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I was supposed to have one out with them next year but they've totally blanked me. I don't think it'll make it out before 2022  This sucks rear end for my fiscal survival since it means I'll have nothing out next year! The book's been done for YEARS why won't you publish it e: covid is to blame much more than tor dot com though General Battuta fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 15:55
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They put gideon the ninth in the stack but it was published sept 2019 
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Jan 4, 2021 16:47
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General Battuta posted:I was supposed to have one out with them next year but they've totally blanked me. I don't think it'll make it out before 2022 Do you not have a "for food" job?
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Jan 4, 2021 17:05
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Not since 2014. I left Bungie pretty much catatonic with crunch-induced depression and it took me a few years to recover. My big income source aside from books is freelance for Bungie; since I have no proven job skills except writing for Destiny (it was my first job out of grad school) I’m more or less their indentured servant. If they decide they don’t like me any more I’m several kinds of hosed. Don’t work on video games kids.
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Jan 4, 2021 17:59
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There should be a big glowing Don’t Read Donaldson Unless You Have A Rape Fetish in the op.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:05
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ShutteredIn posted:There should be a big glowing Don’t Read Donaldson Unless You Have A Rape Fetish in the op. Well, that and the world being really generic and boring. But there are just so many...
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Jan 4, 2021 18:21
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mewse posted:They put gideon the ninth in the stack but it was published sept 2019 I think they're counting the paperback as a sort of separate release.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:35
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anilEhilated posted:What actually made me quit Thomas Covenant wasn't the rape scene, it was all the loving Proper Nouns. But what about puissance, suzerainty and attar and other fun words you won’t ever encounter in the wild outside of Covenant? Doesn’t that make them worth reading?
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Jan 4, 2021 18:36
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Velius posted:But what about puissance, suzerainty and attar and other fun words you won’t ever encounter in the wild outside of Covenant? Doesn’t that make them worth reading? this does a real disservice to China Mieville, who wrote puissance/puissant as like every third word in Perdido Street/the sequels lol
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Jan 4, 2021 19:03
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Huh. Tor seems like such a giant in sci-fi/fantasy that I'm surprised that's all they publish in a year.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:09
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Ccs posted:Huh. Tor seems like such a giant in sci-fi/fantasy that I'm surprised that's all they publish in a year. This isn’t Tor, it’s Tor.com. Separate but adjacent outfit.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:11
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ShutteredIn posted:There should be a big glowing Don’t Read Donaldson Unless You Have A Rape Fetish in the op. Link the actual academic paper. https://repository.arizona.edu/bits...3958?sequence=1
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Jan 4, 2021 19:17
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StrixNebulosa posted:Good to know, I'll continue to avoid the author. Thanks! You're gonna want to ignore the existence of Cook's Port of Shadows. Donaldson at least is working with unpleasant themes that merit some discussion (cf the paper linked above), but Port of Shadows is just skeevy throughout. It also isn't a very good Black Company story, so just skip it, you'll be happier. There are some related short stories in The Best of Glen Cook which are pretty good, so if you need a fresh infusion of the Company, go with those. It's also got some great Dread Empire fiction, https://smile.amazon.com/Best-Glen-Cook/dp/1949102173 mllaneza fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 19:25
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General Battuta posted:I was supposed to have one out with them next year but they've totally blanked me. I don't think it'll make it out before 2022 I'll be buying Tyrant when it finally gets a physical UK release. ... can you hold out until May? 
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Jan 4, 2021 19:42
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ToxicFrog posted:I finally got my reading brain back after moving house left me with like a month of being unable to read anything more demanding than the lightest and fluffiest of romance manga, and ripped through the remaining ~200 pages of Tyrant Baru in two sittings. You might like these essays on the Masquerade series now that you're up to date. The author digs into the historical, philosophical, sociological, and mathematical concepts underpinning the series in a way that I found very thoughtful and considered. It's cool.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:54
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GD_American posted:Link the actual academic paper. quote:Few bodies of work have analyzed sexed violence with as much determination as  quote:In the end, this article has argued that Donaldson’s body of work, even as early as Lord I don't even know where to begin with this paper. Like, despite the academic language it stills pings my radar as "man tries to defend his favorite novelist and spin problematic elements as worthwhile" and I don't know if I can be unbiased enough to pull that apart.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:01
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tiniestacorn posted:You might like these essays on the Masquerade series now that you're up to date. The author digs into the historical, philosophical, sociological, and mathematical concepts underpinning the series in a way that I found very thoughtful and considered. It's cool. Oh, those are tasty! Thank you. Also, TIL (or re-learned?) that Battuta isn't cishet. Cool.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:07
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Jedit posted:I'll be buying Tyrant when it finally gets a physical UK release. Take all the time you need, I haven't earned out the entire four-book deal (rip) so I won't be getting royalties either way.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:25
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General Battuta posted:Take all the time you need, I haven't earned out the entire four-book deal (rip) so I won't be getting royalties either way. Do you have a patreon or something, or other works that you do get royalties on?
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Jan 4, 2021 22:36
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Yeah, I was gonna say if you did a patreon and did some short stories or stuff from it occasionally I would join.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:39
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008QXVDJ0/ Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DN8BQMD/
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Jan 4, 2021 23:26
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StrixNebulosa posted:
You'd almost think it was tongue in cheek in praising him for his career long efforts in covering rape, no not from that side like everyone else
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Jan 4, 2021 23:32
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Dilber posted:Yeah, I was gonna say if you did a patreon and did some short stories or stuff from it occasionally I would join. Yeah, a bunch of GB's short stories are available online, but at this point I think I've read all of them and I would definitely pay a subscription for more, or even the possibility of more, because they are the good poo poo. E: checking my journal, I've read 15, and of those there was one I was "meh" on and all the others I liked to various degrees; a few were "sobbing into my e-reader, but in a good way" reads, like Never Dreaming (In Four Burns) and Kumara.
