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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Ironically it fights for first place with another Lem story Well, that's Stanislaw Lem for you. Dude was seriously good.
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I'm reading Zelazny's "My Name is Legion" currently and I think I'll drop it. I didn't even realize at first that it was a collection of short stories or I probably wouldn't have started it. The first one was kind of OK.
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genericnick posted:I'm reading Zelazny's "My Name is Legion" currently and I think I'll drop it. I didn't even realize at first that it was a collection of short stories or I probably wouldn't have started it. The first one was kind of OK. The stories are kinda linked and the last one kinda brings them together. Might want to skip ahead to it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The stories are kinda linked and the last one kinda brings them together. Might want to skip ahead to it. Did that. The last one was also OK. But then somehow even Lord of Light didn't really click with me.
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Got David Zindell's Neverness in the mail today and it's reminding me a lot of Paul McAuley's Confluence - a young man, a quest, and really wild world-building that's evocative and full of great imagery.
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genericnick posted:Did that. The last one was also OK. But then somehow even Lord of Light didn't really click with me. If Mahasamatman can't save you then the fit's hit the shan
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Read a review of Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City that made it sound interesting. Anyone read it and know if it's any good?
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Apr 28, 2019 14:23
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It was p. good IMO.
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team overhead smash posted:Read a review of Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City that made it sound interesting. Anyone read it and know if it's any good? It’s basically the engineer trilogy in one book. If you’ve read any KJ Parker before it’s going to be very similar. If you haven’t, it’s worth a shot; I enjoyed it.
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I'm around 15% of the way through it, and I love the tone of the main character so far.
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team overhead smash posted:Read a review of Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City that made it sound interesting. Anyone read it and know if it's any good? I didn't love it. It's written with this very no-nonsense, almost extravagantly practical tone. But the actual plot is the kind of absolutely bonkers nonsense that you would expect from Wagner on an absinthe binge or a shonen anime. And both of these things could work fine separately, they do not play well together at all. The narrative tone keeps drawing attention to just how ridiculous the plot beats are, and the operative nature of the plot makes the tone feel small-minded and stupid.
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genericnick posted:I'm reading Zelazny's "My Name is Legion" currently and I think I'll drop it. I didn't even realize at first that it was a collection of short stories or I probably wouldn't have started it. The first one was kind of OK. Speaking of short story collections, I'm going through N.K. Jemisin's "How long 'til black future month ?" collection and goddamn these are good. I'm in a big patch of non-fiction right now so I'm using the shorts as a break between dry history tomes. Read this book !
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I need someone to read the Mistwraith series with me so we can be sad together. I'm in early Fugitive Prince and it really hurts seeing a character develop from "I'm a good guy" to "some genocide is okay" to "screw genocide, slavery is better" and just. I'm emotional.
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Apr 28, 2019 20:08
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StrixNebulosa posted:I need someone to read the Mistwraith series with me so we can be sad together. I'm in early Fugitive Prince and it really hurts seeing a character develop from "I'm a good guy" to "some genocide is okay" to "screw genocide, slavery is better" and just. I'm emotional. Mistwraith as in Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow series? That's been in my queue forever but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it.
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ToxicFrog posted:Mistwraith as in Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow series? Yes, and you should read it. So far - I'm on book 3 - every book has stopped at a good pause in the action, so I wasn't desperate to grab the next book and keep reading. So if you want to do a book and then take a break and come back, it works really well. The writing is easily some of the best I've ever seen in the fantasy genre, so detailed and wonderful. Also I think you were the one who tried her Cycle of Fire series? That trilogy has exceptionally poor pacing and doesn't hold a candle to Wurts' later works.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Also I think you were the one who tried her Cycle of Fire series? That trilogy has exceptionally poor pacing and doesn't hold a candle to Wurts' later works. Yeah, I loved Daughter of the Empire, was underwhelmed by her contribution to some short story collection I read (I forget which one) and then bounced off Stormwarden extremely hard, and never got around to Curse of the Mistwraith. Maybe I'll give it a shot after I finish my current Valdemar kick.
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mllaneza posted:Speaking of short story collections, I'm going through N.K. Jemisin's "How long 'til black future month ?" collection and goddamn these are good. Do they peak just before White Future Month?
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mllaneza posted:Speaking of short story collections, I'm going through N.K. Jemisin's "How long 'til black future month ?" collection and goddamn these are good.
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What is the sci-fi short about the (modified?) giant squid with nukes that decides to hold it's creator nation hostage, and the human negotiator who was also a psycho? Having a hard time finding it, even though there are several "squids in sci-fi" lists on the internet, I'm not finding the one I mean.
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Slo-Tek posted:What is the sci-fi short about the (modified?) giant squid with nukes that decides to hold it's creator nation hostage, and the human negotiator who was also a psycho? This sounds vaguely like a Red Alert 2 expansion?
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This one was passed around for a bit: https://www.drabblecast.org/2013/12/06/drabblecast-305-testimony-emergency-session-naval-cephalopod-command/
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Slo-Tek posted:What is the sci-fi short about the (modified?) giant squid with nukes that decides to hold it's creator nation hostage, and the human negotiator who was also a psycho? I think you are thinking of Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command
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Haha! I win.
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That the one, thanks guys. The article about the Beluga whale in a military harness showing up bothering Norwegian fishing boats rather brought it to mind. Pretty sure surplus biological weapons systems pursuing solo careers is a giant blinking billboard that we are living in a sci-fi dystopia.
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Slo-Tek posted:That the one, thanks guys. I dunno the whale seems chill Belugas are just friendly lookin
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I dunno the whale seems chill That's how you know they're spies.
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Slo-Tek posted:That the one, thanks guys. It's not really anything new. 
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Ben Nevis posted:That's how you know they're spies. Spyhoppers.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I dunno the whale seems chill Poor guy flunked out of the spy program because he didn’t want to kill Americans
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mewse posted:Poor guy flunked out of the spy program because he didn’t want to kill Americans The Whale Who Came In From the Cold
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The Whale Who Came In From the Cold 
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Phanatic posted:It's not really anything new. Oh god this movie is so bad its amazing Kesper North posted:Spyhoppers. 
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*bursts in, choking with laughter, tries repeatedly to share joke, collapses on couch, eventually gasps out a single word* Flipper (Too bad it wasn't a bottlenose dolphin - tursiops turncoatus, rear end in a top hat of the sea.)
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Bilirubin posted:Oh god this movie is so bad its amazing While I've never seen it, it's the "Unwittingly" that really gets me in that description. Like maybe the dolphin accidentally killed the president of the PTA and George C Scott was all, "I can't stay mad at you, have a mackerel." And then he kills the president of the rotary club, mackerel, and the dolphin just keeps killing more and more important presidents, unwittingly conditioned by GCS to believe that's how to get mackerel.
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I read this. It was definitely an attempt by Greg Egan to be more story driven and less Big Idea driven and it was alright but I think his niche is always going to be Ideas Guy.
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I didn't dig it very much. I was hoping for more... I dunno, big black hole ripping the atmosphere off and people having to live underground and whatnot. What I got was whiny dude on a boat.
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He kept teasing equations but not actually printing the equations in his book. Coward. I was expecting a lot more logistics, but it was refreshing to see him writing something different.
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