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Ornamented Death posted:Here is an unsolicited recommendation: EDIT: Also, I'd really recommend the CONEX series. With Cosmic Horror in general, does anyone find that the best bits are the nagging, inevitable sense of wrongness, rather than the actual "mountainous creatures of three-lidded eyes rising from the core of the earth" payoff at the end? With Conex in particular, finding out that poo poo was going horribly wrong was way more fun than when it all actually went wrong. Evfedu fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jan 22, 2012 |
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Is there any way to get The Croning as an ebook? Buying it in the UK consists of giving amazon £13 and hoping they decide to stock some more at some point. Any way I can give Laird my cash directly and actually receive a copy?
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May 8, 2012 22:29
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Hahahah $40 shipping cost for one book. Guess I'll be waiting this one out then.
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May 9, 2012 00:36
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If any other UK goons are lurking this thread, The Croning is now available as an ebook on Baen (thanks, Ornamented Death!), works out at about £3.80, kindle formatted perfectly and DRM free. Made the thought of the two massive train journeys I'm taking this weekend one to relish.
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May 17, 2012 21:49
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Blazed through the croning and enjoyed it a massive amount with a couple of reservations about pacing and the purpleness of the prose. Are Laird's short stories as good or better?
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May 21, 2012 23:35
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Ornamented Death posted:Generally speaking they're better, likely because he's had a lot more practice writing short stories. The Imago Sequence is readily available, and while it looks like Occultation is sold out at a lot of places, that's most likely because Night Shade is about to release the trade paperback edition.
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May 22, 2012 19:25
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I really like some of Tim Curran's stuff (The Underdwelling was amazing,and the one about the weird flesh-monster in prison was great). But The Hive was honestly a total car-crash, he revealed way too much too early, made it clear the monsters were super-invulnerable so there was zero tension at any point and he just killed off all the characters you expected him to and left the rest alive. Really really didn't get on with it at all.
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Dec 27, 2013 15:10
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Reading The Imago Sequence at the moment (Old Virginia was utterly flesh crawling) and was wondering if anyone could explain "Proboscis" to me? I'm assuming it refers to the heroin needle as they're all red neck junkies, but was that all? Or did I miss some stuff along the way?
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May 12, 2014 00:08
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How do I get Poroth Farm on my Kindle? UK goon.
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Jun 1, 2015 11:48
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48p? loving done son. Thanks!
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Jun 2, 2015 12:33
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I thought Whom The Gods Would Destroy was pretty good. Nicely ambiguous without leaving you thinking "oh come on". Fully goone-recommended for an hour or so's reading.
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Jun 29, 2015 14:39
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I'm desperate to start the Southern Reach trilogy, think I'm going to have to make a lot of time for reading with how much is has accumulated on my to-read pile. Meant to do this ages ago, as well, but I want to throw out a super-strong recommendation for Mask of The Other by Greg Stolze. Really cool straight-forward cosmic-tinged B-movie schlock elevated hugely by very strong characterisation and pacing. It's knocked around my brain since I read it last November and it always makes me smile.
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Jul 23, 2015 11:39
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Reading The Book of Cthulhu II at the moment, not as good as I but a bunch of middling stories with a couple of great ones. Just got to Michael Chabon's The God of Dark Laughter and it owns. Did he write any more horror stuff? Or was it one and done?
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Sep 6, 2015 22:45
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Skyscraper posted:No, but I have read The Shallows by John Langan. It's the one that someone mentioned earlier in this thread, about an old man recounting stories of his life to a little crab-thing as he tends to a garden in the post-Old Ones apocalypse. It was part of his collection The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies but I got it in audiobook format as part of The Book of Chulhu. That anthology was a real mixed bag, but The Shallows was definitely the highlight for me. Also really enjoyed Whom The Gods Would Destroy, really great little novella about parental abandonment/neglect told via space monster with a thoroughly ambiguous, downbeat ending.
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Oct 6, 2015 13:59
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A Colder War also makes explicit mention of The Great Filter. Also thoroughly worth reading. Also a big fan of that Stephen King stuff, since reading On Writing I've had a real soft spot for that guy even if a lot of his writing isn't really my bag.
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Nov 16, 2015 10:59
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How do I get The Autopsy onto my kindle?
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Nov 24, 2015 17:00
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MockingQuantum posted:Speaking of Barron, is it just me or is Procession of the Black Sloth a slog to get through? I've been jumping around Imago Sequence and Occultation but finally sat down to actually read all the ones I'd skipped before, and this one is just... not holding my interest. Old Virginia was so good, the whole "clotted screams" part stayed with me for ages and actually even creeped me out, which is pretty rare. I don't think many authors are out there that can sustain a long-form horror story, the genre just feels better in short form to novella sized pieces.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:42
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Ornamented Death posted:Stolze's Mask of the Other is pretty good.
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Jul 14, 2016 10:18
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Worlds of Hurt by Brian Hodges was Extremely good. More three short stories and a novella than a collection, though. I loved The Shallows too, which is definitely a collection. Really found the sweet spot between literary and trashy horror that sits right in my comfort zone.
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Dec 6, 2016 21:00
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:man i just read the first story in worlds of hurt and that poo poo is goddamn soul-crushing
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Dec 12, 2016 12:53
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