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I really wish there were well-read audiobooks of those. Only the first one of the Exile series ever got an audio release.
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Of the Ethsar books I've read I think The Unwilling Warlord was the best, and it's perfectly readable stand-alone.
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nessin posted:Anyone know of at least some passable campy high action space opera books/series that have come out in the past few years? I really crave a new Star of the Guardian/Deerstalker/Star Wars-ish kinda book. Not recent. But there's Simon R Green's Deathstalker series
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Nov 11, 2019 20:22
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A Proper Uppercut posted:A while ago I was looking for some, eh, comfortable fantasy? Someone recommended Misenchanted Sword and it was perfect. Are the other books in that series good? To add to the list, I really enjoyed The Unwilling Warlord.
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I bounced of The Powder Mage super-hard as well. I'm not sure I even got far enough to see all the bad stuff, just failed to grip me from the start and I abandoned it rapidly.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Anyone read Dead Moon by Peter Clines? Hated it. I read and really enjoyed 14 and Threshold. Was bored to tears by Dead Moon. Just completely failed to engage me in any way. Abandoned it halfway through as I couldn't bring myself to slog through another word.
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Also I really like Baxters authorised sequels to HG Wells, The Time Ships (Sequel to The Time Machine) and The Massacre of Mankind (War of the Worlds).
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Anyone tried Peter Clines new one Terminus? It's another Threshold novel. I really liked 14 and The Fold, but Dead Moon was so boring and bad I'm hesitant.
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MockingQuantum posted:John Gwynne's Malice is also a Kindle Daily Deal. Any opinions on it? The blurb sounds interesting, though it also seems like it could be kind of bland or cliched in execution. I tried to read it but lost interest super quick. Bland is definitely how I'd describe it.
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Kestral posted:If Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana isn't doing much for me, should I bother with any of his other work? I think I was hoping for more out of the concept of a conquering sorcerer stripping away the name and identity of an entire people, but just under half-way through, it doesn't feel like it's leveraging a cool premise into more than you'd get out of an alt-history where Byzantium and Charlemagne invaded Italy from opposite ends. I get that thinly-veiled alt-histories are Kay's thing, so should I steer clear of his other books? Tigana is like peak GGK. If that ain't doing it for you, then he's not for you.
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May 17, 2020 10:21
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quantumfoam posted:Oh hey I remember that concept/gimmick from Harry Harrison's 1970's themed short story collection One Step from Earth, whose theme was matter transportation/portal devices stories (thank you public library system). It turns up in Simmons first two Hyperion books as well. I'm sure it's in other stories as well, it's a fairly obvious implication of such technology.
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Ccs posted:Yeah, Clarke is so good. I finished re-reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a week or so ago and now I'm reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu. If you've not seen it, the BBC did a 7 part adaptation of it that's pretty good. Takes a couple of episodes to get going but I really enjoyed it.
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quantumfoam posted:
I think that's the stuff that actually got turned 20 years later into the novel A Darker Geometry by Gregory Benford and is also no longer considered canon
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Marshal Radisic posted:Hahaha, that takes me back. Back in my late teens I had this "hobby" of tracking down and reading novels depicting fictional Soviet invasions of the United States or the UK, mostly by trawling Paul Brians' online bibliography of nuclear war stories. I was able to find a few novels that were decent enough reads that handled their subjects with some nuance, but I, Martha Adams wasn't one of them, rarely rising above the level of your bog-standard Reagan-era conservative polemic. You might enjoy this blog. https://fuldapocalypsefiction.com/
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xiw posted:
I did read a lot of Tom Holt (writing as Tom Holt) books back in the day, and yeah, they never rose up above mildly entertaining at best. His Parker stuff is way better. As is funnily enough, as are his historical fiction books under his other pseudonym of Thomas Holt*. Check out the Walled Orchard or Olympiad. *Although if you pick up a recent edition. I think they're rebranded back to 'Tom Holt' now.
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I also couldn't get into the book, but the TV adaptation that the BBC did is great, albeit it takes a couple of episodes to really get going.
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Another superhero recommendation. I really like Jim Bernheimers "Confessions of a D-list Supervillian" novels. Which are shlocky as gently caress, but fun. Edit: Oh and Dan Abnett. Of Black Library and Guardians of the Galaxy fame wrote a prose Avengers novel a few years back that was pretty good as well. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avengers-Everybody-Wants-World-Prose/dp/0785193006 Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Nov 15, 2020 |
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I really liked Ed McDonalds Ravens Mark trilogy and it's pretty grimdark. Adds gunpowder weapons to the standard sword and sorcery which is always a plus in my book. And some interesting world building. Including one magically post-apocalyptic region literally called 'The Misery'. Edit: Oh and I listened to the first one on Audible and the narrator is pretty good as well if you're into audiobooks. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Eh. I'm sure there are a few cranks, and Victorians going to Victorian, but I really don't see many people in modern Britain who have any great feelings about who won as Hastings.
