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Dr. AA Hazredstein posted:When I was a kid, I could swear that I read a book about two brothers who go into a magic land, but get separated. One of them ends up being cooked into an egg that is almost fed to the other, before he finds out. As I read it I was sure too, but the egg threw me off. Does he get turned into an egg magically or technologically? There's a Norwegian kid's book about a kid named Odd (which is a pretty normal name in Norway) whose head is an egg. Apparently he has to wrap it up in towels and a tea cozy when he goes outside. Looks like it's from 2010 though so probably not it.
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Oct 14, 2016 05:39
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Goddamned fairy tale tropes. I'm reminded of Krabat, but that's not it either. The kids are mostly turned into ravens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIh7rVofAw
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Oct 14, 2016 05:55
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Truck Stop Stall posted:There's a short science fiction story about a human astronaut who lands on Mars and finds an empty village of ugly dwellings that have horrible music playing in them. As he wanders around the village he finds that the dwellings become more and more attractive and the music sounds better and better. It's implied that he turns Martian. At the end there's a line like "And he raised his eye stalks in exultation" or something to that effect. Any ideas? It was probably written more than 10 years ago. I've read this but I can't remember who wrote it. I wanna say Bradbury maybe? We're back in that era, 1960 at the latest in my opinion. He's drawn to the music irresistibly, there's a horror element to it, how he cannot stop. And yeah he becomes like the Martians, transformed through the music. I think the basic plot might also have been used in an EC horror comic, which implies 1940s.
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Nov 12, 2016 03:36
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Cornwind Evil posted:There was this book I read in college for a class that for the life of me I cannot remember the title of. The plot was presented as two supposed 'real' diaries (both actually fiction). The first 2/3 of the book was the diary of a man who supposedly (in like, 1885 or so) had an odd as hell medical genius friend who, when a woman died while heavily pregnant, managed to transplant the infant's brain into the woman's body, hence creating a 'new woman' from the two dead people, and the events that occurred after that. The last third is the diary of the self-same woman (who married the man) who basically says his diary is a ludicrous pack of lies built around a bare framework of truth (she just suffered a head injury according to her, for example), and tells the supposed 'real story' before the rest of the book recounts the woman's later life. So it's a book about an adult man who has sex with a newborn infant whose mind is trapped in an adult woman's body. That's next level right there.
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Nov 26, 2016 03:57
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Biplane posted:I recently remembered a series I read a bunch of years ago, at least 10, which I got from these forums. It was science fiction and I think maybe the author was a goon? I seem to remember that there banner ads for the books on the site at least, but gently caress me if I can remember the name. I'm pretty sure it was "near-future scifi", and the books were kinda weird. It was a trilogy I'm pretty sure and I think they were color coded maybe, and there were these symbols scattered throughout the books some way tied in with some of the characters. Some of it takes place in south america and also in space where some space station is infiltrated by corporate black ops or something. It's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of the books or the author. Do my vague memories ring a bell with anyone? Sounds like Autumn Rain by David J. Williams. Dunno if he's a goon.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:My friend just hit me with this one, and I have no idea. this feels kinda smug to say but i googled a little and well ya novel laser rock explode fwiw full text search is enabled for it & i just verified theres also a broken arm in the novel
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Mar 25, 2017 09:56
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There's something Pratchettesque about the mice interPreting the road as a dangerous river Doesnt ring a bell though
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May 29, 2017 01:50
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quote:Jimmy! A voice rings out. Is that it?
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May 29, 2017 02:34
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If there's a helpful dog, it's Koontz. If not, sorrry.
