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ToxicFrog posted:This is the one titled "Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged"? Yes. Inconveniently, they're actually endnotes, so you have to have both books open to use them... Note that these are editors' and translator's footnotes, not part of the actual novel.
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May 12, 2019 13:27
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Neurosis posted:Now I'm trying to remember what that book is about former Soviet science propaganda writers finding that the future they wrote of was starting to come true. A fairly recent one, I think, that I thought sounded interesting but never got around to reading. Google isn't helping me out, anyone have any ideas? Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts? A very cool dude.
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May 16, 2019 17:03
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my bony fealty posted:Found a signed copy of Neveryóna at the shop down the street from me today and had to buy. Doesn't matter that I haven't read Tales of Nevèrÿon first, right? gently caress yoooouuuuuuuuuuuu Content: charts of how many Goodreads reviews award-nominated f/sf novels have: https://sf.ersatzculture.com/award-charts/ NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Lem's Microworlds update: This is still true-ish, allowing for hyperbole. I looked up the novel Hugo nominees recently and was surprised to see that, across several decades, the nominees were only about half a dozen books into their career. The "elder statesmen" tended to do poorly.
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May 28, 2019 14:34
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Beachcomber posted:Time travelling from page 616 to ask the following questions. They look that way, but they're actually the immature form of a type of demon. quote:What does a teckla look like? I know they're supposedly timid. They're sentient mobile shrubs, you'll find out more in book 5 I think. quote:What does a dzur look like? I've been imagining like a carnivorous goat. Yep.
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May 29, 2019 07:16
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pseudanonymous posted:It's really too bad there's no way to keep track of recommendations or something. I mean someone could do it in the OP but that's a lot of work. There's two problems on top of the amount of work. One is deciding what counts as a recommendation - is listing every time a book is recommended worthwhile? The second is that nobody seems to read the op. Also, read James Tiptree Jr.
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Jun 21, 2019 14:40
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You're not thinking of The Three Body Problem, are you?
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Jul 12, 2019 12:57
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Wright also made an idiot of himself by offering to give people ebooks of his newly published novels in exchange for donations. No wonder he has to publish with Castalia House now. E: Ash is really good and it's a terrible shame it lost a major award (BSFA?) to Perdido Street Station. E2: Oh yeah, the Clarke. Thanks! Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Aug 9, 2019 06:03
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Anyone have any favorites of Diana Wynne Jones they can recommend? I've read Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin, but she's written so many books I'm not sure where to look next. Of the Chrestomanci books: Lives of Christopher Chant, Charmed Life, and Witch Week - Lives last, I think. It's more serious than the other two, and makes a good comparison to Charmed Life. Dalemark: Cart and Cwidder is weak, but The Spellcoats and Drowned Ammet are good. I didn't get into The Crown of Dalemark. Solos: The Ogre Downstairs (read the Greek), The Time of the Ghost, Fire and Hemlock, Hexwood, Dogsbody, Archer's Goon. And the recommendations you already got are good, too. She wrote a lot of great stuff. Also be sure to read this autobiographical essay: https://web.archive.org/web/20120522071720/http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/autobiog.htm
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Aug 10, 2019 07:45
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occamsnailfile posted:Also since nobody else mentioned them, A Tale of Time City and Eight Days of Luke. Like, well, you can't go really wrong with Jones has been my experience. Some of her books are definitely better than others but I can't recall any that I really just didn't like, though at the time I was reading her most there were some that were out of print and hard to come by. I don't remember A Tale of Time City well; Eight Days of Luke was OK but slight, more for children than some of her other books. Rand Brittain posted:Most of her later stuff was pretty weak, honestly. I don't think I've recommended anything she wrote after about 2000. The Howl sequels were especially disappointing. I finally read Throne of the Crescent Moon and god how was it nominated for a Hugo. It's a mess.
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Aug 11, 2019 04:29
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anilEhilated posted:Were they? I honestly consider Castle in the Air one of my favorite Wynne-Joneses. Each to her own, but I found them a disappointment after the brilliance of the original. quote:Regarding the Hugo question - have you seen the ballots for last couple of years? Ah, this reminds me of the time I worked out how experienced* Best Novel nominees were. Turns out the average nominee was about five books into their career, which I found surprisingly small - there were quite a few debuts, too. *in terms of how many books they'd previously published
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Aug 13, 2019 15:41
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Re science fiction/fantasy cookbooks, there's a Sten one, and an Aubrey/Maturin one too.
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Aug 18, 2019 15:56
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Yikes, that's terrible.PupsOfWar posted:GRRM trying to keep all the appetizers to himself Rubbish, he's too busy running the losers' party. E: not a burn, it's a real thing, though of course I don't know if he's involved every year: http://fancyclopedia.org/hugo-losers-party Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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Aug 19, 2019 04:52
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Two other big ones are the heirs not caring about, or actively hating, the author or their works. I've heard this is why none of Mike Ford's books are being reprinted.
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Sep 23, 2019 17:05
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freebooter posted:Anybody getting any revenue from a literary estate in the first place surely has an accountant. Hahaha. No.
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Sep 24, 2019 02:45
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This thread's getting a bit long in the tooth, so I'm going to close it in four pages' time. Who wants to write the OP for the new one?
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Sep 26, 2019 02:01
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quantumfoam posted:Science Fiction and Fantasy MegaThread 2: Literacy is Overrated You should list the thread rules from here, and the new thread will be the third sf/f thread.
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Sep 27, 2019 07:27
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quantumfoam posted:Ok...here it goes. I don't mind which title you use, it's your call. I just meant it's better to have the thread rules in the OP rather than referring people to a closed thread. This last line doesn't quite make sense, though. I think you mean something more like: -We know some Big Name authors are sex predators or worse. That kind of discussion is OK in here; there are no sacred cows. E for content: A Proper Uppercut posted:Has anyone read through Naomi Novik's Temeraire books? They are, like a goon said, fairly formulaic but charming and I like them a fair bit, [/spoiler] I liked the first five and the sixth was terrible so I dropped the series right there. Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 15:06
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Happy to help.General Battuta posted:I'm without blame This is what I meant... The other thing was that it's hardly recent in many cases.
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Sep 27, 2019 16:52
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has anyone in here read The Dragon Waiting by John M Ford? I'd never heard of it until stumbling across it in goodreads today, and historical fiction with vampires sounds... yeah, silly, but this one sounds cool. Especially when it's described like this: It's a very unusual and ambitious book. It takes a long time for the main plot to get started, and the structure is quite disjointed; the first five chapters are essentially four short stories. And there are some bits which are so obscure as to be a fault in the telling. On the other hand, it's vivid, gory, humane, and has a pretty unusual setting. I recommend it. You might find this useful if you've read the novel: https://eblong.com/draconc/index.html (Oh, the Charles Williams quotations are ironic; they're from his Arthurian poetry, in which Byzantium is essentially the City of God on earth.) Shouldn't that Star Wars reference be Star Trek, by the way?
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Sep 29, 2019 14:25
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Also, it's pretty much the first modern "urban fantasy" written, unless you count things like Dracula. I'm not sure what you mean here... There's plenty of urban fantasy, similar to the stuff being published today, that came out before it. Great news on the Susannah Clarke novel though.
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New thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3900237&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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