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They care about immigration, EU laws, national sovereignty. In catastrophically misinformed ways, but nonetheless. Nobody bar a tiny fringe cares about who won at Hastings and have never given it a moments thought.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I try and crowbar this in all the time, but I love how little of a poo poo every french person I know gives about Agincourt. Most of them don't even know about it! Because it may have been a momentous victory for England, but from the French perspective its one defeat from that time England spent a hundred years failing to conquer them. Not to get all "Demographics is destiny" but it's interesting how recent the population of each country being equivalent is. It's barely a century old, rough parity kicked in around 1900 swinging slightly either side since. As recently as the Napoleonic wars France had 3 time the population of the UK. Go back as far as the 100 years war and it was 4 times and you could make argument (the stats get obviously hazier) for 5 at other times. There's a reason France was the big dog of Europe for so long. Medieval France held about a quarter of the population of Europe, and it took centuries for that advantage to dwindle.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Between Two Fires is rad as hell. I love Christian mythology being used in weird ways. I literally just finished reading his Vampire novel The Lesser Dead an hour ago, and thought it was great. Would recommend.
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I'm doing a lot of house painting next week and I feel like listening to some Swords and Sorcery as I'm doing it. Anybody got any relatively (past couple of years) recent recommendations. I'm up to speed with the classics, leiber etc. Audible availability mandatory.
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Mar 21, 2021 15:41
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I read the first Dune prequel/continuation book when it came out back in the day, and I was genuinally pissed at how bad it was. Just insultingly awful.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:
Voyage of the Space Beagle is still fun, and packed with cool concepts. Plus being a 1950 book, you can read it at a sitting. Edit: Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be a kindle edition.
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Sounds like somebody needs some refresher Hypnosleep courses in applied Nexialism. 
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May 2, 2021 21:47
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"......ok VV. So you fell for that scammy cult. It's alright. We all make mistakes, you're allowed one life gently caress-up for free. Live and learn. Just move on a wiser man. Why yes Ron, I *would* like to hear more about your new religion!........."
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Do you mean this one? https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2013/rich_mens_skins_a_social_history_of_armour_by_k_j_parker
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BurningBeard posted:Yes! That’s the one. Ten-ish years turned an interesting essay into an interview. Time is weird. Thank you. That other one is fantastic too. I think I’ll do Sharps next. It’s what I’d have gone for absent a suggestion. Not to deep dive on that essay in something that isn't the military history thread but just to pick the opening paragraphs. . quote:
For a completely different take on phalanx warfare I'd look at A Storm of Spears. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storm-Spears-Christopher-Matthew-ebook/dp/B00AHITZHE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1614768930&sr=8-1 That's just for an example. He's making a lot of assertions in the rest of that essay that are, shall we say, open to debate.
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FPyat posted:The next Revelation Space book, Inhibitor Phase, has been delayed to October 12, 2021. Really disappointed. Wait. It's been years since I read it, but wasn't the last one, y'know supposed to be the last one? I very vaguely recall an x years later epilogue and everything. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 10, 2021 |
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May 10, 2021 17:00
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Aardvark! posted:I'm like 2 chapters in but I'll let you know It's on my too read list, and if it's basically "The Martian 2" I would be completely satisfied with that.
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May 11, 2021 23:18
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Don't bother with any Elric stuff written post the 70's, but the original sweep of stories are great. If you like them, check out his Corum books as well.
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May 19, 2021 09:59
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Young me really liked SLIDERS and the description of the plot of DOORWAYS on wikipedia sounds awful. Also quote:GRRM has proven, time
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May 21, 2021 09:05
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Anybody heard anything about what's going on with Blackgate.com I got a "This looks dodgy" warning on my pc when I tried to look at it the other day, and now the servers not responding. Can't find any news and their Twitter hasn't updated since March.
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May 22, 2021 14:13
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But the line was broken!
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May 22, 2021 15:40
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General Battuta posted:Redemption Ark is one of his best books, also the title is a pun so obvious and terrible I didn't spot it for like ten years. Oh poo poo! Looking at the publication date, guess I'm 19 years.
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Hi, help identify a book time. From a few years ago. Fantasy novel Two lead characters, bit of a Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser dynamic going on. One of them is a golem like character (that used to be human, but was remade) The other an ex-soldier with a vaguely Janissary type background, including having (if memory serves) a musket. It starts with them travelling with a caravan that's attacked by basically a wyvern. Then they get involved with a plot involving a small kingdom being invaded by a larger power and the main plot kicks off from there.
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Thanks!
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May 26, 2021 13:55
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Aardvark! posted:You might like 14 by Peter Clines. Guy moves in to an apartment building. poo poo gets weird. Then if you like that read The Fold. Then don't read any more of that series.
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Well you might like it.  I thought the third one so bad I couldn't finish it, and the 4th just mediocre, but hey tastes differ.
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