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Great OP, just thought of two things you should add: A big fat visible link to the Help Me Identify This Book thread, so this thread isn't flooded with that kind of post. A link to the Internet Science Fiction Database (isfdb.org) which is the best place for author bibliographies, comprehensive lists of short stories by authors, tables of contents of anthologies, and so on. Invaluable resource. You can also go to the entry for a particular short story and find out every anthology and collection it's available in.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2013 13:36 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 03:31 |
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Did you guys see the Locus award winners? Best YA novel was Railsea, well deserved, but best SF novel went to Redshirts. How the gently caress that unfunny, unoriginal, poorly written piece of poo poo won over books like 2312 and The Hydrogen Sonata is kind of breaking my brain right now. Is Locus voted by the public? Because that might explain it. I hope professional critics really aren't praising Redshirts as the SF book of the year. Please console me as to why that book could have won edit: full list of nominees and winners: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/announcing-the-2013-locus-award-winners
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 11:00 |
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I will happily admit that 2312 has a grating main character* and about as much actual plot as a short story, and that plot is almost entirely in the background to the setting. But what a goddamn setting. My mind was reeling with every chapter from the ideas. When I read it I said it was my favourite science fiction novel ever, and I might not make the same claim now but it's definitely up there and I predict it'll be this decade's/century's Dune. *The annoying one being Swan. The other main character, Wahram, is a total delight, and nuanced, and fascinating. edit: Hell, for posterity, here's the slightly incoherent Goodreads review I wrote immediately after finishing the book last year. I stand by most of this still: I posted:Right off the bat: this is probably the best science fiction book I've ever read. I cannot possibly give this book enough praise, but let me ramble a bit: Also, here are two contrasting views from the top two reviews of the book on Goodreads: A 1-star review posted:The only people I can recommend this book to are extreme liberals. Unwashed hippies, reeking of patchouli. This book postulates a world where conservatism, libertarianism, anarchy and capitalism are evil and never work. Except for some reason they do because old rich people demand they do. And in come our heroes of the nanny state liberal totalitarians to save the day. No mater what people want. If that sounds like heaven, read this book. A 5-star review posted:This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. It has an extremely interesting structure that verges on the allegorical. There's an alchemical marriage of Mercury and Saturn, The dynamic of old and emerging structures embedded in the present, three prose styles,- all very clever. A duet of Swan and Frog. If any of what I've said or quoted makes you interested in the book, by all means read it! It's a divisive book and it's very worthy of being discussed and debated over. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Jun 30, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 13:21 |
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Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter is meant to be amazing, simultaneously a short story collection and a chronological encyclopaedia of an entire universe's history. I want to read it soon. Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds is his Rev Space shorts collected, but they work better once you've read at least the first novel. The universe told in the stories is creepy and gothic, one of the best examples of dark sf. I really enjoyed The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven. A standalone universe not connected to Ringworld. The book is a bunch of stories about the only bar on earth that caters to aliens. Lots of humour and fun alien cultures. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jul 4, 2013 |
# ¿ Jul 4, 2013 01:38 |
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Can I get a goonsensus on why I should avoid Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons? I remember there being a reason people don't like them but I can't remember what it was and I'm hearing great things about it on another forum. And I love the idea of posthumans recreating the Trojan war on Mars. It sounds loving awesome. I'm really enjoying The Terror by Simmons so far, and Hyperion will be the next book of his I tackle, but I'm wondering why people say stop there.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2013 15:03 |
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My personal policy for self published books is avoid at all costs. The only argument in favour of self published authors I hear time and time again is "But what about Author X? His books were self published and were so successful that a publisher signed him up!" Yeah, hence he's no longer self published, and I'd be happy to give him a go now. Publishers are there for a reason and that's to pick out the quality stories and edit them into a readable state. I'm happy to let them do that job so I do t have to waste a loving second reading "indie" trash.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 03:21 |
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Self-published ebooks are not analogous with indie music, not at all. The difference with music is you still need to have some level of proficiency/talent with musical instruments, recording equipment, etc, to release even the most lo-fi of indie records*. You need zero proficiency with grammar and spelling (not to mention plot and character development, dialogue, description, research, worldbuilding, etc) to self-publish an ebook on Amazon. *I guess the exception would be The Shaggs. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jul 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 04:41 |
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Geek U.S.A. posted:Christ, I have bought the three Gaiman works that everyone recommends and they are still sitting on my bookshelf untouched. I really should get around to starting them some time. Neverwhere's probably the best. Read it then immediately read Kraken by China Mieville to compare/contrast (Mieville's better still).
