90s Cringe Rock posted:say one thing for the puppies, at least they proved pretty conclusively that there wasn't a pre-existing secret cabal fixing the hugo nominations And they made Chuck Tingle famous!
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Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan: this is not sci-fi. This is an insane fever dream. She's an angel, who when she manifests can have wings and is super ripped. He's a doctor who has a trained killer who borrows his body without asking. He has a briefcase that contains a hole in reality. They're currently both falling out of the sky from a 747, and now there's a pterosaur after them.
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# ? Apr 10, 2020 21:22 |
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90s Cringe Rock posted:say one thing for the puppies, at least they proved pretty conclusively that there wasn't a pre-existing secret cabal fixing the hugo nominations yeah, kind of like Trump did for virtually every NWO, Rothschilds, etc.. theory of who was really running things.
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Selachian posted:There was a lot of fighting in the WSFS back in the early 2010s over adding a YA category to the Hugos, driven by the success of Potter and The Hunger Games, among others. It was finally settled by creating a separate award, the Lodestar, which is only open to YA books. The Lodestar has only been awarded since 2018, though. Can recommend T. Kingfisher's stuff. That's Ursula Vernon's pen name when she's not doing graphic novels or kids' books, and she always has interesting ideas. The Twisted Ones is her newest work, and while it's solidly horror instead of SF/F, it's worth a read.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003RRXXMA/ Bitter Seeds (Milkweed #1) by Ian Tregillis - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003GWX8JE/ Redemption's Blade (After the War #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D82XDWK Legacy (Eon #1) by Greg Bear - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J3EU3WE/ Zodiac by Neal Stephenson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008UX8SNU The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E6HYNGE/ Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2) by Octavia E Butler - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HALPEK/ Clay's Ark (Patternist #3) by Octavia E Butler - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HALNYC
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Does Dune work as a stand-alone novel? It's been on my to-read list forever, but I know most people are unhappy with how Herbert's son finished the story, and I don't feel like jumping into a huge epic series right now anyway.
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Lester Shy posted:Does Dune work as a stand-alone novel? It's been on my to-read list forever, but I know most people are unhappy with how Herbert's son finished the story, and I don't feel like jumping into a huge epic series right now anyway. yes you need not - and in fact should not - read all the dune books. read them until you don’t like one and then quit. You can also just read the first one and be perfectly happy
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boooooooks god I love getting the mail, even if we have to be careful with quarantine and disinfecting things Here's another trilogy from Kate Elliott with a super cool setting, and it's complete so I can dig in without fear of cliffhangers. Here's the description that sold me on the books: "an Afro-Celtic post-Roman icepunk Regency novel with airships, Phoenician spies, and the intelligent descendants of troodons."
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buffalo all day posted:yes you need not - and in fact should not - read all the dune books. read them until you don’t like one and then quit. You can also just read the first one and be perfectly happy "Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here.'"
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buffalo all day posted:yes you need not - and in fact should not - read all the dune books. read them until you don’t like one and then quit. You can also just read the first one and be perfectly happy Yep, this. A lot of people read the first three and stop there. I like stopping after the first one. Qwertycoatl posted:"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here.'"
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Lester Shy posted:Does Dune work as a stand-alone novel? It's been on my to-read list forever, but I know most people are unhappy with how Herbert's son finished the story, and I don't feel like jumping into a huge epic series right now anyway. It does fairly well, in part because it's an artistic failure. Herbert didn't like the Hero's Journey, and he in part wrote Dune to refute the idea, but Dune as a stand-alone is hardly a refutation of that archetype. If you read the whole series of books a larger picture emerges. However, most people don't want to engage with larger literary ideas and analysis of culture and the myths that drive human stories, and so a lot of people love Dune and dislike the later books, especially books 4-5. Anyway, the Voidship series is a different, better take on the same idea, so if you like Dune you might also check out The Jesus Incident.
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pseudanonymous posted:Anyway, the Voidship series is a different, better take on the same idea, so if you like Dune you might also check out The Jesus Incident. Voidship series is better than Dune, change my mind. But start with Destination: Void.
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# ? Apr 11, 2020 22:22 |
4 is the best Dune and everything afterwards is crap.
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Okay, just started Cold Magic because why read just one epic fantasy series when you can read TWO and - whoa! It's written in the first person pov! I cannot think of any other epic fantasy series that do this - YA sure, sci-fi sometimes, but apparently I'm going to be in the protagonist's head for three 600+ page books, which is... I hope I like her, because drat, that's a lot of words.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's written in the first person pov! I cannot think of any other epic fantasy series that do this Robin Hobb would like a word
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High Warlord Zog posted:Robin Hobb would like a word Glen Cook says hi !
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mllaneza posted:Glen Cook says hi ! Frederick pohl says hello!
