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General Battuta posted:Please dont mail authors anything without checking in before, its frightening. I could tell you liked mice, so...
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Applewhite posted:Goodkind is what would have happened if Ayn Rand wrote a fantasy series and decided not to be subtle with her symbolism. And also of she had a huge s&m fetish. 
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Mar 28, 2019 23:00
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:
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Mar 29, 2019 01:30
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Midgetskydiver posted:Just finished Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay based on a recommend in this thread and really enjoyed it. Loved the mix of fairly basic historical fiction with straight up no holds barred fantasy elements. Kay is a great writer and I'm definitely going to read a few more of his. Maaaaybe Tim Powers? It's more alternate history than straight up fantasy, but it mixes in supernatural stuff.
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Mar 29, 2019 01:51
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Still no eta on the Iain M Banks encyclopedia that Ken MacLeod has been researching for a few years now. November 28th PupsOfWar posted:what's all this then??? https://www.orbitbooks.net/2018/02/12/acquisition-announcement-orbit-announces-publication-original-culture-drawings-estate-iain-m-banks/
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anilEhilated posted:Seconding, it's great. Also the second book is out now with the third hopefully on the way. Thirding this.
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Mar 29, 2019 01:59
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less laughter posted:November 28th Nice. I foolishly checked the official Iain Banks website for news on it and saw nothing. Hope that amazon store date holds up, aka that isn't a placeholder. Loved Banks's scifi novels while really being unable to get into his "normal" fiction work. Vague MacLeod concerns will have me waiting a week to read reviews of how it holds up instead of instabuying it like most of Banks's Culture books.
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Mar 29, 2019 02:27
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There's some incredibly crazy poo poo going down in /r/fantasy right now.
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Mar 29, 2019 04:45
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General Battuta posted:Please dont mail authors anything without checking in before, its frightening. Now I feel bad for mailing an author a model of the launch vehicle for the lunar mission I worked on in return for a bunch of signed copies of his books I hope he didn't think the box was full of skin flakes and chuck it in the trash TOOT BOOT posted:There's some incredibly crazy poo poo going down in /r/fantasy right now. I looked it up and apparently Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Mar 29, 2019 |
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Mar 29, 2019 04:45
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TOOT BOOT posted:There's some incredibly crazy poo poo going down in /r/fantasy right now. Just checked. The Ed McDonald stuff? No idea who Ed McDonald is honestly.
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Mar 29, 2019 04:53
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Just checked. The Ed McDonald stuff? No idea who Ed McDonald is honestly. Isnt he that guy that sexually assaulted somebody
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Mar 29, 2019 04:57
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You know I think I would be ok with other authors writing books about the Culture. But who? Is Ken McLeod good/could he do it?
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Mar 29, 2019 05:13
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Fallom posted:I looked it up and apparently Apparently the person who instigated all this was a mod of r/fantasy as well. The whole thing is crazy. McDonald's response to the aftermath is pretty good.
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Mar 29, 2019 08:30
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my bony fealty posted:You know I think I would be ok with other authors writing books about the Culture. But who? Is Ken McLeod good/could he do it? macleod had permission from banks to do it, by virtue of them being good buddies he's never really done anything as expansive as the Culture but i think he could pull off something dece he and banks share a lot of themes, motifs, interests (being pals) last I heard, though, he had mulled over the idea of doing a novel and decided against it
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Mar 29, 2019 10:05
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General Battuta posted:Please dont mail authors anything without checking in before, its frightening. Do I still have the greenlight to DM them links to sadpanda on twitter though
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my bony fealty posted:You know I think I would be ok with other authors writing books about the Culture. But who? Is Ken McLeod good/could he do it? Pretty much what PupsOfWar said, only I think MacLeod is the official executor of Iain Banks literary estate too. In short stories like "whos afraid of wolf 359" MacLeod has shown he's capable of something similar. The main concern is MacLeod being able to keep his all conflict is class warfare embedded in the blood political views out of a full length Culture book. Admittedly the Culture books/series meddle in that area but never go into full bore all conflict is class warfare territory that MacLeod repeatedly goes to in his novel sized works. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Mar 29, 2019 |
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Mar 29, 2019 12:58
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Sundiver by David Brin: for the love of god stop writing women. Stop. Please. The mystery so far isn't grabbing me and I'm kind of tempted to drop this, because it's just... it feels like Brin's aggressively throwing away anything interesting about the setting.
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Mar 29, 2019 13:26
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Started The Mask of the Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer. Not sure about it so far. A lot of crazy poo poo is constantly happening but the language is really straightforward and plain so it doesn't feel right. Sekenre has like no personality. I'm still pretty early and the central hook is interesting so I will keep going but I hope it gets more...unique? Better written?
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Mar 29, 2019 17:06
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General Battuta posted:Please don’t mail authors anything without checking in before, it’s frightening. All we want is the title of Baru 3, we told you.
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Mar 29, 2019 17:32
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XBenedict posted:Maybe Robert Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities trilogy? I think it will fit the space you're looking to fill. I really enjoyed that trilogy. It was an interesting world and I liked the philosophical musings about life along the way.
