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Sham bam bamina! posted:hm - having male and female genitalia doesn't make a creature unisex oh my god - how the hell do those centuar monster things actually mate, with the vagina up front and the cock in back. how.
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StrixNebulosa posted:- having male and female genitalia doesn't make a creature unisex oh my god Maybe the other centaur gender has the cock up front and the vagina behind. AAAA I'M POSSESSED BY THE UNHOLY GHOST OF JACK CHALKER
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It's funny to me that the centaur junk is easily the least awful thing I quoted.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's funny to me that the centaur junk is easily the least awful thing I quoted. My eyes refused to read most of those quotes honestly
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Runcible Cat posted:Maybe the other centaur gender has the cock up front and the vagina behind.  Okay, Varley, not Chalker, but I'll never pass up a chance to share this. And here's a cool, non-squicky article about that chart!
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Jack Chalker has the book series where there's minotaurs where the women are all stupid and owned by the men and there's goat people where the women have goat heads and huge tits and they electro-gently caress
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Djeser posted:Jack Chalker has the book series where there's minotaurs where the women are all stupid and owned by the men and there's goat people where the women have goat heads and huge tits and they electro-gently caress sure, he has some low lows, but also some really fantastic stuff,
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I spurred possibly the most posts this thread has ever seen in such a short period of time by asking about horse humans, a subject Goons are surprisingly passionate about, and somehow still didn’t get my question answered. I wonder if I have the details completely wrong, and they were actually city-dwelling robot Martians instead of horse people of the plains.
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Selachian posted:
Thanks for the article! I read Newitz' Autonomous recently, it's very good and a lot more interesting than its cover blurb would suggest. There's a robot/human romance that actually makes sense.
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Ok, here goes. T'is the season for me to once again try to find a book from my childhood. I just learned about this thread, so I thought I'd ask you all. Christmas kids picture book, large, possibly hard-covered, illustrations were similar to stained glass The facts, from what I recall: - read it sometime between 1985-93 - more about the artwork: everything had a thick black outline to it, filled with I believe solid colours. Likely no gradual shading, or anything that looked like it was coloured using pencil crayons. Nothing actually looked like glass texture, however, it's just that the colours were sectioned off. It's almost like it was a colouring book that was already professionally coloured. - artwork filled the pages, wasn't a lot of white space, if any at all - was probably larger than a normal 8.5x11 sized book. - one element I remember more clearly than others was that there was a big red candle in at least one of the illustrations, with a big yellow flame on top of it, which looked a lot like the kind you'd put outside your home as a decoration. Another vague image coming into my mind right now is that it showed a few houses covered in snow. Specific, I know (  ) - not silly or goofy whatsoever. Meant for children, but not in a cartoonish way. Like a classic book for kids. - likely didn't feature many characters - might've had a nutcracker in one of the pictures - might have been a version of The Night Before Christmas. - that being said, I don't cleary remember any of the words, nor do I remember the cover. I've been trying to find this book for literally decades now, and I don't even think I'm prepared for the emotions I'll feel if I ever see it again. I'm forever grateful for any help anyone might be able to give. Thank you!
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Christmas kids picture book, large, possibly hard-covered, illustrations were similar to stained glass
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ok, here goes. T'is the season for me to once again try to find a book from my childhood. I just learned about this thread, so I thought I'd ask you all. Some possible illustrators: Robert Sabuda Fiona French Christine Brallier Jan Brett Also search Clement C. Moore on Amazon and scroll through the many, many illustrated adaptations of his poem. You might stumble across it. a friendly penguin fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 14, 2019 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:- more about the artwork: everything had a thick black outline to it, filled with I believe solid colours. Likely no gradual shading, or anything that looked like it was coloured using pencil crayons. Nothing actually looked like glass texture, however, it's just that the colours were sectioned off. It's almost like it was a colouring book that was already professionally coloured. as others mentioned, this sounds very jugend (see also art nouveau) sarah bernhardt posters are a classic example of that style:   
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Krankenstyle posted:as others mentioned, this sounds very jugend (see also art nouveau) Thank you! Parts of these seem a bit familiar, but I remember the book I'm thinking of being not nearly as detailed. Edit: and thanks to the other goons helping out, too! 
