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That article did convince me to pick up Kate Elliott's Crossroads as a giant honking fantasy trilogy with giant eagles and a nuanced take on war sounds really good. (Will I ever finish her massive Crown of Stars series? Signs point to: I'm still too traumatized by the mind breaking/rape sequence in book 1, even though the lady escaped and has been working with her trauma to become a badass. Hopefully Crossroads won't contain the same intense awful in it.) I also grabbed two more of Lilith Saintcrow's works, because the more of her writing I read, the more I love it. It was also funny looking for reviews of Cormorant Run and finding Baru instead, thanks General Batoots. (yes I will quarantine the package whenever it arrives, it'll sit in the garage for a day before I rip it open and start reading. ebooks are the safest option here but I am a slave to paperbacks)
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Black Griffon posted:oh poo poo, I don't get the deal in Norway, but that made me think of a question for all of you; what's some good industrial rivalry sci-fi in general? How about Lem's The Cyberiad ? A lot of the stories are about the rivalry between two inventors. And I'll second Ash as being a superb book that starts more than a little rough.
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mllaneza posted:How about Lem's The Cyberiad ? A lot of the stories are about the rivalry between two inventors. I'm hankering for something grand and serious, but it sounds like a very fun read and my kind of poo poo, so I've added it to my list. Thanks!
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Mar 23, 2020 18:33
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Black Griffon posted:I can't buy the malazan omnibus in Norway and that annoys me because I want to own an 11 000 page book More like Malazan Book of the Fallen-On-My-Foot-And-Now-I'm-Crippled
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Mar 23, 2020 20:19
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Gnoman posted:So, I've suddenly developed an interest in two very different types of setting, and was hoping somebody would have an idea of where I might find them. Some of Ted Chiang's short stories like "72 Letters" in Stories of Your Life And Others are in this vein.
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I’m going to be doing another reread of LotR, and possibly the Pellinor series (at least the first one). Any recommendations for other more ‘lyrical’ or traditionally epic fantasy series?
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Mar 23, 2020 21:54
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I'll be adding most of those suggestions to my list. Thank you.
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Mar 23, 2020 21:56
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m going to be doing another reread of LotR, and possibly the Pellinor series (at least the first one). Any recommendations for other more ‘lyrical’ or traditionally epic fantasy series? I recently asked about this! Look here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3900237&pagenumber=64&perpage=40#post503066019 Also scroll down a bit and use all of those suggestions. The folks in here have good recs. (ps read Michelle West)
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StrixNebulosa posted:I recently asked about this! Look here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3900237&pagenumber=64&perpage=40#post503066019 Excellent! Ty.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:02
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Despite her pleas, I'm going to go cry now.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:08
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Despite her pleas, I'm going to go cry now. nooooooo I mean I've got enough books on my kindle to last me to august if I keep buying books at my current rate, but still.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:10
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Black Griffon posted:nooooooo I have a lot but none that so struck a chord with me as Gideon did. I've been looking forward to that book more than anything else this entire stupid year.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:20
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As a consolation, she's releasing a Gideon short story on the original release date.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:37
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Ornamented Death posted:As a consolation, she's releasing a Gideon short story on the original release date. 
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Mar 23, 2020 22:42
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKENQ/ Summer Knight (Dresden Files #4) by Jim Butcher - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OCXG46/ The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) by Brent Weeks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E0V112/ The Devil You Know (Felix Castor #1) by Mike Carey - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QRIGVM/ Same author as MR Carey who wrote The Girl with All the Gifts Peace War by Vernor Vinge - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003E74BSS Every Vampire Hunter D book - $2.99 each https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CHFTBH There's so many books. Hopefully now you have something to do all alone.
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pradmer posted:The Devil You Know (Felix Castor #1) by Mike Carey - $2.99 This is a very, very good series and I recommend it to all, particularly at $3 a volume.
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pradmer posted:Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - $1.99 The Peace War might be Vinge’s least good book, but it’s still enjoyable. It’s a prequel to Marooned in Real-time which is one of my favorites, a very creative murder mystery in a crazy setting. They’re both a lot shorter and less dense than A Fire Upon the Deep or A Deepness in the Sky, but very enjoyable.
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The only real caveat to the Felix Castor series is the lead just, no matter what, ALWAYS picks the option that is going to end up with him being in a shitton of pain or hurt. Like if he was offered a winning lotto ticket or a free hammer to hit himself in the dick with, he'd grab the hammer in a heartbeat. Good series, but kinda frustrating.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The only real caveat to the Felix Castor series is the lead just, no matter what, ALWAYS picks the option that is going to end up with him being in a shitton of pain or hurt. It has the best succubus character I've ever read, though. Ajulutsikael kicks rear end.
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Mar 24, 2020 00:46
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Thank you for posting all the e-book deals. I buy 2 or 3 books a week because they sound good and only read like 1.5 a week, so the more I've bought on sale the better when I eventually try to buy them full price.
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Mar 24, 2020 01:01
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biracial bear for uncut posted:It has the best succubus character I've ever read, though. Ajulutsikael kicks rear end. Agreed, when she first showed up in Devil you Know, my eyes started rolling, but even in the course of that book it was so much better than I anticipated.
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Mar 24, 2020 01:10
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Whoops, double post: I love both Vampire Hunter D movies, how are the books, both in terms of similarity to the movies, and overall quality of writing?
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MockingQuantum posted:Agreed, when she first showed up in Devil you Know, my eyes started rolling, but even in the course of that book it was so much better than I anticipated. I couldn't loving stand Ditko as a character. Asmodeus was ok as an antagonist, but Ditko got a much happier ending than he deserved.
