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StrixNebulosa posted:Janny Wurts' To Ride Hell's Chasm is standalone! Seconding this one!
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Cicero posted:They haven't done anything yet, but it's obvious where it's heading Yeah agreed, sorry, I wasn’t trying to minimize what you said just reinforce it. The romance isn’t anywhere near creepy kindle unlimited harem fare.
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Thanks for all the recommendations! I'm tempted by a lot of those, so I guess I've got a lockdown reading list now.
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RIP Terry Goodkind Edit: Wait that happened back in September, but I only just saw it on io9. Sorry
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Cavelcade posted:Hi thread, I'm looking for some fantasy or Sci fi by a female author for a book club that wouldn't normally read that. I've read The Left Hand of Darkness recently and was thinking of suggesting the Dispossessed, but Kindred by Octavia Butler also looks good. The Indigo Saga 1: Nemesis by Louise Cooper.
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Where do I start with Lafferty? Also any other recommendations in the Gene Wolfe//Lafferty vein?
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Not all the way through yet, but Wintersteel is really drat good. Stylistically it's not any different from previous entries, so it's not gonna convince anyone who already didn't like Cradle, but Wight was definitely firing on all cylinders here. It's like some of the best parts of the previous three entries rolled together. Given how he'd been sort of structuring the books as series of trilogies, I have no idea how he's gonna top this with a new climax in #9.
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I JUST binged through all of Wintersteel and oh boy were there payoffs. MASSIVE payoffs. So much stuff happens in this book. Seriously do not mouse over the spoilers unless you've finished: We finally learn the name of Eithan's Path. Everyone advances! Wight massively both works in fan theories, memes and gags AND upsets them. Eithan is an Archlord, Yerin gives up being a Sage to fuse with her Blood Shadow and Lindon manifests the Void Icon and ends up with a Wintersteel Unsouled badge. Eithan fixes Ziel and he is hired on and recruited to the cause. Yerin is the Uncrowned King and kills Seshethkunaaz with Penance. Fury advances to Monarch. and Orthos and Kelsa are about to tear through Heaven's Glory with Jai Long and Jai Chen's aid just as the Wandering Titan is rising. I need Cradle 9 ASAP and it's literally been 20 minutes since I finished reading.
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Cavelcade posted:Hi thread, I'm looking for some fantasy or Sci fi by a female author for a book club that wouldn't normally read that. I've read The Left Hand of Darkness recently and was thinking of suggesting the Dispossessed, but Kindred by Octavia Butler also looks good. Kindred is excellent, but if it's something that a lot of members have already read, consider Butler's Parable of the Sower instead. For more LeGuinn, you might also consider The Lathe of Heaven, but it's pretty short. Freebooter mentioned Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, and I would recommend it over The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August because its prose is stronger, and it's a more thoughtful take on the premise. Jemisin gets a mixed reaction around here, but The Fifth Season is a fun and interesting read built around a neat perspective gimmick. It's YA, but Heidi Heilig's The Girl from Everywhere is a fun and interesting novel about maps, time travel, and colonizing Hawaii.
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Feel like I could mention Frankenstein again too. It's really good honest.
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NK Jemisin got a MacArthur Genius grant.
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Cavelcade posted:Hi thread, I'm looking for some fantasy or Sci fi by a female author for a book club that wouldn't normally read that. I've read The Left Hand of Darkness recently and was thinking of suggesting the Dispossessed, but Kindred by Octavia Butler also looks good. Like PeterWeller, I’d recommend Parable of the Sower over Kindred as a better entry book for Octavia Butler. For one, Parable is extremely precient and topical right now, and also Kindred is so brutal most people who start with that end up not wanting to read anymore Octavia Butler because the first time was too painful, which is a crying shame. Seconding the Lathe of Heaven recommend as well Stuporstar fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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I want to recommend some Bujold, too. Not entirely sure what to go with though.
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PeterWeller posted:Jemisin gets a mixed reaction around here, but The Fifth Season is a fun and interesting read built around a neat perspective gimmick. My impression from the thread has mostly been that Broken Earth trilogy is well liked, pretty much everyone raves about the short story collection (really need to get that on my nightstand from the bookshelf, finally), it's mostly the Inheritance trilogy that has got the meh to weak call. But yeah do pick up The Fifth Season and read the remaining two books if that at all catches your fancy. I certainly enjoyed it a lot.
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Leng posted:I need Cradle 9 ASAP and it's literally been 20 minutes since I finished reading. I do not envy Will attempting to top this one in the next book.
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Cicero posted:Just finished myself and I can't help but agree. 
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Cicero posted:I do not envy Will attempting to top this one in the next book. Well remember how we all thought that way with Ghostwater and then Underlord came out? Yeah, I'm hella looking forward to Bloodline. I might even go so far as to pause my Stormlight reread to go reread Wintersteel immediately.
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The Blade Itself (First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TOT9LDK/ Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V34YJE0/ The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L2VKFP5/
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pradmer posted:Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald - $2.99 I think I mention this every time it comes up, but anyway: the third book of this trilogy is disappointing but the first two are excellent, well worth reading, probably some of the best sci-fi of the decade with some of the best set-pieces I've ever read.
