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MockingQuantum posted:Have you read The Boy on the Bridge? I was actually kind of lukewarm on Girl for most of the book, but ended up enjoying it well enough, so I'm curious how the second book stands up. boy - very good fellside - very good someone like me - just ok
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Look Sir Droids posted:Just finished Children of Time and have not read this thread at all, so going way back for this quote reply. IIRC it's specifically said that the spiders implanted into humans the same virus/whatever that the humans implanted into them, which gave them a concept of "this being is like me maybe I won't kill it", while they domesticated (enslaved?) the ants not through messing with their dna but through figuring out how their pheromones worked and manipulating their perception that way
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TheAardvark posted:Question about Foreigner: iirc the conservatives who ilsidi is grouped with at the time got spooked by what you find out at the end (dunno if you've finished the book so i won't spoil it) and sent an asassin to merk him
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freebooter posted:If I said to you I'd just read a book involving: sounds like the steerswoman series except for 2
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pradmer posted:Willful Child by Steven Erickson - $2.99 16 ways is good, but I'm a KJ Parker fan so anything in his style would be fine by me. ymmv.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Robin Hobb would like a word and the word is PAIN
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biracial bear for uncut posted:-it would be weird for the child of a polyamorous marriage to call Murderbot what she called Murderbot, if Murderbot didn't have at least enough feminine appearance traits for her to think that was ok. Unless the author slipped here and the kid is a sexist and it was meant to insult rather than compliment (the way it read). "what are you, my mother?" is a usual saying in english, so it's got nothing to do with sexism
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biracial bear for uncut posted:"Okay, third mom" is not. there's another phrase - "alright, mother" - used in the same way
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Poldarn posted:giving me the impression that the world is incredibly old, history is caught in cycles, and things just repeat. it is, that's the thing with parker's main world, the various series and standalone novels happen in different eras
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Aug 23, 2020 18:35
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mewse posted:I think Ernest Cline might be a straight up moron. I just came across this section in Armada where he tries to explain to the reader what "gallows humor" is: lmao this is terrible
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Xenix posted:It seems to be an unpopular opinion here, but I regret wasting my time on Malazan. I found they were interesting through The Bonehunters (with the exception of Midnight Tides which was bearable but not great) then dropped off precipitously in terms of being enjoyable. The last 2 books were nothing but a bore with a terrible payoff. Virtually every non-Bridgeburner/Bonehunter story threads end without having any bearing on the main thrust of the series in the most limp-dicked manner. I didn't expect everything to be tied up neatly in a bow, but goddamn, talk about a disappointment. agreed, only I'd add reaper's gale to the interesting ones
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Ccs posted:Has anyone read The Angel of the Crows? I enjoyed the author's other book, The Goblin Emperor, a lot, but I'm seeing a lot of 2 and 3 star reviews on Goodreads for this one... it's fine, I guess, but don't expect much more than sherlock holmes fantasy fanfic
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Yoked posted:How is the Inheritance Trilogy for someone who hasn’t read Jemisin yet? too romancey for me, characters I didn't really care about the dreamblood duology is her best work imo
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Ccs posted:I finished KJ Parker's "The Folding Knife" which I picked up on sale. I've read a previous book of his, Sharps, but had no memory of it other than it had a fencing competition. Reading this one, I recognized a few names of the countries, so they seem to be in the same world. nicely put, parker is one of my favorites but I admit he's a very cynical bastard
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Groke posted:His stated reason for choosing "Parker": It is a pen name. 
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Ben Nevis posted:Thief by Margaret Whalen Turner - The longest book of these at 270 pages, this was surprisingly good. I didn't know much about it. It's about a thief who is taken out of jail to steal an important artifact which will help determine the fate of 3 neighboring kingdoms. Solid all round, and generally pretty interesting too. I'll probably pick up the sequel. the sequels are much better than the first one, IMO
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a foolish pianist posted:The weird thing about that piece is how he says the cover will attract men in a certain age range, as if he thinks that photo is actually sexy in some capacity, as opposed to being a hideous circa-1991 CGI tech demo that's somehow from loving 2008. there are loads of people melting down because their pixellated waifus' cleavages have been covered up a bit also, I'd say that the problem is also that the cover will repel more people than it will attract
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Ccs posted:I finished The Two of Swords Volume 3. Wow, for a K.J. Parker series that was positively lighthearted. Mass death occurred, sure, but a couple of the characters aren’t completely miserable! there's even a happy ending
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Apr 3, 2021 14:09
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Remulak posted:Considering they one-upped not just Thanos in death but also Pol Pot in creating a Year Zero. And hitler in a leibestraum creation, repopulated by literal slaves. I forgot to add "for a kj parker novel" at the end, of course
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Apr 3, 2021 20:23
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Jedit posted:I read the Night Watch books after watching the first movie, and I enjoyed them more than the movie - which I enjoyed a lot. Worth noting that this is the first Night Watch collection, though; there is a second trilogy containing Last Watch, New Watch and Sixth Watch. Lukyanenko is also reportedly writing a seventh volume titled The Eternal Watch. whoever like this "forces of dark and light battle in the mundane world" type of thing should check out carnivale (tv show)