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mllaneza posted:Voidship series is better than Dune, change my mind. But start with Destination: Void. I mean, it's literally the first book in the series. poo poo gets off the rails in a hurry once the ship fucks off and leaves humanity to its devices in whatever book after people learn to coexist with the aliens on whatever planet. The Dune series ended with Dune as far as I'm concerned. Frank Herbert fell way too hard in love with his own characters and the eon-spanning incestuous pedophilia was so terrible I don't see how anything his kid did with the property later was any worse.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Frederick pohl says hello! Roger Zelazny says yo. So, unfortunately, does Patrick Rothfuss.
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mllaneza posted:Voidship series is better than Dune, change my mind. But start with Destination: Void. I agree it’s better than Dune but imo you should read them 2-1-3-4
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Destination Void is pretty insufferable. "Some people locked up in a spaceship try to deduce the basis of consciousness using only the limited knowledge available to Frank Herbert" doesn't make a great book. And I say this as a Jesus Incident liker.
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Jesus Incident was worse and creepier than Hellstrom's Hive. Oakes and the scream chamber, hell loving no. The Backpack nuker's dilemma: which one to wipe off the face of the planet, the human-hive or the scream room? The original Frank Herbert Dune books got weirder and weirder, especially once Herbert's wife died and he started writing out his horniness into the Dune books. Mostly remember the Dune books for as a good illustration of the Nepotism effect, IRL (Brian Herbert) and in-book universe (increasingly less and less stable characters put into leadership roles as the series progressed).
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Huh, more first person pov stuff than I would've thought! I need to read more.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Robin Hobb would like a word and the word is PAIN
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Just read Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K.J. Parker and absolutely loved it. It was the first of his books I've read, any suggestions for what to read next by him, or is one as good as another? I guess his other works are lean more grimdark(?), which doesn't really bother me. I'd recommend Sixteen Ways to anyone who likes Abercrombie, and particularly anyone who wants to like Abercrombie but finds the main characters too bleak.
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Just read Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K.J. Parker and absolutely loved it. It was the first of his books I've read, any suggestions for what to read next by him, or is one as good as another? I guess his other works are lean more grimdark(?), which doesn't really bother me. Read The Folding Knife next. And maybe his short story collection.
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anilEhilated posted:4 is the best Dune and everything afterwards is crap. Agreed. I loved the setting and the entire concept of the Golden Path, though I admittedly thought this when I was in high school and haven't read it since. Uncle Lloyd posted:Just read Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K.J. Parker and absolutely loved it. It was the first of his books I've read, any suggestions for what to read next by him, or is one as good as another? I guess his other works are lean more grimdark(?), which doesn't really bother me. Thanks for the recommendation -- I'm a huge Abercrombie fan, and the series I'm reading now (Malice by John Gywnne) just isn't doing for me.
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buffalo all day posted:Read The Folding Knife next. And maybe his short story collection.
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quantumfoam posted:Jesus Incident was worse and creepier than Hellstrom's Hive. More like Oakes and the rape chamber.
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC130E/
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Eagles did Barad-dur.
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Arglebargle III posted:Eagles did Barad-dur. Title of your...sex...tape? Is there any good sci-fi or fantasy from the pov of the evil empire? And not " caracther works for evil but ultimately sees the light and helps the heroes" I've been listening to Dio's Magicka and there's a lyric there that is "even evil has its heroes" and that kinda tickled my curiosity. Also everyone should listen to Dio's Magicka it's a kickass fantasy album.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Title of your...sex...tape? You can argue that the Black Company's first volume is about this.
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Grunts by Mary Gentle is exactly this, played for humor.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Is there any good sci-fi or fantasy from the pov of the evil empire? And not " caracther works for evil but ultimately sees the light and helps the heroes" The Sundering by Jacqueline Carey for a serious take on the concept, The Dark Lord of Derkholme by DWJ for a comedic one.
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mllaneza posted:Grunts by Mary Gentle is exactly this, played for humor. With liberal amounts of USMC hijinx. Hooah! I like that book, but it does drop off in the second act.
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mllaneza posted:Grunts by Mary Gentle is exactly this, played for humor. Velius posted:With liberal amounts of USMC hijinx. Hooah! I like that book, but it does drop off in the second act. Obligatory warning that the comedy is absolutely black. It's one of the crudest books I've ever read, and intentionally so - she doesn't pull any punches. I believe she wrote it while recovering after a car crash, too.
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Just read Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K.J. Parker and absolutely loved it. It was the first of his books I've read, any suggestions for what to read next by him, or is one as good as another? I guess his other works are lean more grimdark(?), which doesn't really bother me. the engineer trilogy was absolutely golden. I wish I had amnesia so I could read it again ( no monkey paw poo poo, plz)
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Dune by Frank Herbert - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B7NPRY8 The Mechanical (Alchemy Wars #1) by Ian Tregillis - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRIR85M/ To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L2Z4DBK/ Selected Stories of Philip K Dick - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008P96TI0/ The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHJT92Q pradmer fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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ToxicFrog posted:The Sundering by Jacqueline Carey I've been trying to remember what this series was called for years, thank you.
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