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That reminds me of a book I was looking for before. It was a space based book but I remember there was a b plot with these medieval talking wolves? I think at some point the wolves and the space plot converge.
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Sri.Theo posted:That reminds me of a book I was looking for before. It was a space based book but I remember there was a b plot with these medieval talking wolves? I'm gonna be two for two here... Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon The Deep quote:An expedition from Straumli Realm, an ambitious young human civilization in the high Beyond, investigates a five-billion-year-old data archive in the low Transcend that offers the possibility of unimaginable riches. The expedition's facility, High Lab, is gradually compromised by a dormant superintelligence within the archive later known as the Blight. However, shortly before the Blight's final "flowering", two self-aware entities created similarly to the Blight plot to aid the humans before the Blight can escape.
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Thank you! That’s it 
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Probably another unsolvable one... This popped into my mind while I thought of The Green Leopard Plague By Walter Jon Williams: Aliens arrive at a ruined Earth and do archeology on it. See a statue of someone all across the planet, celebrated in rural areas defaced in urban. Eventually they figure out that the person created a microbe that could live in a human gut and break down cellulose and ending world hunger as people could just munch on trees or grass. However, it mutated and became airborn breaking down all plant life and causing the O2 => CO2 => O2 cycle to end leading humanity to die off. At the end the aliens realize the microbes are on their ship, and their clothes and they can't return to their home planet or they'd doom it as well.
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Hughlander posted:Probably another unsolvable one... This popped into my mind while I thought of The Green Leopard Plague By Walter Jon Williams: Ooh I think I've seen a similar one! Iirc it broke the process by sequestering too much carbon so there was too much oxygen in the atmosphere? Edit: found a book called The Nitrogen Fix that looks like it's close, but not quite on the mark. froglet fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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Hughlander posted:Pretty sure you have it a bit wrong but you mean 'Bitten' by Kelley Armstrong: i hope that's the entire plot. the end no moral
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froglet posted:Ooh I think I've seen a similar one! Iirc it broke the process by sequestering too much carbon so there was too much oxygen in the atmosphere? That's similar but the one I'm thinking about is a short story and humans have been dead for a very long time when the aliens find Earth.
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Hah, take that, aliens. K/d streak to end all streaks. Hippity hoppity stay the gently caress off our property.
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I've had no luck with Google sadly: Read when I was a kid so about the mid-90s. Plot to the best of my memory was about a researcher or father-type figure wanted to show his children that magic was real, so somehow got on a giant sailboat to travel the world and show them mythological creatures, who would then stay on board. The only one I can remember specifically is Medusa, who protests coming aboard but the guy gives her sunglasses so she can enjoy the sights without turning anyone to stone. It was beautifully illustrated, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately since I got kids of my own now!
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crime fighting hog posted:I've had no luck with Google sadly: Voyage of the Basset
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Yes!!! Thank you so much! E: I'm actually quite surprised how well I remembered it considering I am a moron who forgets his login password all the time.
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About twenty years ago, I found this really funny parody of Zelazny's "Nine Prince of Amber" on a page dedicated to the Amber Diceless RPG. I have been trying to find it again, but I don't remember the author, the page or any other details. There was a scene where Corwin duels Eric, and Eric compliments the narrator on remembering so many technical terms of fencing. Does anyone else remember this? I have been looking for years.
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SimonChris posted:About twenty years ago, I found this really funny parody of Zelazny's "Nine Prince of Amber" on a page dedicated to the Amber Diceless RPG. No, but I did find a parody of the entire Corwin series: https://kevincrawfordknight.github.io/extra/ember2.txt
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ulmont posted:No, but I did find a parody of the entire Corwin series: https://kevincrawfordknight.github.io/extra/ember2.txt posted:I parried his lunge, and he parried my parry. I tried a riposte, but That's it! Thank you so much! For some reason that particular joke stuck with me.
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A book in the 90s about a group of girls, I think junior high age. I want to say it had Blubber vibes, maybe. I think there was a girl they bullied that eventually made friends with them? Only things I remember are 1) Bullied girl is overweight and after they made friends they have a sleepover or something, with pizza. Bullied girl reaches for a 3rd slice and the rest of the group tell her no, she agrees and says "the truth hurts!" 2) Bullied girl gets dared to hitchhike home from a different town, which she does. Afterwards she tells her friends the guy that picked her up lectured her and took her directly to her parents and she got in huge trouble
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WHY BONER NOW posted:A book in the 90s about a group of girls, I think junior high age. I want to say it had Blubber vibes, maybe. I think there was a girl they bullied that eventually made friends with them? Only things I remember are I can confirm I've read this too but can't tell you any more about it, but it exists.
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I think that was another Judy Blume book, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great.
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SimonChris posted:That's it! Thank you so much! For some reason that particular joke stuck with me. Same. I just read the Corwin Chronicles with my 11 year old and ended with Dying of Ember. Still so good along with all the Dad jokes and it’s the way of our kind.
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wizzardstaff posted:I think that was another Judy Blume book, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great. Hmm, reading the synopsis doesn't ring any bells, thanks though
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Story where a man who is not native to the country he’s in has a boss who pays him in coins but gives him physically larger coins saying they’re worth more even though they’re not. The character knows he’s being cheated but allows it, at least for the time being.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:A book in the 90s about a group of girls, I think junior high age. I want to say it had Blubber vibes, maybe. I think there was a girl they bullied that eventually made friends with them? Only things I remember are I'm almost positive this is Barthe DeClements' Nothing's Fair in 5th Grade. Does the bullied girl getting blamed for stealing her class's book club money ring any bells?