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Ccs posted:I just started RJ. Barkers Age of Assassins cause it was recommended around online and it was on sale for $3. Man, this is a come down after reading a bunch of KJ Parker (hey these authors names even rhyme). The prose is competent enough and the protagonist is a bit witty but it feels like I’ve fallen straight back into run of the mill fantasy. When I used to go to Barnes and Nobles the majority of the fantasy book covers were men in cloaks. It’s been about 6-7 years since I’ve lived in a place with a B&N so maybe that’s changed, but the cover of this book is... a man in a cloak. And from the first two chapters that seems fitting somehow. I haven't read that series but have read the 2 books so far in barker's the bone ships series and they're exactly as you say - run of the mill fantasy not cringy (and it's sad that this is a quality in the genre LOL) but nothing special
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Ccs posted:Is Robin Hobb’s much lauded trilogy about an assassin any better? Or distinct from run of the mill fantasy? I see a lot of praise for her work, to the point that some will say she’s the best author in the genre, but I haven’t read any since they rarely go on sale. I liked it immensely when I first read it but a reread lowered the high marks, Fitz is a poo poo magnet. The Tawny Man trilogy is better IMO, but you need to read the Assassin trilogy first to know wtf is going on. The third Fitz trilogy didn't do anything for me, neither did the Rain Wilds series and the Soldier Son trilogy. Liveship Traders is good, I remember enjoying that.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Can you elaborate on the spoiler in more spoilers? I haven't read the trilogy but I've thought about it for years. His girlfriend/love of his life (Molly) marries his surrogate father (Burrich) who raised him to revile his own wild magic, which the surrogate father also has but hates in himself as well.
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Ccs posted:Yeah I've heard people refer to his system as fantasy legos. He reuses the same places, same religion (Invincible Sun) and similar Greek/Byzantine names but without them actually all being a part of the same fantasy world. In some stories the Studium is a guild of wizards, in others its just a type of University. What's referred to as the City changes based on the book and what characters think of as The City. i think it's because his novels and series can be separated by a thousand years so it's conceivable that the studium could become a university in that kind of timeframe or even that it's not the same studium that was mentioned before but something new which kept the name same goes for "the city", there's always "a city", like today it's "new york" or at least that's the city I think about as "the city" (and i'm not even american) it used to be london, before that maybe paris, before that rome or constantinople etc.
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as far as martha wells goes, I would say this is my ranking of her work: ile-rien > murderbot >>>>> raksura > standalones
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xiw posted:hoping this is another Tom Holt alias, this time wearing a dog mask not even close
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BurningBeard posted:I'm just about to finish The Company by Parker and holy jeez these are some awful people. Where's the next place to go with Parker. I know there's some big fans in this thread.the only other one I tried was the first in the Scavenger trilogy or something? Protagonist with amnesia. Loved the style, didn't care for the plot. I didn't like the scavenger and the fencer series, but the rest was great, he's one of my favorite fantasy authors.
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Fried Sushi posted:some brilliant writing The simple inscription on the base of Saevus’ statue reads: He saw the worth of every man. We shall not look upon his like again.
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eke out posted:jesus christ it took me way too long even after GB mentioned it was a pun what's the pun? ESL here and usually I suss out wordplay but this one is a headscratcher. I'm sure it'll be obvious in hindsight.
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General Battuta posted:Change the K to a C that's it? it was the first thing I thought of but it felt too simple. lmao
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Junkenstein posted:Anyone read the new Adrian Tchaikovsky? Sounds like a straight up slice of space opera, which I could really go for right now. it's not slice of life, first book of a series standard enjoyable AT
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John Lee posted:I remember when I found that out, and it really recontextualized the scene in one of the Myth Adventures books where an important character goes on a nearly-unprompted rant about how it's every citizen's right, nay, duty to cheat the IRS as much as possible. lol, it's not mycrimes.txt but "My Crimes - A Novel"
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fritz posted:She's got some short stories in that setting also. And they're all good, I like the setting more than the Ancillary universe
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i liked it because it had these very different species, some of whom are big enemies in the rest of the universe, living together and actually being a community most of the time in sf the species are very segregated, which is logical since they have their own planets etc. so this was a nice change of pace
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Robert V. S. Redick's "Sidewinders" is out. I don't see him mentioned here. I liked his previous series but hated the ending, it felt like it came out of nowhere. This new one is alright so far.
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quantumfoam posted:e: Oh yeah, Expendable by James Alan Gardner seems to be what John Scalzi's inspiration and goal was when he wrote Red Shirts. Sadly least effort expended John Scalzi happened around that time, and least effort expended John Scalzi is never ever leaving. thank you for mentioning JAG, I'm reading the League of Peoples series and it's quite enjoyable
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Nomnom Cookie posted:I found the Titan trilogy in a used book store last week and started re-reading today. Forty pages in, four female characters have been introduced and zero have chested boobily after ample opportunity to do so, so I'm gonna rate the "John Varley is a sex pervert" that was posted a while back as MYTH BUSTED. I eagerly await your comments after finishing the trilogy
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