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rotor posted:are there any good novels in that genre that aren't tolkien or tolkein ripoffs? in particular i'm looking for something sans elfs. The Earthsea books by Ursula le Guin. No elves, some dragons. Even if they were written for younger readers, they're actually really good.
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rotor posted:well if two noted yosposters can agree, i guess i'll give it a poo poo lol. i like fritz leiber's fafhrd and the gray mouser series, but i think it's all short stories.
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Jul 8, 2011 12:35
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JawnV6 posted:what are good tng episodes the one where data gets an erection and has sex with tasha yar. also dr crusher ghost rape episode
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Sneaking Mission posted:the one where data gets an erection and has sex with tasha yar. also dr crusher ghost rape episode the naked now, and sub rosa. and those aren't good ones.
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Jul 8, 2011 13:12
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great job knowing star trek episode names off the top of your head, fucker nerd
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JawnV6 posted:what are good tng episodes inner light measure of a man yesterday's enterprise dr crusher ghost rape the one where a female crew member finds a love interest who is dead or otherwise gone by the end of the episode i've been going through season 1 on netflix since i haven't seen much of it and i can see why they don't repeat it very often i mean seriously does wesley crusher need to save the ship in every single episode? no nevermind it totally makes sense that he would come up with the solution before a crew of guys with advanced degrees in space poo poo
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Sneaking Mission posted:great job knowing star trek episode names off the top of your head, fucker nerd ty
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Sneaking Mission posted:great job knowing star trek episode names off the top of your head, fucker nerd this but in an supportive tone.
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Jul 8, 2011 14:29
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FMguru posted:Diana Wynn Jones: The Tough Guide To Fantasyland. A hilarious A-Z collection of every single fantasy cliche, done in the style of travel guidebook. all of diana wynn jones owned at the time but she wrote for teenagers so it might be too late now for a lot of us quote:measure of a man also owns
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I just finished Angelmass by Timothy Zahn I don't really recommend it. It's one of those "starts off with some really interesting ideas but the ending is a letdown" books.
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Jul 8, 2011 14:50
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measure of man is good. other good tng episodes include birthright and phantasms.
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Jul 8, 2011 14:53
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qirex posted:I just finished Angelmass by Timothy Zahn I don't really recommend it. It's one of those "starts off with some really interesting ideas but the ending is a letdown" books. That's because he's not a very good author.
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Jul 8, 2011 14:56
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I started watching Enterprise from te beginning on Netflix. Not bad, Archer seems like an acceptable captain. Makes out with the bumpy heads, punches aliens in the face. Thumbs up
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Jul 8, 2011 14:59
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wait i thought the one where data got a boner WAS measure of man
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:I started watching Enterprise from te beginning on Netflix. Not bad, Archer seems like an acceptable captain. Makes out with the bumpy heads, punches aliens in the face. Thumbs up wait until you get to the xindi arc a bunch of alien terrorists use a space laser to blow up florida and we're supposed to identify strongly with this as a 9/11 allegory but no one really cared because who's going to miss florida
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haveblue posted:wait until you get to the xindi arc "loving finally!" - the rest of Earth
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Jul 8, 2011 15:48
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enterprise sucked but oh lordy lordy is jolene blalock a looker
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z0ratio fartboner posted:i just want to read a good non-fiction book... i read speaker of the Dead because this forum so gently caress this forum! I liked Speaker. I also like A Song of Ice and Fire (the books). You hate everything that I like 
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axolotl farmer posted:The Earthsea books by Ursula le Guin. As far as good books for younger readers goes I really enjoyed Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy. Similarly no elves or dragons.
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Jul 8, 2011 16:28
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FMguru posted:Robert E. Howard: Conan stories and others. Howard was actually kind of an amazing author, particularly given the limitations of the markets he was publishing in. deichkind42 posted:yo everyone read some stanislaw lem instead of your mediocre uninspired capitalist scifi from america. Howard was a man before his time and a millenia after all in one... Awesome works, there isn't a lot of sword/sandal stuff tha can even match his work all these years later. Vance; man, I swear Cugel is one of the few books I can read and re-read and laugh at every time... Vance's florid verbiage and courtly coversations masking all manner of backstabbing and plotting is a hoot, and Cugel himself is a perfect bastard of an antihero. Lem... Just going to say that Fiasco is a crushingly depressing book; if you go into it thinking, 'Hmm will people gently caress up here..?' you'll be set in good stead 
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iamthejeff posted:its u  (Kelly Freas supremacy)
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Lamont Cranston posted:yesterday's enterprise this episode sucks and i hate it denise crosby is a terrible actress and any episode thats basically "heh.. remember tasha yar  " is uniformly awfulexcept for the one with spock spock owns
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rotor posted:are there any good novels in that genre that aren't tolkien or tolkein ripoffs? in particular i'm looking for something sans elfs. The Black Company by Glen Cook. The later books kind of bog down a bit, but the first three are pretty good.
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Jul 8, 2011 19:37
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Davethulhu posted:The Black Company by Glen Cook. The later books kind of bog down a bit, but the first three are pretty good. seconding on both points
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amf5 posted:this episode sucks and i hate it the episode with spock owns because stephen root is the klingon captain
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Jul 8, 2011 19:42
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the part where data just stares at picard when he's trying to sleep is p. funny
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Jul 8, 2011 19:45
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brent spiner owns saw him in independence day over the weekend. good times
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what was the one where troi was raped by the space creature and all the men in the bridge crew kept making her describe it and then telling her to have an abortion?
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Sneaking Mission posted:what was the one where troi was raped by the space creature and all the men in the bridge crew kept making her describe it and then telling her to have an abortion? Star Trek The Next Generation: A XXX Parody
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ah "the child" Memorable Quotes "I don't mean to be indelicate ... but who's the father?"" - William T. Riker "Last night while I slept ... something, which I can only describe as a presence, entered my body." - Deanna Troi' "A lifeform of unknown origin and intent is breeding right now inside Counselor Troi." - Jean-Luc Picard thanks memory alpha
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Shaggar posted:memory alpha owns it really does.
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the best fan wiki is transformers
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axolotl farmer posted:The Earthsea books by Ursula le Guin. mid-tier fantasy that i remember enjoying that still holds up, somewhat: the Thieves' World anthology books and Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series (the first four, anyway).
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Shaggar posted:memory alpha owns shaggar is right best part is that they separate all the EU crap into a different wiki
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rotor posted:well if two noted yosposters can agree, i guess i'll give it a poo poo wow i dont count as a noted yosposter??? also for some modern day fantasy stuff, the Dresden Files books are pretty damned entertaining, adn there's a 1 season show thats pretty ok
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mr_jim posted:lol. these books are also ok
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FMguru posted:note: this only applies to the original trilogy (which is pretty great). she wrote a couple of follow-on novels and a short story collection more than a decade after the original three books, and they're not nearly as good. I actually really enjoyed The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea and even Tehanu. The mood in them is different, even more melancholy.
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Skyl3lazer posted:wow i dont count as a noted yosposter??? Oh yea the Dresden Files are really fun reads. Butchers other series, the Codex Alera, is entertaining too.
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deichkind42 posted:his masters voice (about attempting to decrypt an extraterrestrial radio $18 
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