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This is a very long shot, but there's a story that I have only the dimmest memory of. The only thing I remember is that a major character (possibly the protagonist) was named Chris, and it ended with her being turned into a chrysanthemum plant.
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Long shot, but here we go. I saw this in a bookstore years ago and didn't pick it up. It had a dark blue cover. It was titled "The thinking person's guide to math and astronomy" or something like that. It opened with some examples of different ways to describe a chess board or sets of dominoes or something and narrowed it down to a single statement that encapsulated all of them. The whole thing was an exercise in communicating the meaning behind the phrase "simple is beautiful".
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Gnoman posted:This is a very long shot, but there's a story that I have only the dimmest memory of. The only thing I remember is that a major character (possibly the protagonist) was named Chris, and it ended with her being turned into a chrysanthemum plant. Is this it? Picking Crysanthenum by P. L. Hampton It's about a character named Chrysanthemum, nicknamed Chris. And the genre is fiction/fantasy.
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Can't be - that's copyright 2003, where the book I'm looking for was from 1990-1992 at the absolute latest.
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Buried alive posted:Long shot, but here we go. I don't know what this is, but I'm hoping someone else does, I'd like to read that.
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Buried alive posted:Long shot, but here we go. Wild-rear end guess: "The intelligent man's guide to science" by Asimov?
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^^^ Not impossible, but without looking at the inside I can't say for sure. None of the covers look familiar, so I'm skeptical.
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I have one that's been bothering me for a while. I found it in a pile of Ursula Leguin and Andre Norton sci-fi paperbacks I had received from my dad as a child in ~93 or so, but they were fairly old and from the text and art styles on the cover I wouldn't be surprised if they were printed in the 70's. The cover had a sort of alien with facial features rearranged like a Picasso painting, but in a relaxed sort of mona lisa pose. There may have been an exposed organ or two. The only thing I can remember about the plot is that the world must not have been very advanced but many people had a sort of demi-human maid that appeared to be a normal young woman. However, if their master "succumbed to temptation" or whatever euphamism the author used for sexually abusing the maid, they would rapidly age and everyone knew you were a gross horn dog if your maid showed up the next day at the market looking like she just signed up for Medicare. What the heck kind of book am I half remembering?
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:I have one that's been bothering me for a while. I found it in a pile of Ursula Leguin and Andre Norton sci-fi paperbacks I had received from my dad as a child in ~93 or so, but they were fairly old and from the text and art styles on the cover I wouldn't be surprised if they were printed in the 70's. The cover had a sort of alien with facial features rearranged like a Picasso painting, but in a relaxed sort of mona lisa pose. There may have been an exposed organ or two. The only thing I can remember about the plot is that the world must not have been very advanced but many people had a sort of demi-human maid that appeared to be a normal young woman. However, if their master "succumbed to temptation" or whatever euphamism the author used for sexually abusing the maid, they would rapidly age and everyone knew you were a gross horn dog if your maid showed up the next day at the market looking like she just signed up for Medicare. Mayyybe one of Michael Coney's books involving amorphs? Mirror Image or Syzygy? I can't remember the sex thing or find any references online though.
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Some of these are a crazy longshot, but you guys have worked with less! 1) A novel I didn't read. Was written prior to 2009. It was a murder mystery, I think modern and the murder victim was a carer who looked after her overweight (maybe) daughter. In the end it becomes apparent that the daughter killed her because she wanted to eat something and she wouldn't let her. I have a feeling that they had previously stated that the woman would 'kill someone for a sandwich'. 2) I'm convinced this was a sort of short story chapter or flashback in a longer novel that I am trying to identify. Fairly sure it was set in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, but might have been World War II and it might have been in Germany. In this flashback or whatever, there is a young boy who starts doing deliveries for his father who is a tailor to this very charismatic guy. It's written from the boy's point of view and it becomes apparent the boy is smuggling messages within the folds of shirts or something. The fascists storm the building and the charismatic guy throws himself out the window to his death but appears very unfazed by it. It MIGHT be Carlos Ruiz Zafon but I'm not sure which book. 3) A short story from a British science fiction/horror anthology from the mid 1990s. In the future, children are raised by these robots until they reach school age. I think they might be robot bears. The children all absolutely adore these robots but once they reach school age they are forcibly separated. I think the robots are then hinted to be destroyed, or wiped clean and used again maybe? The protagonist is a little girl who refuses to follow this rule and she organises a walk-out from the city where all the children and their robots leave in the night and vanish into the woods. It is possibly hinted that it was the robots organising this through the children or manipulating them to think it was their idea.
