Kchama posted:

Also, is that Sam Lake there suppose to be Sam Kean?

quantumfoam posted:

Larry Parrish posted:

god i hate Weber lol. if he was able to glen cook his way past the details into a good story it wouldn't matter but welp. im like 90% sure at this point that the honorverse was written when he watched a samurai movie and then imagined how much better it would be if it was a hot british chick versus a cowboy, and everything is in service of making that scene happen

Kchama posted:

I just discovered that there's a TENTH Safehold book? I thought he was not going to write these for a while after the grand finale that happened where the entire book was just everyone getting married and absolutely no plot happened. Ugh ugh ugh I don't want to read it.

Aerdan posted:

Nope. The story is unfortunately not over yet.

On the other hand, it keeps him from making GBS threads out more Honorverse. I'm not sure whether this is actually a relief or not. (I don't think Uncompromising Honor is going to be the last one in that series, given the Mesan Alignment is still a thing.)

Aerdan posted:

Nope. The story is unfortunately not over yet.

Anshu posted:

Yeah, I doubt very much there's gonna be any more "main line" novels. But I think I read somewhere that he has another espionage-themed collab with Eric Flint lined up.

Kchama posted:

I'm not sure how he's gonna get more than one more book out of the Honorverse considering the last one basically defeated 99% of all foes forever.

Unless he spends a dozen books copy and pasting previous books.

Anshu posted:

Yeah, I doubt very much there's gonna be any more "main line" novels. But I think I read somewhere that he has another espionage-themed collab with Eric Flint lined up.

jng2058 posted:

I thought he said in the postscript that Uncompromising was the last book with Honor as the main character, but that he's got plans to advance the timeline, bring in some new protagonists and use Honor as the wizened senior officer that the new kids go to for advice, but that Honor's seen her last day in a command chair.

Which is fine by me, I've always thought that Honor herself was one of the weakest parts of the Honor Harrington novels.

Omi no Kami posted:

So I tripped over a book today that is astonishing in its terribleness, to the point that I am genuinely surprised it got past editing- have you guys ever read Freehold, by Michael Williamson? It comes off like the dude really wanted to write a political screed, but he kept accidentally throwing in creepy sex scenes so his editor was like "Y'know what, add in some spaceships and robots and we can sell this as fiction."

In short, it concerns a woman who trips over a plot by her corrupt superiors and has to beat feet off her planet when they try to set her up as the fall guy. She discovers a new planet full of sexy libertarians led by the author's self-insert who tell her that every political, social, economic and personal view she held was wrong, and that the only way to truly integrate into the culture of her new planet, which is ostensibly "Do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt others," is to trash all of said beliefs in favor of the ones the author's puppet has. Also, she has tons and tons of creepy sex, goes from being a monogamous christian to a polyamorous wiccan who loves public nudity and drugs, then she joins the military and becomes a war hero. Also rape.

I honestly struggle to call it a book, it comes off like author appeal fanfiction in the worst way, but apparently he convinced Baen to let him churn out like nine sequels.

Kchama posted:

The Freehold books are basically Liberterian porn, through and through. There's a Let's Read on another forum, but I'm totally not gonna ever read it myself as it's far beyond my capacity to even hate-read.

Omi no Kami posted:

So I tripped over a book today that is astonishing in its terribleness, to the point that I am genuinely surprised it got past editing- have you guys ever read Freehold, by Michael Williamson? It comes off like the dude really wanted to write a political screed, but he kept accidentally throwing in creepy sex scenes so his editor was like "Y'know what, add in some spaceships and robots and we can sell this as fiction."

In short, it concerns a woman who trips over a plot by her corrupt superiors and has to beat feet off her planet when they try to set her up as the fall guy. She discovers a new planet full of sexy libertarians led by the author's self-insert who tell her that every political, social, economic and personal view she held was wrong, and that the only way to truly integrate into the culture of her new planet, which is ostensibly "Do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt others," is to trash all of said beliefs in favor of the ones the author's puppet has. Also, she has tons and tons of creepy sex, goes from being a monogamous christian to a polyamorous wiccan who loves public nudity and drugs, then she joins the military and becomes a war hero. Also rape.

I honestly struggle to call it a book, it comes off like author appeal fanfiction in the worst way, but apparently he convinced Baen to let him churn out like nine sequels.

ianmacdo posted:

You gotta read the sequels! The good guys of freehold do a space 9/11 times one million to earth and are portrayed as the heroes. Nerve gas on apartment blocks, suicide nukes and even space ship kamakazi.

Kchama posted:

The Freehold books are basically Liberterian porn, through and through. There's a Let's Read on another forum, but I'm totally not gonna ever read it myself as it's far beyond my capacity to even hate-read.

ianmacdo posted:

You gotta read the sequels! The good guys of freehold do a space 9/11 times one million to earth and are portrayed as the heroes. Nerve gas on apartment blocks, suicide nukes and even space ship kamakazi.

