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Darth Walrus posted:I did always like the short story someone wrote about that cliche, though. Personally, I rather liked the movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt about that cliche. Also, I'm pretty confident the best use of time travel is to ace a history assignment.
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systran posted:Calling surreptitious muffin to the thread! Quicker: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3345499&pagenumber=222&perpage=40#post416315941
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Radio! posted:Counter-counterpoint: the villains are all cartoonishly evil for no real reason. They literally eat babies that's how bad and evil and dark they are. Their baby-eating has literally nothing to do with the plot other than to shove in the reader's face how evil all the bad guys are. Maybe babies are a delicacy.
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One of my favourite authors, whose stuff could loosely be classed as Sci-Fi and/or Fantasy, (although he refers to it as Far-Fetched fiction) has two of his books for free on Amazon: Sprout Mask Replica and Armageddon: The Musical Until Sunday. Oh and also the other books in the trilogies from which those books come are half price allegedly, although I'm not finding that to be the case.
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There are more free books now available on the Kindle store from one of my favourite authors, Robert Rankin. Garden of Unearthly Delights, and Fandom of the Operator. Also apparently the others that are published by Rankin's own publishing company are half price, but I haven't thoroughly investigated what territories that's true in.
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BrianWilly posted:Piers Anthony ... I read through the book Found your problem. The problem is that Piers Anthony is a bad author, and no one should ever read his books. Compared to some other things that he's written, what you've described sounds just peachy.
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BrianWilly posted:
Mmm, it's one thing for an author to present a sexual relationship between a grown man and a five year old girl as totally A-OK because the five year old girl totally wanted it and was thus able to provide her consent to the (apparently explicitly detailed) sexual acts in question, but when he magically changes a character's sexuality so they are attracted to (adult) women, that's when he's crossed the line.
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Okay, obviously the point of my rant was not to play oppression Olympics between homosexuals and victims of child molestation. I know Anthony had that hella godawful sex monster pedophilia book, but at the very very least that sort of thing was confined to a sex monster pedophilia book and not a whimsical series about a magical land of puns. The Xanth series has a lot of terrible sexism and instances of child sexuality that becomes kinda creepy when we consider the source, but I don't recall it ever legitimately depicting pedophilia at face value. In any case, I just think there's something profoundly, tone-deafedly offensive about having the one and only gay character in your books become straight and gently caress women when he goes into your "idealistic" fantasy world, particularly because I've never heard of Anthony having that kind of bass-ackwards notions of homosexuality before.
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What I got from this is that Dan Simmons doesn't know the difference between 'peel' and 'peal'.
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Gonna recommend Robert Rankin again, urban fantasy full of injokes and silliness.
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Xik posted:I'm afraid to look this up because if I find out he is a sexist prick I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy his books. I looked it up so you don't have to, and basically he and another guy wrote a couple of pieces about female editors and writers they'd worked with; specifically, about how attractive they were and how some of them were knockouts and looked great in bathing suits. And then a bunch of readers said yo what's this got to do with writing this is awful and offensive. And then Resnick and the other guy were all like DON'T CENSOR ME!
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Jedit posted:Spoken like a man who's never read one. Guess it also depends on the point of the sex scene in question. If the book's not porn, the point might not be to excite you.
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Dunno, maybe it could reveal something about the characters and their relationship or something. Why write any scene in detail?
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Sounded like maybe he was already a huge dickwad.
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Jedit posted:It's a common symptom of being born again. Some people feel like they have to follow the Bible to the letter or they're letting God down after he was good enough to cure their atheism. But what I'm saying is that it didn't sound like he was very pleasant while he was an atheist.
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BTW Wikipedia tells me that a couple of years ago, Orson Scott Card changed his mind about the whole gay thing or something. Anyone know what that's about?
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Isolated incidents of horrendous and awful events happening over a period of weeks, months or even years in a house without anyone else knowing about it happens on a fairly regular basis and is semi-frequently reported on in the news. That is how child neglect, even in fairly highly populated areas, has occasionally gotten to the point of a teenaged child being literally unable to verbally communicate. That is how rape dungeons go unnoticed for long enough to raise a bunch of incestuous children and/or leave abductees' families assuming the worst. The example of a mother and her children starving to death may not seem likely, but given the fact that people starve and/or freeze to death on the streets of even developed countries on a daily basis, I don't think it's a massively unlikely picture being drawn.
