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Whats everyone’s favourite blogs to read fantasy reviews on? My two faves, Curses, Books!!! and Pornokitsch have both stopped updating. Maybe it’s because blogs are falling out of favour against the tide of newer more bite sized social networks, but I still enjoy them. I just don’t have any to read anymore.
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Ccs posted:Whats everyone’s favourite blogs to read fantasy reviews on? My two faves, Curses, Books!!! and Pornokitsch have both stopped updating. Maybe it’s because blogs are falling out of favour against the tide of newer more bite sized social networks, but I still enjoy them. I just don’t have any to read anymore. I've touted him before, but I like James Davis Nicoll's site; he's very good about promoting female and/or nonwhite authors.
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Aug 1, 2020 21:39
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This is a pretty scathing review of the Hugo awards and GRRM, basically calling it racist and transphobic. Didn’t see the ceremony so don’t know how accurate it is. https://www.pretty-terrible.com/george-r-r-martin-2020-hugo-awards/
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Aug 1, 2020 21:58
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theblackw0lf posted:This is a pretty scathing review of the Hugo awards and GRRM, basically calling it racist and transphobic. I mean, yeah. I ended up zoning out for most of GRRM's rambles and I was cooking dinner during the guy I think that was also a dick, but I very much noticed GRRM ham-fisting a shitload of names, including calling "FIYAH" "fee-yuh" instead of "fie-yah." I can't really argue with that review.
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Aug 1, 2020 22:26
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theblackw0lf posted:This is a pretty scathing review of the Hugo awards and GRRM, basically calling it racist and transphobic. Yup, dead on. He didn't give a gently caress about any of the people winning last night, that much was obvious.
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Aug 1, 2020 22:38
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TheAardvark posted:That does make me want to ask: what are some good sci-fi short story collections? Either one or multiple authors. The 35 Years Best Science Fiction collections edited by Gardner Dozois are very good, and featured at least 13 different authors in every volume. theblackw0lf posted:This is a pretty scathing review of the Hugo awards and GRRM, basically calling it racist and transphobic. Hugo Awards have been incestuous bullshit since 1953. ================= SFL Vol 09 started off poorly. The first real message of 1984 was about David Eddings latest Belgariad book being delayed. Then Vol 09 Digest 02 started off with Marion Zimmer Bradley recommendations. If only the SFL posters from 1984 knew what is now known about Eddings & MZB. Hoping for minimal MZB & Eddings discussion in the rest of SFL Vol 09, in fact I would gladly read 3 solid months of only filk-song chat and filk-song lyrics posting if MZB & Eddings never came up again in SFL Vol 09. Currently at 3% completion, 5 bookmarks SFL archives readthrough chill-out material: A for Andromeda, When Harlie was One, and maybe Gameplayers of Zan. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Aug 1, 2020 22:42
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Why did Anne Leckie decline the Hugo nomination for the Raven Tower? Because she’s won enough of them already and wants to give others a chance? I liked the winning book a lot (as well as the other nominees I’ve read), but I feel like The Raven Tower definitely could’ve beaten them out.
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Aug 1, 2020 22:59
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TheAardvark posted:That does make me want to ask: what are some good sci-fi short story collections? Either one or multiple authors. Anything Gardner Dozois edited should be of a high quality, the same with Jonathan Strahan. Neil Clarke also puts out Forever magazine which is usually a very high quality collection of previously published stories.
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Aug 1, 2020 23:55
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What about the VanderMeers' Big Book of Science Fiction? I admit I haven't read it myself, but the table of contents looks intriguing.
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Aug 2, 2020 00:43
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Teddybear posted:I mean, yeah. I ended up zoning out for most of GRRM's rambles and I was cooking dinner during the guy I think that was also a dick, but I very much noticed GRRM ham-fisting a shitload of names, including calling "FIYAH" "fee-yuh" instead of "fie-yah." I can't really argue with that review. All of the nominees were required to send in phonetic spellings of their names in advance, btw.
