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I've had Monster on pre-order since March. Definitely looking forward to it.
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I will be pre-ordering it as soon as I get paid this weekend. So hyped, just raved about the traitor to my friends upon finding out the monster will be out so soon. Perfect time to reread the traitor as well.
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Sep 6, 2018 10:02
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I'll wait for the sale. I'm trying to purge my book collection already.
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Sep 6, 2018 11:02
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General Battuta posted:Holy poo poo buy my book FWIW cant preorder the kindle version from AU on the .com amazon doesn't seem to be on amazon.com.au at all you've got a moral preorder here.
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And for those using Kobos, you can pre-order a DRM-free EPUB version here.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Preordered without hesitation. 
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Sep 6, 2018 16:09
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General Battuta posted:Holy poo poo buy my book Is there some way I can order a couple signed editions? My sister bought me Traitor for a birthday and I want to return the favour and one-up her at the same time.
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Sep 6, 2018 16:55
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You would need to buy them, send them to me, trust that I (a huge lazy piece of poo poo) would sign them and get them back to you, and hassle me about it all the time until I did. Wish it were easier. 
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Sep 6, 2018 17:43
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K, I'll just pre-order some then, no worries.
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General Battuta posted:You would need to buy them, send them to me, trust that I (a huge lazy piece of poo poo) would sign them and get them back to you, and hassle me about it all the time until I did. Wish it were easier. Are you a bad enough dude to attend cons as a professional yet? (Legitimate question, some cons are apparently very lovely over who they seem a pro.)
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General Battuta posted:Holy poo poo buy my book I'm kind of a [insert derogatory term here] and download probably 60% of books if I'm not sure of the quality, then I buy them after I read them if they end up being good. But I'm buying your book to support a fellow goon and will read when I get a chance.
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General Battuta posted:Holy poo poo buy my book LMAO jesus 15$ for the preorder? You're lucky I love you. Edit: Seriously though totes worth it.
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Sep 6, 2018 19:59
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Are your short stories available in any physical form? I've been getting everyone I know to read Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command partly because it owns, but also because I love saying the words "Naval Cephalopod Command"
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Are your short stories available in any physical form? I've been getting everyone I know to read Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command partly because it owns, but also because I love saying the words "Naval Cephalopod Command" Conversely, I would love an epub of that plus the Morrigan stories and other free-online stuff, which I guess I could compile myself using calibre but 
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occamsnailfile posted:There's a newer translation that cleans up a lot of the mistakes of the first one--the first translator not only left out a bunch of stuff but also inserted anti-semitism in places, like referring to a character as "the cackling old Jew." Nemo was meant to be an Indian prince who lost everything after the Indian Mutiny but the translation ignored a lot of his important backstory and later adaptations often made him European, sometimes Polish nobility whose family were tortured by Russians, motivating him to leave the surface world. What I find interesting is that in '54 Disney adaptation, even as a kid I came away with the strong impression that the Hated Nation was Britain. Which I assume is because in the attack on Volcania, the soldiers came over the hill wearing loving Pith helmets which to me were iconic of British exploration (or more accurately, colonialism). Only much later did I learn he was meant to be an Indian prince and the idea of him hating Britain just fit so neatly I was like, "Makes sense".
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The Olena Bormashenko english translation of the Strugatsky brothers Hard to be a God is pretty good. The earlier 1973 DAW english translation edition is pretty good too, if you are able to track down a copy of it. Don Reba continues to be opportunistic gutter trash, Arata will never give up, and it truly is hard to be a god in the Arkanar Kingdom without snapping mentally. Hard to be a God takes place in the Strugatsky brothers Noon Universe setting, and the Noon Universe is exceptionally interesting/weird/disturbing/hopeful/downtrodden/hosed up, all at the same time. In the Noon Universe, it is the 22nd century on Earth. Communism won, aliens exist, and the 22nd century earth is a post-scarcity paradise with FTL interstellar travel, 99% of humanity is dosed up on captain america superserum, and the 22nd century earthgov is cool with bored civilians grabbing publicly available spaceships and doing the gruntwork of "exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before. The greatest issue for mankind in the Noon Universe is what degree of intervention humanity will perform on "lesser alien civilizations"....do they go full speed change (The Progressor Faction), or do they hold back and mostly observe (The Conservationists)? Doing nothing isn't a option to them, and the conflicts that result tend to drive the plots of most of the Noon Universe stories. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Thank you all so much.
