only shouts that should be made out to Piers Anthony are of the "GET THE gently caress AWAY FROM ME OR I'M CALLING THE POLICE" variety. With the occasional "PLEASE NEVER PUBLISH ANOTHER BOOK" just to mix it up. Yeah, unfortunately I didn't know this before I bought On a Pale Horse. Made it to the part where he's going to kill a woman playing football before I decided to google Piers Anthony. Wish I hadn't given him money.
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To clarify, I'm giving shoutouts to Piers Anthony for writing Killobyte in 1994, and in many ways pioneering the trapped in VR/games trope long before it was commonplace. It's not an endorsement.
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He's always been a pioneer of young genres.
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EVGA Longoria posted:Yeah, unfortunately I didn't know this before I bought On a Pale Horse. Made it to the part where he's going to kill a woman playing football before I decided to google Piers Anthony. Wish I hadn't given him money. Considered one of his best books by many lol
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Totally worth looking at the page if for nothing else the 'frequently purchased with' and 'people who purchased this purchased that' sections...
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EVGA Longoria posted:Getting transported into a video game is a pretty common story in cheap sci-fi. Yeah, upon further thought I suppose you could count TRON even. And I did read Killobyte as a youngster (thankfully I don't remember anything particularly creepy in it, unlike the Bio of a Space Tyrant stuff). I just never thought there was enough of it to count as its own subgenre. Now I kind of want to check it out...  e: drat, I shouldn't have gone down that rabbit hole. Now I have a bunch of these 'litrpg' books to read. WarLocke fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jul 3, 2016 |
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For fans of The Three Body Problem http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a21712/planet-with-three-suns/
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Finally finished both Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar. Both were thoroughly enjoyable, and a fast read. Despite what Niven said in the end, it was definitely him trying to get another go at Ringworld while tying in some of his unused story ideas he's mentioned over the years, but it stood on its own. Niven needs to do more stuff with Gregory Benford and less stuff with his usual collaborators or himself.
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A pretty good offer for all US and Canadian citizens: Tor.com eBook Club Each month you get a free eBook and Tor will follow up with discussions etc. First free book is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. The book is available for download between July 11 and July 17.
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Fart of Presto posted:A pretty good offer for all US and Canadian citizens: Just putting it out there, the most it does is ask for an email address and "Are you from the US or Canada?" So uh... have at it, all you 100% real and genuine US/Canadian citizens.
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Oh wow that's a nice deal, thanks for the heads up!
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Are the ebooks purely downloadable files or do they actually let you get Kindle-format titles through Amazon, with Whispersync working and everything?
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Are the ebooks purely downloadable files or do they actually let you get Kindle-format titles through Amazon, with Whispersync working and everything? If they're like other TOR free offerings, I think it's DRM free PDF, Epub formats as a downloadable file.
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I got two links to the book in epub and mobi formats.
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Kassad posted:I got two links to the book in epub and mobi formats.
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long way to a small angry planet was awesome I like how some authors can just scratch the surface of hiding politics in their book without it being quite is in your face as Mycroft in the book I can't remember the name of now. I think I meant to post this in the sci fi/fantasy thread Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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Washout posted:I'm totally downloading the blue adept series right now! Trip report: could not even get halfway through the first book, forgot how poo poo he was in every way.
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