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uh zip zoom posted:I might not be the best authority as to what's good in the fantasy genre (my threads are terrible and my recommendations suspect), but I think you'll definitely like LoLL. At least in that book, the author walks a fine line between flowery and crass language, and he does it with just the right amount of sarcasm and dark humor. The combat porn is also pretty fulfilling. What's more, there's a lovely thread for you to post in once you finish the first (or second, or third which comes out in August) book. I thought the third wasnt due out until October?
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Fremry posted:Reposting from the recommendation thread because I didn't get much there: Check out Seas of Venus by David Drake. Its a collection of 2 novellas with a military sci-fi theme, set on a partially-terraformed Venus. They're pretty well written and have lots of pulpy ocean-shenanigans.
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C.S. Friedman is probably my favorite female SF writer. Her Coldfire trilogy was probably the most perfect blend of SF and fantasy since Zelazny's Lord of Light. She also has a bunch of space-operas that are pretty great.
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FastestGunAlive posted:Amazon has it listed as Jan 16 2014. Third one was a much better improvement over the second one, hopefully the fourth is better yet Well poo poo, I guess its time to reread the series again for the second time, since so much crazy poo poo happens in Stover's world that its hard to even remember who did what during the wait for each book.
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fritz posted:Neal Asher @nealasher 2h A refrigerator compressor can overheat? Heh, nice try pinkos 
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Neurosis posted:The Crysis 2 novelisation by Peter Watts is not bad at all. I cant believe this sentence was written unironically  E: not that its good, but that he wrote a novelization of loving Crysis.
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Azathoth posted:I appreciate the recommendation on The Night Land, it looks interesting. If you're going to read The Night Land, read the new modern-English edition. The original was written in a broken fake-victorian English that is absolutely agonizing to read. http://www.amazon.com/Night-Land-Story-Retold/dp/0615508812/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397793380&sr=1-4&keywords=the+night+lands
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andrew smash posted:Alan Moore is a crazy person and watchmen is super overrated The squid was dumb and the movie did it better. Give me your hate, nerds.
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NikkolasKing posted:Classic sci-fi goons, I need your help. The film was more of a caricature than a satire. To answer your question, it is not a fascist novel, because it A) describes a quite democratic society, and B) promotes a very anti-nationalistic multi-ethnic future with one of the first explicitly non-white protagonists in the history of the genre. You should also probably read the book yourself to properly have this discussion, and its a very quick read at about 250 pages in paperback. Mr.48 fucked around with this message at 12:11 on May 23, 2016 |
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MrSlam posted:Unfortunately, he wants a fantasy novel with zero magic, no potions, no fantasy races, no dragons or unrealistic animals, no gods, no dream sequences or prophecies. I think he wants historical fiction but it in a made up place? In that case Guy Gavriel Kay sounds like the author for him to read. He is always writing historical fiction analogs in fantasy worlds that are basically Earth, but with made up names for places and people. Maybe start him off with one of Kay's standalone books like The Lions of Al-Rassan, which is all about religious and political conflicts between not-Muslims, not-Christians, and not-Jews in medieval not-Spain. It sounds a little silly, but Kay is actually a really good writer, and I guess that setting his stories in analog-worlds that aren't actually Earth allows him to explore some themes a bit more freely. Edit: son of a bitch, just noticed that someone has already made this exact recommendation! Mr.48 fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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