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Mar 29, 2019 18:23
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I burned through the Low Town trilogy this month, after getting the first one in a kindle sale yonks ago and forgetting about it. It was enjoyable enough, low fantasy noir with an Excessively Competent Crime rear end in a top hat assholing wildly in all directions, getting beat to poo poo, but still piecing the puzzle together and having his plan come together in the end.
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Jedit posted:All we want is the title of Baru 3, we told you. The Title Baru Cormorant.
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Mar 29, 2019 20:17
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Ben Nevis posted:The Title Baru Cormorant. New thread title.
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Mar 29, 2019 20:49
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We all agree that the asterisk in the book finished post meant 'except for one word in the title', right?
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Mar 29, 2019 21:01
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The Baru Cormorant. The only thing I could find for what a Baru is was pictures of the island of Baru (or it's the extinct Australian crocodile). Edit: The word Baru is Aboriginal and means "crocodile's ancestor". I guess that kind of makes sense given the context. "crocodile's ancestor" "type of bird".
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Mar 30, 2019 00:02
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The Hot Mess Baru Cormorant
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The Third Baru Cormorant Edit: The Baru Cormorant titles so far have made me think of this tidbit: quote:The French newspapers which, in 1815, were subject to the censor, announced the departure of Bonaparte from Elba, his progress through France, and his entry into Paris in the following ingenious manner: Hannibal Rex fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Mar 30, 2019 |
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Mar 30, 2019 08:48
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Ditched Sundiver because damnit, I deserve to read an actually good book, and that good book is Eon by Greg Bear. I'm 70~ pages in and drat, this is so much better! Written about five years later and the gender politics are a billion times better. No sexism, just a really confusing asteroid. The most interesting thing about this book so far however isn't the asteroid, it's the take on the Cold War in 2005. It... seems to have ended? But there's still definitely the NATO (America) VS Russia VS China triumvirate and those politics are heavily influencing who gets to study this asteroid. It's bizarre to have the US trust China more than Russia, when in the present day we're basically enemies with everyone. Also the idea that the government could keep a secret for over five years... I can't think of anything I don't like about Eon so far. Good stuff.
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Sibling of TB posted:The Baru Cormorant. The Island of Dr Baru
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The Ascendant Baru C? Hardcopy of that M John Harrison 1975 short story collection I have been lusting after arrived. Titular story is so English it required tea breaks during reading. Pretty amazing to see how M John Harrison evolved his writing style over time while MJH's inspiration, Michael Moorcock, reverted exceptionally hard.
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Mar 30, 2019 17:56
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General Battuta posted:Please don’t mail authors anything without checking in before, it’s frightening. I was listening to a sci-fi lit podcast when one host said that he read octavia butler's stuff as a kid and was so depressed by it he asked his mom if they could send her cookies to cheer her up
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Mar 30, 2019 19:15
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Loutre posted:Does Gibson's Spook Country get interesting at some point? I liked Pattern Recognition a lot, but I'm 25% through and I don't care about anyone or anything that's happening in this book. Spook Country and Zero History are so firmly grounded in reality that they're barely "SciFi," not that it's a bad thing. I thought that it definitely ties it together towards the end, but I enjoyed the kind of low-key ride. It's a very, very different pacing from his earlier hard scifi.
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Mar 30, 2019 19:58
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Loutre posted:Does Gibson's Spook Country get interesting at some point? I liked Pattern Recognition a lot, but I'm 25% through and I don't care about anyone or anything that's happening in this book. I really liked all of those books but you might prefer skipping to The Peripheral, which at least is very plot driven.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Just checked. The Ed McDonald stuff? No idea who Ed McDonald is honestly. I was also "Who the Hell is that?" until I googled him and realised it was the guy whose Ravens Mark books I really enjoyed and just listened to the audiobook of the first literally last week. In my defence, being purely an e-reader now I practically never see the cover of a book I'm reading these days.
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Mar 30, 2019 22:55
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Even after a quick google I still had no idea who Ed McDonald was. Now if there was buzz/rumors/allegations against Ed Greenwood being a sexpest, I would go "yeah not unlikely". Greenwood is probably most famous for creating the Forgotten Realms setting, and for his Forgotten Realms character
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Mar 31, 2019 02:42
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i wonder how much money all these guys that crank out like 8 milSF novels per year on kindle unlimited make
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PupsOfWar posted:i wonder how much money all these guys that crank out like 8 milSF novels per year on kindle unlimited make IIRC scuttlebutt back when he got kicked off Amazon was that Michel Scott-Earle was allegedly making "six figures" as the 5th biggest author on KU, but then he threw it all away by cheating his book lengths and hiring some service that pays people in Bangladesh or wherever to create tons of Kindle Unlimited trial accounts and then download your books and skip to the end so the author gets the "fully read" payment.
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PupsOfWar posted:i wonder how much money all these guys that crank out like 8 milSF novels per year on kindle unlimited make Six figures monthly, apparently.
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C.M. Kruger posted:IIRC scuttlebutt back when he got kicked off Amazon was that Michel Scott-Earle was allegedly making "six figures" as the 5th biggest author on KU, but then he threw it all away by cheating his book lengths and hiring some service that pays people in Bangladesh or wherever to create tons of Kindle Unlimited trial accounts and then download your books and skip to the end so the author gets the "fully read" payment.
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