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pradmer posted:Two kindle sales on amazon today that I've seen mentioned a bunch here in the past. rook's decent, children of time is EXCELLENT especially if you're into alien psychologies
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I know I haven't been around as much lately -- I've gone from working about 35 hours a week to working about 90 -- but please do not lock threads, it'll create a giant headache when everyone freaks out. Just use the report button. what if it is about the posting of General Battuta, world-renowned leading author of accountancy fiction
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Doctor Reynolds posted:All the barely consensual sex and child abuse in the first Broken Earth book made it pretty hard for me to get through, to be honest. But I'm glad I stuck with the series, it was a fantastic read overall. Does make it a little difficult to recommend, sometimes! Spoilers for the series: I called the three main characters all being the same person pretty early, that made me feel smart. Or smug, anyway! A satisfying feeling. The poster who posted this is banned.
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StrixNebulosa posted:To completely derail things - I brought this up in the UF thread but I think you guys would have something to say here too - I'm reading Anne Bishop's Others series and Black Jewels trilogy. Oh man I completely forgot the Black Jewels series existed and I read it ... ...thanks?
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StrixNebulosa posted:You're welcome, I guess. How was it? I liked it fine at the time - certainly enough to finish without hatereading - but it is very definitely a Problematic Romance-Adjacent Series. I don't remember enough details to offer a more precise critique, which may be for the best.
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genericnick posted:Finished a reread of Echnopraxia. It...really didn't hold up. I think it took something like 150 pages until I got sucked back into the story and Bruk's fedora atheism made the nerd discussions a bit more tedious than in Blindsight. Or maybe they just felt more tacked on? Still a lot of neat ideas though. And I couldn't help but read the last couple dialogues in the voice of ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN so all is forgiven. last bit: lol But yeah, it's not quite as fantastic as Blindsight. Still great.
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tildes posted:I didn’t think it was bad at all, but yeah definitely not up to the standard set by the ancillary books imo. I did think The Raven Tower was better than Provenance if you want to try another Anne Leckie book, though it’s quite different both in setting and the POV of the characters. anne leckie should just write nothing except raven tower verse books
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Kesper North posted:
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PawParole posted:Just give me a first contact a theology and I’ll shut my dumb face first contact and theology, you say? eifelheim
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StrixNebulosa posted:May I interrupt? I'm literally sitting here minutes from bed scrolling through books in my kindle wanting some kind of comfort sci-fi. Not fantasy, but sci-fi. There's the thread favorite Murderbot, and Long Way to Angry Planet, but...what else? Bujold kind of fits, kind of doesn't, Cherryh's Foreigner's later books are definitely cozy, and I think it might be time to read more of James White's space hospital series, but it's never a bad time to ask: Memory Called Empire and Desolation Called Peace are Cherryh-adjacent and ultimately optimistic
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pseudorandom name posted:The Gone World is very much airport Dad fiction, I don't recommend it. while you're wrong about the first one, gone away world is also my least favorite Nick Harkaway book I've read fake edit: actually it turns out i misremembered what else he wrote, but the statement is still accurate because Gone Away World is merely goodish while Gnomon is Legit Literature I incorrectly thought he'd written The Half Made World, which is a truly amazing weird western, and The Rise Of Ransom City, which is merely excellent
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Bold Robot posted:I loved the Tines in Fire but did not really enjoy spending so much more time with them. At the time I gave it a pass cause I figured it was just setup for a hot take: tyrathect in fire is transgender-analogous
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finale but at this point who knows if that's gonna happen.
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Clark Nova posted:Jolier Veppers is the role he was born to play you know, I'd watch that
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Doctor Jeep posted:reading that creep felt like having ants crawling over me, genuinely disturbing character with an alien mindset If that's a feeling you want to replicate but with a nicer pov character, The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet does a great job. It feels like a nightmare you can't wake up from. I love it but i can only read it twice a decade or so lol. apparently there are two books by Caitlin Sweet i haven't read yet, I should do that she is also married to Peter Watts, which is in hindsight the perfect match
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Felix Castor full series spoilers: in a way I actually rather like that the Big Questions were never really answered, because the series wasn't about that. It was about Castor, Ravi, and about Asmodeus' personal scheme to unbotch the botched summoning and properly unleash himself on the world.
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The best rationalist-adjacent story I've read is probably Unsong. It has some odd choices but the only ones that bugged me were something of an excess focus on Great Men (well, one specifically) and the author apparently being unaware that it's impossible to have a new theological idea.  Don't get me wrong, I rather like the two big ones he repackages, but a bunch of bearded theology nerds devised them both many centuries ago.e: also the amerocentrism I guess
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pradmer posted:The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - $2.99 can fourth this one, it's excellent
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Gato The Elder posted:More Nona thoughts starting to feel like this John guy might be a great big liar, if perhaps also to himseld
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Something Else: yeah it doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem to try and sort out an approximation of artist credit, even for the prompts that aren't "in the style of very specific artist". In practice it's probably going to take government legislation though.
