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Grimwall posted:Nice, The Good Place got the Best Dramatic Presentation! Seconding recommendation for Monstress--really good fusion of art and writing, and pictures so pretty you just want to stare at them until you remember there are words. I'm also glad the Good Place was recognized, it's surprisingly fantastic in both the premise sense and the quality sense. And as others have said, much love for Murderbot and would love to have a single omni at some point.
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Bhodi posted:At least it isn't Scalzi again? The series was fine, even if the middle book was weaker. I don't think it was 3 hugos fine but ehh, whatever. I feel like we've been complaining about poor Hugos for a long time now. Is the field simply weaker than it used to be, or historically was there tons of poo poo too but we only remember the gems?
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The difference in the amount of sci-fi garbage published now vs. historically is more a matter of scale, not proportion
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Cardiac posted:Talk about giving out awards on inertia. I thought all the nominees were ok, even the somewhat bland Scalzi one. I was apparently a much bigger fan of Six Wakes than the rest of the voters though.
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LeGuin and Bujold both clocked another Hugo this weekend. Bujold now has both of the Hugos awarded so far for best series, this time for the Five Gods series. Frankly, they can stop right there. If you've enjoyed the novels, I can't recommend the Penric novellas highly enough. I just finished A Closed and Common Orbit. A very moving, very touching book. Chambers is growing as a novelist. I would have been happy if it just rolled along until Jane's story became Pepper's and one day she midwifes an AI into a bodykit. But of course Owl had to be rescued, and I like the epilogue with the bar and the networked tech pets. It's not a direct sequel and I'm fine with that, I'm very happy with the story I got. Both books are slice of life novels with interesting characters in exotic situations, with a climax and an epilogue. She's going to start winning awards soon, the nomination for ACaCO was richly deserved, and might have won in 2016 or 2015.
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Fallom posted:The difference in the amount of sci-fi garbage published now vs. historically is more a matter of scale, not proportion This is a group of voters that awarded best comic to Girl Genius for three years in a row.
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Awards are always going to be flawed. I just use them as a non-exhaustive jumping off point for stuff I might want to check out from a given year.
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The British equivalent of the Hugos, the BSFA Awards, make for a interesting contrast. Not that its nominees are uniformly great or anything (though still better) but the works nominated are often things that would never touch a Hugo shortlist, despite still being chosen by a pool of fans.
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Read Andy Weir's The Martian + Artemis. The Martian was good to ok, was pretty much MacGyver (1980s mullet version) on MARS. The sheer amount of clever remarks by stranded MacGyver was overwhelming towards the end though. Artemis felt like Weir dreamed up set-piece scenes (the glassworks fire, the apollo 11 visitor center, the ore collector EVA sabotage, lunartrain EVA escape) but was unable to string things together without hyper-competent friends that ask no questions/tell no lies + multiple chekhov's Stumbled across new 2 me english translations of Hard to be a God, Monday Begins on Saturday, and The Doomed City. Had pocket paperback copies of the 1st two books, and a questionable quality english translation of the 3rd book. Talking about Arkady + Boris Strugatsky books, just to be clear.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Stumbled across new 2 me english translations of Hard to be a God, Monday Begins on Saturday, and The Doomed City. Had pocket paperback copies of the 1st two books, and a questionable quality english translation of the 3rd book. Talking about Arkady + Boris Strugatsky books, just to be clear. Yeah, there are new ones. Did you enjoy them?
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Stumbled across new 2 me english translations of Hard to be a God, Monday Begins on Saturday, and The Doomed City. Had pocket paperback copies of the 1st two books, and a questionable quality english translation of the 3rd book. Talking about Arkady + Boris Strugatsky books, just to be clear. I thought this meant people were translating current works into middle english and got momentarily excited
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Megazver posted:Yeah, there are new ones. Did you enjoy them? Haven't touched them yet, started Martha Wells 1st Raksura book and am enjoying it so far. Really liked those 3 Strugatsky books previously so I'm pretty sure a newer translation won't alter that scenario.