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2013 05:21 |
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Here's a little excerpt for a new "Where to start with China Miéville?" feature I'm writing for the Miéville thread and/or my blog. I plan to do this for all of his novels, but here's a taste: ----- THE BAS-LAG BOOKS The Bas-Lag books are a series of three fantasy novels, each standalone, but all set within the world of Bas-Lag (and centering around the city-state New Crobuzon). Bas-Lag is not an Earth-substitute. It's a planet (or something else entirely? The Scar may have clues) with some weird (and often nightmarish) physics, and bursting with wildly different forms of magic and technology. It's not a steampunk world, so if anyone tells you it is, punch them in the face. Bas-Lag is populated by many sentient races including humans, Khepri (scarab-headed people), Garuda (bird people), Cactacae (physically imposing plant-people), Vodyanoi (bloated frog shamans), Hotchi (adorable hedgehog people), Grindylow (underwater nightmare fuckers), Llorgis (???), and many more. Humans may also come in Remade configurations, where machinery or non-human biology is grafted to them as a permanent punishment for a crime. There are three books so far in the Bas-Lag series: PERDIDO STREET STATION 2000 WHAT IT'S ABOUT - Isaac is a layabout scientist who lives with his Khepri girlfriend in New Crobuzon, a vast and ugly city populated by humans and many other species. He meets a Garuda from a far-off desert tribe whose wings have been cut off for a vaguely described crime, who commissions him to restore his flight by any means. In his research, Isaac accidentally unleashes an alien terror on the city and has to ally himself with dangerous forces to save the city. WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE - psychic vampire moths, bug-headed women, birdmen, walking cacti, seditionist scientists and artists, mobsters who are more mosaic than man, hell's ambassadors, hive-mind machine intelligences, multidimensional spider gods, xenian sex, grime and filth READ THIS IF - you want to get in on the ground floor with Bas-Lag; you want the weirdest urban fantasy you've ever seen; you're sick of "it's medieval Europe!" fantasy worlds THE SCAR 2002 WHAT IT'S ABOUT - Bellis is a linguist who has fled the city New Crobuzon by ship, after the events of Perdido Street Station. Her ship is captured by scouts for the pirate nation Armada, a gigantic floating city made up of hundreds of ships of all kinds. Bellis is pressganged into citizenry of Armada, and soon finds herself on the periphery of a plan by the city's rulers to raise something ancient and unfathomable from the depths of the ocean. But that's only the beginning of a much more dangerous plan... WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE - a city of stolen ships, pirates in pantaloons, libraries, an island of ravenous mosquito women, terrifying sea monsters, a voluntary Remaking, blood taxes, civil uprising, naval battles, parallel dimensions of possibility, a jackass of a dolphin, the word "puissance" a lot, pus READ THIS IF - you want to read the best of the best in fantasy; you love monsters; the ocean scares you; you thought Pirates of the Caribbean wasn't weird enough IRON COUNCIL 2004 WHAT IT'S ABOUT - Decades after Perdido Street Station and The Scar, New Crobuzon is at war with the witch-city Tesh. At the same time, civil unrest is brewing inside the city. Various factions make plans: one group plots to kill the corrupt mayor; another party journeys into the continent's uncharted heart to find the Iron Council — a renegade train, once owned by New Crobuzon but stolen by its workers, that lays its own rails and represents the last hope for the oppressed masses... that is, if it can make it home through the wilderness. WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE - trains, golems, elementals, monsters galore, hedgehog men riding giant roosters, whores and railway workers starting revolutions, mysterious graffiti spirals, puppetry, a journey through a horrifying wasteland which is like a tumour on reality, telewitchcraft, assassination plots, war, gay sex READ THIS IF - you've already read Perdido Street Station; you wonder what a Cormac McCarthy fantasy novel would be like; you want Miéville at his most baroque and dense ----- STANDALONE NOVELS THE CITY & THE CITY 2009 WHAT IT'S ABOUT - Beszel, a crumbling city-state in Eastern Europe, has a rather unique relationship with its neighbour Ul Qoma (a bright, economic boomtown). The nature of that relationship becomes clear throughout the novel, but suffice to say it's more complicated than borders and politics. Remember, Miéville is a SF/F writer, after all. When a visiting archaeology student is murdered in one city but her body dumped in the other, the crime becomes much more than just another routine murder case. Inspector Borlú of Beszel has to deal with the shady forces that concern themselves with the relationship between the two cities. WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE - murder, mystery, mindboggling geography, conspiracy theories, secret organisations, psychological SF, two well-crafted fictional European nations, characters with hard-to-pronounce names, Schroedinger's pedestrian READ THIS IF - you want to see what happens when you mash crime, sci-fi and literature together; most fantasy fiction isn't cerebral enough for you; you like to tax your brain with a good puzzle KRAKEN 2010 WHAT IT'S ABOUT - At the British Museum of Natural History, London, a 40-foot giant squid specimen has literally just vanished. This is only the start of a series of bizarre incidences which pull museum employee Billy into London's strange underworld of cults, magic, and other supernatural weirdness. And it may also be the start of the end of the world. WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE - squids, tentacles, museums, bottles, cults, magic, witches obsessed with Star Trek, unionized familiars, ghost cops, human origami, indoor oceans, evil ink, cockney horrors, competing apocalypses READ THIS IF - you like Neil Gaiman; you want to try one of Miéville's darkest and funniest works; you want to know what the hell human origami is ----- Let me know if this interests you and I'll write up the rest of the books. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jul 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Jul 13, 2013 15:46 |
