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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Science Fiction and Fantasy Thread: Read the OP, Bridge of Birds, and Murderbot
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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
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my bony fealty posted:

Aw hell I just started Torment: Tides of Numenera and now Freescape gotta come out for free

incidentally Tides is a really cool game (I say after 2 hours) very inspired by dying earth fiction, especially Book of the New Sun - there's a cannibalistic cult who eat corpse to absorb their memories - folks here might like it!

It pulls a lot from all of the Dying Earth subgenre - I'd say in many ways it's more fantastic than the New Sun. I greatly enjoyed it and, aside from the Dying Earth aspect, it tickled the part of my brain books like The Quantum Thief and The Golden Age hit - incredibly idea dense. I thought it was underappreciated at release.

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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

https://twitter.com/BloomsburyBooks/status/1178618613693112320

I guess the sequel looking at Childermass, Vinculus and other lower class characters from Jonathan Strange got shelved. Oh well, given I expected nothing I can't complain and this'll be a day one purchase, easily.

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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
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quantumfoam posted:

I know they weren't the greatest but totally ignoring the existence of Roger Zelazny's two Amber series is dirty pool, HA.
The Corwin-Amber series used Earth as the starting-off point and jumped back to Zelazny-Earth three or four times to advance the plot/solve the series mysteries.
The Merlin-Amber series was more Earth focused, plot and characterwise.

Ignoring Kim Newman in total is hilarious too. Kim Newman was one of the vanguards of the modern urban fantasy genre. Newman's writing style literally was and still is "all popular culture/urban legends/movies/books/comics/myths ARE TRUE,", which is the goddamn DEFINITION of "Modern Urban Fantasy" to me.

This reminds me... Newman's new Dracula book is out. Anno Dracula was fun and pretty well written. I haven't read the rest.

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