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The third and last book in Ian Tregillis' clockwork man series Alchemy Wars came out today. I am loving pumped for that. Also, Emma Newman's follow-up to Planetfall, After Atlas, is a great read.
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I finally got to the fourth book of The Acts of Caine, Caine's Law, and I honestly never expected that MWS had that much depth. Holy poo poo
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coyo7e posted:I finally got to the fourth book of The Acts of Caine, Caine's Law, and I honestly never expected that MWS had that much depth. Holy poo poo I can very much understand why a lot of people don't like it, but I am very glad I went and read the last two. On the one hand not where I expected it to go, but on the other hand, I don't honestly see how it could have gone any other way. In the broad overall sense anyway. In the specific sense, geez, that man has a hell of a dealer. Thanks to whoever it was in this thread who encouraged me to keep going on them.
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Finished After Atlas yesterday. Oh boy that ending was something. Great book. Found it to be far more enjoyable than Planetfall, although it's a little more unpleasant to read, as it deals with some grim themes.
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Reading 1634: The Bavarian Crisis now and I think I'm seeing the quality drop-off mentioned by others. I really, really don't care about this Anna Maria's plight of being married to her uncle(!) Maximilian. Half the book so far has been Bavarian court politics and I am just not invested in any of these characters. Silver lining, though, is that the other half is about the crazy stuff happening to Mary Simpson and Veronica Dreeson, and how everybody is utterly confused about it because it has to be some sort of deep Machiavellian thing rather than a comedy of errors, right?!? I think I may just prefer the more 'action-oriented' books (focusing on Stearns, the Richters, Eddie Cantrell, Harry Lefferts, and hopefully more of Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz, etc) 
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WarLocke posted:I think I may just prefer the more 'action-oriented' books (focusing on Stearns, the Richters, Eddie Cantrell, Harry Lefferts, and hopefully more of Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz, etc) Completely disregarding Bavaria, Charlie Huston does books that are greatly action oriented.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Finished After Atlas yesterday. Oh boy that ending was something. Great book. Found it to be far more enjoyable than Planetfall, although it's a little more unpleasant to read, as it deals with some grim themes. Ah hell, that's out too now? My to-read pile is only going to grow until I die of old age (at best).
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Anyone have thoughts on "The 5th Wave" or Richard Yancey in general? Also a Nancy Kress up on kindle daily deals. I always like her stuff.
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neongrey posted:I can very much understand why a lot of people don't like it, but I am very glad I went and read the last two. On the one hand not where I expected it to go, but on the other hand, I don't honestly see how it could have gone any other way. In the broad overall sense anyway. In the specific sense, geez, that man has a hell of a dealer.  this guy has so much more depth and skill than I ever imaginedI'm personally curious about Stover's growth as a writer because IIRC, he wrote Heroes Die, then had some seriously debilitating injury or illness and recovered from it (second book), then gets kind of seriously metaphysical and quantum dimensional in the latter books.. And I have no idea if he was always that sharp or if he was self-inserting the whole time as his life changed while he kept writing stories about the same character as that character went through pretty parallel trials coyo7e fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Dec 9, 2016 05:48
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Stover is probably my favourite author and I wish he'd write more/ do more interviews.
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I would pay good money for an Orbek plushy doll 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:If you care, the typical comic distribution method is .cbr or .cbz, which are just renamed .zip with a folder full of scanned images inside. Might save you a step of compiling every scan into a PDF, depending on your workflow. Thanks for the tip! I think I did it right...I downloaded a comic viewer and it reads it as .cbz format. Finally got around to scanning the first issue of the Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer comic. It's a little crooked but overall pretty legible. There are a couple pages where the spread was clearly meant to be seen together, so I did my best to stitch two scans together. My favorite page:  Anyhow, here's the link, should work for anyone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/355nntk6hlq8e4i/gw-sott-1991.cbz?dl=0 I'll do the other two if there's interest. If you haven't read the source material, there's visual spoilers of a sort, be warned~ vv like the below poster said, the guy who owned the publishing house told me it was fine to share so it's not ~files~ my bony fealty fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Dec 10, 2016 08:51
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wow uh... have you been around here long? because 
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coyo7e posted:wow uh... have you been around here long? because If you're referring to :files: or whatevs, he posted earlier in the thread about obtaining permission from the copyright holder.
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Oh good, because that's the first time I've seen someone just casually mention they'd scanned copyrighted material and tossed it out for downloading around here.
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Dec 10, 2016 17:21
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i joined SA for filez, used to be a great file sharing site
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coyo7e posted:Oh good, because that's the first time I've seen someone just casually mention they'd scanned copyrighted material and tossed it out for downloading around here. post-wdma eunuch spotted.
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my bony fealty posted:
Thanks so much  I'd be interested in reading the rest also 
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Neurosis posted:post-wdma eunuch spotted. 
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Thanks for doing the work, this is a pretty cool thing I never would have realized existed otherwise.
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Haven't been able to read anything in the last 6-9 months. Any interesting books released in this period?
