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Joramun posted:No, I'm on .com and it shows up as "Kindle edition: $7.84" (see screenshot below for proof). It's pretty strange that it doesn't show up for you even when you're logged out, usually that fixes it. I'm not seeing it as available on the .com site either. Strange. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Hedrigall posted:Does anyone know why Greg Egan doesn't allow photos of himself to appear anywhere online? My guess is he's monstrously fat. He's the Thomas Pynchon of painfully characterless science fiction.
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General Battuta posted:Aaaaaaaahhhhahahahhhrhhrhrrghhghhhh quote:She quickly made peace with the situation, even defending her husband from accusations of paedophilia because the 14-year-old "did not impress me as a minor child... I think he would have been old enough to be married in this state legally, so I figured what he did sexually was his own business." What the gently caress.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I've read that article and was aware authors generally don't pick the cover art. What constitutes good art is subjective but I find the general presentation of most genre literature almost repellent and question who the gently caress thought this or that particular cover was attractive enough to make someone more likely to buy the book instead of less. Nerds have bad taste.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:My point was that it's rare to find a sci fi or fantasy book that is a singular book, not part of a series. Fantasy yeah but uh not really for science fiction.
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My big problem with Ancillary Justice was that it was incredibly loving boring.
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General Battuta posted:The Expanse just got extended to nine books. If you haven't jumped ship yet, loving jump ship. 6 was already 3 too many.
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corn in the bible posted:City of Bohane is better than pretty much every pulp fiction book this godforsaken forum loves. Just trying to help. It's alright. I really didn't think it was anything special.
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nightchild12 posted:Speaking of Alistair Reynolds, how is his work outside of the Inhibitor trilogy? I loved Revelation Space, liked Redemption Ark, and disliked Absolution Gap, which are the only three of his works that I have read. After Absolution Gap, I pretty much avoided the reset of his stuff, fearing that I would run into more of the same, but I have heard good things about some of his other stuff. The Prefect and Chasm City are really great.
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neongrey posted:You can't post in this thread that you don't buy Card or Wright without getting nerds coming out of the woodwork saying that they have done nothing bad enough to warrant individuals choosing not to purchase their books. This is really really not true at all and you're being annoying about this. Anyway, I really liked the 4 or so of her stories that I've read, so go read those.
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Bakker writes the most boring grimdarkest grimdark rapefantasy bullshit.
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General Battuta posted:Nah Bakker has strengths and weaknesses. There's a lot of cool poo poo in his writing, he's also really into Mmm I sure do love me some rape, sounds like a great author! Bakker is a loving hack poo poo who writes garbage books, don't read Bakker. Do read Ian MacDonald though. Desolation Road is one of my favorite fantasy works ever. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Oct 26, 2014 |
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and rape. So it's worth considering whether you'll like it before diving in!
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wildfire1 posted:I have to assume he meant gibson. That... makes even less sense.
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andrew smash posted:Has anybody read anything by Paul McAuley? I impulse-bought "Something Coming Through" on amazon a while ago and it's interesting. I'm not very far through it yet but so far I really like what i've seen of his aliens. This book had me hooked for the first third or so but it really goes absolutely nowhere. Was a very disappointing plot tacked on to some interesting world building.
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thehomemaster posted:I Bought wrights book of essays Why would anyone do this?
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Patrick Spens posted:Hilariously enough, various puppies have been pointing to the fact that KJA has never had a Hugo nomination before this year as evidence that the Hugo's are broken. The phrase "titan of in the field" has been used. King poo poo Giant of Mount Turdington deserves this award!
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thehomemaster posted:This makes it seem you wrote City of Stairs? Oops, names mixed up. Cyberabad Days is in the same setting but isn't a sequel to River of Gods at all. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Hedrigall posted:Also, goddamn finally: That thing looks gigantic holy poo poo
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Fart of Presto posted:Anyone know any of the other books? Cat Rambo's shorts are great, she writes beautiful prose for genre fiction. Rusch writes very solid workmanlike space opera. The Diving books are all really fun.
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I'm reading Ian McDonald's new one, Luna: New Moon. It's got really interesting world building but fits his recent trend of depressing as hell characters. I was hoping for more Desolation Road blatant weirdness I guess.
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Neurosis posted:it's luna: new moon i think Haha oops, yeah that one. I'm about 3/4 and have no idea how this plot is going to come together at all.
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I just finished Lavie Tidhar's Central Station and it is fantastic. He builds a world and throws you into it so well, I want more of the universe.
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Groke posted:On an unrelated note, I'm just reading Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald and it's pretty drat good so far... now, I read and loved Desolation Road way back in the day, can someone tell me why the gently caress I haven't read any of his other books since then? Huh? You should! He's one of the greats, imo. Ares Express loses most of the 100 Years of Solitude IN SPACE vibe of Desolation Road but overall probably has a better narrative. Empire Dreams is a short story collection with a few stories in the Desolation Road universe, including a story that makes the Catharine Wheel stuff make way more sense. River of Gods, Brasyl, and The Dervish House are set in near-future India, Brazil, and Turkey respectively and are all really good and not the usual SF setting.
