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Selachian posted:Surprise: "Seth Dickinson" was actually a pen name for Piers Anthony all along! The Color of her Cormorants.
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May 2, 2018 15:15
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Ben Nevis posted:The Color of her Cormorants. 
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May 2, 2018 15:38
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neongrey posted:b4ru 
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May 2, 2018 16:26
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Baru Cormorant and the Well of Loneliness.
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May 2, 2018 18:58
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2 Baru 2 Traitorous
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May 2, 2018 21:25
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So Long, And Thanks For All The Cormorants
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May 2, 2018 22:03
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The empty shell that once was Baru Cormorant
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May 2, 2018 22:43
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E: It sounded funnier in my head
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May 2, 2018 23:46
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The Clarke Award shortlist was just released, and it's actually good! The books definitely slot into familiar award archetypes, but unlike previous years none of them are bad.
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May 3, 2018 00:36
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pospysyl posted:The Clarke Award shortlist was just released, and it's actually good! The books definitely slot into familiar award archetypes, but unlike previous years none of them are bad. I'm not familiar with any of these authors or novels. Which ones do you think I should I bother to look up more about?
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May 3, 2018 00:42
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pospysyl posted:The Clarke Award shortlist was just released, and it's actually good! The books definitely slot into familiar award archetypes, but unlike previous years none of them are bad. Lol Sea of Rust is written by a friend of a friend and I really should get around to reading it, otherwise I'm gonna feel really dumb the next time I talk to him. Doubly so if he wins a Clarke in the meantime.
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May 3, 2018 00:42
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm not familiar with any of these authors or novels. Which ones do you think I should I bother to look up more about? I kind of want to say "all of them," but it depends on what you like. Borne is the most pop sci-fi of the nominees. It's written by Jeff Vandemeer, who also wrote Annhilation and the Area X series and although Borne has a much stranger setting, it's more conventional in style. American War is a popular mainstream crossover book, detailing a post-apocalyptic USA that's been devastated by a civil war. It's in line with books like The Underground Railroad and Exit West. Dreams Before the Start of Time is very highbrow, about the changing way in which children are conceived throughout history and into the future. Gather the Daughters is a dark feminist message book, inviting comparisons to The Handmaid's Tale and last year's The Power (although I think Gather the Daughters is much more effective). Sea of Rust and Spaceman of Bohemia are both kind of throwbacks to 60s and 70s sci fi. Sea of Rust is Asimov-like robotic fantasy (although written in a much better, more modern style), while Spaceman of Bohemia is similar to Vonnegut's more experimental books.
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May 3, 2018 00:59
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All of those sound pretty good. The Clarke award is juried by like, semi-academic writing pros so it doesn't usually slate inept crap. It does definitely reflect the tastes of whoever is on the jury each year though.
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May 3, 2018 06:59
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pospysyl posted:The Clarke Award shortlist was just released, and it's actually good! The books definitely slot into familiar award archetypes, but unlike previous years none of them are bad. Oooh, more books to read, thanks! In other news, check this cover out: 
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May 3, 2018 07:32
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Arcsquad12 posted:So the other day at work I was reading the reviews for new SF books in the catalog, and there was one for a military SF book called The Moscow Offensive. The book itself isn't that relevant to my point, but the blurb made me uncomfortable reading it. Incompetent US president puts on a show of force with super battle armor weaponry but the Ruskies stole it and now there's a new future war, and only the strong, independent military not hampered by red tape can take ACTION! So those bureaucrats and weaklings running the country can be taken down a notch and put security and responsibility in the hands of REAL MEN. Alright, so, full disclosure: i work on maintaining the video game Brigador and am writing a followup game in a different genre as well as working on the direct sequel. This post is about the novel that was written alongside the game, not by me, so if you are suspicious of my motives, feel free to skip the rest of the post. I understand. That said, the novel Brigador is written by my friend Brad Buckmaster, and I have no financial connection to it. It is still one of the best on-the-ground military sci fi books I've read and is drawn from his lengthy experience in infantry combat. He is still in the army and has no patience for the kinds of books you're annoyed by, while being strongly influenced by books like The Forever War. That's probably the best recommendation I can give. It is certainly very self-aware. It is about the fall of a dictatorship, and about a man caught with loyalties on both sides of the struggle, and how he comes to terms with that while struggling to get his unit through a warzone.
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May 3, 2018 07:45
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Brigador audiobook gets a recommendation from me, the narrator is a British guy who manages to snarl for literally the entire duration of the book
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May 3, 2018 07:51
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Orikaeshigitae posted:Alright, so, full disclosure: i work on maintaining the video game Brigador and am writing a followup game in a different genre as well as working on the direct sequel. This post is about the novel that was written alongside the game, not by me, so if you are suspicious of my motives, feel free to skip the rest of the post. I understand. hey! it's not cool to steal ip from mechwarrior 2 by using a screencap of it for cover art
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May 3, 2018 09:45
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pospysyl posted:I kind of want to say "all of them," but it depends on what you like. This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! It sounds like I want to read most of the books on that list, which is neat.