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Nondescript Van posted:I'm a big fan of Alastair Reynolds and i've read and really liked (almost) everything he has written. I wasn't a fan of terminal world because I don't like steampunk Reynolds has a new book (sequel to Blue Remembered Earth) coming out next month! To tide you over, how about Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk. A lesser known book but if you like dark, relatively hard, space-set SF, then you'll probably enjoy it. I reviewed it in the previous SFF thread: I posted:Bleak. Bleak, bleak, bleak. This book is like being repeatedly hit in the face with a giant hammer which has "bleak" stamped all over it. But although you may want to kill yourself once you've read it, it also happens to be a gripping dark sci-fi debut novel. Also, Peter Watts, Blindsight.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2013 03:12 |
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I just read the Kiernan story "I am the Abyss, I am the Light" in the (awesome) anthology Aliens: Recent Encounters. It was okay but not enough to make me want to read all her other stuff. It contains the description "the thorny, cilia-lined slit that can no longer be described as a human vagina" though so if that's your kind of thing go for it!
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2013 03:50 |
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Hey remember the alien rape-y good times that was "Spar" by Kij Johnson? Well she wrote a bacon remix.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2013 11:33 |
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Stuporstar posted:You and me both, man. I want so much more out of my sci-fi these days. I'm thinking of trying John Varley again, but I've only read his short stories. His writing isn't up to Silverberg/Leguin quality, but he has a lot to say about being human. Anyone know if his novels are up to the same quality, or does his weird sex poo poo become too much to take at that length? Titanides come in two sexes, male and female. Both sexes have a rear vagina and uterus, and a large penis in the position where a horse's penis would be. Both sexes also possess humanoid breasts and can thus give birth to and suckle young. Male Titanides have a frontal penis analogous to a human penis, and female Titanides have a frontal vagina. While sexual intercourse using the horse organs is indulged in casually between individuals of all sexes, so-called frontal intercourse is reserved for intimate relationships. The product of frontal intercourse is always a small, spherical egg a few centimetres in diameter. These eggs are often kept as keepsakes or mementos of special occasions. They are sterile unless first treated with the Wizard's saliva. An egg which has been made fertile can be implanted in a rear vagina and "quickened" by rear intercourse. After that, the egg will develop into a young Titanide. All Titanides can have eggs implanted. The Titanide who receives the egg is called the "hindmother". The Titanide who quickens the egg is called the "hindfather". The Titanides whose original act of intercourse produced the egg are the "foremother" and "forefather". There is special case: a female Titanide may use semen from her ventral penis to produce an egg, transferring it by hand. If the egg is made fertile, she may then implant it in herself and quicken it with the same source of semen. The resulting offspring is a clone of the mother. Semen from the ventral penis can only produce an egg in the same individual who produces the semen. This is the so-called "Aeolian Solo" method of reproduction.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2013 03:30 |
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Aston posted:Does anybody have good recommendations for time travel books? Just heard about this today: quote:The Time Traveler's Almanac Want to see the table of contents? quote:FICTION (apparently that's not the final order, they've just listed the stories alphabetically by author) To be honest an 800 page anthology is not for me because I would never, ever loving finish the thing. But if you want time travel SF, then, gently caress, it should have all bases covered. edit: it comes out March 2014 though Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Aug 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 03:08 |
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Rurik posted:I got Perdido Street Station a few days ago and it's really, really good. The best book I probably read this year. Isaac is clearly Hedrigall posted:Chiwetel Ejiofor if he eats like 40 cakes.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2013 23:21 |
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General Battuta posted:If any of you are into short fiction I have a piece up on Strange Horizons, one of my favorite pro markets. Even comes with a podcast! I see you are a fan of Kij Johnson
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 23:46 |