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my bony fealty posted:Thanks for the tip! I think I did it right...I downloaded a comic viewer and it reads it as .cbz format. Thanks very much for this! Edit: this gave me pretty big early-Sandman flashbacks, but I'm quite impressed, especially if the guy who did it was only 19 at the time! coyo7e posted:Oh good, because that's the first time I've seen someone just casually mention they'd scanned copyrighted material and tossed it out for downloading around here. wow uh... have you been around here long? Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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holocaust bloopers posted:Finished After Atlas yesterday. Oh boy that ending was something. Great book. Found it to be far more enjoyable than Planetfall, although it's a little more unpleasant to read, as it deals with some grim themes.
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Kellanved posted:Haven't been able to read anything in the last 6-9 months. Any interesting books released in this period? I mostly keep up with sci-fi with award lists so not as much up to date, but umm new Expanse book and my favorite thing released this fall: Death's End by Cixin Liu which completes the trilogy whatever its name was.
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mallamp posted:High profile fantasy releases would be about : Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin, Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville new Guy Gavriel Kay book, new Malazan book. Also Four Roads Cross (the fifth Craft Sequence book) and A Closed And Common Orbit (sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet).
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Safety Biscuits posted:wow uh... have you been around here long? DPPH and the barnyard and all the other forums for that kind of stuff got shut down, what, almost 10 years ago now?
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I don't know if it was just the software I opened it with, but when I read the scan of the comic, the stuff with Voldalus was being mentioned but never happened; the book opened with him under water. Then after it was over it jumped to the beginning and had the whole Vodalus encounter. Just a heads up if you haven't read yet and that happens to you.
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WarLocke posted:DPPH and the barnyard and all the other forums for that kind of stuff got shut down, what, almost 10 years ago now? I joined in '06 and I'm pretty sure it was all gone by then, so yeah, right at ten years ago.
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angel opportunity posted:I don't know if it was just the software I opened it with, but when I read the scan of the comic, the stuff with Voldalus was being mentioned but never happened; the book opened with him under water. Then after it was over it jumped to the beginning and had the whole Vodalus encounter. Just a heads up if you haven't read yet and that happens to you. That probably means the pages were internally numbered [1 2 3 ... 10 11 12 ...] rather than [01 02 03 ... 10 11 12 ...]. Most readers do lexical sort rather than numeric sort, which means that "10" comes before "2" (but after "02").
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I've got no idea where to start with decently written military SF from the past 10-15 years. I'm extremely leery of the genre, as it seems to be home for a bunch of self-published poo poo. Any good titles worth a read?
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holocaust bloopers posted:I've got no idea where to start with decently written military SF from the past 10-15 years. I'm extremely leery of the genre, as it seems to be home for a bunch of self-published poo poo. This is really good if you're into whole cool guns and well-written violence thing. Some creepy sex stuff. Allegedly written by Jon Courtenay Grimwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_Head_(series) Decent series with all the usual "cool NCO vs. dumb officers" tropes. Big plus - female protagonist: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42082-confederation I liked this one a lot. It's very recent and the third book is not out yet. Some very cool ideas, very up to date with recent real world events. More SF than classic mil-SF, but overall an enjoyable experience: https://www.goodreads.com/series/154470-war-dogs
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germline is okay if you can accept the fact that the main science fiction element of the book is also the vehicle by which the protagonist meets his perfect anime sex doll. I haven't read the sequels.
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The first book of Linda Nagata's The Red was pretty decent, I haven't read the sequels yet. It's MilSF but still set on Earth, with highly advanced soldier tech and a lot of surveillance paranoia.
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occamsnailfile posted:The first book of Linda Nagata's The Red was pretty decent, I haven't read the sequels yet. It's MilSF but still set on Earth, with highly advanced soldier tech and a lot of surveillance paranoia. I have read the sequels, and they hold up quite well. Nagata's early stuff was pretty rough, but she's gotten good the last few years.
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occamsnailfile posted:The first book of Linda Nagata's The Red was pretty decent, I haven't read the sequels yet. It's MilSF but still set on Earth, with highly advanced soldier tech and a lot of surveillance paranoia. I second this opinion on The Red, but I also haven't read the sequels yet. I liked book one enough that I want to read the sequels, though.
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I'll go check those out! I finished reading the last book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis today. Entertaining just like the last two. Great series.
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Does anyone know of any good science fiction about global warming? Like, really about it in a significant way, not just set after it.
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Fangz posted:Does anyone know of any good science fiction about global warming? Like, really about it in a significant way, not just set after it. "The Water Knife" and "Pump 6 and other Stories", by Paolo Bacigalupi. "The Drowned World" by JG Ballard are some you could check out
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Fangz posted:Does anyone know of any good science fiction about global warming? Like, really about it in a significant way, not just set after it. Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an entire trilogy about it, but I'm not sure if it's science fiction-y enough for you? https://www.amazon.com/Green-Science-Capital-Stanley-Robinson/dp/1101964839 Some of the stuff in there is legit terrifying, though, ramifications that no media outlet has ever really covered at all.
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