Olesh posted:

Mind linking it? I like Let's Reads.

Olesh posted:

Mind linking it? I like Let's Reads.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

No. You don't.

I just read a bunch of fanfic on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity. SV was a spin-off, populated for various reasons - mods being shits on SB, and server troubles making SB look like it was at risk of going down. As a historical note, a lot of threads were copied over wholesale - they had a whole import process set up to help authors get their million words of Worm AU SI fic safely preserved on another site. SVs moderation policies aren't too awful, in that they actually ban nazis, and are endearingly quirky because they're extremely lawyer roleplay. When you appeal a punishment for a bad post, you get assigned a public defender and get a big fancy trial from the staff.

The other spin-offs that I am aware of are Questionable Questing, the porn and free speech and no politics and no kinkshaming site (which doesn't show you the NSFW stuff without an account), and The Sietch, the new free-er speech site brought to you by the SB secret conservative mass PM clusterfuck.

The recent secret conservative mass PM safe space clusterfuck was kicked off by this site. One of the images is fake, a lot of the rest are creatively cropped, and yet the idiots involved still managed to make themselves look worse. SpaceBattles has a long and exciting discussion thread. It started in mid-July and simmered along without attracting too much notice, somehow, then the mods decided to notify all forum users that there was a hot new place to argue. I'm not going to summarise 181 pages, but if you're new to the site's style, there are some menus at the top of the page - Threadmarks, Informational & Staff Posts - which are different categories of posts the mods decided to highlight. They also made another thread just to post information. One of the more important posts was PM user Xeno Major popping in to own all the libs, and making GBS threads all over himself.

The Tom Kratman story mentioned earlier has write-up by Athene.

Athene, of course, was the subject of this thread on SpaceBattles, where the rest of the staff announced that she'd decided to retire and thanked her for her service. There are quite a few best wishes posts until she shows up in the thread, at which point it gets angry. There was (at least one) SV thread, the OP of which has exciting drama-filled links to the mess.

So that's a bunch of drama. In penance, some milsf of varying quality from the sites.

The Last Angel and its sequel are cool stories about a crazy AI battleship avenging the human race which isn't entirely dead yet, just being treated really shittily by the Not Covenant From Halo who mostly genocided them. All the Little Lost Boys and Girls from the same author is a story of mercenaries investigating a long-lost secret research space station that's full of horrifying dead space poo poo. The author previously posted it on another site that was kind of a rival to SB? but is rewriting and reposting it. Both of these are original, not fanfic, just occasionally heavily inspired by other sources.

Dirty Harri's Harpies is a nasty as gently caress fanfic based on the new BattleTech video game, involving a lot of war crimes. It can occasionally be heartwarming.

Welcome to 1951 is literally a Kirk/Spock M*A*S*H crossover and that makes it technically military so I'm linking it. There isn't much written. That's a fanfic problem.

Tank is a Worm fanfiction - yes, the superhero story - where the protagonist has a different superpower. Instead of controlling bugs, she can transform into a large number of Soviet tanks, for the people. "Also, these are Communist tanks, so running over protesting students only makes them happier and more powerful." gently caress you all, this is milsf as gently caress, it counts, even if the s stands for superhero. It's also a completed story, which is rare.

If you're unfamiliar with reading stuff on the sites, there are Threadmark menus alongside the main post which let you jump to different story posts, and also go into Reader Mode to just see the tagged posts and not the millions of replies and comments.

SirFozzie posted:

Weber's going to be real crazy busy for the next couple.. years.. decades?
He posted his upcoming books

ianmacdo posted:

You gotta read the sequels! The good guys of freehold do a space 9/11 times one million to earth and are portrayed as the heroes. Nerve gas on apartment blocks, suicide nukes and even space ship kamakazi.

PupsOfWar posted:

he keeps having weird injuries of the type you only get if you are simultaneously managing the awkward inertia of immense weight and the mounting frailty of age

PupsOfWar posted:

wait wait wait wait wait the gently caress up

freehold...freehold has multiple sequels?
not just The Weapon?

quantumfoam posted:

Clive Cussler, GRRM, David Weber, James E. Gunn: which author do you think will die first?

Jack2142 posted:

Cussler is alive? I just assumed he died ages ago and everything was published under his name like Tom Clancy poo poo.

I'm going to go with Gunn because he is 96...

Weber is like 5 years younger than GRRM and decades younger than Cussler and Gunn. I think he will be the last man standing in this hypothetical.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

So yeah, I don’t think there is anything in the Clancy Canon that ever needs to be read.