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Children of Time, Seveneves (kind of), Aurora
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It's good, read it. It's no Jonathan Strange tho.
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Jan 20, 2021 06:29
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Cicero posted:It's up on r/fantasy too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/l20up1/show_care_baru_cormoranttain_hu_by_marceline2174 Posted by the general Himself.
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Jan 21, 2021 19:59
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awesmoe posted:what does this even mean? Exactly what it sounds like.
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Jan 31, 2021 05:04
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gently caress yeah, trains. The Conductor Baru Cormorant
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Feb 12, 2021 21:20
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Nazis in my sci-fi forum? It’s more likely than you think!
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Feb 15, 2021 19:26
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It wasn't that great IMO.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:16
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The Gay Bean posted:Has anyone read Red Rising? I tend to like non-FTL solar system stuff but something about the Amazon product page has always thrown me off. Worth reading? I quit it pretty early in since I thought it started like a mediocre video game / RPG novelization.
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Feb 28, 2021 23:22
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packetmantis posted:This doscussion is only reinforcing my opinion that the Culture books are for nerds who want to masturbate about the ideas therein rather than anything about the books or story themselves. Well this is the sci-fi thread.
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Mar 6, 2021 23:29
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GoodluckJonathan posted:This is the first and only KSR book I've read and it was great. There is a passage from it that stuck with me which I can't find a direct transcription of from googling. Essentially it's the narrator listing the various parts of an animal down to the bones and the delight in which his ice age tribe consumes each of them. Equally fascinating, hilarious and nauseating. You should read Red Mars.
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Mar 20, 2021 22:19
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Velius posted:Creating realistic descriptions of characters using a third person viewpoint is really turgid, he thinks, as he gazes at his slightly protruding “dad bod” in the mirror. A few days in the gym and he could be a few steps up on the competition at the night club scene, he smirks, as he flexes his abs, and turns sideways, squinting critically. Maybe do some squats and work on that rear end more, he reflects, as he gives himself a quick slap to check for firmness. Are you surveilling me??
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Mar 23, 2021 16:15
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I started Unconquerable Sun but the first 50 pages are just characters reeling off massive, dense exposition dumps. Does it get any better? This is the worst job of “show don’t tell” that I’ve seen in a while. Edit: it’s even more jarring coming off after Two of Swords where you are deliberately told almost nothing until the very end. withak fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 07:16
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https://twitter.com/70sscifi/status/1345503827894566912 I'm loling at the throught process that could have led to someone thinking that a skeleton in a space suit would make a good cover for Dune.
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Mar 27, 2021 22:40
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You just have to change your address then change it back. I use 10 Downing Street.
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Mar 28, 2021 13:07
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StashAugustine posted:I know I am years late to the party but I blew through Traitor Baru Cormorant in a day and am now pretty bummed, but in a good way Keep going there are a few more.
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Mar 31, 2021 01:59
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Doctor Jeep posted:whoever like this "forces of dark and light battle in the mundane world" type of thing should check out carnivale (tv show) Hope u like blue balls tho
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Apr 3, 2021 20:49
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Ok now everyone stop responding to the troll.
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Apr 8, 2021 03:27
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freebooter posted:This might have been posted already, but I really liked this disturbing short story in the tone of a Wikipedia article which describes the first human being to upload their consciousness to a computer: Well this is going to be bothering me for a while.
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Apr 16, 2021 02:44
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Kalman posted:This was a fun read! Not super serious, just a fun wizard book, which is exactly what I was in the mood for. Nice job! Seconding this. Always good to have more fun wizard books.
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Apr 20, 2021 06:06
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I think I managed to drag it out to two days.
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Apr 22, 2021 19:50
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 New Murderbot is out
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Apr 27, 2021 05:18
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ToxicFrog posted:Steerswoman is very good indeed and maybe, someday, we'll even get that last book in the series I just blasted through all four of these in a little over a week, and then googled to learn that that the most recent one was published in 2004.  On the plus side, I also learned that the first one was written in 1989, which I absolutely would not have guessed because it has not aged a minute. The list of 1980s scifi/fantasy that doesn't make you cringe at least a little bit in the year 2021 is not long.
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May 9, 2021 05:37
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Aardvark! posted:not in the U.S. Change your default address in Amazon to 9 Downing Street and then you can order it. Switch back after ordering.
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Jun 22, 2021 22:14
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uber_stoat posted:i'll read on my phone if i'm making GBS threads on the clock, otherwise no thanks. And I can’t pretend I am handling important communications at my desk via my phone if I have a book in my hand.
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Jun 26, 2021 21:51
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pradmer posted:
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Jul 6, 2021 23:31
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You always pay a price.
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Aug 8, 2021 04:40
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Narmi posted:There's also We Have Always Lived On Mars, which is a Tor short story from 2013. I hope this is a We Have Always Lived In The Castle reference.
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Aug 30, 2021 19:21
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What if the golems are unionized.
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Oct 3, 2021 17:15
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Fighting Trousers posted:I love Libby, but its one week due dates kill me. I'm a pretty fast reader, but c'mon! It's three weeks.
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Oct 7, 2021 03:37
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Ccs posted:Susanna Clarke. If you need a short book, Piranesi. If you’re okay with a door stopper, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Alternate approach: read both, they are good.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:32
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buffalo all day posted:they are nice discussion prompts too. good posts, very nice
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Oct 31, 2021 02:38
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pseudorandom name posted:The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, which I'm recommending in the futile hope that enough interest will enable her to quit her day job and write full time. These are great, but #4 came out in 2004 and she hasn’t written anything since so don’t hold your breath.
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Oct 31, 2021 22:30
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Not fantasy, but if Norse stuff trips your trigger then you have no excuse to not read The Long Ships.
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Nov 10, 2021 18:38
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Copernic posted:well the new neal stephenson is out jesus christ
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Nov 17, 2021 23:20
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I thought he said that Seveneves was the result of a "What if the moon exploded?" prompt.
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Nov 18, 2021 16:40
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Video game fans ruin everything they touch.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:35
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You just say that a wizard did it.
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Dec 13, 2021 05:35
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Is there a similar technique for writing. Asking for a friend.
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Dec 18, 2021 18:34
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John Lee posted:
Lesson learned: just mail back the disgusting soiled items and busted glass if they want them so bad.
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Dec 19, 2021 06:28
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Pretty much every genre of amateur fiction available on the internet has a noticeable fraction of it being veteran-oriented these days. Maybe they have time on their hands and issues to work through?
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