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D1E posted:I read them all in completely random order and I don’t think the experience suffered at all for it. Why not just get whichever one is cheapest or most easily available? StrixNebulosa posted:Excession! Awesome, yea I was thinking either Excession or The Hydrogen Sonata. Excession it is!
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Read Hydrogen Sonata last. In general, read matter and the later books later.
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Hey guys I just finished The Stone Sky and I don't know what to read now.
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People talk about Gene Wolfe's books being hard to read because of all the obscure words but I'm reading William Gibsons "The Peripheral" and it's about 10x worse, tons of terms that appear and are unexplained. That's fine though, that's probably the right way to write an immersive story. Also they both like to write scenes that happen but aren't described, and then are explained later on. Wolfe fills in little details, but Gibson will show how a person reacts to something we don't see, then 15 pages later the character will explain what they saw to someone else. It's a stylistic thing that I like in Wolfe with his unreliable narrators, but find annoying in Gibson. It feels like artificially built tension and then telling as opposed to showing.
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andrew smash posted:I read an interview with the showrunner who said she wanted to introduce the quellists and wasn’t sure if she’d get the chance to do a second season, so that’s why they ended up the way they did. Not a great reason mind but there it is. It also made the quellists motivation dumb as hell. my bony fealty posted:That's exciting. I'm iffy about Vandermeer's own work (like Southern Reach, eh about the rest) but their compilations are a real good thing. The scifi collection was way more depressing than I anticipated because it was like 75% awful stuff happening to people with no real recourse, which is I guess his jam but doesn't really accurately represent the genre over the last century imo. Grimson fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Autonomous Monster posted:Having read the entirety of Vatta's War... Vatta's War is never really good, per se. I don't remember any particular part being any better or worse than any other. It is all one big undifferentiated block of Vatta. The sequel series I gave up on, just too much of the same. Right. I enjoyed the original but it's just sort of "there" unlike other similar stuff like Harrington or the RCN series where there's definite stuff to say about the stories. In retrospect I want to say the original series is more of a "growth of a hero" story like the first Paksenarrion series. Though I haven't reread any of it since it finished, so this is just going on my vague memories.
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I didn't realize Sanderson had released the next Stormlight Archive book. I know his stuff is kinda divisive around here, but anyone read it? Thoughts? I barely remember what happened in the previous books, is that going to be a problem? I'm a sucker for big stupid fantasy.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:I didn't realize Sanderson had released the next Stormlight Archive book. I know his stuff is kinda divisive around here He has his own thread with almost 10,000 posts in it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3334571
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A Proper Uppercut posted:I didn't realize Sanderson had released the next Stormlight Archive book. I know his stuff is kinda divisive around here, but anyone read it? Thoughts? It's not as good as the last two, but still a little better than most D&D books.
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Ornamented Death posted:Jeff Vandermeer posted some stats about the upcoming Big Book of Classic Fantasy: I'm glad he keeps making these, even though I haven't worked up the nerve to read one yet.
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Mar 20, 2018 21:36
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Thread favorite Too Like The Lightning is Tor's free ebook of the month y'all
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Is Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy any good? I wouldn't mind reading more of her stuff.
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I much prefer her twitch streams than the writing itself
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Megazver posted:What... does she stream? I haven't seen her stream that much but Skyrim, Metal Gear Solid, just typical gaming stuff except she happens to be famous for writing not a twitch celebrity.
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Megazver posted:What... does she stream?
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Everyone go grab Too Like the Lightning for free.
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Oops. Point stands though.
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I don't remember seeing it mentioned here before, and I wasn't really a big fan of Blindsight, but The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts sounds really interesting. https://twitter.com/quellist1/status/976414265828630528
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It hurts that we still have to wait three whole months for that to come out 
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Oh great time for Peter Watts to make me feel existentially uncomfortable again.
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Fart of Presto posted:I don't remember seeing it mentioned here before, and I wasn't really a big fan of Blindsight, but The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts sounds really interesting. You can check out a small taste of it here http://www.rifters.com/crawl . It's pretty creepy. I've never read Jemsin but I did enjoy her Mafia 3 and Nier Automata streams. She has a very comforting voice.
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Robot Wendigo posted:You can check out a small taste of it here http://www.rifters.com/crawl . It's pretty creepy. He's been publishing chapters and/or short stories for years now. They've all been good.
