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Achmed Jones posted:is that the short story collection? I was reading from the first culture book through the last, hit the short stories, and then stopped bc they were bad. never did pick up the novels again. maybe after I go through dune again I skipped from the Player of Games straight to the Hydrogen Sonata and had a good time
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my stepdads beer posted:i looked this up and it's an anne leckie. did anyone here like ancillary justice because I thought it was super boring with a gender gimmick to make people think it was brilliant writing. also everyone's names were super confusing I devoured the Ancillary books as well as Provenance, they're like, up there with the Culture novels for me. Different style for sure, but same sort of deep worldbuilding and actually a better idea of how alien civilizations would interact with a human space empire. The other three books in the setting expand it a lot. I'm hella queer and the gender stuff was actually pretty neat and inclusive to me.
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I just finished reading Ninefox Gambit, it was pretty good! some of the military procedural stuff was boring, but the core character driven plot was compelling and kept me interested. I’m having trouble deciding what to read next
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Johnny Mnemonic is a masterpiece and I will not hear otherwise
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I forget if I/someone has brought this up, but I've been reading Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire and it's really, really good. The characters are compelling and the story is complicated in a really satisfying way. Like many series the first book is a little rough, but the second book hits it out of the park and I am really into the third so far.
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game of thrones is the worst series to rewatch because you already know a bunch of horrible stuff is gonna happen and everyone you like will die
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was that during the period when his shape shifting was broken
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Nov 23, 2020 01:27
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you should read Ninefox Gambit and its sequels instead, OP
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Nov 24, 2020 22:09
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well I need a new book to read. what’s good
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SmokaDustbowl posted:read some terry pratchett I already read them all mediaphage posted:she's also got a new one out called black sun, which takes place in a fantasy realm based on pre-columbian mesoamerica. i've not gotten very far into it yet. gonna check this out Xaris posted:latest stormlight archive came out hit me. there’s too much fantasy for me to pick. I recently really liked the Raven Tower
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thanks for the suggestions pals  now I just have to pick one
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Achmed Jones posted:oh are the earthsea books YA titles? i mean ill still read it but that's disappointing i think it’s only YA on a technicality it doesn’t have any gross sex in it that I remember though (I’ve only read the first book so far)
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Roosevelt posted:the third one was pretty dumb. towards the end, while trying to save gotham from anarchy, mr. batman found time all by himself to set up a giant pyrotechnic bat signal display on the side of a skyscraper he probably used some secret waynetech pocket flamethrower meant for signaling CIA agents in south vietnam. it was left in applied sciences because it has a tendency to burn whole villages down
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I recently watched AKAGI, the overly dramatic mahjong anime that is 90% close shots of mahjong tiles
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I’m trying to read Revenger and the author just dumped 5 new characters on me and I am very tired
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mystes posted:Read House of Suns if you haven't. It's his best book, IMO. if that’s his best book I don’t think I really want to deal with his others it was a provocative book but his characters are so wooden
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I'm a fan of pandas.
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Sagebrush posted:i appreciated them back before they were banned by some horrible idiot. I bought into something ralp was trying to do about getting more content in certain forums so I started a giant thread in Pet Island and it's still going. I don't have time to engage the way I used to anymore though. I do post lots of pandas on my twitter @SilverAlicorn but I'm also an unrepentant furry on there so ymmv
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I enjoyed hogfather and going postal, but the latter mostly because it had the guy from coupling I mean it was enjoyable otherwise also lord vetinari's actor went on to a game of thrones or whatever
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banks chat banks chat I hold that all the Culture books are really good, with Consider Phlebas and Excession being the most difficult (but the former was good to read as an audiobook). My favorites are Look to Windward and the Hydrogen Sonata. Look to Windward is an excellent slice of life story that tells a lot about aliens living in the Culture. The Hydrogen Sonata ties up a lot of loose ideas and is an excellent send-off to the series. The Player of Games is where I'd start. It might be boring at first, it does start out pretty slow, but it provides a pretty good contrast between how the Culture runs and how space imperialism works (or doesn't). It also has the Best Space Move so you gotta.
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rotor posted:Like that one Radch novel where the main character just suddenly decides to risk her life for her enemy out of the blue. she was an AI who had safeguards built into her so anyone with correct access (the emperor and possibly some others) could control her at any time.
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Jan 6, 2021 23:08
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what’s the cannibalism part in player of games I don’t remember
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Jan 6, 2021 23:20
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I don’t remember cannibalism in phlebas either but I only read it once
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PCjr sidecar posted:after the megaliner heist and the nuke he crashes and washes up on an cannibal island oh that. I thought they just ate seashells and fish guts and other indigestible stuff
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use of weapons spoilers
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I could not identify with any of the characters in Excession, they suck
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maybe the goon who hated being around people so much they put him on a weapons silo in the middle of nowhere
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ok so what do yall think of the sex blimp in the hydrogen sonata then
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infernal machines posted:your mother was in hydrogen sonata? jesus
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the Culture does a lot of CIA-style intervention, I would probably be peace faction or even zetetic elench
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I’m all for genofixed bodies that can swap genitals though.
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just stay away from any mysterious dark orbs.
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the drone that had a memory core flagged off with multiple warning signs is pretty relatable, too me, for reasons
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indigi posted:the Dra’Azon are super powerful alien train autists
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Jan 7, 2021 20:58
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Yoon Ha Lee’s books are really good
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yeah you’d better 
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evangelion is forever
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what in the god drat
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godzilla is a girl as we learned in the 90s movie
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