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Ranccor posted:For years I've been trying to find a book or short story. Its set in the future where the human race is fighting bugs. The main character is in a type of advanced recon unit where the mortality rate is 100%, but somehow he keeps surviving the missions after everyone else in the units die. This is where it gets fuzzy. He wears a black suit and helmet. He has a second personality i think that takes over his body in these your gonna die fights.... GISing doesn't do anything for me. That's Armor by John Steakley. The main character is Felix, he's a scout (as opposed, IIRC to a warrior or something, and it's against the ants). http://www.amazon.com/Armor-science-fiction-John-Steakley/dp/0886773687/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1308189295&sr=8-1
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trashcanman posted:We were assigned a portion of this book in middle school I think, and it involved alchemists in Poland in the middle ages. Off of a quick search, could be The Trumpeter of Krakow. It won a Newberry medal in 1929, so was quite possibly assigned. http://www.amazon.com/Trumpeter-Krakow-Eric-P-Kelly/dp/0689715714/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1308191172&sr=8-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trumpeter_of_Krakow (will spoil the plot)
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nate fisher posted:I remember reading years ago about a book that talks about the making of Fight Club (I think it was about several different movies or studios). The books talks about the studio's reaction (shock) during the first screening of the movie. Any ideas? After some google time I think it might be Rebels on the Backlot, but not sure. From search inside Rebels on the Backlot, that looks right.
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Little_Yellow_Duck posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a fantasy book I read about 4 years ago. That sounds like Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey. Hero is Lavan Firestorm. Lavan wasn't really from a poorer background, and I can't remember about the maps, but the main bits (including the spoiler) are accurate. Side story to the rest of the Valdemar books (main timeline starts with Arrows of the Queen). http://www.amazon.com/Brightly-Burning-Mercedes-Lackey/dp/0886779898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314563772&sr=8-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velgarth#Books
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hyperhazard posted:
You weren't wrong. Rising Stars was novelized into a book trilogy.
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Fatkraken posted:I know this one! The idea always stuck in my mind too even though it's not central to the story. Thank you - I knew I had read that bit somewhere as well!
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The Moon Monster posted:I remember reading a fantasy series as a kid where the author described villains as "swarthy" so often that I thought it was a synonym for villainous. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Possibly the Belgariad. Xander77 posted:Lone Wolf. Definitely Lone Wolf (written by Joe Dever and available on the Internet for free at projectaon.org). In the last Let's Play - which I'd link, but hey, archives is hosed - we had a running count of how many people were swarthy in the playthrough. I'm pretty sure the answer was around 20. Also reviewed here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3606298 ulmont fucked around with this message at 00:05 on May 7, 2014 |
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regulargonzalez posted:E: and another. Very sad story where a girl who is a stowaway on a spaceship is discovered by the pilot, but since the fuel for the mission is calculated down to the gram there will not be enough fuel to land with both of them on board. Commentary on The Cold Equations: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/03/cory-doctorow-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/
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Sanford posted:Science fiction novel, probably late 80s or early 90s? I think it was a series but I stopped reading it because it got a bit rapey. A woman is held prisoner by the captain of a freighter who has a device that makes her all hot and ready for sex. She escapes, gets taken in by another captain who thinks she loves him but now she's using the device to conceal her revulsion at having sex with him. She gets pregnant, has the baby which is grown to adulthood in the space of a few hours, and then has the woman's memories implanted into its brain to make up for all the growing up it missed. Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle. Starts with "The Real Story." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle#Books_in_serie e;f,b.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The watch throws me. I was thinking Armor by John Steakley. Yeah, Armor doesn't have a special watch (just ran some searches on my kindle copy). Armor's pretty easy to cross off the list, though: "Is the main character named Felix?"
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Chairman Capone posted:Whoops! You can get the R-Strain in the Departures short-story collection: https://www.amazon.com/Departures-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0345380118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469635671&sr=8-1&keywords=departures+turtledove
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ToxicFrog posted:IIRC from the Let's Read on these forums, it's completely possible to miss the Sommerswerd entirely, leading you to constantly get the poo poo kicked out of you in every subsequent book. There is no path through book two - the quest for the sommerswerd - that doesn't end with you getting the sword. ...with the sword the odds are massively against you at the end of book 9 IIRC.
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Picayune posted:I got hit with nostalgia for one of the recipes in the book. A weird eggless eggnog-like drink. Nutmeg was involved. Now it's going to drive me crazy. Eggless eggnogs seem to uniformly (upon extremely cursory internet searching, but I looked at four different recipes) be milk/cream, instant vanilla pudding, sugar, nutmeg, liquor (rum or bourbon) to taste.
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navyjack posted:Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells First chapter or so here: http://www.marthawells.com/murderbot1.htm
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Astrofig posted:Also there are centaur-like aliens (possibly hermaphroditic?) who 'speak' via singing and there's like three genders; it takes like five adults to successfully birth one child as it keeps getting passed back and forth; there's reference to 'foremothers' and 'hindmothers'. That's gotta be John Varley. One of Titan, Wizard, or Demon. Full trilogy around the centaurs.
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Davros1 posted:Vampire$? It's not the book, I assure you. Those vampires will just gently caress you up.
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Splicer posted:Yeah that was... disappointing That got incorporated into Dark Tower V, FYI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_V:_Wolves_of_the_Calla
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Travic posted:That's it exactly. Thank you very much. I was reading the appendix on Newspeak and didn't see it so thanks for finding it. It's based on a linguistics theory that really hasn't panned out in any meaningful way. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/does-your-language-influence-how-you-think?utm_source=sciam&utm_campaign=sciam
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Krankenstyle posted:That article makes the opposite conclusion. That article posted:Can the language you speak influence your thoughts, or can’t it? The short answer is: Yes it can, but it’s not the kind of mind-blowing influence that people usually have in mind. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
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The Chad Jihad posted:That was too recent, however you still get the credit as reading that books description led me to google "magic is computer code book" which popped up Wizards Bane which is what I was looking for A less lighthearted version of that story is S Andrew Swann’s Broken Crescent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519338.Broken_Crescent
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Solenna posted:That's funny, one of the books I asked about was apparently book #3 in that series. I had no idea that it was part of a series when I read it, which explains why it made so little sense. Aww, you missed the explanation of why Wiz specifically chose Forth as the programming language for wizardry.
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rollick posted:Anne McCaffrey's The Rowan Whole series / world based on that concept, right? Is that the same as the Ship Who Sang series? fake edit: nope, different series about psychics powering ships from the same author.
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A National Acrobat posted:I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: Pretty sure it's Alan Dean Foster, one of the Damned series, specifically Book 2, A False Mirror. It takes a little while to get to that scene though, I think. ulmont fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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A National Acrobat posted:no, this is a standalone and it's a newer book (last couple of years) Oh, hell, you're right, I read that one too. Hang on. Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter.
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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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