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newts posted:I am bumping this up again because Leng worked really hard on this book! I was one of her alpha (?) readers, so I got to see the whole process from start to finish. Please give her book a chance if you have a couple dollars to spare. I went and got a copy 
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newts posted:I am bumping this up again because Leng worked really hard on this book! I was one of her alpha (?) readers, so I got to see the whole process from start to finish. Please give her book a chance if you have a couple dollars to spare. Thanks for the reminder, I'm recovering from surgery and have lots of spare time on my hands, so I picked it up as well! I think that's 3 goon authors that I've got stuff from recently then, of course the Masquerade series (   ), the Dawnhounds (I enjoyed quite a lot!), and this. On that note are there any other goon scifi/fantasy/whatever genre if it's an enjoyable read that anyone recommends? Bonus points if it's queer as hell and non white centric, I'm really enjoying the massive influx it feels the past decade or so of authors of non white non only straight western culture becoming more popular. Injera fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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I enjoyed this detective story set in a world where there is a second race of humanity that sleeps in the day and is only awake at night The Night City: The Nocturnum Files by Caitlin L. Strauss (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KP5NVZ1/ There is a sequel but I haven't gotten to it yet, Leng's book is next after I finish Baru
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Tars Tarkas posted:I enjoyed this detective story set in a world where there is a second race of humanity that sleeps in the day and is only awake at night Oh, that’s mine! I was about to make a shameless self-promotion post, but now I don’t have to. Glad to hear you enjoyed it It’s kind of a low-key mystery set in an alternative US. One of the lead characters is queer, but it’s still pretty white because I am a pretty white queer person. It’s got a sequel too  Both books were alpha and beta-read by goons, and the cover design is by a goon, so it’s pretty much completely SA produced.Trigger warnings for suicide, murder, slurs, fantasy racism, discussion of sexual assault. I think that’s it.
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newts posted:Oh, that’s mine! I was about to make a shameless self-promotion post, but now I don’t have to. Glad to hear you enjoyed it
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DACK FAYDEN posted:oh this is why I bought this book? I was wondering why it owned it, and also it was good! I just buy things people shill in the thread at random. I should pick up the sequel. Awesome! I really love hearing that people enjoyed my writing. I feel like I should put in a warning, because this is the SFF thread, that the sequel has a sex scene, though I don’t think it’s gross or otherwise offensive. And no one gets fisted!
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ToxicFrog posted:I've read a few books like that (Jaran and Shards of Honour come to mind) and bounce off them pretty consistently, but it's not because I'm averse to SF romance in general so much as that if I'm reading it I don't want the SF aspects to just amount to a thinly veiled excuse to spend most of the book trudging through a forest populated by totally-not-werewolves or whatever. Looking back, I'd have to call Bujold's Ethan of Athos a romance with legitimate SF elements. It's also a really good spy story and one of my favorites of her books (most of her books are "one of my favorites"). It's subtle, but if you're paying attention at all to the ending, it's there.
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newts posted:Oh, that’s mine! I was about to make a shameless self-promotion post, but now I don’t have to. Glad to hear you enjoyed it Haha, perfect timing on that! I picked it up as well as that sounds fun. Thanks! 
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sebmojo posted:I'm, uh, not sure it will fit The fisting was a welcome surprise?
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ToxicFrog posted:I've read a few books like that (Jaran and Shards of Honour come to mind) and bounce off them pretty consistently, but it's not because I'm averse to SF romance in general so much as that if I'm reading it I don't want the SF aspects to just amount to a thinly veiled excuse to spend most of the book trudging through a forest populated by totally-not-werewolves or whatever. Have you read A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright? It might fit the bill of what you're looking for. The romance is definitely there, but the power struggle between space empires and a neutral shipping guild and central mystery of why everyone is so interested in the mind-wiped protagonist is the main focus.
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sebmojo posted:I'm, uh, not sure it will fit Everyone posted:The fisting
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ulmont posted:Now that I finished this, let me come back to say that I enjoyed this book and look forward to the sequel. My main criticism is that the sequences of “oh, woe is me, I am poor and the prejudiced upper classes hate me for no good reason, I and my family will totally be screwed unless my one in a million chance comes through…” bored me, mostly because I knew that chance or something close would come through. Everyone posted:The little bit I've seen of Shark Tank kind of annoyed me and it's also still way too soon for anything that reminds me of Donald Trump, but I might try it in a few months. Still have a massive thread-created backlog to read. kurona_bright posted:I went and got a copy Nyxtlla posted:Thanks for the reminder, I'm recovering from surgery and have lots of spare time on my hands, so I picked it up as well! I think that's 3 goon authors that I've got stuff from recently then, of course the Masquerade series ( And thank you to you guys for being willing to give my book a shot! Nyxtlla posted:On that note are there any other goon scifi/fantasy/whatever genre if it's an enjoyable read that anyone recommends? Bonus points if it's queer as hell and non white centric, I'm really enjoying the massive influx it feels the past decade or so of authors of non white non only straight western culture becoming more popular. I'm gonna plug another goon book by Ccs that I was a beta reader on: Not YA and no romance, just a good old fashion wizard adventure. Tars Tarkas posted:I enjoyed this detective story set in a world where there is a second race of humanity that sleeps in the day and is only awake at night I got to alpha read both of newts' books and the sequel is great, especially because it's from a nocturnum POV character. (Not saying this just because she plugged my book either!)
