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ulmont posted:Ironic because that wasn't his first book, which (The Human Dress), is the only non-Commonweal book of his. I really liked the Commonweal books (even the less-interesting 2&3), not so much The Human Dress. There was a good core of vikings+dinosaurs+zombies in there but it needed someone to force Saunders to figure out just exactly what book he was trying to write.
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Fried Sushi posted:In that light seems like Garion was actually the villain of the novels. The way I remember the books, the protagonists weren't exactly 'heroes'.
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Carrier posted:In particular, I think the whole Tanner = Cahuella = Sky Haussmann thing seemed a bit ridiculous Reynolds does that plot again and again and again.
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anilEhilated posted:
What were some titles that you think should have gotten a nomination but didn't?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The first few books are genuinely entertaining, and at that point Neil Gaiman and Pratchett hadn't really gotten any American publicity / weren't being marketed here. That would have been the years when Pratchett's US distribution was absent. (After 'Witches Abroad' there was a long gap during which nothing was coming out over here, the very first thing I bought over the internet was a couple UK-only Pratchett books from a specialty bookstore and even then I had to call them on the phone to give them the credit card.) That aside, I don't remember the early 90s being as dire as all that. Even in the category of 'epic-ish fantasy trilogies books' you had Katherine Kerr, Katherine Kurtz, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Robeson, Barbara Hambly, Elizabeth Moon, and Tad Williams.
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StrixNebulosa posted:CJ Cherryh's Heavy Time + Hellburner are local to Sol System, I think. It's been a while. Confirm.
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Beachcomber posted:Just finished Murderbot. Are the authors other books good? They don't really look like my thing, otherwise. "Death of the necromancer" is v. good.
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Solitair posted:Heavy Time is ... also the earliest book in her universe's timeline The new one, 'Alliance Rising', is set earlier. (In HT/HB, the ftl routes to Sol already exist).
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Clark Nova posted:the feeling of being trapped in a situation you barely understand and can’t control is much of the point of the series
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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: I read it a long time ago (20-ish years?) and remember liking it a whole bunch, but I was dumb in those days.
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