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Jan 5, 2021 00:19
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pradmer posted:The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - $2.99 This is a good one.
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Jan 5, 2021 00:24
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eke out posted:this does a real disservice to China Mieville, who wrote puissance/puissant as like every third word in Perdido Street/the sequels lol A palimpsest of puissance. A chitinous susurration of etoliated horripilations. Communism.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:33
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General Battuta posted:Take all the time you need, I haven't earned out the entire four-book deal (rip) so I won't be getting royalties either way. Is the industry just set up so most fantasy authors don’t earn out their deals? It seems like Baru was pretty successful relative to the vast majority of books.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:39
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In theory you never want to earn out an advance, because it means you could've earned more money by asking for a bigger advance. In practice, I don't know, but I think most books don't earn out. This is actually good for authors, though. If publishing only bought books that would earn out there would be far fewer published writers. As it is, big authors can bankroll a variety of small ones, and who knows who'll blow up.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:53
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KKKLIP ART posted:I really am at an impasse of what I want to read next. Did a full Sanderson reread and read RoW, read Orcanomics, the Goblin Prince, all of the Baru books. I feel like I want to read a big drat space opera next, but the latest Expanse book isn’t out. I have read some of the Terms of Enlistment series but I can’t remember which one I left off so that’s a bummer. If you like Aliens, politics and large scale space opera you might like Walter Jon Williams' Praxis (dread empires) novels. There was a new one out a month or so back, bringing it up to seven books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dread_Empire%27s_Fall
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Jan 5, 2021 03:57
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General Battuta posted:In theory you never want to earn out an advance, because it means you could've earned more money by asking for a bigger advance. Ah that makes sense — I wasn’t thinking about it as the interaction between # of sales and size of advance.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:29
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PawParole posted:Speaking of Isekai and portals, has anyone read a good book about travel between parallel worlds recently? I just finished Robert Charles Wilson’s Last Year, and while I didn’t particularly care for the time period it was set in, the idea of a post-global warming future America interacting with one in the 1800’s was pretty interesting. While I wasn't super thrilled with how it ended I mostly enjoyed the Long Earth series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. It takes place in the near future where one day a device schematic appears on the internet that can be constructed out of basic household items. When completed the device lets you travel, one step at a time, to alternate universes. The twist is that as far as they can tell there are no humans on any alternate Earths. The first book (The Long Earth) follows a young man who is hired to be a guide by an AI who wants to see how far they can go into the depths of the alternate realities. The series as a whole goes into the ideas of how society would change with what are basically unlimited resources and room to expand without every actually having to leave Earth.
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General Battuta posted:The next one is actually going pretty well! How many times do characters inappropriately exoticise the One White Dude? Is it possible for them to do it more? Strom Cuzewon fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 20:57
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I finally finished The Years Best Science Fiction Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan. This is very much positioned to be a replacement for the Gardner Dozois anthology, complete with the summary of the year in science fiction introduction and the recommended reading list in the back. Strahan's past collections have consistently been good and this one is no exception, but boy howdy this is not a fun book -- either Strahan or SF authors in general are just not happy people right now. It's mostly stories about catastrophic disaster and biosphere collapse and the rich hunting the poor for sport and the poor systematically murdering all the rich and so on. Not much in the way of optimism or whimsy in this collection. The stand out for me was The Work of Wolves by Tegan Moore, a story of the inner monologue of an Enhanced Intelligence search and rescue dog. Also great: The Painter of Trees - Suzanne Palmer, Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders - Malkan Older, It's 2059 and the Rick Kids Are Still Winning - Ted Chiang, The Robots of Eden - Anil Menon, Now Wait for This Week - Alice Sola Kim, Cyclopterus - Peter Watts, Emergency Skin - NK Jemisin, At the Fall - Alec Nevala-Lee, Green Glass: A Love Story - E. Lily Yu, and This is Not the Way Home - Greg Egan. And all the rest were decent to good stories.
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Jan 5, 2021 21:56
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11GA/
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Jan 6, 2021 00:08
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pradmer posted:The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 quote:Review I'm not familiar, did Ursula K Le Guin used to publish under male pseudonyms?
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Jan 6, 2021 00:33
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Sibling of TB posted:I'm not familiar, did Ursula K Le Guin used to publish under male pseudonyms? Lol nope, that's a hell of a review to misplace
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Jan 6, 2021 00:37
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There is a novel that applies to, also named the Dispossessed. Definitely an unfortunate misplacement.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:43
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https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1345008789527941121 Martha Wells talking about pirated versions of her books being for sale on Amazon kindle store.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:57
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the Traitor Baru Cormorant was among a big pile of books I got for my mom (who does not read fantasy novels normally) for christmas after sampling the early chapters of each book, TTBC was the one she picked out to finish first three of the other novels were by people with pulitzers what I'm saying is, good job Battuta, you scalawag now we just have to see if her affection for the work survives the ending 
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muscles like this! posted:https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1345008789527941121 by all accounts this happens a lot to self-pub authors on Amazon, though it looks like she might have been able to make enough noise about it that Amazon acted on the reports. At least for me, the only one I see on Amazon is the one she links in the Twitter thread.
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