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May 3, 2018 10:34
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Orikaeshigitae posted:Alright, so, full disclosure: i work on maintaining the video game Brigador and am writing a followup game in a different genre as well as working on the direct sequel.
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May 3, 2018 11:35
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I read Spaceman of Bohemia last year. It's really using sci-fi as a method to explore the consequences of the Velvet Revolution and Czechia's search for a way forward as a more modern and more capitalist country, and what was lost and gained in the transition, both nationally and personally for the titular Spaceman. I thought it was real good.
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May 3, 2018 15:12
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Trasson posted:The Fifth Book In The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Baru Cormorant Trilogy Baru Cormorant. Oh please, that's nothing compared to the (currently) ten books in the Robert Rankin's Brentford Trilogy
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May 3, 2018 16:36
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Ben Nevis posted:I read Spaceman of Bohemia last year. It's really using sci-fi as a method to explore the consequences of the Velvet Revolution and Czechia's search for a way forward as a more modern and more capitalist country, and what was lost and gained in the transition, both nationally and personally for the titular Spaceman. I thought it was real good.
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May 3, 2018 20:49
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How hard is it to find the novelettes and short stories on the Hugo ballot? I want to catch up on this year's offerings, but money's tight this year and I'm not sure I want to spend it.
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May 4, 2018 16:38
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Tor/Forge is having a May 4th sale. https://www.torforgeblog.com/2018/05/04/today-only-sci-fi-classics-ebook-sale/ The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Haze by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Jupiter by Ben Bova Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
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May 4, 2018 16:43
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Solitair posted:How hard is it to find the novelettes and short stories on the Hugo ballot? I want to catch up on this year's offerings, but money's tight this year and I'm not sure I want to spend it. They're all online for free!
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May 4, 2018 17:26
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Solitair posted:How hard is it to find the novelettes and short stories on the Hugo ballot? I want to catch up on this year's offerings, but money's tight this year and I'm not sure I want to spend it. Googling them seems to just pull them up from wherever, generally whoever published them. I think they want to get them out for voters. I also learned that the first line of one of the nominated novelettes is: quote:I’m trying to piss against a wall when the vampire bites me. Trying because drunk-me can barely hold a glass, much less maneuver a limp prosthetic cock. Gonna have to read that when I have a slow moment.
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May 4, 2018 17:29
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Fart of Presto posted:Tor/Forge is having a May 4th sale. Half of those, they should probably pay you to take them.
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May 4, 2018 17:49
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Selachian posted:Half of those, they should probably pay you to take them. (the rest, well... let's just say that Off Armageddon Reef was the Tor free ebook of the month 6+ months back and when I asked if the rest of the series got better in the obvious ways it needed to the thread consensus is that it only got worse.)
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May 4, 2018 19:05
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i liked collapsing empire
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May 4, 2018 19:17
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Doorknob Slobber posted:i liked collapsing empire i am judging you
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May 4, 2018 19:33
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Haze was pretty bad IIRC, with the caveat that I read it ages ago. Basically half the book is some guy with the SINO-FED world government investigating some neo-Mormon religious group for using too much electricity or something. The other half is him being sent to scout a planet the Mormons have secretly colonized but has some technomagic shield, getting captured by the Mormons, and then being given a tour of the planet and a explanation of why capitalism is good. It felt a lot like those old Heinlein ones where the protagonist is some two-dimensional reader insert who ends up on Planet Free Love where everybody is happy to tell him how everything works.
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May 4, 2018 19:37
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General Battuta posted:poo poo gently caress now I have to come up with a fourth title Nah, it'll just be subtitles. The Monster 1: Treachery and Tribadism and The Monster 2: Deceit and Dinner At The Y.
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May 4, 2018 20:04
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DACK FAYDEN posted:
On my knees begging you not to read these books
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May 4, 2018 23:55
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Phobeste posted:On my knees begging you not to read these books Alternately, READ THEM. How else will you learn how to detect & avoid bad authors if you just rely on the advice of others?
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May 5, 2018 02:09
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Alternately, READ THEM. How else will you learn how to detect & avoid bad authors if you just rely on the advice of others? And if you ever want to write books, this doubly. Even bad books are good teachers.
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May 5, 2018 05:47
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Lord Beden's Motor is the best older science fiction and ghost story short story I've come across in a while. Steampunk fans will enjoy it, especially because it was originally published in 1901.
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May 5, 2018 14:55
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The Troop is the first book I've read that made me feel genuinely queasy. I wasn't quite expecting that even though I had already read The Deep.
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May 5, 2018 16:15
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Any good gunpowder fantasy novels? I've seen the Powder Mage trilogy in my store and it seems interesting.
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May 5, 2018 19:06
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If you like Sanderson you'll like The Powder Mage cause the author was taught by Sanderson and has absorbed a lot of his writing patterns.
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