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Runcible Cat posted:Yeah, I read that answer and "oh of course it's loving Card that explains it". Yeah that summary's got some big drat A=A energy, geez.
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wheatpuppy posted:Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card? YES! Thank you! Unfortunately it's Orson Scott Card, so maybe I'll order a used copy.
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wizzardstaff posted:Someone in the comments claims to have a copy at home! Scans may be coming! Looks like the English scans have not materialized, but someone has scanned an entire copy of the Dutch version (Super Brikke), and you can read it in OCR /Google Translate form: https://old.reddit.com/r/Whang/comments/plsiqq/found_a_dutch_copy_of_superbrikke_at_a_library/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Whang/comments/plwyyj/superbrikke_english_translation_full_book/ Super-Brikke posted:"Suddenly he felt like to give gasoline. That feeling you have when you have to pee. But that was impossible. because his dick would too be gone, thought Brikke.
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Sep 14, 2021 17:14
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The whole internet loves Gasoline Boy, the tantalizingly obscure story about a boy with an interest in full-body transmogrification! (15 seconds later) We regret to inform you that Gasoline Boy is child pornography.
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Sep 14, 2021 17:36
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Carthag Tuek posted:You'd think that was written by a Dane 
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ScienceSeagull posted:Looks like the English scans have not materialized, but someone has scanned an entire copy of the Dutch version (Super Brikke), and you can read it in OCR /Google Translate form: Wow, to think this was translated and then toned down (a LOT) to make it a children's book. I remember the bit about the trash compactor too!
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This version has been filtered through OCR and Google Translate, so the original text may be more euphemistic. The whole Dutch version has been scanned, so I'd love to see a translation of that if any bilingual speakers have time. Also an odd bit of synchronicity from the SCP thread (well, posted a few days ago but I just now saw it):
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xiw posted:I read some dystopian young adult book 20+ years ago that involved perhaps some kind of underground civilisation and a girl deliberately failing exams to avoid being taken away - the cover possibly involved a vaguely Escheresque series of planes. Any idea? quoting myself from five years ago, but someone just posted this for me on twitter and i'm so happy: https://twitter.com/mdbell79/status/1438232233656000513/photo/1
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xiw posted:quoting myself from five years ago, but someone just posted this for me on twitter and i'm so happy: Oh hey, I'm pretty sure I read that book too when I was a kid! I don't recognize the cover but the author had a bunch of SF in the children's section of the library that I absolutely burned through. Reading the plot summary is stirring some memories. I remember some pretty far-out stories, like the one about starfish-shaped parasites that overtook a generation colony ship and grew big enough to encompass a planet.
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm trying to rediscover a short story I read once. It was about a time machine with the following flaw: whatever or whoever it sent to the past or future would stay in that fixed point in space instead of traveling with the Earth. So if you traveled 100 years into the future, or even just one day, the Earth would have moved on without you as it traveled around the Sun and you would just appear in the vacuum of space and die. I have no idea what the title was or who the author was.
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Queering Wheel posted:Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm trying to rediscover a short story I read once. It was about a time machine with the following flaw: whatever or whoever it sent to the past or future would stay in that fixed point in space instead of traveling with the Earth. So if you traveled 100 years into the future, or even just one day, the Earth would have moved on without you as it traveled around the Sun and you would just appear in the vacuum of space and die. I have no idea what the title was or who the author was. Darkness Creeping by Neal Shushterman. I spent a while hunting that one down
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Retro Futurist posted:Darkness Creeping by Neal Shushterman. I spent a while hunting that one down There's also a Clark Ashton Smith's "An Excursion in Time" with a similar premise, although the creator is aware of it and willing to put up with it regardless.
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Gambrinus posted:Repost from a few years ago. It's not The Drowned World Was it James Herbert’s ‘48?
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The_Doctor posted:Was it James Herbert’s ‘48? It is not, but thanks for trying.