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Lord Bob posted:AI art would be super cool to explore if we were in the fully gay space communism timeline, but we're in the capitalist hellworld timeline so we just get the techbro wealth extraction version instead and it's going to try and leave the human beings it relied on to create their model to starve. Give everyone UBI then we can train ai models on whatever art you can find with no morally questionable copyright "but it's not illegal" poo poo. half built garden is great, ruthanna emrys is great, everyone should read everything she has written bonus, AFAIK Litany of Earth is still free, and a perfect introduction to her Lovecraft
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Everyone posted:I hope the conclusion is I'm "Not Dead" hi, I'm not dead,
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I seen to recall there being a high priestess of a fertility goddess who is both formidable and spooky, but A) iirc when she needs some actual poo poo done she uses a dude and B) even if my recollections are correct, then congratulations Bakker had one (1) non-victim woman in the entire series, good job, gold star E: isn't one of Kellhus' daughters a sorceress? then maybe two
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continue reading Becky Chambers imo, at least two of the others are significantly better than the already good Long Way
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah, something along these lines, but much longer and more specific. It made me sad but I think it was supposed to be a joke(?). he has two kids he loves so
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Kestral posted:Steel Frame is, as far as I know, the only answer for “giant robot fiction that is Actually Good.” sleeping giants
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Rand Brittain posted:This seems like an excellent time to recommend The Night-Bird's Feather, by Jenna Moran. I'm not entirely sure why Russian flavored modern fairy tales have become a thing lately, but I loved this and also Naomi Novik's forays E: spinning silver in particular is just a glorious trainwreck of like six initially seemingly largely unrelated fairytales that slam into each other at speed Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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rmdx posted:This what we all been waiting for? Oh I loved the short story Also closed and common orbit is worth a swing even for people who didn't quite love long way to small angry planet, it's a pretty different read despite ultimately still being cozy personally it's my least favorite wayfarers (so still v good) but for reasons that might make it some people's favorite
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Ccs posted:Yeah, thats another thing about Parker. The books have gotten more concise since his early work but the characters have gotten smugger. also trying to construct a timeline will melt your brain even though I'm convinced they all take place in the same world yes, this means there are no poo poo actual demons durdling around in the background of Savages
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like, in prospers demon (supported by inside man), the lady demon lays it out plainly and explicitly: the demon plan is somewhere between oodles of millennia long and forever long, there's plenty of room for civilizations to rise, fall, and be forgotten
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General Battuta posted:I don't like everywhere she takes it but Ada Palmer is a very dense and clever writer in TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING + sequels. And consciously Wolfe inspired. also a generally really cool woman she has terminal Renaissance history brain, what with being a respected professor about it at the university of chicago
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RDM posted:naomi_novik_review_*.txt I will go to the mattresses for Uprooted, Spinning Silver, and probably Scholomance
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sebmojo posted:For cherryh, The pride of chanur is a good entry, she's peerless at tense politics, fairly hard sci Fi and interesting aliens. escape room mystery about lesbian space necromancers I don't see the problem
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Ihmemies posted:Since Banks died I don’t know what to read anymore. Why won’t people spend more time writing books instead of shooting TikTok videos ngl I'd watch an Iain banks or cj cherryh tiktok
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I'd put it as worse than Cryptonomicon but that's because I think cn is much better than okay (even accounting for parts aging poorly). Still, a fun enough read and very far ahead of Stephenson's worse books. I think I agree that Anathem is his best and arguably is Literature.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Behold the deep science fiction lore of the Cassava tuber, which has to be soaked in water for 24+ hours. that's mostly low-quality cassava although the stuff sold in America is generally soaked Enough high quality cassava isn't dangerous generally, it's the poor people eating the harvest leavings that routinely die of cyanide poisoning along with their entire family I'm a fan of it even though peeling it is loving annoying, it has the taste and texture of a thoroughly buttered potato while not being full of butter
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it's also called yuca root, Cuban food uses it all the drat time because it's cheap, tasty, and potato-tier calorie dense
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sebmojo posted:This is an ideal entree into Abercrombie, just a good story told well. very military though don't get me wrong, it's great military very low fantasy my personal favorite intro to Abercrombie is Best Served Cold, aka Definitely Not Count Of Monte Cristo
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Ccs posted:I also recommend buying the Baru Cormorant books. As well as Christopher Buehlman's books like The Blacktongue Thief, Between Two Fires, and The Necromancers House (his other books are good too but more horror than fantasy.) And if you like Joe Abercombie you might also enjoy KJ Parker, especially The Engineer trilogy and The Folding Knife. folding knife is probably my favorite kj Parker, but the punchline to Prosper's Demon is easily the funniest thing he's ever written
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