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This needed a new thread?  Okay.In the previous thread someone mentioned a fantasy book in which royalty ruling due to divine grace gets wiped out in a revolution. Things turn sour cause the divinity thing was true. It sounded interesting, what's the name of the book? Another question: I liked Reynolds' novel Pushing Ice a lot. Any similar sf books about people trying to colonize or survive on a comet/lifeless rock in space?
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ZerodotJander posted:That was Promise of Blood, by Brian McClellan.  specklebang posted:http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-ebook/dp/B009IEXKXI/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371767996&sr=8-1 is about an astronaut that gets left behind alone on Mars. Seems to be unavailable on Kindle for some strange reason but I own it and would be happy to loan it to you.  That would be really friendly, but I'm not sure how practical it'd be, since I live in Finland. Postal fees might be quite expensive.Play posted:Why wouldn't it? The old thread had a crappy OP, was hundreds of pages long, and was beginning to go into about the 50th cycle of the exact same thing. I'm of the humble opinion that its nice to renew things every once in a while, give people a chance to actually read the thread. I read A Deepness when I was a teenager, but I didn't like it. It felt a bit out of place or I just didn't grasp it. There was too little science for a space opera in it (I had just found Alastair Reynolds and he was the model for space opera I wanted). Granted, I was a teen back then and maybe I'd like the book more now, but there's still way too many books I haven't read yet, so I doubt I'm rereading books anytime soon.
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I got Perdido Street Station a few days ago and it's really, really good. The best book I probably read this year. My only problem is that I've been watching a lot of Family Guy recently and since Isaac is described as really fat I can't stop imagining him looking like Peter Griffin.
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coyo7e posted:I'm putting forward the idea that the majority of people who complain so vocally about this are American and raised christian or were heavily influenced by christian values on sexuality, so they get uncomfortable, regardless. Yeah, as a Finn my reactions to sex scenes have been "aha, a sex scene" and "huh, a weird sex scene" at most, and I've read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Which brings me to Perdido Street Station (it had the protagonist loving a bug-headed woman after all) which I finally finished. The book was really good. It's not every day you find an author whose style you instantly like and really evokes your imagination. Perdido was the first book I've read by China Mieville and I'm eagerly waiting for the next. I'm taking a little break before that though, since I ploughed through Perdido at a much higher speed than I usually read. The book was pretty exhaustive, I think reading it came even to my dreams. I liked how for the first 300 pages or so the reader couldn't even know what the story would be about. I think that's about when the caterpillars were introduced and the first slake-moth escaped. I dislike it when books are about "thing A" - how it is introduced, what's it about and how it's resolved. Perdido was about thing A at first (Yagharek and how to make him fly) only to turn to be about an entirely different thing about 300 pages in, thing B being the slake-moths. It makes the whole thing more believable: real life isn't about neatly organized topics either but things lead to other things. I liked the weirdness of the book, the setting and the world. Different races were definitely original and not some slender elves and dwarves with Scottish accent. At the same time they were presented in a believable manner, which was a solid strength of the book and Mieville's writing. My favorite character was the Weaver. I like it when such a powerful, dangerous and unpredictable force happens to ally surprisingly with the protagonists. The book also disturbed me more than fantasy usually does. The slake-moths and their effects were presented in a manner that made them appear especially dangerous and nasty. This is one of the reasons I'm not eager to dive into another Mieville book right now. I have no reason to expect he writes only "terrible monsters nobody can protect themselves against destroy people completely" kind of horror stories, but this was a pretty strong first impression. I do expect however that the world is described as just as vile and hopeless in his other books as it is in Perdido. The descriptions of filth, pollution and poverty were powerful, and the way the militia terrorized the population and broke the strike depressive to read. This kind of stuff is too strong for me to take in in too large doses too soon. Anyway, an excellent book. One of the best I've read this year or, really, read.
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