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Jun 11, 2017 05:13
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MisterBibs posted:an old man and a young woman "all scifi for 100, please"
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Jul 8, 2017 02:54
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bloody illegal aliens nickin' our pollotta innit
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Sep 11, 2017 12:27
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504 posted:Maybe when looking for the name of books so interesting you want to reread them we could avoid revealing the ending? Or at least spoiler it
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Nov 27, 2017 09:19
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No worries, I've forgotten what the spoiler was but I've gotten the ebook so I'll see if I remember when I start reading it 
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Nov 27, 2017 13:32
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There's also Nod by Adrian Barnes but it's more of a scifi-horror thing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16044493-nod
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Jan 28, 2018 11:09
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It could help the search to know when Paul Lemaster was an adult & published the book. Presumably sometime in the latter half of the 19th century, his adoptive mother being a granddaughter of Johann Kenner (fl. 1790–1814, probably born c. 1750s)? You could also try writing the guy mentioned in the note below, he could be a descendant and appears to be an authority on the family: https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I56519 Also check out the genealogy thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3777244 Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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Feb 18, 2018 12:30
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Yea pretty old, Ginnungagap is primordial
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Apr 14, 2018 22:04
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probably? i mean thats a pretty good authors trick. make sure it sells before you expend the effort
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May 5, 2018 14:08
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DirtyRobot posted:I have one that's driving me nuts. I'm looking for a letter (and the story to which the letter refers) where -- I think -- Ernest Hemingway submits a story and in his letter to the editor is like, "Hey, so here's a story about a guy who goes home and commits suicide, but uh, I left out the part where he goes home and commits suicide. Readers will get it, though. Peace." Maybe searching through Letters of Note will bring it to light? http://www.lettersofnote.com/search?q=hemingway http://www.lettersofnote.com/search?q=suicide
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May 11, 2018 13:51
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 what?Moveable feasts are holidays that don't fall on the same date each year, such as easter. Hemingway uses it as a metaphor for Paris itself. It's also a great book & the Fitzgerald penis anecdote is for the gods.
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May 11, 2018 16:57
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Lexicon by Max Barry
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Jun 15, 2018 03:53
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Grifter posted:This is exactly right! Thanks. I read all of Max Barry's stuff at one point because I liked Jennifer Government, I didn't remember that this was part of that. No problem & yeah i did the same thing hehe
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Jun 17, 2018 16:41
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Sure about that name? Coproliths are either impacted or fossilized turds
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Jul 24, 2018 16:29
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#3 Stefano Benni - Terra!? Don't remember the jive riding hood but it must be over 25 years since I read it
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Aug 8, 2018 21:02
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these are the end times
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Sep 20, 2018 06:32
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Almost sounds like the Stacy Keach Hair segment from Body Bags (1993), but then not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Bags_(film)#%22Hair%22
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Sep 27, 2018 10:30
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Maybe The Crow Road? I feel like the landscape is a character itself in that book and it would fit in thematically. But also it's not a super profound observation so it's probably in a ton of books.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:44
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There's a cable car scene in Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward, it's from 2000 tho. I think also in his Against a Dark Background (1993).
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Jul 18, 2019 09:55
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lol nice
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Jul 18, 2019 17:26
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How long ago is "once"? The third Three Body Problem book (by Cixin Liu, 2010) has a lot of dimensionality fuckery, including narrated point of view experiences.
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Aug 30, 2019 18:47
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bowser posted:I think this is it! Unfortunately I read the first book in this series (I think because of that quoted fourth dimension segment) and found it really underwhelming and all around not fun to read. The author is a master of describing scenes that are really fun to visualize but his characters are completely flat and the endless exposition sucked out any remaining enjoyment. Agreed, the characters aren't very good but tbf the first book is by far the weakest, and yea it gets badly infodumpy in the last half. Liu is kinda like a Greg Egan, more about the ideas and concepts than engaging characters. The second and third ones are much less expository and I liked them a lot more, plus the ideas get a lot wilder. The wallfacers are a fun concept, and the dark forest is pretty scary tbh. imo its worth powering through the first one to get to the others.
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Aug 30, 2019 18:59
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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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Dec 11, 2019 14:29
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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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Dec 15, 2019 10:51
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could be something by Paul Auster maybe?
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Jan 16, 2020 09:20
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fwiw, I feel like I've read it too but I couldn't say where or when.
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Skyscraper posted:EDIT: wrong forum sorry "wrong screen" 
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threedaycrash posted:I sent a pm about it this morning, no response yet. I can always email the pdf to whoever wants it if the answer is no. yea hook me up 
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Feb 14, 2020 21:47
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Maybe The Black Dahlia (which is the first in the LA Quartet)?
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Feb 20, 2020 15:48
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There's also The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
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Some Niven kzin story perhaps
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