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Nondescript Van posted:Am I correct in thinking the plot of 2312 is very similar to Blue Remembered Earth? I just started to former and it so far seems like a repeat. They both came out very close to each other last year and the consensus back then was "Don't read them one after another". I read them a year or so apart, personally. And it's true, both start with the death of a grandmother that leads to a journey of discovery around the solar system. But then they diverge quite a lot, so don't worry. 2312 does the "tour of the solar system" a lot better, I must say. That book is so full of imagination and beauty. I loved it. Reynolds' book is more of his standard thrill ride fare, the settings being imaginative but taking a backseat to the plot; whereas Robinson's style is slow and ponderous and leisurely. It's all about the settings, the plot is almost inconsequential. You can't really rush through 2312, you have to savour morsels of it at a time. Some people HATE the characters though. Personally I didn't find Swan too bad, and I really loved Warham. I also refer you to what I said earlier in this thread about 2312: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3554972&userid=133813#post417005969 ... it really is a divisive novel and, in my opinion, unfairly maligned.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2013 15:29 |
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I'm nearly finished The Uplift War by David Brin. It's good but not as good as Startide Rising - probably just because I like the fins more than the chims. I wanted to ask though (please no spoilers) do the central mysteries get answered in the second trilogy? Or is more of a side story? It definitely sounds like a side story from the blurbs I've read. By the time I finish this six book series will I know definitively: a) about the Progenitors, b) who uplifted humanity (if anyone), c) exactly what the Streaker found, and d) what happened to the Streaker and its crew after Startide Rising? Or has Brin yet to write all of that?
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2013 06:08 |
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AreYouStillThere posted:Oh, well poo poo. I picked up Mortal Engines from the library assuming it would be the best place to start. Is it that big a deal? Should I send it back and get Fever Crumb? Relax, Mortal Engines is the first book and is great. Fever Crumb is a recent prequel. Don't ever, ever listen to people who tell you to read a book series in internal chronological order. What would you recommend to people to watch first: A New Hope or The Phantom Menace?
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2013 01:29 |
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specklebang posted:I would hope that instead of taking your advice which is to "never ever, ever listen to tell you to read a book series in chronological order", a completely pointless comment that contributed nothing and uses completely unrelated examples, and instead read some books in chronological order if they are already published and available that way. Counter: if an author wanted to tell a story a particular way, he/she would have written it in that order.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2013 03:06 |
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I just discovered the story "Scales" by Alastair Reynolds. It's a super short (less than 2000 words) and succinct "gently caress you" to the entire Military SF genre, and it's got a great ending.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 03:54 |
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Wait, people don't like American Gods? I'm one of the most critical assholes in this thread and I can't think of anything bad to say about it. It's meandering, Shadow is a personality-less main character, and Neil Gaiman is clearly better at writing comics than prose. Plot is still hella-fun though.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 04:35 |
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4th book
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 10:38 |
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Groke posted:Jo Walton is a clever and funny person and pretty much everything she writes is worth reading; I used to hang out on a few of the same Usenet groups as her back in the day and we all thought it was pretty when she got her first book published. This reminds me she has one or two books out that I haven't read yet. Let me grab my Kindle... I'm really excited for her new book coming out in January: blurb posted:As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2013 14:47 |
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I only read books by neutrois writers
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 02:29 |
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Cardiac posted:I would say The Scar by Mieville. It's set in the same world as Perdido Street Station, but completely stand-alone. It's a loving fantastic book. I was doing a chapter-by-chapter analysis blogging thing but kinda gave up around chapter 30 because You should totally come post in the Miéville thread. It's dying because there's been no book news since Railsea came out
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 10:00 |
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Seldom Posts posted:You could've discussed Dial H, but you didn't and now it's cancelled AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. Dial H was awesome, and the team in the last few issues (Open Window Man et al) were really cool! There's a coda issue coming out this month, a last hurrah for Miéville and Dial H: http://www.dccomics.com/comics/justice-league-2011/justice-league-233-dial-e
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 13:24 |
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Does anyone know why Greg Egan doesn't allow photos of himself to appear anywhere online? My guess is he's monstrously fat.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2013 02:48 |
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fookolt posted:The first five Discworld books are $1.99 each on the Kindle daily deal for today I was so loving excited about this because I'm amassing all the Discworld books on my Kindle and I don't have any pre-Guards! Guards! books yet. But the deal isn't available for Australian kindle owners
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 09:17 |
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BrosephofArimathea posted:On occasion, I have travelled to the US. I've heard of books being deleted from people's accounts, or accounts being deactivated, for this.
