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Solitair posted:Has anybody tried to do an online read-through of Anderson's Dune books for the purpose of mocking them, or an in-depth analysis of why they're awful? They tried and died.
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mewse posted:Lets have a big bonfire of all the lovely books You can't do that! I only own Baru Cormorant on Kindle!
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Despite the hundreds of books I've read, Bill the Galactic Hero is still my favorite book. That's a hilarious name for a ship.
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team overhead smash posted:You encounter a book written in the second person. I turned to page 210 and people were still talking about Wheel of Time then.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:All these slams/references versus the 2nd person narrative in Leckie's Raven Tower read like Infocom text adventure messages....and make me want to play Infocom text adventure games. Hitch-Hiker's Guide has a pretty good novelisation.  Joking aside, I'd read a novelisation of The Lurking Horror or Planetfall for sure.
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General Battuta posted:I finished* the third Baru book today Got a title yet? It's not finished until you have a title. Re: FTL - my favourite quote on the subject is from Ray Bradbury, who simply said "There are rockets in my stories. You don't need to know how they work."
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It will still need loads of editing but it's a nice milestone, especially after that stupid lovely second one took so many years.
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Ben Nevis posted:Got the new G Willow Wilson from the library and I'm hype. GWW launched a new indie comic series either this week or last, if you didn't already know.
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Clark Nova posted:Emphatically no. Consider Phlebas was written a good decade before the other Culture novels and the tone is a bit different. Player of Games is the most frequently recommended starting point It's also a frequently recommended stopping point. The Culture novels suffer badly from the presence of the Minds; they're too much of a restriction on the agency of the characters, and have all the problems encountered when a writer tries to create a character more intelligent than they are.
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Mar 22, 2019 13:21
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:David Gemell. If you want to read about a dude who solves his problems with an axe, Druss the legend is there for you. Seconding Gemmell, and you should start with Legend. Be sure to donate your Abercrombie books to charity first, though, as otherwise you'll be burning them.
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Mar 27, 2019 10:27
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General Battuta posted:Please don’t mail authors anything without checking in before, it’s frightening. All we want is the title of Baru 3, we told you.
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Mar 29, 2019 17:32
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I was wondering why Kadath was on the 1944 slate, but then I remembered it was published posthumously. Didn't think it was 1944 though. General B - serious suggestion for once, but would The Devil work for book 3?
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Apr 3, 2019 15:47
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I seem to remember some good spaceship firing torpedo action in Dread Empire's Fall, but I can't confirm that it's a major part, it was some time ago. There's a number of major space battles, yes. It's also interesting to see people developing strategies after being part of a navy serving an alien race that quashes all independent thought, has fought no genuine wars in centuries and whose sole tactic is planetary bombardment with neutron bombs. (More accurately, it's interesting to see what happens when you take the US armed forces and cube them.)
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Apr 5, 2019 10:04
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PupsOfWar posted:this reminds me Williams is doing a new Dread Empire trilogy now! I didn't know that, but I liked the first one. Does anyone know what the differences are between the original editions of Dread Empire's Fall and the author preferred text?
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Apr 9, 2019 17:24
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mllaneza posted:Speaking of short story collections, I'm going through N.K. Jemisin's "How long 'til black future month ?" collection and goddamn these are good. Do they peak just before White Future Month?
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Apr 28, 2019 22:30
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xcheopis posted:I'm so disappointed with the series that I don't think I made it past book six (six, ffs!). The ridiculous covers aren't helping. The Book Barn › The SF&F Thread: so disappointed with the series I didn't make it past book 6
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pseudanonymous posted:But then what would you call it? Pitchblende (not really accurate). You kind of have to assume that all words are really translations from some other language or something like that, it's part of the suspension of disbelief. It's slightly jarring when the first book referred endlessly to tribadism. I assumed that was because lesbianism is named for Lesbos - although General B is welcome to correct me on that.