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Read all the Terry Pratchett.
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Darth Walrus posted:Three Worlds Collide also has a digression about how wonderful humanity is now that it's legalised rape, because of course it does. I'm pretty sure that was put in to show that humans themselves are now weird and alien or something. Dumb and badly implemented and doesn't make sense when the slightest amount of scrutiny is applied, but I don't think the author's actually suggesting this is a positive aspect of this future society.
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thehomemaster posted:Anyone know about bookdepository in Australia? Already been answered but yeah, it owns. I've bought textbooks from there too, and probably saved about a few hundred bucks. Apparently it does some regional pricing shenanigans, but since they give free shipping and are still cheap as hell, I recommend the hell out of them.
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coyo7e posted:Should Kalak ought to have been named "bill" or something? Yes. Fantasy names suck.
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regularizer posted:I'm looking for two different things. First, I'd like some recommendations for a series that you really like but has gone under the radar. Some examples I've liked in the past are the Collegia Magica series by Carol Berg, the Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis, and the Johannes Cabal series by Jonathan Howard. I've had my eye on The Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, but I want some other options. Armageddon: The Musical and its two sequels by Robert Rankin. By the same author, the Brentford 'Trilogy' which now consists of 9 books. Very non-serious urban fantasy.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think I remember reading a Marion Zimmer Bradley quote at some point that the way to write a "young adult" novel was to write a novel for adults, but make your protagonist sixteen years old. That checks out, because I'm pretty sure at some time during her cross examination she said she felt that children were perfectly capable of making decisions like an adult.
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Some astronomical whatsits still officially consider it a planet.
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Piell posted:Only the dumb ones. Why? The definition of planets is made up by humans. A different group of humans can choose to use an entirely different definition if they want.
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BigSkillet posted:Mieville has been very vocal in his support for drum 'n bass music. Link, please. Am I gonna have to add him to my banned list with Piers Anthony and Marion Zimmer Bradley?
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savinhill posted:if I never heard of Bakker before, I'd definitely be reading him just by peoples' reactions itt, homeboy gotta be doing something right with how passive-aggressive and butthurt people get This is a thing that stupid people often say. I'm not saying you're necessarily stupid, just that it is the sort of thing that is often said by stupid people.
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I started reading Robert Silverberg books solely on the basis that Josh Kirby did the cover art. Still undecided on whether that was a good choice or not.
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Just chiming in to agree with the people who say 'don't read books by Piers Anthony (the author of the Xanth series) he's creepy and gross and wrote a story in which he presents a sexual relationship between a five year old and an adult as being healthy and loving.'
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Obviously what happens is the horses get a nice place and the baby just turns up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwo8qxUit00
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Stardust I really liked the movie, how similar to it is the book?
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Aaaaaand now I own it on Kindle.
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Apparently I get a free copy of some book called The End is Nigh as a reward for backing Wasteland 2. It's some kind of sci-fi short story anthology. Anyone read it? Does it suck? Is it good?
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Oh. Some of Robert Rankin's stuff could be seen as 'cosy', in that the bulk of the action takes place in Brentford, with the protagonists mostly being intent on going to the pub as frequently as possible. He can be a bit of an acquired taste, because his writing is full of running gags and general silliness, but I love him and you might also!
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The hat looks fine TBH. Also, is that Tom Jane?
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That cover's actually awesome FYI.
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Apparently someone quietly made and aired a pilot for a TV show of Wheel of Time. http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/9/8008387/wheel-of-time-pilot-fxx
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Personally, if I see an author portrait without a beard, I put the book down and set fire to it.
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Has your wife read, like, all of the Discworld books? Depending on just how high a priority 'strong female protag' is, the Tiffany Aching books could work.
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Well, I guess we have enough info for the original poster to decide whether they want to read Conan or not... (Read all the Discworld books instead IMO, not because they're less racist but because they're the best.)
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Have you read Douglas Adams?
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