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I read a sci-fi short story a while back (probably around a decade ago) that I can't remember the name of. It was about a couple on a mission trying to find life in the universe, but every planet they come across is barren. The bulk of the story is about them approaching the point of no return, where they'll be unable to return to Earth if they continue forward - so they need to make the decision to give up on their mission and make it back to Earth, or continue on in the ever-dwindling hope of finding life.
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Wound up finding out the name of the story by digging through some old Sci fi anthologies I had laying around! It was "One" by George Alec Effinger.
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Speaking of Effinger, I quite liked When Gravity Falls but the followups didnt do anything for me. Are their short stories good?
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Carthag Tuek posted:Speaking of Effinger, I quite liked When Gravity Falls but the followups didnt do anything for me. Are their short stories good? I've read his collection Idle Pleasures -- SF stories about sports -- and I thought it was pretty good. It's lighter fare than the Audran books, though.
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Deep reach with this one — a contemporary novel with a historical setting on (I want to say) the American East Coast... New England? I think the first-person narrator was female, pining after her at-sea husband. A whaler? Was there a mermaid or a selkie? A threatening storm? I want to say I remember descriptions of the rickety homes in this coastal town. Nothing too pulpy — would have been something my NPR-obsessed bookworm girlfriend at the time would have picked up between 2010–2013 — possibly something they recommended. Thanks for any leads. Edit: The plot and publication date of The Mermaid Collector seem so similar, but I want to say it was somewhat more middlebrow or it would have gotten some buzz in press? is there anything with a similar plot and setting? DasNeonLicht fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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A discussion of books had someone I know say that their favourite book, read years and years ago, he can't remember the title of it. All he could remember from it was that it was about dragons, and in it, "a helicopter is chasing a dragon" and "a wizard shows up and freezes the main character, then leaves." Not much to go on; it somehow ring any bells for anyone?
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Darksword Trilogy maybe There's no so many dragons in it as I recall but dragon vs helicopter might have been on the cover of the third book
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Cornwind Evil posted:A discussion of books had someone I know say that their favourite book, read years and years ago, he can't remember the title of it. All he could remember from it was that it was about dragons, and in it, "a helicopter is chasing a dragon" and "a wizard shows up and freezes the main character, then leaves." Not much to go on; it somehow ring any bells for anyone? The Bifrost Guardians by Mickey Zucker Reichart had one with a dragon and helicopter fight I think.  
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My mother in law has a vivid memory of a post- apocalyptic book with a load of ballerinas on a plane, going down down into the clouds, dying with dignity in the face of nuclear annihilation. She thought it was On the Beach but I just re-read that and didn’t spot it. Any ideas?
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There was a fantasy book I remember from when I was a kid. I remember the main character had been sent back in time/another dimension and had become apprenticed to a wizard. The wizard lends him magic/mana to cast some spells from time to time. It was a light-hearted book from what I remember. It ended with him fighting a giant worm or centipede I think. I also think it was part of a series.
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My wife needs help with a picture book. A tailor sees a poor girl and starts... making her clothes I guess? He makes her a bottle green jacket and that is the whole plot.
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DasNeonLicht posted:Deep reach with this one — a contemporary novel with a historical setting on (I want to say) the American East Coast... New England? I think the first-person narrator was female, pining after her at-sea husband. A whaler? Was there a mermaid or a selkie? A threatening storm? I want to say I remember descriptions of the rickety homes in this coastal town. Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer? https://www.amazon.com/Ahabs-Wife-Star-gazer-Novel-P-S/dp/0060838744 It was published in 2005, but I definitely remember it being a thing (might have been one of Oprah's Book Club selections or something like that) sometime around that period.
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Does anyone know a fantasy novel where the main character is a regular human with some magic abilities in a society where regular humans are treated as second class and the 'real' humans are like taller, stronger, (more magical?) versions of humans. I think the first novel had the main lead solve a criminal conspiracy for a friend who happens to be a high ranking member of the ruling class type folks. I believe the main lead gets a lot of jobs due to his ability to use special magic or something like that. The setting for the regular humans is definitely like regular medieval fantasy i.e. not too advanced techonology (I think) and although there's magic it's not everywhere (again from what I recall). Different for the ruling humans/people - I think there's a lot more tech/magic there ? I think he maybe takes over a criminal organisation or tears it down in the progress of the first story too? Can't really recall. I also think I got the feeling it may have been a type of story where humanity is in a far future where a portion were engineered to be stronger versions but then that history got lost and just began treating regular humans as a separate sub-species or something of that ilk. Not sure if that was explicitly in the novel, or just the feeling I got - it's been a while since I read it! Any help remembering the title/series would be great!
