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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm taking a blind guess at where you're taking this series and predicting you're calling it The Hero Baru Cormorant. To inscribe herself into history, Baru writes a semi-biographical tale of terrible things happening to people who deserved better. The General Baru Cormorant.
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Ceebees posted:To inscribe herself into history, Baru writes a semi-biographical tale of terrible things happening to people who deserved better. I'm not seeing this one I'm afraid.
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It probably could have used more time to simmer, fair. 'Battuta' and 'Baru' start with the same syllable 
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The hard drive that was holding a bunch of unfinished Prachett books was steam-rolled so they would never be published.
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Captain Monkey posted:Everyone knows he's going to tie this in with the new car release: The Subaru Cormorant. Nice, I like the progressive direction Seth is taking here, very open and progressive about identifying as an automobile
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MockingQuantum posted:Just finished The Colo(u)r of Magic and it was great fun. Definitely not the most groundbreaking book, though I'm not sure if that's because it never was, or if he kind of inspired a lot of tropes that have been reused in a lot of parody fantasy that's followed. Overall it feels like a fun and vivid world and Pratchett's got a good sense of humor, which is enough for me to pick up more Discworld books in the near future. That was the first Discworld book I read. The lack of a real Ending bothered me enough that I put the series down for a while. Then I started reading whichever Discworlds the library had and found out that The Light Fantastic is a direct continuation.
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Solitair posted:That was the first Discworld book I read. The lack of a real Ending bothered me enough that I put the series down for a while. Then I started reading whichever Discworlds the library had and found out that The Light Fantastic is a direct continuation. Yeah, I could see that, it really just kind of falls off a cliff at the end. Thankfully I knew that going in.
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I have a possible corollary to Sturgeon's Law If you ever get frustrated about not being able to read all the fantasy fiction out in the world, roughly 70% of them can be successfully replicated with custom game modes in Crusader Kings 2 or Europa Universalis series. It is way more interactive too. Savescumming allows you to read different chapters or books. Mary-Sue protagonist power can be replicated by setting game difficulty to Moron. For the scifi genre (and subgenre milfiction) replace Crusader King 2 with Stellaris + Galactic Civilization 2(for the ultra-detailed ship building) & maybe Hearts of Iron. Baen Books is an outlier though. About 94% of the Baen Books catalog can be replicated.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Baen Books is an outlier though. About 94% of the Baen Books catalog can be replicated. Serious Sam, stealth john ringo adaptation
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PupsOfWar posted:Serious Sam, stealth john ringo adaptation + Custers Revenge + steam anime games Make that Baen Books 97% replicated by computer games. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Philip k dick's spec ops: the line
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Bhodi posted:Philip k dick's spec ops: the line "Andrzej Sapkowski does not exist and The Witcher was created by a committee of communist party members for the purposes of disseminating propaganda."
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C.M. Kruger posted:"Andrzej Sapkowski does not exist and The Witcher was created by a committee of communist party members for the purposes of disseminating propaganda."
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andrew smash posted:Okay another peripheral question; this may also be due to audiobook listening in the car (not the best place in terms of attention I can pay to the book); what did Conner's cube actually do? They don't mention a ton of what it can do (which makes it cooler and more mysterious) but they mention Conner training by making it leap, land on a point, and spin really fast, poo poo like that. Personally I imagine this big red cube bouncing around like a pinball and punching holes through walls and floors and then suddenly and gracefully coming to a stop. One cool thing I liked in the Peripheral is how there's less social media and TV in the future (and basically none in the way future).
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Internet Wizard posted:The hard drive that was holding a bunch of unfinished Prachett books was steam-rolled so they would never be published. Good man even beyond the grave.
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Internet Wizard posted:The hard drive that was holding a bunch of unfinished Prachett books was steam-rolled so they would never be published. It's a shame they couldn't do that with all of his books, instead of just the unpublished ones.
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A human heart posted:It's a shame they couldn't do that with all of his books, instead of just the unpublished ones. Check out the edgelord.
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Jedit posted:Check out the edgelord. Ah hell, this guy used the bad internet word!
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C.M. Kruger posted:"Andrzej Sapkowski does not exist and The Witcher was created by a committee of communist party members for the purposes of disseminating propaganda." DACK FAYDEN posted:This is a deep cut and also an amazing post. Amazing. And pretty close to what Dick claimed about Stanislaw Lem. Something something communist agent trying to recruit me something something reported to the FBI multiple times.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:In my opinion they should be burned. *in Robert Muldoon voice* They should all be destroyed.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Amazing.
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MockingQuantum posted:Yeah, I could see that, it really just kind of falls off a cliff at the end. Thankfully I knew that going in. I admit it, I laughed.
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Tor's free eBook of the Month is on hiatus until 2018, but I just discovered they have a podcast where LeVar Burton reads short fiction once a week. https://www.tor.com/2017/08/30/levar-burton-reads-short-fiction-to-you-in-new-podcast/ It has apparently been running 11 weeks now, and the latest story he reads is The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. I thought it might interest a few in here 
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Hyperion on kindle is $2 today. I guess I'm reading that next!
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Nevvy Z posted:Hyperion on kindle is $2 today. I guess I'm reading that next! First book great, second book good, remaining two ymmv. I like em, personally, but I have a high enough tolerance for Simmons' descent into madness that I even like the Iliad duology too
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I read Baru Cormorant on my Kindle and liked it so much I immediately read it again and then bought a hardcover copy to give to my fiancee. Thanks, thread! And also Seth.
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overdesigned posted:I read Baru Cormorant on my Kindle and liked it so much I immediately read it again and then bought a hardcover copy to give to my fiancee. Thanks, thread! And also Seth. i recently got a copy to send to a friend as a wedding gift (as part of a Box o' Books) antiimperialist gay fantasy accountant Hegemonizing Swarm
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An inexplicable crossover with Gor: The Ubar Baru Cormorant.
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The Foppish Dandy Baru Cormorant
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andrew smash posted:One thing that bothers me about SF/F audiobooks is vocabulary, I guess I need to read a word I'm not familiar with to make sense of it sometimes. I'm listening to The Peripheral right now and one word is driving me crazy. It's only in Wilf's POV and it refers to these automatons that are fairly ubiquitous. Flynne refers to the same things as girl robots. I keep hearing the narrator say "mitchykoid" and I cannot figure out what it's supposed to be. Can somebody post the word? I only have the audiobook and can't check the text.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:First book great, second book good, remaining two ymmv. Lovecraft was one of my first authors and if one can get by reading that, most other things are easy. While Iliad duology had some exceptionally bad parts, some parts were pretty good such as the fighting around Troja with nanotech Greek gods and the moravecs. Doesn't redeem it though. Simmons have a better catalog than most, while having some real stinkers.
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Revenger by Alastair Reynolds is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/kindledailydeal At first I was a bit disappointed as it felt like a YA steampunk in space story, but pressing on, I ended up really enjoying it. It's a really interesting universe Reynolds has created, and there are so many stories that could be told in it - not just as straight sequels to this one, but also in other time periods.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:The Foppish Dandy Baru Cormorant Baru Cormorant 2: 2 Many Cormorants
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well I started the Wheel of Time
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blue squares posted:well I started the Wheel of Time Condolences
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withak posted:Condolences
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withak posted:Condolences
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withak posted:Condolences
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