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Selachian posted:Eh, fantasy maps always have terrible geography. I've always been fond of the original map from The Sword of Shannara... This one's my fave: 
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pseudanonymous posted:It's also the only mountain range I've ever seen that turns at a right angle. Maybe it was created with the one power or something. 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Anyone know where to read The Message by Ken Liu? You can listen to it here (at 18:00): http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2013/02/13/starshipsofa-no-276-ken-liu/ otherwise, the Interzone Issue it's in is $5 on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Interzone-242-Sept-Science-Magazine-ebook/dp/B00A9NGLZG
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Jun 28, 2019 01:39
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Selachian posted:Eh, fantasy maps always have terrible geography. I've always been fond of the original map from The Sword of Shannara... Skull Mountain... or Batman Mountain?
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Jun 28, 2019 01:57
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Please don't post pictures of my battlemound lowlands.
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Jun 28, 2019 02:53
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They did not make it to Mount Dhoom. Instead the author went "screw this" and just magically teleported them to where they needed to be and started the final battle, then ended the book with the creeping sense that defeating the Darklord didn't fix anything. In other words, Mistborn totally ripped off Wheel of Time. I'm not surprised at all.  I enjoyed it for the wrong reasons: the horror, the paranoia, the wolves. But hey, I did enjoy it so I'll pick up book two and dig into it soonish.
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Jun 28, 2019 02:59
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Selachian posted:Eh, fantasy maps always have terrible geography. I've always been fond of the original map from The Sword of Shannara... I like this one because it gives the impression that it was drawn by some medieval mapmaker who is clearly just cobbling together rumors about what is beyond the next town over, gives no fucks about the concept of rivers flowing downhill, and credits his skill to his daily regimen of mercury enemas
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Jun 28, 2019 06:28
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This one's my fave:  An eerie similarity to Mievilles Bas-Lag map. And if we are doing this: WOT map  Bakker  More fantasy maps than you ever thought you would need here. https://atlasoficeandfireblog.wordpress.com TL:DR. Fantasy and sci-fi writers are bad at maps.
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Jun 28, 2019 07:12
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pretty lame up that of those maps, only Wheel of Time has that classic fantasy map feature of "THE BADWASTEBLASTEDLANDS" on one of the edges.
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Jun 28, 2019 07:21
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Yeah, on the WOT map, that is not a finger.
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Jun 28, 2019 09:20
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Oh hey, the Incorruptibles series was really good, even if the third book was a bit of a letdown.
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Jun 28, 2019 09:33
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C.M. Kruger posted:pretty lame up that of those maps, only Wheel of Time has that classic fantasy map feature of "THE BADWASTEBLASTEDLANDS" on one of the edges. Two of the edges, in fact.
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Jun 28, 2019 12:33
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Cardiac posted:
I've actually got a small personal collection of fantasy maps, some of them signed. This is probably the one that's visually neatest:  https://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/grandmap.html
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Jun 28, 2019 12:42
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Apropos of nothing, the urban fantasy-ists might well enjoy Bryan Camp's Crescent City series. It deals with the deities of New Orleans. The first has a down and out magician trying to find out who killed the city's Fortune. The second, a psychopomp trying to find a missing soul. Naturally, things escalate. They're entertaining and New Orleans makes a great magical city.
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Ben Nevis posted:Apropos of nothing, the urban fantasy-ists might well enjoy Bryan Camp's Crescent City series. It deals with the deities of New Orleans. The first has a down and out magician trying to find out who killed the city's Fortune. The second, a psychopomp trying to find a missing soul. Naturally, things escalate. They're entertaining and New Orleans makes a great magical city. Oh well yeah that's perfect and I'm amazed no one hasnt nabbed that already I've been going down a huge nawlins rabbitbhole the past month ever since Dr. John passed
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Jun 28, 2019 17:05
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh well yeah that's perfect and I'm amazed no one hasnt nabbed that already Probably not as strictly fantasy, but maybe consider The Neon Palm of Madame Melancon by Will Clarke as well. A lawyer for Not-BP finds himself back in New Orleans due to the not-Deepwater Horizon spill. And then his mother, the famous fortune teller Madame Melancon, disappears. It all goes a little Illuminatus! as Madame is still missing and the oil is still pouring into the gulf. Kirkus says, "A bizarrely soulful ride through New Orleans with corporate high jinks and some mystical, unseen forces adding to the experience." Hiaasen would be a fair comparison, and similarly Clarke's love of New Orleans really feels like the driving force through the novel .
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Jun 28, 2019 17:29
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Michael Swanwick's Iron Dragon's Mother is out as of a few days ago. I'd comment on it but the publisher has region-restricted the ebook so you can't but it in Australia because they like anti-competitive practices.