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Liffrea posted:I'm almost positive this is Barthe DeClements' Nothing's Fair in 5th Grade. Does the bullied girl getting blamed for stealing her class's book club money ring any bells? Man, that plot element doesn't come to mind...but I definitely remember that title, and after reading a synopsis I think its super likely that's my book! Thank you!!
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Speculative science fiction set in new york about a risk manager / actuary dealing with climate change. Can't remember the title. Came out in the last 10-15 years. Not 2140 by KSR.
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xian posted:Speculative science fiction set in new york about a risk manager / actuary dealing with climate change. Can't remember the title. Came out in the last 10-15 years. Not 2140 by KSR. I think KSR has written more than one book on that subject...
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As per usual, it's a YA book that I read in junior high. Very vague, but it was about a dude who somehow- I think it was a cave or a tunnel of some kind- goes through a portal to prehistoric/caveman/dinosaur times and meets a tribe of humans and lives with them for a bit. Acclimates, falls in love, that kinda thing. I thiiiiiiiiiink that they hunted wooly mammoths or sabretooth tigers. The only sequence that I can still remember is when the dude finally kisses his cavechick, there is a line about his sliding his thumb into her sweaty armpit. I remember thinking, like, the smell must be unimaginable. EDIT: I read this in the mid to late nineties Narzack fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Narzack posted:As per usual, it's a YA book that I read in junior high. Very vague, but it was about a dude who somehow- I think it was a cave or a tunnel of some kind- goes through a portal to prehistoric/caveman/dinosaur times and meets a tribe of humans and lives with them for a bit. Acclimates, falls in love, that kinda thing. I thiiiiiiiiiink that they hunted wooly mammoths or sabretooth tigers. The only sequence that I can still remember is when the dude finally kisses his cavechick, there is a line about his sliding his thumb into her sweaty armpit. I remember thinking, like, the smell must be unimaginable. This is most likely "The Transall Saga" by Gary Paulson, its a perennial favorite in this sort of thread.
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just a quick reminder, its more useful if instead of saying "when i was 10 years old", you can say "early 2000s" or something. that way, other people who are not your exact age may also be able to help
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yaffle posted:This is most likely "The Transall Saga" by Gary Paulson, its a perennial favorite in this sort of thread. I'm reading reviews of it on Goodreads, and I don't think this is it. I don't remember there being any kind of multiple tribes or slave society. I am almost80% sure it was in the past and the main character was high school age at least. There wasn't, as I recall, weird about the Earth in it. Trying to find a copy to read it anyway, since it looks like it's a brisk read. Carthag Tuek posted:just a quick reminder, its more useful if instead of saying "when i was 10 years old", you can say "early 2000s" or something. that way, other people who are not your exact age may also be able to help Yeah, sorry, this would have been mid to late nineties. Narzack fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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its not jean m muriel is it?
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Carthag Tuek posted:its not jean m muriel is it? Not sure, I can't find anything or anyone by the name.
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Narzack posted:Not sure, I can't find anything or anyone by the name. They are probably misremembering the name Jean M. Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.), but those don't really fit your plot either.
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I was gonna say, it's not the second Clan of the Cave Bear book is it? But you probably would have described a lot more weird sex.
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Nah, it's definitely a time travel story. And no sex, just that makeout(maybe sex, I don't think I was interested in that at the time, so it may have gone over my head) scene, where the dude slipped his hand under her caveshirt and thumbed her sweaty armpit.
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Was it Rocco (or A Time of Darkness in the USA) by Sheryl Jordan? Published in 1990, so around the right time. I can't find too much about it online, but I read it in school too, and it fits the high schooler travelling in time. I don't remember any armpit-related romance, but I do remember the ending implying that it's not actually the distant past, it's the near future after some sort of terrible disaster.
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another thing i am wondering is what do you think the thumb smells like haha im just curious for laughs haha
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Tragic Wagon posted:Was it Rocco (or A Time of Darkness in the USA) by Sheryl Jordan? Published in 1990, so around the right time. I can't find too much about it online, but I read it in school too, and it fits the high schooler travelling in time. I don't remember any armpit-related romance, but I do remember the ending implying that it's not actually the distant past, it's the near future after some sort of terrible disaster. I'd guess that's probably it. That's a cover and title an 8th grade me would have been interested in.
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I thought this was in All Systems Red but it wasn’t. Maybe one of the sequels. Main character party is hyper capitalist hellhole negotiates help with opposing team/company but the opposing side is even more capitalist hellhole then they realized and chastises hero for bad negotiations as they’ll become slaves/lose their gear/land. But they turn it around. If it’s not all systems red it feels like it could be The Lost Fleet?
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Hughlander posted:I thought this was in All Systems Red but it wasn’t. Maybe one of the sequels. "Hypercapitalist hellhole" describes a lot of the Murderbot setting, but those events don't match up with anything I recall in the books.
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ToxicFrog posted:"Hypercapitalist hellhole" describes a lot of the Murderbot setting, but those events don't match up with anything I recall in the books. Yah and it’s one of the sides of the Lost Fleet which is why I think may be from there. Could also be a podcast like Girl In Space. Sigh
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What was that book that had the mage who got made fun of because he cried and ran away from a wedding to a princess because the barbarian hero showed up to rescue her, but it turns out the dude was like 8 and had no clue what the gently caress was going on? I think his dad was the big bad necromancer of the book. Comedic fantasy, just drawing a blank on the title.
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