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Mar 24, 2020 01:53
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Jedit posted:This is a very, very good series and I recommend it to all, particularly at $3 a volume. I really enjoyed The Girl With All The Gifts so this is at least interesting to me, but I have two questions: - with five books in, is the series finished, or is this going to be another UF series that drags on for half a dozen books after it should have ended? - how much weight should I be giving the reviews saying it's "almost as good as Dresden Files" given that I really didn't like DF?
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Mar 24, 2020 02:54
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Dresden is loving hot garbage and Mike Carey’s writing isn’t. There’s supposedly a book 6 in the series coming... at some point that will finish it off.
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Mar 24, 2020 06:00
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I really want to read books that are like the dresden files (funny, kinda brainless, explosions and cool poo poo) without you know... all the sexual assault and misogyny that made me actually throw his short story collection at a wall. So every time I see 'Like the dresden files' I hope it's the fun side. The fact that immediate talk of succubus means I'm worried this one is the other side? Reviews?
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Mar 24, 2020 09:57
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coolusername posted:The fact that immediate talk of succubus means I'm worried this one is the other side? Reviews? She isn't a seductive temptress so much as she is an apex predator who lures prey in by looking like a pretty woman and overwhelming them with sex pheromones . It's always pretty clear that she is a predator that feeds on men, and it's never written to be sexy. She never acts seductive unless she's actively trying to eat people, and that only really occurs in the first book that I can recall.
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Mar 24, 2020 10:13
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ShutteredIn posted:Dresden is loving hot garbage and Mike Carey’s writing isn’t. Reminder that Mike Carey wrote the original Lucifer comic books, which spawned the loosely-related Lucifer TV show (which featured in the hilarious TV Crisis event), which is hilarious. Seconding Dresden being a pile of garbage. Also Charles Stross's Laundry Files are an interesting read (but a bit dry, though that could be dialing into being as British as possible about everything). Craig Schaefer's Faust series is kind of similar, and handles everything Dresden fucks up much better (also another series that has a major character succubus that never actually does what succubi do on screen, but beats the ever living poo poo out of things instead).
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https://craigschaeferbooks.com/blog/2020/3/24/free-books-free-books 3 of Craig Schaefer's books are up for grabs for free at the moment, if you haven't read any of his work, there's 3 diff types of novels he writes, so there's probably something in there you'll enjoy.
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ToxicFrog posted:I really enjoyed The Girl With All The Gifts so this is at least interesting to me, but I have two questions: 1) Mike planned a sixth book at one point, but the story is functionally complete after book 5. I think he's abandoned the idea now. 2) No weight at all, because the Castor books are so far above the Dresden Files that Jim Butcher couldn't see them with the Hubble Telescope.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Reminder that Mike Carey wrote the original Lucifer comic books, which spawned the loosely-related Lucifer TV show (which featured in the hilarious TV Crisis event), which is hilarious. He also wrote Hellblazer for a bit, and that's a better comparison; the mystery aspect was quite strong. The first one was good, but I didn't read the rest.
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grassy gnoll posted:Was Mother as much of a non-stop misery grind as Daughter? Not at all. It does have some minor character overlap with Dragons of Babel, which I had more or less completely forgotten by the time I read Mother.
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Safety Biscuits posted:He also wrote Hellblazer for a bit, and that's a better comparison; the mystery aspect was quite strong. The first one was good, but I didn't read the rest. It's a much better comparison, honestly, in that Felix Castor and John Constantine are both scousers transplanted to London who got over their heads in magic a few years previous and caused someone a great deal of harm thereby. The difference is in how they responded to it. Constantine is a self confessed bastard who'll throw anyone under the bus, whereas Castor cares too much even when it's against his own best interests.
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Jedit posted:It's a much better comparison, honestly, in that Felix Castor and John Constantine are both scousers transplanted to London who got over their heads in magic a few years previous and caused someone a great deal of harm thereby. The difference is in how they responded to it. Constantine is a self confessed bastard who'll throw anyone under the bus, whereas Castor cares too much even when it's against his own best interests. I don't know, the way he rubbed Matthew's face into what he did to his own son was pretty Constantine-level rear end in a top hat.
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Thanks for the Craig Schaefer news. I hadn't heard about that. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) by Ann Leckie - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAXFDLM/
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John Gwynne's Malice is also a Kindle Daily Deal. Any opinions on it? The blurb sounds interesting, though it also seems like it could be kind of bland or cliched in execution.
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MockingQuantum posted:John Gwynne's Malice is also a Kindle Daily Deal. Any opinions on it? The blurb sounds interesting, though it also seems like it could be kind of bland or cliched in execution. It's...alright. It has a pretty neat premise, but Gwynne kind of meanders along for way too long.
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Came across repeated references to a dawn-of-the-internet sci-fi themed mailing list called SF-LOVERS in a book about early internet culture (Netizens, @1995). Most of the links referenced in the Netizens book are long since dead (ftp servers! lol) but was able to find a semi-curated archive of the SF-LOVERS mailing list at archive.org https://archive.org/details/SFLoversDigestArchive Would love to also include links to similar Fantasy Fiction themed dawn-of-the-internet Fantasy mailing lists as well, but have come up empty (Mostly because I'm terribly unimaginative searching online). Anyone with access to usenet archives or vastly better at searching online willing to help out?
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How do you read them? I've opened them with Winzip and now can't even see a file format. If you liked that you might enjoy the Urth list, which is discussion of Gene Wolfe, and occasionally other writers - it dates back to 1996, so hardly early internet, but hey. All readable online still: http://urth.net/
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