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General Battuta posted:Thank you all so much.
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General Battuta posted:You would need to buy them, send them to me, trust that I (a huge lazy piece of poo poo) would sign them and get them back to you, and hassle me about it all the time until I did. Wish it were easier. I know Myke Cole was sending signed bookplates to people who asked for them. Not sure if he was doing it for free or a nominal charge.
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He normally sends em out for free.
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General Battuta posted:Thank you all so much. (also preordered physical copy of Monster because I hadn't yet and I didn't know preorder numbers were typically so low!)
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Crap, a friend wanted to know about a book I read and I can't remember it. It was a western fantasy sort of book, with Chinese worker vampires, I think. The protagonist really reminded me of John Marston. Anyone have an idea? Not having any luck with google. It is a few years old tops.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Crap, a friend wanted to know about a book I read and I can't remember it. It was a western fantasy sort of book, with Chinese worker vampires, I think. The protagonist really reminded me of John Marston.
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I think that's it! Thanks!
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It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. Speaking of - anyone knows any good western-themed fantasy apart from The Half-Made World?
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Can't think of any offhand. A few books into my TBR list I have Blood Hunters, which is some kinda western vampire book. There's another one after that about some supernatural hunter lady in the old west but I can't recall the name offhand. Can't afford the new book, but I bought a spare copy of the first one GB.
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. The Gunslinger?
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. There's the Golgatha series by RS Belcher. It's more weird western, but broadly fits western+fantasy.
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. David Gemmell's Sipstrassi novels contain a trilogy of fantasy westerns: Wolf in Shadow, The Last Guardian and Bloodstone. The other novels, Ghost King and Last Sword of Power, are Arthurian myth but more than tangentially connected. Reading order is fluid; publication order is WiS - GK - LSoP - TLG - BS, or you can read the subthreads in either order (although I'd recommend reading the westerns first).
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. Laura Anne Gilman’s The Devil’s West books, Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, the Shadow books by Lila Bowen. Have fun! Fake edit: Red Country by Joe Abercrombie, but I’m not sure how accessible that is without reading the other related books. Probably be fine.
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs is sort of western-themed fantasy. I enjoyed it.
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Finished Orconomics. That was not very good. A bad fantasy novel, poorly written, and the humor pieces didn't make up for it. Reading Sweterlitsch's The Gone World now. I'm loving it - can't put it down.
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Went to buy The Traitor Baru Cormorant on the sale yesterday, turns out I already had it. Don't know why I hadn't read it yet. I'm ~20% of the way in, just preordered the sequel. This book is pretty good. Also I'd been a fan of Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command for a while and didn't realize it was the same author as Baru, so that's cool
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gvibes posted:Finished Orconomics. That was not very good. A bad fantasy novel, poorly written, and the humor pieces didn't make up for it. Personally, I didn't get very far into it before I gave up.
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of - anyone knows any good western-themed fantasy apart from The Half-Made World? It’s not a novel, but the comic series The Sixth Gun might scratch the itch?
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Shitshow posted:It’s not a novel, but the comic series The Sixth Gun might scratch the itch? Oh, if we're going comics, then East of West
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anilEhilated posted:It's just lucky coincidence I literally finished it today; it didn't exactly make a lasting impression. TIm Power's Last Call for modern, also King's Dark Tower / "The Little Sisters of Eluria" short story
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Proteus Jones posted:Oh, if we're going comics, then East of West
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darthbob88 posted:I'd call East of West sci-fi more than fantasy; it's set in 2064, there's flying cars, the protagonist has a mechanical horse that shoots lasers, but he's also Death as in the 4th Horseman of the Apocalypse. It's pretty good and I do strongly recommend it, though not necessary as Western fantasy. I'd argue that the fantastic elements are a lot more important than the sci-fi elements in East of West.
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