The Science Fiction and Fantasy Thread: Read the OP, Bridge of Birds, and Murderbot

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General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

I should probably have one but I don�t. Are they actually the kind of thing real people can afford?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 03:03

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 12:18

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Of course I�ve never received any royalties either thanks to the miracles of joint accounting :v:

Which is unrelated to regular accounting entirely and basically means �every book in your contract must earn out before you get royalties for any of them.�

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 03:05

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

You�d get royalties once the royalties from the first two books covered the advance for the third.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 04:38

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Man if I�ve got a couple hundred bucks that�s going to the rent, not paying some guy to fill out 1040ES. I had enough recently to buy new shoes!

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 05:49

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

This might be considered blasphemy considering the thread I am in, but is the movie version of Solaris a faithful or at least good adaption? The Clooney one, I think.

No, it�s more about Space Feelings, but I like it a lot anyway

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 17:40

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

MockingQuantum posted:

I (finally) just finished Too Like The Lightning, which was a very roller-coaster ride for me. I went from not enjoying it to really enjoying it to kind of being bored to very curious about some of the bigger mysteries at play. How are the other two books? I'm probably going to continue with the trilogy but might take a break between books unless someone tells me they're fantastic.

They're good, in my opinion! The third one a little less so, but still very good. The twist near the end of 2 Like 2 Lightning does not make the whole story nearly as stupid and obnoxious as I feared it was going to: specifically the series does not devolve into endless cosplay philosophy sex

e: Ada Palmer should write The Good Place The Novel

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 19:01

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Ahh the best game, and genuinely one of my favorite SF narratives in any medium. It�s an incredible deconstruction of the Independence Day archetype.

The FreeSpace Open upgrade is easier than ever, and gives you twenty years worth of bug fixes, graphical updates, and fan campaigns. The mod I worked on, Blue Planet, even comes with a remastered version of the original campaign that enables some unfinished features and improves the worst missions.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 21:08

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Don�t make people think about poop before even opening the thread guys

# ¿ Sep 26, 2019 15:53

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

quantumfoam posted:

-A lot of Big Name authors have recently been revealed as sex predators or worse. That kind of discussion is OK in here, no one published (especially your favorite authors) is without blame.

I'm without blame :shobon:

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 16:06

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I'm reading Declare by Tim Powers, and I'm wondering if it gets better or the payoff is worth it?

Right now the story is just spy and counter spy and counter spy spy shenanigans (that aren't really that much fun). It's kinda boring. Will the payoff of THE HORRORS HE'S SEEN be worth the read or is it gonna be some lame rear end Lovecraftian "OH poo poo MY ANCESTOR hosed A MONKEY GOD" kinda thing?

I've heard good things about the book, but honestly it's kinda boring right now. I'll push through if it gets better though.

It�s fantastic almost all the way through but if you�re not enjoying it already maybe it�s not for you.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2019 16:31

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

Second person worked in Raven Tower, I�m sure it can work here.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2019 19:35

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 12:18

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

I told the editor to his face the marketing sucks (sorrrrry Carl) and he very patiently explained that the point is to use simple, shareable, meme-level hooks to get attention so people will read the actual copy. I�m not sold totally but it makes a kind of sense.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2019 03:29

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