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Dinho Eledair posted:Does anyone know a fantasy novel where the main character is a regular human with some magic abilities in a society where regular humans are treated as second class and the 'real' humans are like taller, stronger, (more magical?) versions of humans. Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series?
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Runcible Cat posted:Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series? I started working my way though this series a few months ago, having almost never heard of it before, and I'm surprised how often I see it come up on these forums.
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Runcible Cat posted:Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series? that's the one, thank-you!
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I inflicted this awful bullshit on the Sci-fi and Fantasy thread in passing:Drakyn posted:No problem, and I'm now hoping the karmic feedback from this lets me finally rediscover the name of a children's book* I read when I was 4-6ish. Drakyn posted:
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Vague similarities to Enid Blyton's "Adventure" series of books
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Looked 'em up and woah woah WOAH that's WAY too much adventure. These kids are going to different countries and having VILLAINS and poo poo! Way too intense. God help me if it's one of Enid Blyton's though; how many books did she write? The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright (I got pointed at her stuff) seems closest in a few elements (the treehouse in a storm felt similar to something I can't put my finger on), but I think it lacks the key elements of the absent hermit and the daisy-chain of clues.
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So, I've got a book I can't really remember but want to read again. I got it in a Secret Santa a long time ago, but I got rid of it/lost it/something. It was a fantasy romance where people's magic is classified by color and shapes, with the main heroine's being green (because empathy) and like an icosahedron, and the secondary woman is like a blue sphere. (The green is empathy-based magic, of course). The main hero is a prince who doesn't want to be a prince and has indigo magic, and winds up having to become engaged to green witch at first (because she's the most powerful mage woman identified so far and the prince has to marry her to keep the bloodline strong in magic, then the blue sphere woman is found and it looks like he'll have to marry her instead. Surprise! A second prince who turns out to be the first prince's older brother and coincidentally has stronger magic (and gets along better with sphere woman) is discovered, although he is near-feral and yadda yadda it's HEA's for them all. The main villain is mage who had all the empathy burned out of him as a child because his green magic was just Too Strong. Other things I remember: Green Witch is blonde, willowy and likes climbing apple trees to hide. Blue Bitch (she's actually pretty nice in the book and I think her name is Iris, but I like the alliteration) is brunette and curvy and clearly Superior.
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DreamingofRoses posted:So, I've got a book I can't really remember but want to read again. I got it in a Secret Santa a long time ago, but I got rid of it/lost it/something. It was a fantasy romance where people's magic is classified by color and shapes, with the main heroine's being green (because empathy) and like an icosahedron, and the secondary woman is like a blue sphere. (The green is empathy-based magic, of course). The main hero is a prince who doesn't want to be a prince and has indigo magic, and winds up having to become engaged to green witch at first (because she's the most powerful mage woman identified so far and the prince has to marry her to keep the bloodline strong in magic, then the blue sphere woman is found and it looks like he'll have to marry her instead. Surprise! A second prince who turns out to be the first prince's older brother and coincidentally has stronger magic (and gets along better with sphere woman) is discovered, although he is near-feral and yadda yadda it's HEA's for them all. The main villain is mage who had all the empathy burned out of him as a child because his green magic was just Too Strong. Color/shape magic sounds like something in the Lost Continent series by Catherine Asaro. Edit: probably The Charmed Sphere.
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wheatpuppy posted:Color/shape magic sounds like something in the Lost Continent series by Catherine Asaro. Edit: probably The Charmed Sphere. That's it! Thank you so much.
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Drakyn posted:I inflicted this awful bullshit on the Sci-fi and Fantasy thread in passing: Time frame of when you read this/how old it might be?
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