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Stanislaw Lem's FIASCO is $1.20 on the amazon kindle store for a unknown amount of time left, get it. Seriously. FIasco is the Lem story about 1st contact with a alien civilization, however it all turns into a (title drop) because technology doesn't equal competence. Black holes, temporal engineering, with Lem's weirdness factor going full throttle.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Stanislaw Lem's FIASCO is $1.20 on the amazon kindle store for a unknown amount of time left, get it. Seriously. Thanks buddy, got it
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Has anyone read "Medusa Uploaded" by Emily Devenport? If so, what are you thoughts on it?
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Tor released a list of fantasy books coming out next year. The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Secret Commonwealth are my must reads. Also GRRM has a new book about the TargaryNs coming out but I’m not getting anything more from him until Winds of Winter is actually published.
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MarksMan posted:Has anyone read "Medusa Uploaded" by Emily Devenport? If so, what are you thoughts on it? No, the but synopsis looks interesting. Just purchased and will probably read over the weekend.
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I've enjoyed GRRM's 'historical' stories way more than his novels for a while now. They're less bloated, and condense down most of the good parts of ASOIAF without all the rest of it.
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Proteus Jones posted:No, the but synopsis looks interesting. Just purchased and will probably read over the weekend. I'm 4 chapters in and I like it so far
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I enjoyed it. It's not super deep reading, but I'll pick up more books from the author.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Stanislaw Lem's FIASCO is $1.20 on the amazon kindle store for a unknown amount of time left, get it. Seriously. This is your regular reminder that you need The Cyberiad in your life. And library.
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mllaneza posted:LeGuin and Bujold both clocked another Hugo this weekend. Bujold now has both of the Hugos awarded so far for best series, this time for the Five Gods series. Frankly, they can stop right there. If you've enjoyed the novels, I can't recommend the Penric novellas highly enough. If you liked both of the others you'll like Record.
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mllaneza posted:This is your regular reminder that you need The Cyberiad in your life. And library. Agreed, more people should read Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad. Personally own a trade paperback + ebook editions of the Cyberiad. The Cyberiad story featuring the machine unable to add 2+2 correctly heavily predated what was is now classified as internet trolls/trolling. quote:A warning, if you please, observed Klapaucius dryly. Not only is it sensitive, dense and stubborn, but quick to take offense, and believe me, with such an abundance of qualities there are all sorts of things you might do!
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Agreed, more people should read Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad. hahah that excerpt is too good - I've never heard of The Cyberiad until now, but I might need to check it out!  (Also, based off the title alone, is this some kind of bizarro cyberpunk adaptation of The Alexiad or something? If not, well, it's something I want to happen, now)
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Major Isoor posted:(Also, based off the title alone, is this some kind of bizarro cyberpunk adaptation of The Alexiad or something? If not, well, it's something I want to happen, now) Cyberiad is a story about robots. e:too many l's
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Speaking of robots, new Ari Marmell book is up for pre order. Basically, sounds like humanity vs skynet vs dracula, so I'm all kinds of there. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GQJLJVV/
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I just finished Jack Vance's Demon Princes books, and I thought they were pretty good. How do they compare with the rest of Vance's oeuvre?
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Solitair posted:I just finished Jack Vance's Demon Princes books, and I thought they were pretty good. How do they compare with the rest of Vance's oeuvre? The hero who needs 4 pieces of court admissible evidence before acting against villains is SOP(standard operating procedures) for most of Vance's non-Kugel/non-Dying Earth work. So does people being impossibly clever gently caress you got mine bastards in most of his work. Major Isoor posted:hahah that excerpt is too good - I've never heard of The Cyberiad until now, but I might need to check it out! The Cyberiad is a bunch of light-hearted fairytales/extremely far future stories involving robots written in the early 1960s by a polish scifi writer. The Cyberiad is relatively unknown mainly because the author was polish, lived in russian occupied Poland, and wrote everything in his native language. The fact that most of Lem's work is fantastic, even after 2 or 3 translations from it's original language is staggering. Like that love poem written exclusively with math terms in the Cyberiad... https://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/tensor.html (also from the Cyberiad) quote:Come, let us hasten to a higher plane quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:The Cyberiad is a bunch of light-hearted fairytales/extremely far future stories involving robots written in the early 1960s by a polish scifi writer. The Cyberiad is relatively unknown mainly because the author was polish, lived in russian occupied Poland, and wrote everything in his native language. The fact that most of Lem's work is fantastic, even after 2 or 3 translations from it's original language is staggering. Like that love poem written exclusively with math terms in the Cyberiad... I grew up with The Cyberiad (and Mortal Engines, which is in a similar vein and was also translated by Kandel) on the shelves, and it's a crime that they aren't better known in English. Also, Kandel deserves some kind of medal for successfully translating all the wordplay in those books, holy poo poo.