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Aug 2, 2020 02:39
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AND those segments were prerecorded. He put in the absolute minimum effort and did not care at all for anybody that wasn't a facist.
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Aug 2, 2020 03:48
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Selachian posted:I've touted him before, but I like James Davis Nicoll's site; he's very good about promoting female and/or nonwhite authors. I like this one! He sure reviews a good range of stuff, everything from old paperbacks to modern award winners to translations of Japanese light novels.
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Aug 2, 2020 04:30
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Ccs posted:I like this one! He sure reviews a good range of stuff, everything from old paperbacks to modern award winners to translations of Japanese light novels. Anyone unrelated to the author can pay him $100 to review stuff.
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Aug 2, 2020 05:12
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TheAardvark posted:Yup, dead on. He didn't give a gently caress about any of the people winning last night, that much was obvious. GRRM hasn’t given a poo poo for a very long time, which is obvious given his writing speed. Oops, wrong thread
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Aug 2, 2020 05:19
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KKKLIP ART posted:What is the general feel about Gideon the Ninth? Im about 20 pages in and want to know if its a slow starter or if it is just the writing that hasn't caught me yet. I found it never met the potential of the promised ideas within it and the whole book had this warmed-over YA novel feel. I was very disappointed with it.
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Aug 2, 2020 05:33
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Ccs posted:I like this one! He sure reviews a good range of stuff, everything from old paperbacks to modern award winners to translations of Japanese light novels. His reviews are mostly plot summary though: there's not a lot of meat there. It's good for getting a feel for whether or not you might like something based on plot info, and he tends to review a wide variety of stuff in terms of both age and style, but I find them disappointing overall.
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Aug 2, 2020 05:46
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Captain_Person posted:AND those segments were prerecorded.
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Aug 2, 2020 10:30
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TheAardvark posted:That does make me want to ask: what are some good sci-fi short story collections? Either one or multiple authors. I really liked GRRM and Dozois old mars and old Venus anthologies for some deliberately retro stuff. John Joseph Adams & Jonathan Strachan are pretty reliable for anthology editors branedotorg fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Aug 2, 2020 |
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Aug 2, 2020 12:28
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Tried to read a little of "The Gods Themselves" by our lord and prophet Asimov. It was um really weird, didn't get far. I suppose that was to demonstrate just how alien, otherworldly lifeforms would be from the human. Much preferred 'David Starr, Space Ranger,' of the fantasy cowboy western in space genre.
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Aug 2, 2020 13:37
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I found it never met the potential of the promised ideas within it and the whole book had this warmed-over YA novel feel. I was very disappointed with it. I ended up bailing about 50 pages in for a similar feeing and started The Last Emperox and have A Memory Called Empire after that. Then I will finish my Stormlight reread with Edgedance and Oathbringer in preparation for Rhythm of War. Crazy how much stuff I forgot but also the nice winks and nods about other Cosmere stuff I saw during my rereads.
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Aug 2, 2020 15:03
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The setting and world building of Gideon felt like it had so much interesting potential but then the entire book is spent in 3 hallways. And the dialogue (internal and external) is atrociously bad.
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Aug 2, 2020 16:22
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Eon series (Legacy, Eon, Eternity) by Greg Bear - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071YMZ3RT/ Redemption's Blade (After the War #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D82XDWK/
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Aug 2, 2020 18:24
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StrixNebulosa posted:You could kill a man by dropping this on him. Holy crap, that's big. Didn't know there were that many Earthsea books either. Or at least that much in volume.
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Aug 2, 2020 18:32
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I love LeGuin, a lot, but I just finished Lathe of Heaven and thought it a bit muddled compared to other works of hers that say the same Taoist things more clearly.
