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Haerc posted:Anyone know of books similar to House of Suns? I really enjoyed it as well. There's obviously Thousandth Night, if you didn't read that before House of Suns.
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In my head, Magician is still the best fantasy book I've ever read.
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Jul 18, 2013 14:21
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savinhill posted:I just finished House of Suns, before that I read Terminal World as I wanted to try out some of Alastair Reynold's non-Revelation Space novels. I liked both of them a lot. What are peoples' opinions of his other non-RS material? I really enjoyed Blue Remembered Earth. Was nice seeing the trademark Reynolds stuff, only confined to the solar system in the not-that-far distant future. Looking forward to the second, especially since it seems to have some generation ship goodness. Pushing Ice was the latest book of his I've read. I liked it, even if it's nowhere near as good as you'd think if would be if you read a synopsis. If that makes sense. I haven't read Terminal World but, from what I gather, it's generally considered his worst by far, so if you liked that, I assume you'll like all his stuff.
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Aug 2, 2013 13:07
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Talking of Reynolds, his new book is out this week. I enjoyed Blue Remembered Earth, but I can't, erm, Remember much of how it ended. Did the grandmother fake her death and instead fly away in the first ever starship? Maybe something about our heroes having the choice of sharing that technology with the world?
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Sep 24, 2013 13:06
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I like non-FTL poo poo, but it's not because I dislike FTL-magic. It's because it can involve interesting stuff like generation ships and, to give a specific example, the awesome near-lightspeed chase in Redemption Ark.
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Sep 25, 2013 14:39
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Nondescript Van posted:I was also wondering if anybody has any idea when "On the Steel Breeze" will be released as an ebook. It already is. Kindle version, anyway.
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Oct 7, 2013 12:18
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shrike82 posted:Are you in the UK? The US store shows it as unavailable for me at least. Yeah, UK. Seems really silly that ebooks don't get worldwide releases.
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Oct 7, 2013 15:04
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syphon posted:I just finished Feist's Magician's End. It is (supposedly) the last Midkemia book he will write, and has a somewhat bittersweet ending (both Pug and Tomas die). Christ, Pug and Tomas were still alive?. I too have very fond memories of Magician, but seeing as the last book I read was Talon of the Silver Hawk, I can't see me catching up, somehow.
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Oct 23, 2013 14:01
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I'm reading On the Steel Breeze now, and enjoying it, but man, it is definitely an Alastair Reynolds book, alright. A community on an asteroid flying thorough inter-stellar space, a malevolant AI ghost in the machine, a main character who clones herself so she can explore different parts of the universe then share those memories with her other clones.....
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Mar 7, 2014 17:09
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Fried Chicken posted:I thought that wasn't out until this summer? Been out since early autumn in the UK, anyway.
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Mar 8, 2014 18:23
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Talking about the Goodread awards, anything, erm, good in there? I see City of Stairs, which I'm currently enjoying, but there also seems to be some questionable stuff in there as well.
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Dec 3, 2014 14:38
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Really liked City of Stairs, how's his other work? Specifically, I'm looking at American Elsewhere and The Troupe.
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Dec 22, 2014 13:54
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Talking of which, Radio 4 are currently doing a version of Good Omens
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Dec 24, 2014 03:01
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Are you loving serious? Are we going to be looking at DLC FOR BOOKS NOW? Edit: Wikipedia lists it as a short story. Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Dec 24, 2014 12:55
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epub-mobi conversion is as uncomplicated as it gets.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:36
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People have been saying 'the only way to make an adaptation of X Series is as an animation' for everything, for years. Off the top of my head, it's never happend (apart from that Lord of the Rings movie). I don't think they're going to start now.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:27
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'd rather just read a book and enjoy it, than see an author photo and have that ruin the experience. Sometimes it's a good idea to look at the author photo so that you get the reflex of putting the book down, though. 
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Feb 25, 2015 14:46
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Speaking of VanderMeer - can anyone suggest any other books about spooky places full of mystery and weird poo poo that the protagonists explore? House of Leaves, Blindsight, STALKER and the Southern Reach books are all the kind of thing I'm talking about here. Alastair Reynolds' novella Diamond Dogs.
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Mar 5, 2015 17:03
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Just finished and enjoyed Son of the Morning, but was I the only one who found it contained a lot of jarring tonal shifts? It would be all serious fantasy alternative history one minute and then an Osbert POV chapter would come along that felt like it had been subcontracted out to Terry Pratchett.
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Mar 11, 2015 15:22
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RndmCnflct posted:Burned through Three-Body Problem in an evening, really good. Since this seems to be the current hotness in this thread, probably worth mentioning it's going for a measly £1.79 on amazon.co.uk at the moment.
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Mar 27, 2015 14:41
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Do they still get mad if you lie about your region to buy things? Because they won't let me purchase it. I'm not sure how it works with books to be honest. I have no trouble buying game keys from amazon.com from the UK with a credit card and a random US hotel as my billing address. It might be different if you're using what you're buying on an amazon provided service though.
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Mar 27, 2015 16:09
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Looking forward to starting the new Alastair Reynolds tonight, so I had a quick scan of his blog. This tickled me:quote:Actually, due to one of those inevitable snafus, the wrong version of the flap text ended up on the final copies, mispelling Ndegi's name and mentioning such things as faster than light travel which never had any place in the intended text. That's like advertising a Cormac Mcarthy book as having speech marks or something.