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Groke posted:I want to recommend some Bujold, too. Not entirely sure what to go with though. Easy. Is the reader in the mood for fantasy or science fiction ? The Five Gods setting is up to three novels and 8 (soon to be 9) novellas, so there's plenty there. For science fiction, I recommend chronological order for the Vorkosigan saga.
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Lunsku posted:My impression from the thread has mostly been that Broken Earth trilogy is well liked, pretty much everyone raves about the short story collection (really need to get that on my nightstand from the bookshelf, finally), it's mostly the Inheritance trilogy that has got the meh to weak call. Also her newest, The Cities We Became, is excellent.
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Leng posted:Well remember how we all thought that way with Ghostwater and then Underlord came out? Ehh Underlord’s alright but it didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Ranking’s something like Wintersteel >>> Ghostwater > Blackflame > Soulsmith > Underlord = Uncrowned > Skysworn = Unsouled.
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freebooter posted:I think I mention this every time it comes up, but anyway: the third book of this trilogy is disappointing but the first two are excellent, well worth reading, probably some of the best sci-fi of the decade with some of the best set-pieces I've ever read. Yep the first in particular is top notch. Wonderful writing.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Wintersteel >>> Ghostwater > Blackflame > Soulsmith > Underlord = Uncrowned > Skysworn = Unsouled. Ohhhhhh this is very hard for me, I think I'm Wintersteel > Underlord > Ghostwater > Blackflame > Unsouled > Uncrowned = Skysworn The character revelations always hit me pretty hard and Wight did a very good job in Wintersteel with that.
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Alright I downloaded all these Cradle free books. I hope these are actually good. The titles would normally be a big red flag for me.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:George MacDonald - "The Princess and the Goblin" (I meant to read more of his stuff but never got around to it) Holy poo poo, I had this book on my shelves growing up! I had no idea it was so old, the version I had was a recent (1980s I think) paperback edition. I probably read it half a dozen times.
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Cicero posted:Cradle is good at what's it's going for, and what it's going for is "fight+power up: the series" set in fantasy MegaChina. It's a very straight down the line xianxia in that sense, yeah.
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Ccs posted:Alright I downloaded all these Cradle free books. I hope these are actually good. The titles would normally be a big red flag for me. I feel obliged to warn you that one of the reasons they're considered so good is because their subgenre (xianxia) sets the bar extremely low. I enjoy the Cradle books, but they're silly pulp without much aspiration to be anything else.
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Silver2195 posted:I feel obliged to warn you that one of the reasons they're considered so good is because their subgenre (xianxia) sets the bar extremely low. I enjoy the Cradle books, but they're silly pulp without much aspiration to be anything else. edit: I guess the new Cradle managed to stay at #1 on the Kindle store overall for a little over 24 hours, that's pretty big Cicero fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 8, 2020 |
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The Player of Games (Culture #2) by Iain M Banks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002WM3HC2/ The Poppy War by RF Kuang - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072L58JW6/ Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) by Jeff VanderMeer - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EGJ32A6/ Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #5) by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZX86BO/ Sins of Empire (Gods of Blood and Powder #1) by Brian McClellan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KT7YTV4/ Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth by JRR Tolkien - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00796E7CA/
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General Battuta posted:Gods of Blood and Powder? Man there's a lot of Thing of Y and Z. The Tyrant of Baru and Cormorant
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If you enjoyed Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, you may want to check out Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness too. Whenever Lord of Light gets discussed in the SFL Archives, SFLer's always bring up his Creatures of Light and Darkness as a comparison/companion piece to Lord of Light, which has totally confused me repeated times in my SFL Archives readthrough because I had never heard of COLAD, or found any trace of it during my periodic "read everything Roger Zelazny" phases. I foolishly read the last 40% of SFL Vol 12a in one 6 hr stretch on Monday, and then spent hour 7 writing up Vol 12a readthrough updates 04/05. Functionally it was like reading Gravity's Rainbow & Foucault's Pendulum back to back taking notes on everything weird, then trying to distill all the weirdness out before my brain exploded. Will still be reading the SFL Archives, but am going to stop posting about it here until the forums sale to Jeffrey of YOSPOS is complete(off-site blog will still get updated). AKA I don't trust lowtax to not pull something stupid like copyrighting all existing posts here/deleting the databases as a final gently caress you to SA forums users/Jeffrey.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There's a lot going on with that one. It was his first novel and he wrote it while working at the Social Security administration, mostly as a pet project. Apparently the bureaucracy of the Houses of Life and Death is intended as a roman a clef of government bureaucracies, or at least that's what I've read, anyway.
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General Battuta posted:Gods of Blood and Powder? Man there's a lot of Thing of Y and Z. X of Y and Z titles set my teeth on edge, and I'm not even totally sure why.
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cptn_dr posted:X of Y and Z titles set my teeth on edge, and I'm not even totally sure why. It's too many things. The x and the y compete for attention. Title your first book x of y, and your second book x of z instead.
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