wayfinder posted:

He's the guy who made Al Capone's reincarnated soul the unironic bad guy in a trilogy

Memento posted:

I'll give it a shot, I need something to read having finally managed to wade through the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

Phlegmish posted:

A common theme is incongruous guns

Biplane posted:

Yeah he's rad as gently caress.

Phlegmish posted:

A common theme is incongruous guns

wayfinder posted:

I'm not disagreeing. I was just surprised to see him mentioned as hard scifi

Nordick posted:

Sounds like you're thinking of Bill, the Galactic Hero. He was the country bumpkin who was drafted into war and lost his left arm and leg in battle, had his left arm replaced with his dead buddy's right arm, and had a different new mutant animal leg in every book. Because the military had a shortage of actual human spare parts.

Stainless Steel Rat was about the con man/gentleman thief who got into all sorts of shady adventure hijinks. Also a very good series and pretty funny but not straight-up cheeseball parody like Bill.

I should reread some of those, I was so young when I read them that there were probably some jokes that flew way over my head.

syscall girl posted:

Insanely sick



Sometimes the yospos pics thread did a few pages of those images and it went better than could have been expected but they are lost in time

Facebook Aunt posted:

Saw this in a store yesterday:



An adult coloring book. About an 80s sitcom. ?




$16.99 adult coloring book about an 80s sitcom.

syscall girl posted:

and i'd only heard good things about paying for sex

Hogge Wild posted:

well yeah, ur mom made a shitload of money

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Is this a Transformers sequel?

FuhrerHat posted:

Harry Harrison's "To The Stars" trilogy is still one of my favourite sci-fis.

Despite being softcore pulp, it accurately depicts a space battle better than most anything else I've ever read.

It also spends a lot of time on practical challenges of living on lovely tidally locked planets.

I don't know, I highly recommend it.

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Imperetrix Von Kaiser-Czarski is the richest man in the universe, and someone is systematically robbing all of his banks. He decides that the best course of action is to set a thief to catch a thief, and the best thief of them all is one Slippery Jim diGriz. Sceptical at first, Jim is soon won over by the promise of four million credits a day, plus expenses. Jim and Angelina enlist the help of their twin sons, James and Bolivar, and James' computers soon find the common link between all of the robberies: every time a bank was hit, there was a circus in town. The same circus. What better way to find out about the goings on among circus-folk than to become one of them? And so Slippery Jim becomes master magician Mighty Marvell, and soon discovers that—just like him—everyone isn't quite what they seem.

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Slippery Jim diGriz, alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet.

DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price.

Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on the Temple. He thinks he's ready for anything, but he never expects to find himself banished to Hell, complete with pointy-tailed devils. Has Divine judgement caught up with the Rat at last?

Of course not.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Harry Harrison wrote West of Eden, a novel about cavmen getting invaded by a race of super intelligent humanoid dinosaurs who have incredibly advanced genetic manipulation technology, to the point that all their machines, transportation, weapons, etc. are artificially created living creatures, but never discovered fire.

Phlegmish posted:

I think I read that one. Doesn't the protagonist end up in a weird relationship with one of the reptile commanders at one point?

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Seriously.

I bought a copy of Dhalgren strictly because of the cover. I've read it cover to cover 3 times, and I still can't quite wrap my head around it.

The MSJ posted:

Considering that Pitbull went all the way to that Walmart in Alaska, I'd totally believe that he would record a track for an album like that if it's for a contest winner or something.

Bogan King posted:

Elias_Maluco posted:

The future of cat

Titus Sardonicus posted:

If that weren't an Obvious Plant, I'd agree. I can't even hate Pitbull because he was such a good sport about that whole thing.

Guy Goodbody posted:

The lizard leader starts molesting him, yeah

The MSJ posted:

Considering that Pitbull went all the way to that Walmart in Alaska, I'd totally believe that he would record a track for an album like that if it's for a contest winner or something.

Elias_Maluco posted:

The future of cat

Phlegmish posted:

A common theme is incongruous guns

pr0zac posted:

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Fried Watermelon posted:

This is what the alt-right believes

Nordick posted:

Stainless Steel Rat was about the con man/gentleman thief who got into all sorts of shady adventure hijinks. Also a very good series and pretty funny but not straight-up cheeseball parody like Bill.

Fried Watermelon posted:

This is what the alt-right believes

Solice Kirsk posted:

Alt-right, alt-right, alt-right!

Jim DiGriz posted:

He was a porcuswine herder as a kid, as far as I recall.

Funny picture tax, to balance out the derail.

canyoneer posted:

I just laughed myself to tears with that