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May 17, 2019 11:13
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I've never read any of the Honor Harrington books, but I'm getting the impression that having read Dread Empire's Fall I don't need to bother.
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Megazver posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series perhaps? That's the biggest Golden Age of Scifi series I can think of. I know it's been answered, but even having never read Lensman it became obvious when the planetary ping pong was mentioned. The series is infamous for its weapons escalation.
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Jun 6, 2019 10:38
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Kesper North posted:Is it still running? It's fabulous but I remember some controversy between the writer/artist team. Not unless it's the kind of controversy that revolves around going to their wedding. Saga has always been published six months on and three off to allow Fiona Staples time to decompress. The book is currently on a one-year break so that BKV and Fiona can take some more family time. It's due to resume in August.
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Jun 8, 2019 10:28
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IYKK posted:The Lord Weird Slough Feg took their name from the main villain of the comic book Slaine. There's a possible recommendation for you, MockingQuantum, if comic books are your thing. Quite over the top and metal-y. There's about fifteen volumes of it now, though, and while I do not think it too many the ones after the first sequence aren't numbered.
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Jun 11, 2019 22:57
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anilEhilated posted:Welcome to any Lukyanenko ever. I don't recall any of that in the Watch series.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Butcher has a Big Deal pub in the Dresden Files named McAnally's, after its owner, McAnally. But that requires reading the Dresden Files. I got given the first one for free with a magazine, and don't know why anyone would read them if they could read Felix Castor or Rivers of London.
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Sibling of TB posted:Oh man! I've been digging it so far despite the flak it's gotten here, but I'm 53% through it. If there's one thing to hate about Kindles, it's the sudden burst of precision that has replaced "about 80 pages in".
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Jun 18, 2019 18:32
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fordan posted:I'm not sure it's the new author so much as the new author coming in around the inflection point in the series where plot lines stop expanding and you start getting payoff. The series runs into an issue where there's so many plot lines to follow that you are jumping all over the place for different points of view that things seem to drag to a stop, culminating in Crossroads of Twilight which spends around a thousand pages covering I think around 48 hours in-world time. Yeah, and don't think his fandom let it go. If you think you have a problem, you should have tried reading in real time. It was worse than Game of Thrones - not only did one character disappear for five years, books were still being published. Reading after the fact is a lot smoother because you can at least see how Jordan was doing what Martin has proven unable to do: writing himself back into position to finish the story.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:not enough to get Battuta a win There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Masquercard.
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PupsOfWar posted:Also, historical fiction is chill a lot of the time, so you could try rustling up some Edith Pargeter or something If you're going to recommend Edith Pargeter, you should start with the Brother Cadfael Mysteries that she wrote as Ellis Peters. They're a series of stories set during the Anarchy about a former Crusader who became a monk and finds a talent for solving crimes.
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General Battuta posted:I’m in final substantive edits on Baru 3, there’s a lot left to do and it’s way too long but I think I’m gonna be happy with it in a way I really wasn’t with the second The Untitled Baru Cormorant. Or as we call it over here, The Untitled.
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branedotorg posted:David gemmell would be a nice step from those ones. You have to pick your series, though, and ideally the two main ones aren't read in either publication order or continuity order. If you're starting Gemmell, you either do the Rigante or Troy books first or you start with Legend and Wolf in Shadow then ask for advice.
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Groke posted:This is the guy who fantasized out loud about wanting to punch Terry Pratchett. After Pterry was diagnosed with PCA, no less.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:You can reuse them short-term but you'd probably want to swap them out, if only because the vanilla bean would probably mold after a few days. The recipe makes one cup of coffee but it's *really* strong -- there's a reason they serve turkish coffee in tiny tiny cups -- and deceptively smooth for the strength. Is that Inn At The Crossroads?
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PupsOfWar posted:sometimes when people are telling me a real hard luck story ("i got evicted without cause and am homeless now", "my workplace forces me to work 70 hour weeks via mandatory overtime", etc) i feel i must remind them of the true meaning of suffering And their nipples went spung!
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