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I think 2 is Shadow of the Wind, but it's been a while.
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I have one that's been itching at the back of my mind recently even though I only read the first chapter or two in middle school. (Late 90's-early 00's). It was either fantasy or sci-fi, I'm leaning more towards fantasy, and the world had government/family structures like Morrowind houses, if that makes sense? One family covers a whole bunch of people who may be there by birth or adoption. The beginning started with a female protagonist who got called back from what I believe is some sort of priesthood or scholarly life to become head of the family even though she wasn't the expected heir. I remember a scene where she had to figure out how to punish one of her retainers who had 'dishonored' her family but didn't want to execute him, so he had a black band tied around his forehead to indicate he was basically walking around under a death sentence. I know it's super vague, and I'm probably misremembering some of it, but I really want to try reading it again if I can find it.
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DreamingofRoses posted:I have one that's been itching at the back of my mind recently even though I only read the first chapter or two in middle school. (Late 90's-early 00's). Daughter of the Empire, by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts. Sequels are Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire. You're remembering it pretty well, btw. Khizan fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Khizan posted:Daughter of the Empire, by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts. Sequels are Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire. You're remembering it pretty well, btw. Those are good books, way better than the series it spun off from.
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Khizan posted:Daughter of the Empire, by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts. Sequels are Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire. You're remembering it pretty well, btw. Thank you so much!
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This is one I mostly remember from the cover, which had a (green and purple?) dragon and a fighter jet, with a mostly brownish background. From probably the 80s or 90s and the protagonist was from our world transported into a fantasy as usual, but it was really all kind of a downer. I think it ended with the antagonist being either put into the body of a mentally disabled child, or reduced to that state somehow. I also remember some line about a woman he met who was a wetnurse for elves having scars on her breasts because elves were born with all their teeth. I don't know why that was a necessary detail but I guess it's memorable.
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I don't think this is it but Dragon v Fighter Jet on the cover reminded me of The Wizardry Cursed by Rick Cook.
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Drakhoran posted:I don't think this is it but Dragon v Fighter Jet on the cover reminded me of The Wizardry Cursed by Rick Cook.
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Solenna posted:Holy poo poo it is, thank you! And I had no idea it was in the middle of a series, which in vague retrospect makes sense why some of it was so confusing. Yeah, it's book 3 of a 5-book series and probably the weakest of the five (with #1, Wizard's Bane, being the other contender), although it does have some fun moments.
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I'm trying to find a short story I read a while back, which I know is a tall order. It was a sort of sci-fi/horror story, that I thought was written by Brian Evenson but now I'm not sure and can't find it under his name, at least. I know I read it online, it had someone waking up inside a capsule or pod or something, presumably in deep space, but everything about the story was very ambiguous and uncertain, almost to the point of being dreamlike. Unfortunately that's all I can tell you about it... not much to go on, I know!
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MockingQuantum posted:I'm trying to find a short story I read a while back, which I know is a tall order. It was a sort of sci-fi/horror story, that I thought was written by Brian Evenson but now I'm not sure and can't find it under his name, at least. I know I read it online, it had someone waking up inside a capsule or pod or something, presumably in deep space, but everything about the story was very ambiguous and uncertain, almost to the point of being dreamlike. Unfortunately that's all I can tell you about it... not much to go on, I know! What magazines do you typically read; do you think it was published in any of them?
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wizzardstaff posted:What magazines do you typically read; do you think it was published in any of them? I don't read any, really, this was almost certainly linked to me by someone on the forums, so I'm not sure I could tell you where it came from. It was a professional looking site, though, so I'm inclined to say it wasn't on some random person's blog, and it was probably reprinted from a published work, though that's more of a guess.
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http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/brian-evenson-c67 Probably that one.
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