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Apr 29, 2015 13:20
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Having only just bought a Kindle recently - typically how long is it before a new release like that is available on Kindle? Midnight usually. Hence I'm hoping to get an hour in before bed tonight.
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Apr 29, 2015 14:29
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Yeah, start with Revelation Space (the book). It's just got a bit of everything Reynolds is known for. If you enjoy it, plough ahead with everything else. If you don't enjoy it, still read House of Suns. Fell asleep reading Elmore Leonard last night, so didn't start Poisedon's Wake 
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Apr 30, 2015 11:20
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angel opportunity posted:
The second book contains a load of Reynolds signatures, so you might enjoy it more; (not-really-spoilers): mysterious ancient alien artifacts, approaching-lightspeed warfare in generation ships, malevolent(?) AI ghost in the machine, clones exploring and reporting back....
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Apr 30, 2015 20:19
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angel opportunity posted:Maybe i'll try it sometime... You might dig this; to save time, the generation ships were launched before developing a method to slow down, figuring they'd find a way en-route. So there's this race to come up with the technology before they all overshoot the target and go flying on into inter-stellar space forever.
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Apr 30, 2015 20:26
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I don't remember much about the snake face thing, but weird genetic modification body horror is a big part of the Revelation Space universe (and Al Reynolds books in general), so I certainly didn't mind.
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May 7, 2015 10:46
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Benny the Snake posted:I've been making the rounds on the Urban Fantasy thread and right now I'm growing restless in the genre. I would really appreciate some really good contemporary cyberpunk. For reference, I'm a huge fan of Daniel O'Malley's "The Rook", American Gods, and the Rivers of London Series. I know they're two disparate genres but if I can get something within the same tone or feel, it'd be really awesome. Any recommendations? Thanks a bunch. Edit: Sorry, somehow missed out on the important 'cyberpunk' bit.
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May 26, 2015 11:03
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:The Sword of Truth(I think that's right, its the legend of the seeker books) - I know these supposedly aren't too great, I read there's a bit of emo stuff going on with the characters, but if the world/plot are somewhat interesting I wouldn't mind too bad Forget you've even heard about this series.
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May 26, 2015 23:16
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Any opinions on Vermillion by Molly Tanzer?
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Jun 2, 2015 15:46
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Yeah, that's how it popped up on my radar.
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Jun 2, 2015 16:18
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Ahh Yes posted:So goons, Reynolds has a new book out called Slow Bullets, and James Corey has a new one out for the Expanse series. Where did you get an electronic copy of Slow Bullets? This release is confusing me. Apparently it's out, but the release date isn't until next week? Reynolds tweeted that yesterday was the publication date, is that different from release date? Amazon.co.uk for example is saying I can have the book delivered tomorrow even though the release date is the 9th June. And there's no kindle version available as far as I can see, even though you seem to be able to pre-order a kindle version directly from the publisher. What's going on?
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Jun 3, 2015 13:41
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Huh, maybe a UK kindle version will suddenly appear next Tuesday then. Odd.
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Jun 3, 2015 14:58
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:The fact that the universe ending at some point is a huge, mindblowing fact that the characters had to come to terms with. Not the part where it could happen at any time, mind you, they specifically say that isn't what they have a problem with. Just that the universe will end at all. Isn't the heat death of the universe, with effectively the same result as a vacuum collapse as far as leaving a legacy is concerned, accepted as probably inevitable by cosmologists *today*? It seems like Reynolds actually considered that and came up with "Well it's different to actually KNOW it's going to happen," which strikes me as a pretty lame justification. I feel like I'm missing something. I kinda felt like this too, but yeah, I guess he was going for a complete and utter realisation and understanding of what 'no more universe' means. As you touch on, I think the Terror was also designed from the perspective of the M-Buliders who, by that point, may well have believed they had reached a point where it was feasible for them to live forever. The way Kanu starts to get over it is going back to a more human 'live for the moment' outlook
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Jun 4, 2015 11:42
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People say it's not needed, but reading the two Clavain short stories as prologues to Redemption Ark makes the whole thing much more epic.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:56
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I went into Southern Reach with reviews stating don't expect answers!! echoing in my head, and I was pretty surprised by how much straight up exposition there was in the last book. I thought the way it brought everything together was well done. It even kinda made the second book retroactivelly better.....XBenedict posted:It was less of a finale and more of a "I need to finish this, so let's just take the parts that I cut from the first two, then add some random second-person narrative, because I'm bored with this poo poo". ...so I don't really agree with this at all. It felt to me that he knew where everything was going in the books one and two, and exactly how things would end and be tied up in the final volume. Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 11:17
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Basically, if you're into the RS universe, you are going to want to read Chasm City at some point, so you might as well read everything in published order. Glacial is a direct continuation of Clavain and Co's story from Great Wall, so read that before Redemption Arc. It throws light on a very important character.
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Jul 20, 2015 10:13
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Anyone know what's happening with Stiletto, the sequel to The Rook? I could have sworn it was out this week in the UK (it was definitely July) but it now gives a release of July 2nd 2020 (!), and the only pther dates I can find are January 2016, although that seems to be for the US.
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Jul 21, 2015 10:49
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Quick Aurora question: when they're setting up the colony, and the ship mentions days, is that Earth days or Aurora days? Is a day on Aurora always referred to as daymonth?
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Jul 22, 2015 23:11
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This is quite the long, boring epilogue Aurora has....
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