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saphron posted:What else of hers should I read? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography
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anilEhilated posted:I don't know much about Baen's catalog, but anyone that's willing to publish Kratman gotta have a fine sense of appreciation for complete nutjobs. The second book is just as good as the first one. There's a 3rd book written called The Spindle of Necessity. But Valente split with Night Shade Books when they were going under and hasn't said anything about it getting published for a few years now.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:There's only a few people who don't like it, but those fuckers are obnoxiously vocal with their criticisms, and will swan into the thread to rant the minute someone posts something in Malazan's favour. Malazan is really bad and 20,000 pages too long.
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MockingQuantum posted:Now my book club is hashing out some fantasy options, and I'm curious, I feel like I've read here that Terry Goodkind books are really not very good... Or Terry Brooks, I can't remember. Which was it, and why? I've talked the group out of doing any Robert Jordan books because frankly I'm not that interested in Wheel of Time, but they turned to Terry Goodkind as an option when I shot down Jordan. Nobody in the group has read any of his stuff, though. Terry Brooks wrote The Lord of the Rings But Not over and over and over and.... Terry Goodkind is the worst published writer of fantasy fiction and possibly the worst published writer of any type of fiction. Terry Goodkind's death chicken posted:Hissing, hackles lifting, the chicken's head rose. Kahlan pulled back. Its claws digging into stiff dead flesh, the chicken slowly turned to face her. It cocked its head, making its comb flop, its wattles sway. "Shoo," Kahlan heard herself whisper. There wasn't enough light, and besides, the side of its beak was covered with gore, so she couldn't tell if it had the dark spot, But she didn't need to see it. "Dear spirits, help me," she prayed under her breath. The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Punkpunk - taking the aesthetics of the early 80s punk scene but with a thin veneer of pseudo-historical bullshit on top.
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I think some of Asimov's ideas still hold up, but then I also think the Foundation books are some of the most flat, boring things I've ever tried to read. His work feels very much of a certain time and some people won't like that and that's fine.
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Captain_Person posted:The Nebula Award nominees have been announced. I'm catching up the short fiction side of things, have only read a couple of them this round. Here's the ones that are up for free: Novelettes: “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea”, Sarah Pinsker “Blood Grains Speak Through Memories”, Jason Sanford “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong Short Stories: “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander <- this is terrible, how did this get nominated? “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar “Things With Beards”, Sam J. Miller “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0”, Caroline M. Yoachim
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Xotl posted:I generally have no idea what people mean when they use "pulp" nowadays. "Bad"
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anilEhilated posted:The stories in there are mostly pretty great though. Honestly the only two of his books I'd stay away from are Desolation Road and Ares Express, but that's because they're fairly boring compared to his stuff based on actual cultures. They're still not bad, just not that interesting. For another opinion, I think Desolation Road and Ares Express are far and away the best things he's written. Desolation Road is a great Weird Mars version of 100 Years of Solitude.
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fritz posted:FWIW, the Legend of the Galactic Heroes books are being translated, the first few are out. I tried to read the first one of these and it was so loving clunky. I don't know if they are bad translations or just bad writing, but oof. It was so dry and boring.
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Victorkm posted:Guess I should come out from under my rock with all the litrpg I read on Kindle Unlimited. What's wrong with your brain?
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Evil Fluffy posted:The, uh, description for the book in this link is Barry Hughart is a pretty weird dude. He wrote a fantastic first book, 2 follow ups that basically rehashed the first one, and then got fed up with his publishers and basically disappeared. He loving hated his books being labeled as Fantasy/SF. There were originally going to be 7 books with the heroes dying and becoming demi-gods in the finale. Instead he never published anything after 1990.
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my bony fealty posted:Vacuum Flowers is worth the price of admission alone I agree, this one is better 
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The Cthulhu Mythos and the authors homaging it have not produced a single good story. Brian Evenson wrote some good sorta kinda Lovecraft stories.
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cis autodrag posted:I'm one of those idiots that likes to read everything when I read an author so I generally go in pub order to get the weakest out of the way first. What in the. Please don't read books this way.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:Speaking of litRPGs Awaken Online's side book, opened up with the side book protagonist getting a giant level-up notification with stat round-up and blah blah then going ohh yeah the main line protagonist plays told me to turn these off because they are distracting. It then proceeded to not have any stat/loot/level-up/notification stuff until a post-epilogue character page round-up. It felt just like a huge slap to the genre and I loved it. I don't know what any of this means.
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freebooter posted:What's the best SFF book you read this year? Zachary Mason's Void Star. Really good modern cyber-punk.
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