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JawnV6 posted:idk harlan ellison was outright hostile ftfy. i've noticed that it's really hard to find ellison books in stores, which is a shame. i like a few of his short stories, and would like to read more.
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JawnV6 posted:idk harlan ellison was outright hostile towards his readers, to the point of "burn my manuscripts after i die" I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is the only Ellison I have read but it owns. Speaking of Dune, I forgot he was rejected by over 20 publishers before some tiny one took it. Kind of crazy. Anyway, 
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hyperion ownage scale: hyperion: 9 fall of hyperion: 10 endymion: 7 rise of endymion: 9
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haveblue posted:hyperion ownage scale: I need to read the rest. I started Fall and didn't get that far, I just need to sit down and read it. I own them all.
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axolotl farmer posted:Anathem was alright. i really liked it, but maybe because i was pretty disappointed by the baroque cycle. (i'm giving it a second chance now, and reading it still feels like a chore). also, "scifi book covers" is the best gis string       
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lol what the hell is this. civ 4: the novel
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i was just in some used book store in the city and they alllll kinds of old rear end books but no old rear end sci fi...wanted to burn the place down
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mr_jim posted:i really liked it, but maybe because i was pretty disappointed by the baroque cycle. (i'm giving it a second chance now, and reading it still feels like a chore). ahahah, you're right about the chore thing. I have failed to finish System of the World several times, and when I pick it up I have no clue about what's going on so I'll have to start over. seriously, when this happens to me and I have to start over I take notes on every single new character that appears and write down who they are and what their purpose is. please post more paperback covers 
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http://judgeabook.blogspot.com/2007/04/texas-israeli-war-1999.html back cover posted:On August 12, 1992, England's tiny nuclear arsenal fell on Ireland, on South Africa, and finally on China. Instantly the planet went up in flames. In the first half year of what was to be called the War of '92, half the Earth's population perished. The United States was reduced to a vast underpeopled land -- and, to make matters worse, Texas had seceded and taken her precious oil reserves. But Israel, virtually untouched in a world ravaged by war, was painfully overpopulated.
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johndis posted:yep gonna bump me own thread Who did all the covers in this style? I need to get a nice print of one his works. More than anything THIS is what scifi is supposed to look like (to me anyways)
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axolotl farmer posted:please post more paperback covers 
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mr_jim posted:i really liked it, but maybe because i was pretty disappointed by the baroque cycle. (i'm giving it a second chance now, and reading it still feels like a chore). I really liked it as well, but I haven't tried the Baroque cycle. The other Stephenson I have read is just Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. Diamond Age is on my list though. Here are some books. I'm not sure If I have read the Darkover one, though I have read some Darkover books. The cover is cool though.  
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coaxmetal posted:lmao dragons flying a spaceship... i want ths book
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johndis posted:lmao dragons flying a spaceship... i want ths book iirc it was good, but that was a longass time ago. I read a lot of the Pern books.
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johndis posted:does anyone have any good dumps of 70s-ish sci fi art in a decent res? i wanna get some of this poo poo printed, need some art for the new place honestly, you can find a lot just using gis. "sci fi book cover", or something similar.    for frazetta  http://i.imgur.com/GB6FN.jpg
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axolotl farmer posted:please post more paperback covers do android dream of nws covers   Hey kids, it's Steve-O!   possibly , i guess: http://i.imgur.com/HowYh.jpg  
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mr_jim posted:by the "Del Rey Books" guy. 
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haveblue posted:tom why
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:tom tom collins went out like a bitch. tom swift went out in a nuclear holocaust.
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mr_jim posted:tom collins went out like a bitch. tom swift sounds gallant
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mr_jim posted:Frederik Pohl kind of owns.
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This is on my list of books to read. oddly enough, this image is from http://www.tomswift.org/
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mr_jim posted:This is on my list of books to read. The posthumously-reconstructed sequel did not own.
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Antillese posted:L'Engle had some just hosed up covers: i loved those books when i was a kid.
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mr_jim posted:Some more book covers. I want to read all of these, especially the last one. this is a v good book
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NoneMoreNegative posted:http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/index.htm "Prepare to embrace your creators in the stygian haunts of hell, barbarian"
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i decided to go full nerd and just orederd the first two novels in teh spelljammer cloakmaster series 
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johndis posted:spelljammer experience death
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manwhy is there so much spelljammer hate? i remember in ym glorious dnd days i would see a spelljammer book and id be like "hey guys why dont we try thi it looks kinda cool" and they were just all "ugggghhhhh" hhaha those were the days, wild wild times
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mr_jim posted:"Prepare to embrace your creators in the stygian haunts of hell, barbarian" To be fair that could have been classic R E Howard, but: "With a loud crack the rodents head parted from its squirming torso, sending out a sprinking shower of crimson gore, and trailing a slimy string of disjointed vertebrae, snapped trachea, esophagus, and jugular, disjointed hyoid bone, morose purpled stretched hide, and blood seared muscles." Is obviously the forerunner of Party Poppers.
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