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Leng posted:And thank you to you guys for being willing to give my book a shot! In my case it's going to be a little while. I'm still waiting on The Monster Baru Cormorant so I can get to The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. And apparently there's going to be a fourth book as well at some point. Maybe The Destroyer Baru Cormorant? Dark horse hopes for The Mean Girl Baru Cormorant.
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Everyone posted:In my case it's going to be a little while. I'm still waiting on The Monster Baru Cormorant so I can get to The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. And apparently there's going to be a fourth book as well at some point. Maybe The Destroyer Baru Cormorant? Dark horse hopes for The Mean Girl Baru Cormorant. The Star Destroyer Baru Cormorant
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Kesper North posted:The Star Destroyer Baru Cormorant this short story was actually pretty good
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Everyone posted:In my case it's going to be a little while. I'm still waiting on The Monster Baru Cormorant so I can get to The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. And apparently there's going to be a fourth book as well at some point. Maybe The Destroyer Baru Cormorant? Dark horse hopes for The Mean Girl Baru Cormorant. To save us from our thousandth iteration of "The $FOO Baru Cormorant" (as all the good jokes have been done), the current working title is The Ends of Baru Cormorant. This is not only a clever double meaning, but also vengeance wrought on the UK publishing industry.
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Why does the UK publishing industry think "Baru Cormorant" is too cool to write on a book cover anyway?
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Qwertycoatl posted:Why does the UK publishing industry think "Baru Cormorant" is too cool to write on a book cover anyway? I suspect they didn't want readers asking what a baru was, or why they should read a book about a bird.
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'Cormorant' is kind of a funny word over here. I think it was used in a Monty Python sketch or something - either way, it's not like, enough to ruin the book, but it kind of lands as a bit silly. That's probably why. I think that's dopey, it'd be fine, it's not *that* ridiculous.
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JTDistortion posted:Have you read A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright? It might fit the bill of what you're looking for. The romance is definitely there, but the power struggle between space empires and a neutral shipping guild and central mystery of why everyone is so interested in the mind-wiped protagonist is the main focus. I have, and it's excellent, and occasionally I contemplate the fact that she doesn't seem to have written anything else ever and am sad about that fact. That said, I'm fine the romance being the main focus -- I'm just sick of "the only reason this is filed under 'SF' is that the author inserted two paragraphs about a shuttle crash at the start of the book and the rest is by-the-numbers wilderness/primitivism romance".
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The Testaments (Handmaid's Tale #2) by Margaret Atwood - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KVLPYDQ/
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Qwertycoatl posted:Why does the UK publishing industry think "Baru Cormorant" is too cool to write on a book cover anyway? Maybe they kept getting it wrong like I did for the past couple weeks or so and were calling her Baru Coramont. I would literally be reading the title of the book in front of my face and still calling her Baru Coramont.
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Hel posted:Did we ever figure out why some many people thought Baru was sci-fi? Because it is
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Mostly from the name. "Baru Cormorant" is definitely more of a sci-fi name than a fantasy name.
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StashAugustine posted:Because it is
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Qwertycoatl posted:Why does the UK publishing industry think "Baru Cormorant" is too cool to write on a book cover anyway? Yeah I hated this change - original is such a good title.
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I think GB has said in the past the title was not going to include her name but there was another book of that title already.
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Hel posted:Did we ever figure out why some many people thought Baru was sci-fi? but if you mean why I was expecting spaceships, I have no idea
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Harold Fjord posted:I think GB has said in the past the title was not going to include her name but there was another book of that title already. No I love the name I want it there
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I just don't understand why they would want to make the title less googleable. Googling Baru Cormorant gives you links about the books and nothing else. Googling The Traitor gives you a movie about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito, with Pierfrancesco Favino as Buscetta.
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SimonChris posted:I just don't understand why they would want to make the title less googleable. It's really stupid to be honest. The cover's quite nice on my paperback though!
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withak posted:Mostly from the name. "Baru Cormorant" is definitely more of a sci-fi name than a fantasy name. The American cover has that cracked but photorealistic mask of a woman's face, that makes me think of sci fi. It promises virtual worlds or clones, or the dissolution of identity, more than early renaissance colonialism.
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Well, is Stevenson's baroque cycle sci-fi /fantasy or something else?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:dissolution of identity Why not both! :cormorant:
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