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Fart of Presto posted:I don't remember seeing it mentioned here before, and I wasn't really a big fan of Blindsight, but The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts sounds really interesting. The premise sounds a lot like that Vernor Vinge series about people sealing themselves in time-stopping bubbles and emerging for a small time every few millennia
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Fart of Presto posted:I don't remember seeing it mentioned here before, and I wasn't really a big fan of Blindsight, but The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts sounds really interesting. Oh, he's actually making this a novel? Heck yeah, I'm delighted to experience this horror that causes me to question my fundamental consciousness.
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Robot Wendigo posted:You can check out a small taste of it here http://www.rifters.com/crawl . It's pretty creepy. Fallom posted:The premise sounds a lot like that Vernor Vinge series about people sealing themselves in time-stopping bubbles and emerging for a small time every few millennia That's it. The Peace War/Marooned in Realtime. I couldn't remember what it reminded me of. At first I thought of Reynolds' House of Suns, but knew it was something else.
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The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card also had that idea going
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angel opportunity posted:The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card also had that idea going poo poo get's dune sequels weird.
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So I finished Downbelow Station by Cherryh. Is the rest of the series written in the same style? So far it was not my cup of tea, but I am willing to give it another try.
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Cardiac posted:So I finished Downbelow Station by Cherryh. Nope ! The other books in that setting (it's not really a series) are different. There's a few Merchanter books which covers the independent side of the conflict. There are some very interesting novels set on the Alliance side; 40,000 in Gehenna, Cyteen, and Regenesis. Then there's the Chanur novels, arguably her best work; a Union human ends up with an alien trader crew with their own problems. 
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mllaneza posted:Nope ! The other books in that setting (it's not really a series) are different. There's a few Merchanter books which covers the independent side of the conflict. There are some very interesting novels set on the Alliance side; 40,000 in Gehenna, Cyteen, and Regenesis. Then there's the Chanur novels, arguably her best work; a Union human ends up with an alien trader crew with their own problems. I mean... they are written in the same style though. I find Cherryh's writing so difficulty because some of the themes are so interesting but her writing can be oppressively plodding and dry.
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I just finished The Dispossessed and wondered if anyone had recommendations for some books on the kind of anarchy that inspired Le Guin. The one I know of is Post Scarcity Anarchy but was wondering if there were more.
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apophenium posted:I just finished The Dispossessed and wondered if anyone had recommendations for some books on the kind of anarchy that inspired Le Guin. The one I know of is Post Scarcity Anarchy but was wondering if there were more. wasn't she inspired by murray bookchin's stuff for that? its not fiction but you might give something like The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy a try could also give you another starting point for looking for works of fiction inspired by bookchin
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papa horny michael posted:poo poo get's dune sequels weird. This is probably the highest praise I've seen OSC receive. I gotta read those books.
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ShutteredIn posted:I mean... they are written in the same style though. I find Cherryh's writing so difficulty because some of the themes are so interesting but her writing can be oppressively plodding and dry. Downbelow Station is probably her worst book for that, IMO. The Merchanter and Chanur books are much faster-paced.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:wasn't she inspired by murray bookchin's stuff for that? its not fiction but you might give something like The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy a try could also give you another starting point for looking for works of fiction inspired by bookchin Bookchin's later writings on communalism are extremely interesting
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Yeah Post Scarcity Anarchism was by Bookchin, I was just wondering if there were any others. I'll dig into Bookchin's stuff. Sorry for the nonfic derail!
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ToxicFrog posted:Downbelow Station is probably her worst book for that, IMO. The Merchanter and Chanur books are much faster-paced. Guess I’ll give Chanur a shot then. Is there a reading order, or it is sequential? Wikipedia was kinda vague.
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Cardiac posted:Guess I’ll give Chanur a shot then. Pride of Chanur is the first, and also a standalone book. The rest need to be read in publication order or else you will be completely lost. e: Deets: 1# Pride of Chanur. Standalone, but it sets up the world for future novels. 2-4# Chanur's Venture The Kif Strike Back Chanur's Homecoming A single book masquerading as a trilogy. Chanur's Homecoming is one of my favorite books of all time, and all three are good. They hit this lovely set of things I like: aliens, politics, action, family drama, really devious characters, and Pyanfar being a badass. 5# Chanur's Legacy Standalone sequel set like ten years after Chanur's Homecoming, focuses on Pyanfar's niece having her own ship and having goofy adventures. Is probably the most feel-good book Cherryh's ever written. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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