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ulmont posted:This was my favorite of the non-Gibson cyberpunk. I see Walter Jon William's Hardwired mentioned often, but, in reading reviews of it on goodreads and amazon it was really blasted by some scifi / cyberpunk fans as basically just a shoot 'em up action book with some scifi/cyber gadgets thrown in. I'm so split. Is this book really hard scifi or is it just popcorn with future-guns?
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pmchem posted:I see Walter Jon William's Hardwired mentioned often, but, in reading reviews of it on goodreads and amazon it was really blasted by some scifi / cyberpunk fans as basically just a shoot 'em up action book with some scifi/cyber gadgets thrown in. I'm so split. Is this book really hard scifi or is it just popcorn with future-guns? It's sort of cyberpunk trappings but mostly Smokey and the Bandit + Mad Max, from what I remember. I didn't think much of it.
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Jun 29, 2019 00:38
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All this cyberpunk and no one mentioned Headcrash.
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Jun 29, 2019 00:39
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pmchem posted:I see Walter Jon William's Hardwired mentioned often, but, in reading reviews of it on goodreads and amazon it was really blasted by some scifi / cyberpunk fans as basically just a shoot 'em up action book with some scifi/cyber gadgets thrown in. I'm so split. Is this book really hard scifi or is it just popcorn with future-guns? It's both. Probably closer to say Richard Morgan than William Gibson in terms of action. I liked it and recommended it earlier.
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Whoever recommended the Sector General books a while back, good call on that, aside from some dated 70s sexism they're really good.
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Jun 29, 2019 13:59
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A posthumous Locus Award was expected for Dozois(no shock there), no idea there was a magazine award category, and lol at TOR winning it. TOR.COM gives the most shallow whitebread takes I've seen outside of a specific website/online magazine that rhymes with plate.com. Made about 2 chapters more progress in my VALIS re-read.....VALIS sure was a product of it's time + PKD's specific mental state. Getting very tired of all the foreboding "this would end badly" comments and want something, anything at all to actually happen in VALIS right now.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:A posthumous Locus Award was expected for Dozois(no shock there), no idea there was a magazine award category, and lol at TOR winning it. It's for the fiction they publish. They get first pick from a lot of great writers because they pay loads more than most markets.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Tor really paid 'em off, huh not enough to get Battuta a win
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:TOR.COM gives the most shallow whitebread takes I've seen outside of a specific website/online magazine that rhymes with plate.com. They have a lot of filler, but I have been enjoying their Lovecraft (wide-sense) re-read https://www.tor.com/series/the-lovecraft-reread/
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Kind of off-topic but we were discussing StarFleet Battles RPG novels which morphed into Star Control 2/Stardock Studios/Brad Wardell talk for a page or so last week. Anyway, noticed that the original creators/developers of the Star Control series of games posted an update on their site about how/why the lawsuits were dropped. tldr summary: Bee chat helped both sides reach for peace. https://www.dogarandkazon.com/blog/2019/6/11/the-only-way-to-win-is
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Jun 30, 2019 23:54
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All of Will Wight's Cradle books will be free on 4th of July. YEEHAW MURKA
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:
Where else am I going to read in depth about horses in science fiction and fantasy?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Where else am I going to read in depth about horses in science fiction and fantasy? Mike Pence account spotted
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GreyjoyBastard posted:not enough to get Battuta a win There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Masquercard.
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Also, official portraits of Geralt, Ciri and Yen from the Witcher TV series are out: https://www.instagram.com/henrycavill/
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Jedit posted:There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Masquercard. I prefer FalEx -- they have a more Incrastic loyalty program.
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He has some fun books, really liked the Cradle and Traveler's gate series.
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I read 4 of the Cradle books when I had a free KU trial, and they're pretty good light xianxia stuff. If he'd like to quote me on the covers, "Better Than Reddit's RoyalRoad Recs!"
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Where else am I going to read in depth about horses in science fiction and fantasy? If you scroll down there's literally another article about horses on that page. So they've got your horse fancying covered.
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pseudanonymous posted:If you scroll down there's literally another article about horses on that page. So they've got your horse fancying covered. Right -- that author, Judith Tarr, has a whole series of horses-in-speculative-fiction articles on Tor.com. probably should;ve linked to the series rather than the author's tag: https://www.tor.com/tags/sff-equines/ or, for some highlights https://www.tor.com/2017/04/03/so-how-does-a-centaur-eat-anyway/ https://www.tor.com/2017/05/15/the-final-equine-frontier-ponies-in-space/ https://www.tor.com/2017/06/26/polygamous-space-horses-considering-equinoid-sexuality/ Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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