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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Didn't he write a book where some gay warrior guy ends up getting his nephew or something killed because he volunteered to fight in his place, and then ended up loving an elf or something and it turns out that in elf land time passes WAY FASTER so a night for him was like a week for normal people? Turns out "don't eat anything the elves give you" also applies to elf rear end.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Adrian Tchaikovsky is rapidly cornering the spider POV market
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StrixNebulosa posted:Shame it was written by a child abuser.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:How do people keep track of the books they want to read? I bookmark them in my browser. If I really want to read them, I bookmark them again with a number of `s at the front of the bookmark name depending on how much I want to read them. I may create a new folder for something that sounds extremely cool. I also email them to myself, using ALL CAPS and ``````` in subject lines, and then tagging them in my inbox as important. Sometimes I forward older emails to myself if I stumble across them and decide I really want to read that book. I also screenshot messages in this thread when I'm on my phone, and sometimes email the screenshots to myself. Sometimes I screenshot emails or bookmarks too. Then I read something entirely unrelated and drop it 10% in. edit: read ````````````the blind worm when you see this message you idiot it sounds cool e2: STEEL RFRAME Anserew skinmer 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Peter Watts' Rifters series was....certainly something. And underwater.
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Gravy Jones posted:Is posting that I just opened Imgur and the "most viral" image was a screenshot of a General Battuta tweet off topic? edit it was this one https://twitter.com/sethjdickinson/status/1056962011010121733
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:Next Murderbot apparently got moved to May 5th, not sure what the previous release date was. quote:Have you ever wanted to flex on a necro,
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Steel Frame? More like Steel Really Good.
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MockingQuantum posted:I'm looking to start a long(er) fantasy series for the holiday season because that's when I'm simultaneously my most mentally taxed at work and have the most free time. What are some good longer fantasy series that aren't Discworld, Wheel of Time, or LE Modesitt? Doesn't need to be the greatest books ever known to humankind, just something engaging and fun that'll keep me busy for a while. instead I just read whatever random suggestion here's caught my attention in between stuffing my eyes with web serials and fanfic.
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battlecruisers are fast and have good guns but don't have the armour of the heavier ships
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:how can you be sure battlecruisers go fast and shoot pretty good but explode easy this is why the brave dashing bold best captains in the fleet drive them
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Groke posted:OSC's brain was kiiiiinda pre-broken, I guess. I mean, the cliché about the most vocal homophobes actually being self-hating closeted gays isn't exactly 100% accurate but in his case... on the one hand he's this deeply religious Mormon dude, married with children, arguing not only against the legalization of gay marriage but against the legalization of gay sex itself; then on the other hand he writes stuff like Songmaster which is less heterosexual than some actual gay porn. Dude wrote columns and opinion pieces trying to explain to poor deluded kids who thought they were gay that no, really, every normal straight man feels love for men and contempt for women, and that normal straight people have a duty to find a wife they can tolerate and force themselves to have a sex with a few times while wishing they were hanging out with the men they love, but it's definitely platonic. The devil and your hormones are just confusing you. Like I'm not even exaggerating here. "Oh, homophobes are just closeted gay people" is often wrong and more than a bit homophobic itself, but Card was very clear that he was a normal straight man who like all normal straight men wanted to gently caress and date other men. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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Not sure how this affects the sue maths but here, have a jedao pony: https://twitter.com/deuceofgears/status/745711925367967744
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Naomi Kritzer wrote a (YA) novel sequel to Cat Pictures Please called Catfishing on CatNet. Just thought you should know.
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Bhodi posted:Aubrey–Maturin is so good. I'm on the 5th book in the series and Jack is already old and seasoned so I don't know how he can squeeze 15 more books out of this. That's science fiction, not fantasy.
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gently caress's sake Morgan, but at least Jeff's good. Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Sci-if authors have this extra bone that starts growing and pushing into their brains in their fifties. There is no other explanation It may not be a bone, it could be some awful new organ or something.
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:Let me blow your mind: it's true to say that "human beings have five fingers per hand" not withstanding some fringe cases of six fingered people. We don't need to take the six-fingered lobby seriously and waste time changing social definitions to make them happy, even if we shouldn't be rude to them about their unusual condition.
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Ben Nevis posted:For short stories Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Written and probably sold as Mallory, has since transitioned to Daniel) Yes, the guy from The Toast.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I hadn't heard of Yoon Ha Lee. I looked up his work and it looks interesting. Is Dragon Pearl good? It looks like it's YA, but Korean Space Opera sounds awesome.
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less laughter posted:Iain M. Banks
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Say what you will about reddit, /r/Fantasy does try.
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"Last time I read a female author was Harry Potter" is a hell of a thing. Catfishing on Catnet is a good and cool YA/Tor Teen book and a sequel to Cat Pictures Please. It's largely focused on a kid rather than the AI but there's plenty of danger and animal pictures and road trips and reprogramming a sex ed robot to actually answer questions rather than saying "talk to your parents" about anything other than straight abstinence. Eliezer Yudkowsky would probably not approve.
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I read the attack helicopter story and I guess if you have to write a story inspired by a transphobic meme, at least it's reasonably good and also full of horrifying sf poo poo? Right I'll just go get the dril isis tweet ready to post.
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eke out posted:the octopods in children of ruin are kind of the opposite of a hivemind though?
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Moomins are either science fiction or fantasy or both and are also good and cool books.
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The Take care, General B. Hope things look up soon Baru Cormorant
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freebooter posted:Sorry what's the red flag here? Is it linked to the Nazi 1888 thing? I was born in 1988 too but yeah I'd never put that in my bio. I haven't looked into her beyond a very quick google after reading the piece, but who is the author? Has anyone found anything else they've done?
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone got recs for good horror sci-fi? Last thing I read (for the second time) that came close was Blindsight. Also, some sections of The Expanse. Steel Frame has a few horror elements, since you mentioned the Expanse and may not need full-on horror. It's a neat book about mechs and giant rusting battleships.
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Victory Unintentional. I always liked the one about Cutie, whose job is to keep space power beams on target and who quite reasonably determines that the outside universe is false data, they're obeying god, and the humans who visit the satellite are just being created with false memories because they can't handle the truth and then destroyed when they leave. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Christopher Tolkien died. https://twitter.com/TolkienSociety/status/1217865106652123137
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team overhead smash posted:Christopher Tolkein? Not J R R Tolkein? His dad did more, but it was a team effort.
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Tolkien Society: please immediately public domain everything and let everyone do whatever they feel like to the legendarium. unironically.
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Speaking of hobbitists, some fucker copyright takedowned the Finnish LotR miniseries Hobitit on YouTube and I only just found out about it and had time to watch the first episode. Bilbo is not the best actor but as well as the "elves did rings, Sauron lost his, Déagol had a bad time" sequence they did the whole Riddles in the Dark and
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Cardiac posted:Agreed. I don't do it so much but I used to push Saunders a fair bit, because I loving loved The March North and the sequels were different but pretty drat good. I just got lazy about posting. I don't know Saunders at all.
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my bony fealty posted:You might enjoy Jack Vance's Rhialto the Marvelous, it's a series of 3 stories and not a novel but it's funny as hell and very good wizard reading.
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Black Company's a pretty great trilogy about weird fantasy poker, although later trilogies may be hit-or-miss depending on what you liked about the first one.
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XBenedict posted:and obviouslythe Rama books.
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The thing in Egan's Diaspora is a cool BDO. If it counts, the setting of Blame, but unfortunately there isn't a novelisation so it's more of an ADTRW affair.
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If big dumb weird places count then Roadside Picnic.
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BurgerQuest posted:I need more space opera... good or bad?
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