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 10:25 |
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Jurassic Park is entirely lovely science, lovely characters, lovely plotting. I'll give Crichton credit for the concept, and that's about all. The sequel is far worse in all categories. One of the few cases where the movie far outshines the book and pretty much replaces any need for the book to exist.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 12:37 |
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8one6 posted:Thanks. I'm only about 80 pages in so far and I'm already starting to get a feel for how Crichton uses science. How did you like the bit where the cloning is being discussed by the adults, but it conveniently switches to Tim's bored/distracted POV every time there's a bit of science Crichton didn't bother researching?
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 13:24 |
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Stuporstar posted:I have yet to check out Ian Banks. He seems like one of those authors I'd want to make a project out of reading. Right now I'm doing that with Margaret Atwood, so Banks will have to wait his turn. Ancillary Justice is pretty good, not amazing though. Kind of like a slightly more plodding Iain M Banks (and if the Culture were an evil slave-driving empire). The stuff about being a ship's AI for hundreds of years, then suddenly being reduced to one human body, is very prominent and cool though, so it's right up your alley. Also it's book 1 of a trilogy, so be warned if you don't like starting not-yet-finished series. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Nov 11, 2013 |
# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 01:22 |
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Hannibal Rex posted:I read Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo, because I was desperately looking for anything even remotely similar to Blindsight; I absolutely can't recommend it. Try Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear. Personally, for my space horror fix I can't wait for next March's The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher: the blurb posted:Adam Christopher’s dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Nov 11, 2013 |
# ¿ Nov 11, 2013 03:16 |
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Hannibal Rex posted:I would like an opinion on Alistair Reynolds. I've read several of his books and short stories. And while I like the setting, I have a pretty huge problem with certain of his characters in the longer books. I don't know how to put it succinctly; he seems to have no idea how to write a convincing 'tough' character. I like his hard science background, but at his worst, his characters literally seems like some shut-in astronomy nerd's idea of tough guys. And when assassins and mercenaries are some of the major characters, that becomes a pretty glaring problem. Not the only one, but I picked this because it's exemplary. The human interaction in general is pretty weak. One night, the main character takes some aristocrat who hunts people for fun hostage, the next day she helps him and becomes his trusted friend, more or less. Both Revelation Space and especially Chasm City had this problem, so I'm a bit leery of continuing the series. The next book is Redemption Ark and it's my favourite of the series. You'll hear a lot of crap heaped on the final book, Absolution Gap, but I liked that one too, even if it takes a hard left turn into new territory. You've yet to meet some of the best and most memorable characters of the series, in my opinion. One of my very favourite characters of the series has a minor part in RA, then pretty much is the main character of AG, and he's also a talking pig . Did you not like Volyova though? She's one of the absolute standout characters of the series.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 01:36 |
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Mustang posted:Anyone know any good sci-fi books that involve archaeologists studying or exploring the ruins of an alien civilization? Revelation Space features xenoarchaeology driving its main mystery. It's mysterious and spooky and brilliant.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2013 07:34 |
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quote:In The Magician’s Land, the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—on-sale from Viking on August 5—Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. Released August 5, 2014
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2013 11:59 |
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mdemone posted:It's not bad. More straightforward and thriller-ish than previous work. Believable and interesting characters/setting: climbers set out to recover something from Everest in 1925 amidst secrecy and intrigue. That sounds hilarious. I kind of want to read it now.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2013 23:15 |
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Tenacious J posted:I need a recommendation. If you haven't read them already, the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds is long and engrossing: you get a main trilogy, two prequel novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of novellas. Moreover, they're dark, gothic and twisted; full of creepy themes, unknowable alien terrors, and gloomy propositions for the future of humanity. The main ship (Nostalgia For Infinity) is like a haunted cathedral in space. The plot is like a darker version of Mass Effect (in fact the series apparently inspired the creators of Mass Effect). They're loving great, absolutely my favourite SF series. edit: for posterity, the books are: Revelation Space Redemption Ark Absolution Gap (read these 3 in order) Chasm City (prequel, probably best read between the 1st and 2nd book of the trilogy) The Prefect (prequel, read after the main series) Galactic North (8 short stories, IMO best read either just before or just after Absolution Gap) Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2 novellas, read at any time) Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Dec 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Dec 9, 2013 01:31 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 03:31 |
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fookolt posted:Wait, what about Bas Lag? :o That's my favourite fantasy series! and i know, new weird crosses genres blah blah bluh bluh, but Bas-Lag is definitely more fantasy than SF
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2013 02:13 |