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Aug 2, 2020 21:05
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Fellwenner posted:Holy crap, that's big. Didn't know there were that many Earthsea books either. Or at least that much in volume.  I started A Wizard of Earthsea today and it's wild reading it as an adult because this time I notice that everyone is brown and the awful invaders messing up the local culture are white. Not much to say otherwise yet as I'm really, really early in.
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Aug 2, 2020 22:14
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StrixNebulosa posted:
It’s so loving good and Tombs of Atuan is even better.
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Aug 3, 2020 02:36
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Premeditated, one could say. I just assumed it was live, that makes it much shittier.
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Aug 3, 2020 06:39
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buffalo all day posted:It’s so loving good and Tombs of Atuan is even better. That could just say "Goof Stuff, pp1" and leave it at that. I have a very hard time getting mom to read anything more fantastic than Joyce Carol Oates' Gothic series or Wild Nights! She'll read Gaiman but not Pratchett (she just doesn't get British humor). She just loves LeGuin and I consider it a personal achievement to having gotten her that far out there. Come to think of it, Joyce Carol Oates writes weird literature. If you want to go just a little more mundane than Urban Fantasy, I can strongly recommend anything she's written. Wild Nights!, Hazards of Time Travel or Bellefleur would be good crossovers from F&SF.
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Aug 3, 2020 08:29
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buffalo all day posted:It’s so loving good and Tombs of Atuan is even better. It should have ended with The Farthest Shore, though. I can appreciate what Le Guin was trying to do with the second trilogy, but they're lesser works.
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Aug 3, 2020 11:26
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Jedit posted:It should have ended with The Farthest Shore, though. I can appreciate what Le Guin was trying to do with the second trilogy, but they're lesser works. I found the first three to be dull and bland, finally got interested with Tehanu, loved the Tales collection, and put The Other Wind as my favourite novel of all time, so I for one am happy she didn't stop.
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Aug 3, 2020 15:43
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Jedit posted:It should have ended with The Farthest Shore, though. I can appreciate what Le Guin was trying to do with the second trilogy, but they're lesser works. They're the real Earthsea, the first trilogy is just raw material.
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Aug 3, 2020 15:49
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General Battuta posted:They're the real Earthsea, the first trilogy is just raw material.  I think Tehanu is my favorite out of the series.
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Aug 3, 2020 17:14
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The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AJGNICW/ Contact by Carl Sagan - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4ARQG6/ The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files #1) by Charles Stross - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OIZUIA/ Jade City (Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRCBRX8/ Sharps by KJ Parker - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WK2ZXS/ The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0047Y0FIM/ The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RD854O/
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Aug 3, 2020 23:30
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pradmer posted:
Real good poo poo right here.
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Aug 3, 2020 23:48
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I was not expecting Gideon the Ninth to be what it is but I'm really enjoying it.
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Aug 4, 2020 11:17
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anilEhilated posted:
There's a huge change in style between the Furthest Shore and Tehanu. The first trilogy is cod archaic (not a bad thing, LeGuin makes it resonate) and Tehanu is much more naturalistic. This fits thematically, but it is a large change if you are arriving at them all at once. The latter books also manage to wrap up the ideas left in the first trilogy in a way that seems intended from the beginning, which I was always super impressed by considering the gaps between the publication dates
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Aug 4, 2020 11:53
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I was not expecting Gideon the Ninth to be what it is but I'm really enjoying it.
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Aug 4, 2020 16:43
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anilEhilated posted:Sequel came out today! whoa, thanks for the reminder. got an audible credit burnin a hole in my pocket. looks like they got the same narrator that did Gideon, she's really good.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:53
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Harrow is out?! drat, and I just started Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr after not quite being in the mood for it for years, too. I suppose that'll be the litmus test for how well I like Ka, seeing if it can keep me from immediately devouring Harrow the Ninth.
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Early reviews of Tyrant Baru Cormorant are starting up, it's out next week. Get those preorders in! I'm coming to be pushing it pretty hard here, sorry in advance.
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Aug 4, 2020 18:25
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