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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Charles Stross chat: I think my main complaint towards the change from Bob to Mo was the lack of change. Because it was basically Bob v2, only this time as a female, who acted like Bob v1. Stross is not really good at writing females, or well, making them different than males.
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Cardiac posted:I think my main complaint towards the change from Bob to Mo was the lack of change. 
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Feb 13, 2018 11:35
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Chairchucker posted:who cares I just really like that emoji
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Chairchucker posted:who cares It's funny
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Kestral posted:I'd be very interested in that pronunciation guide, if you feel like publishing it somewhere. How is "Baru" supposed to be pronounced, anyway? "SHA-shoe", weirdly enough.
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Kestral posted:I'd be very interested in that pronunciation guide, if you feel like publishing it somewhere. How is "Baru" supposed to be pronounced, anyway? Two things you never knew about General Battuta: His favourite movie is The Jungle Book. He has a speech impediment.
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Kestral posted:How is "Baru" supposed to be pronounced, anyway?  with a B
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eagerly awaiting The Monster Bar Trek Discovery Cormorant
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Jedit posted:Two things you never knew about General Battuta: Musical adaptation of Baru Cormorant with I Wanna Be Like You remixed to be about the Masquerade. Someone get on this.
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The Monster Dou Chee Cormorant
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DACK FAYDEN posted:The Monster Dou Chee Cormorant
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Kestral posted:Musical adaptation of Baru Cormorant with I Wanna Be Like You remixed to be about the Masquerade. Someone get on this. Well, I'm the queen of the traitors The Masquerade VIP If you're into tribadism You'll soon be RIP
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Jedit posted:Well, I'm the queen of the traitors  I take it that's sung to the music of Heat Miser?
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Proteus Jones posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM
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Feb 14, 2018 14:33
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Even better.
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https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sf-fantasy-angry-robot-books Pretty good Humble Bundle.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sf-fantasy-angry-robot-books Any standouts? I'm not familiar with any of the authors, amazingly.
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MockingQuantum posted:Any standouts? I'm not familiar with any of the authors, amazingly.
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I dug the series, but I'll fully admit that uf cop stories are my jam.
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Slights is a psychological/weird fiction story written from the perspective of a sociopath in a Grand Guignol sort of style, without resort to excessive gore or even systematic violence, but it still manages to be oppressive as hell. I also enjoyed An Accident of Stars as a more female-centric epic fantasy story. The Buried Life, Blades of the Old Empire, The United States of Japan, and the Lives of Tao are all on my list to read.
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Anyone else read Nick Harkaway's latest, Gnomon? I thought he overextended himself at times, but overall I found it a remarkably intense read, and his best work since The Gone-Away World by far.
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MockingQuantum posted:Any standouts? I'm not familiar with any of the authors, amazingly. i really liked jay posey's outriders and the non wh40k dan abnett is a decent story about future embedded journalists. both worth reading
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Oh i thought that was a book bundle themed around "angry robots" and now I'm sad that doesn't exist
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Kesper North posted:Anyone else read Nick Harkaway's latest, Gnomon? I thought he overextended himself at times, but overall I found it a remarkably intense read, and his best work since The Gone-Away World by far. I did! And was actually about to ask if anyone else had. I really enjoyed it, but felt like it maybe could have been pared down a little. It took me a bit to get into it. I appreciated trying to piece it all together from the stories, it tickled that pattern matching part of my brain. I was still kinda debating to myself what actually happened to Neith in the end.
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Kesper North posted:Anyone else read Nick Harkaway's latest, Gnomon? I thought he overextended himself at times, but overall I found it a remarkably intense read, and his best work since The Gone-Away World by far. for a moment i confused The Half-Made World with The Gone-Away World and got real excited 
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GreyjoyBastard posted:for a moment i confused The Half-Made World with The Gone-Away World and got real excited Felix Gilman's website registration has lapsed (or he's sold the content) and is now a spam ad for nootropic drugs I think it's safe to say another book from him is not expected but would be a happy surprise. Although I didn't much like the celestial spheres and the second half made world novel was far less satisfying than the first.
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 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/15/iain-m-bankss-drawings-of-the-culture-universe-to-be-published-in-2019?CMP=share_btn_link quote:A final glimpse into the galaxy-spanning imagination of the late Iain M Banks is on the way in a collection of previously unseen drawings, maps and sketches from the Culture universe, many of which date from before Banks began writing the acclaimed science fiction series.
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Kesper North posted:
The Economist had an Elon Musk article last week that used Culture ship names for all the photo captions and subheads.
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Musk did descdibe the idea of the Neural Lace to the popular media using that name. I assume Peter Thiel and he used to get in shouting matches about whether the welfare state utopia of the culture or the libertarian utopia of Wright's Golden Age was more compelling
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GreyjoyBastard posted:for a moment i confused The Half-Made World with The Gone-Away World and got real excited You should stay real excited because Harkaway's Gone-Away World is real good and it's good to hear he's got another book out.
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Man I picked the wrong week to start reading the Civil War prose novel I bought.
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Syzygy Stardust posted:The Economist had an Elon Musk article last week that used Culture ship names for all the photo captions and subheads. I saw an article talking about whether or not Musk launching a car into space was art. They unironically said it was lacking gravitas which gave me a good laugh.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Man I picked the wrong week to start reading the Civil War prose novel I bought. 'Prose novel'?
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General Battuta posted:'Prose novel'? As opposed to graphic.
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branedotorg posted:Felix Gilman's website registration has lapsed (or he's sold the content) and is now a spam ad for nootropic drugs He posts on Twitter constantly, if you want to know if he’s going to write something new you could ask him
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I think Banks would gag at Musk and the type of capitalism that he stands for. It's less obvious with SpaceX but boy does he treat the workers at Tesla like poo poo.
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Rough Lobster posted:You should stay real excited because Harkaway's Gone-Away World is real good and it's good to hear he's got another book out. I like it less but A) it's still good and B) a lot of other people seem to love it. 
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shrike82 posted:I think Banks would gag at Musk and the type of capitalism that he stands for. It's less obvious with SpaceX but boy does he treat the workers at Tesla like poo poo. Banks would be meh with Musk, Ken MacLeod is the guy genetically adverse to Musk and the type of capitalism that Musk stands for. Which is why Ken MacLeod being the editor of the Iain M. Banks papers collection coming out in 2019 should be very interesting.
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