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My memory of the couple I read was that they were mostly a collection pointless subplots that went nowhere, punctuated by the occasional staggering stupidity. Like, in the world of Dune Prequels, Baron Harkonnen is fat because the Bene Gesserit mother superior deliberately gave him an STD that made him fat.
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IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen The Butlerian Jihad is named after a lady the robots forced to have an abortion
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a foolish pianist posted:I would like to know more about this. https://twitter.com/angstromhoot/status/795362873396654080?lang=en
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen dear god
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https://twitter.com/AngstromHoot/status/929803691233890305 a year later he shaped up
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen oh my god
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen I stopped at God Emperor but this is threatening me with a lol time
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Sep 1, 2022 19:08
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pradmer posted:A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) by Arkady Martine - $2.99 thanks!
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Rather than being a critique of a human civilization over-reliant on machines and computers to do their work and cogitation for them, the AI threat in the Bad Books are 20 human warlords called Titans who stuck their brains in giant stomping mechs called cymeks. quote:In this state, and with frequent upkeep, the brain could live for tens of thousands of years and could control interchangeable robotic bodies through thoughtrodes. Some of the computers the Titans use are neglected and a true strong AI emerges and overthrows the titans and takes over the galaxy. It is called Omnius, which sounds like a transformer villain. Everything that is subtle or mysterious about the Dune universe set out by Herbert is stripped away by the prequels, mid-quels, and sequels written by Brian and KJA. The Harkonnens and Atreides families hate each other because the Harkonnens betrayed the Atreides by not showing up at the decisive Battle of Corrino which ended the Butlerian Jihad. It's very much that old Star Wars EU vibe, where every background character as well as the ice cream machine he was carrying gets a detailed and intimate connection to the major events of the story. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Sep 1, 2022 19:14
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zoux posted:. It is called Omnius, which sounds like a transformer villain. If orson welles is taking over the galaxy maybe we should listen to him
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pradmer posted:A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) by Arkady Martine - $2.99 got two books today, thanks! and thanks for all the other days of deals posting as well.
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zoux posted:Rather than being a critique of a human civilization over-reliant on machines and computers to do their work and cogitation for them, the AI threat in the Bad Books are 20 human warlords called Titans who stuck their brains in giant stomping mechs called cymeks. Ok but in the EU that poo poo was awesome
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I don't think I'd agree but I can assure you it is not awesome in the Dooniverse. It's not a coincidence that the worst EU author co-came up with the Dune failson prequels.
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Eason the Fifth posted:I stopped at God Emperor but this is threatening me with a lol time Every funny but is buried in tedious poo poo
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Sep 1, 2022 19:49
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AARD VARKMAN posted:got two books today, thanks! and thanks for all the other days of deals posting as well. Also, for anyone who like me used to ignore these because they don't have an Amazon e-reader: a lot of the time, if the books are on sale on Amazon, they're on sale on other storefronts too! For example, ADCP is also $3 on Kobo and Google Play Books as a DRM-free epub, and probably other places too.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:For all the weird writing quirks, Harrow is really just a stock character. 
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Sep 1, 2022 20:37
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Gotta say, it's been a long time since I was counting down the days (12) until I could chowder down on the next book in a series.
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zoux posted:Rather than being a critique of a human civilization over-reliant on machines and computers to do their work and cogitation for them, the AI threat in the Bad Books are 20 human warlords called Titans who stuck their brains in giant stomping mechs called cymeks.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:These books don't exist, and you can't tell me otherwise! I guess you don't want to read of the incredible tale of the Jihad hero Ben A. Jesserit.
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zoux posted:I guess you don't want to read of the incredible tale of the Jihad hero Ben A. Jesserit.
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Now tell them….of the sequels
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cptn_dr posted:ULTRA-SPICE That sounds like either the sixth Spice Girl or the Voltronesque robot the girls form when they combine. Okay, now I need to read this story. Get on it, General Battuta.
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General Battuta posted:Now tell them….of the sequels What, like how the mysterious Daniel and Marty from the end of Chapterhouse are actually secret cymek titans that were able to hide from humanity for 20k years? No, that’s just cruel.
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Rand Brittain posted:Gotta say, it's been a long time since I was counting down the days (12) until I could chowder down on the next book in a series.  I just finished a re-read of Gideon and Harrow, and I’m feeling the sick sense of hype you get for things that devastate your emotions for a while. Alix E. Harrow posted a glowing review of Nona on Tor the other day, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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Another Dirty Dish posted:
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen this is like something out of a dril tweet cptn_dr posted:ULTRA-SPICE Dune by Rob Liefeld
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:The Butlerian Jihad is named after a lady the robots forced to have an abortion The robots forced her to have a hysterectomy  and threw her baby off a roofThese may or may not have been some of the earliest books I hazily realized were Not Good even as I read them.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen le chai 'allude
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extremely based to take the cool Bedouin people and make them fr*nch
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Drakyn posted:I can't believe the slanderous inaccuracy of this nonsense. Yeah there is definitely this crystal clear moment where when I was reading one of those fail-son sequels that the fact of no longer having to read a book just because I started it flashed as an immutable truth in my mind. So, not a complete waste of time if you are a literal 10 year old I guess.
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Just keep in mind your ghost is going to have to finish every book you've ever left incomplete and every unplayed game in your steam library.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:IIRC Fremen is a contraction of Frenchmen See, I read that last bit as "a lady who forced robots to have an abortion" and that sounds like a much more interesting story. Meanwhile, I'm continuing my Ethshar reading and have just finished The Sorcerer's Widow and Relics of War. I think Relics of War is probably my favorite so far outside of The Misenchanted Sword. While there are hints of a potential wider scale, it's still very much a personal stakes story focused on a small group of people. Next up will be Stone Unturned.
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zoux posted:What, like how the mysterious Daniel and Marty from the end of Chapterhouse are actually secret cymek titans that were able to hide from humanity for 20k years? No, that’s just cruel. Put your hand in the box. Put it in there right goddamned now.
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zoux posted:What, like how the mysterious Daniel and Marty from the end of Chapterhouse are actually secret cymek titans that were able to hide from humanity for 20k years? No, that’s just cruel. No need to worry about those titans since (as Frank outlined in the notes he totally left behind) they get beaten by the failson's OC from the prequels who turned into a god
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zoux posted:What, like how the mysterious Daniel and Marty from the end of Chapterhouse are actually secret cymek titans that were able to hide from humanity for 20k years? No, that’s just cruel. He seriously wrote a robot disguised as a human and hid for thousands of years and called it Daniel?
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Qwertycoatl posted:No need to worry about those titans since (as Frank outlined in the notes he totally left behind) they get beaten by the failson's OC from the prequels who turned into a god Oh you mean Norma
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Jedit posted:He seriously wrote a robot disguised as a human and hid for thousands of years and called it Daniel? What makes it worse is Asimov had already written one of.those. so that's the second
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DACK FAYDEN posted:the funniest part of this joke is that it was just "gently caress" in the original printing of the book in the UK This just blew my mind as I’ve read Life, the Universe and Everything a bazillion times since I was a teenager, and both my copies (which I think I got second hand) have the original “gently caress” one liner. I had no idea other editions had changes to that extent. I virtually know the first three books by heart so this is just crazy.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What makes it worse is Asimov had already written one of.those. so that's the second at least the asimov one had the decency to be hiding out on the moon, which nobody cared about because earth was long dead. less hiding and more everyone just forgot he existed. and also might have been some kind of ultra powerful being who deleted the possibility of intelligent life so humanity could be safe forever.
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