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Ccs posted:Tor released a list of fantasy books coming out next year. The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Secret Commonwealth are my must reads. Witness this person who doesn't look forward to the Karsa Orlong trilogy.
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I can buy the The Cyberiad: Stories. Kindle price $7.95, Paperback $12.93 Hardcover $785.30 I'll probably get it digital I think.
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That's probably a good call, hardbacks can be quite awkward to carry around.
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Solitair posted:I just finished Jack Vance's Demon Princes books, and I thought they were pretty good. How do they compare with the rest of Vance's oeuvre? Pretty standard. Vance's output is very steady in terms of style and quality If you want to continue with his SF work, you might enjoy the Planet of Adventure books (City of the Chasch et al); or you could try his fantasy, with the Cugel books (the first one is Eyes of the Overworld) or the Lyonesse books (Suldrun's Garden et al).
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jedao kramers into the hexarchate and just keeps kramering, sliding off fortresses, bouncing against wolf towers. you get the feeling he's trying to spike your calendar but he's kramering at such a high velocity you just can't quite make it out. as he finally nails hellspin fortress and falls into the black cradle you think you hear him exclaim "I'm not even a kel, that's what's so CRAZY about this" on the way down
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General Battuta posted:jedao kramers into the hexarchate and just keeps kramering, sliding off fortresses, bouncing against wolf towers. you get the feeling he's trying to spike your calendar but he's kramering at such a high velocity you just can't quite make it out. as he finally nails hellspin fortress and falls into the black cradle you think you hear him exclaim "I'm not even a kel, that's what's so CRAZY about this" on the way down
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General Battuta posted:jedao kramers into the hexarchate and just keeps kramering, sliding off fortresses, bouncing against wolf towers. you get the feeling he's trying to spike your calendar but he's kramering at such a high velocity you just can't quite make it out. as he finally nails hellspin fortress and falls into the black cradle you think you hear him exclaim "I'm not even a kel, that's what's so CRAZY about this" on the way down You confusing other authors with obscure SA forums memes is my new jam
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General Battuta posted:jedao kramers into the hexarchate and just keeps kramering, sliding off fortresses, bouncing against wolf towers. you get the feeling he's trying to spike your calendar but he's kramering at such a high velocity you just can't quite make it out. as he finally nails hellspin fortress and falls into the black cradle you think you hear him exclaim "I'm not even a kel, that's what's so CRAZY about this" on the way down Next Baru Cormorant book looking pretty good.
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That Stanislaw Lem poem makes no sense mathematically. He’s just shoving terms in there. You get more sensible results from university a cappella groups of math majors
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Ccs posted:That Stanislaw Lem poem makes no sense mathematically. He’s just shoving terms in there. You get more sensible results from university a cappella groups of math majors Thats....the point. It's a LOVE POEM. Trurl built a electronic poet and challenged his friend Klapaucius to stump it. Previous dickish poem requests by Klapaucius were for "a poem about a haircut, lofty tone, six lines, cleverly rhymed, with all words beginning with the letter s", "now all in g..a sonnet about a old cyclotron who keep sixteen artifical mistresses" quote:Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Klapaucius tends to be a dick in the Cyberiad. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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hannibal posted:Next Baru Cormorant book looking pretty good. The Hexarch Shuos Baru is the most ambitious crossover event in history.
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