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branedotorg posted:I'm glad the book was found but I think by the principles of homeopathy, any book that had sat next to a book that had been in the same distribution warehouse as another book from the same (self) publisher as that book, would have been as healing and fulfilling as the original book. that sounds a lot like a "best seller lilst" to me  but unironic
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sounds like a Dark Tower kinda deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adversary_Cycle
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brothers lionheart is isekai 
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a lot of it sounds like The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell but it's obviously not it.
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Also Embassytown by China Mieville is another space linguist novel, but I don't recall any moon stuff in there e: it actually sounds a lot like it, but disclaimer: it must be 10 years since i read it, so memory is fuzzy Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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I kinda see the last word as Tomorrow
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maybe a screen recording could help https://i.imgur.com/uFkpMvc.mp4 man netflix is lovely quality lol
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Mar 22, 2022 23:03
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splitting the final word was cheating!! 
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A National Acrobat posted:I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: reminds me of black mirror s3e5 but its not that. its an oft-used device for sure
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light brigade by kameron hurley? if thats not it idgaf cause its super good v 2
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Biplane posted:Yo this was good as hell 
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Brawnfire posted:...what kid's book was it that had a planet where the "sky" was a thick layer of something like macaroni and cheese, and started about four feet up or so? I want to say it was My Teacher Was an Alien or a sequel sounds like a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs prequel lol
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Isolationist posted:Story #2: There's a Larry Niven short story that gets into that, where his favorite character Louis Wu is doing a "sabattical" (iirc) which means flying away from Earth until he feels like flying home. The alien has 3 eyes. I don't remember the title, but duckduckgo tells me it's "There is a Tide". It also reminds me of the short story where humanity encounters the Kzinti (tiger aliens), something about humanity being warlike even when they don't have weapons. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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Isolationist posted:Not part of a larger established universe - the story took place entirely within the singleship/in conversation with the alien. The background of the universe had humans basically being stuck in an inimical, unpopulated universe - unable to explore due to the psychological block. yeah to the second paragraph. a lot of those shorts are really good re the first para, its honestly not really relevant that its louis wu. it doesnt tie into any other known space stuff as i recall. just superfluous reallly, he could be anyone. its just a guy flying as far into space as he can because humans bore him or whatever, meets an alien, then flies back after learning a lesson. so idk, it still sounds like it might be it but its been a while
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May 26, 2022 12:42
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someone told me to search for catgirl harem novels on altavista and my dad kicked down my door and took the modem and left without a word
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That sounds neat. Pls no extra spoilers about why they die
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Splicer posted:Indian scifi short story following an indian man going through the matchmaking process in a future where pre-birth gender selection has left india with a huge male to female ratio. A phrase like "How to be an exceptional boy" or "quality boy" or something kept being used. An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33544902-an-excess-male
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Ibblebibble posted:Diane Duane Trying to decide which way to pronounce this
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imo either Dwine Dwayne or Diane Dooane
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this aint it, but its a good story about what's right and polite on a generation ship: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
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important question: are the fart scenes illustrated?
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One or two short stories I read at least 5 years ago. Don't remember if it was online or in an anthology. One might be a flashback in the other, or they're different stories entirely. I think they were written in English, but it might have been Swedish (they take place in Sweden, or maybe Norway). A: An author or historian, something like that is staying in a remote cabin to write. There's only one neighbor who lives miles away, who delivers mail or groceries, or maybe the narrator goes to pick up stuff? There's a lake, and something mythological about it, and about how when the light is just right a kind of vague magic thing happens. I seem to remember it both being winter and there being fireflies, so I can't trust either of those "hints". B: A woman is looking back on when the whole family went to the family cabin after her grandma died. Every item in the cabin (dresses, furniture, tools) bring little flashbacks of her interactions with her grandma, and the weird stories she heard, hints and allegations, that maybe she was an elf or a selkie who was taken by her grandpa (or maybe it was grandpa that was a jotun or something, either way). Might be Karin Tidbeck, but I can't seem to find any that fits? Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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John Lee posted:I got a request from my cousin: was it like written in like the valley in like the 80s?
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sorry thats mean
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SimonChris posted:The second one is almost certainly "Some Letters for Ove Lindström" from Tidbeck's "Jagannath" collection. Nice, thanks! 
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Brawnfire posted:The flat-fronted blue building with a flat roof flat roof, flat roof, flat roof! *jazz hands*
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pissipottinen
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xiw posted:(yes that's a nearly 6 year old post that's been bugging me the whole time) itt followups are never late imo
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i think its ash by mary gentle
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Orv posted:Looking over what I can find it isn’t ringing any immediate bells but it’s around the right time and is definitely the kind of thing I’d have read around then. Unfortunately, from some of what I’m reading. Will give it a shot, thanks. yea on second thought i think youre right, its not it its not fantastic but its not bad either. i liked about half of it, unfortunately spread equally over the chapters
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Ortho posted:A thread in the new Scholastic Book Fair forum made me think of this: probably not either, but Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue and Crumb's Short History of America come to mind. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 22, 2023 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:(I did not get the Heinlein estate's permission. quoting for evidence lol
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neither of these are it, but theres a short bit about that in Gibson's The Peripheral, but also it reminds me of a novel i read a while back about some mining robots gaining sentience & humanity trying to stamp it down & they keep sending new machines to fight them but they just get "infected" with sentience. i cant remember its name or author, but at one point in the story, a couple of human soldiers are on some kind of furlough (from constantly fighting the sentient slavebots) in like a little virtual desert town with a bar? theres a bunch of simulated people in the town and i think the main characters discuss whether theyre themselves p-zombies or not, and whether that even matters in the end.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:That sounds a little like Ken MacLeod's Corporation Wars books, Dissidence, Insurgence, and Emergence. At least, it has mining robots getting sentient. Crap. I'm suddenly unsure that I read the whole series. Now I know what to do with my upcoming time off. 95% sure this is it, keeping in mind its been at least 5 years since i read it (thats a long time imo)
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Hobnob posted:Yeah, I think you have it right. Has the humans in the bar part too. I read the first book, and ended up DNFing the second, the story really couldn't keep my interest going, unfortunately, even though it should be up my street. the thing about macleod is, he may not be a fantastic raconteur, but hes got decent craftsmanship, and he always writes about one thing: scottish socialists in space so i like to read his books, for that
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Less Fat Luke posted:It's weird but I feel like both Gibson and Macleod started with some really fantastic near future sci-fi - The Fall Revolution series and Gibson's Sprawl trilogy basically launched my interest in science fiction but as they get older their writing seems more and more boring and it kind of breaks my heart, despite the themes still being interesting. bolded above, i dont think anybody can keep up in any art all the way. gibson is still holding on, but its not at the same level. etc somebody said "you spend 10 years on your first album and six months on your second"
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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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its not jean m muriel is it?
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Hughlander posted:I thought this was in All Systems Red but it wasn’t. Maybe one of the sequels. ken macleod's fall revolution series?
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