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A. F. Chancey M. Quillaquong's sci-fi smash hit: The Parallel Conundrums
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Applewhite posted:Will there ever be a sci-fi author good enough to have THREE initials in their name? Dare we to dream? GRRM wrote some scifi, i believe.
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The Dregs posted:GRRM wrote some scifi, i believe. The amusing part is how his main claim to fame before Game of Thrones was some kick-rear end snappy and to the point little SF short stories. "Sandkings" still rules.
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Feb 8, 2019 16:33
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The Dregs posted:GRRM wrote some scifi, i believe. George R. R. Martin still only has two initials. Now if he were George R. R. R. Martin, maybe I would sit up and take notice.
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Feb 8, 2019 16:47
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J. R. R. Tolkien missed his calling. He could have been the greatest SF author the world has ever seen.
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Feb 8, 2019 16:48
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Did W.E.B. Dubois write any sci-fi?
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Feb 8, 2019 16:50
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When it comes to genre fiction you really can't beat Warhammer 40k books.
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Feb 8, 2019 16:59
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friendly 2 da void posted:LeGuin is my second favorite sci-fi author. I didn't think anyone could best her until I read this book: gently caress, this is intense, dude. My adrenaline's already pumping and it's only page two!
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Feb 8, 2019 17:00
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Applewhite posted:gently caress, this is intense, dude. My adrenaline's already pumping and it's only page two! quote:What inspires you to write? Personally, I like it when the fat guy kills the cybergangsters with his firegun 
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Feb 8, 2019 17:06
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Applewhite posted:George R. R. Martin still only has two initials. You have a weird way of counting initials.
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Feb 8, 2019 17:10
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The Dregs posted:You have a weird way of counting initials. George R. (1) R. (2) Martin Look, obviously if his name were a monogram it would be "G.R.R.M." and he would have four. Yeah, doy. But it's not written that way on the book. On the book only two of his names are initialized.
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Feb 8, 2019 17:18
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CM Kornbluth wrote some fun stuff. 13 o’clock is like proto pratchett kinda, absolutely worth reading if you like humorous fantasy. https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-thirteenoclock/kornbluthcm-thirteenoclock-00-h.html
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Feb 8, 2019 17:25
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For public domain fantasy on Gutenberg, I recommend Jurgens: A Comedy of Justice, which is like Medievalist Vance
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Feb 8, 2019 17:38
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:For public domain fantasy on Gutenberg, I recommend Jurgens: A Comedy of Justice, which is like Medievalist Vance Isn’t Vance’s “Lyonesse” like Medievalist Vance?
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The Dregs posted:You have a weird way of counting initials. How are you counting them?
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WatermelonGun posted:Wrong. Look at this dumbass poo poo which made me start posting itt in the first place:
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Groke posted:The amusing part is how his main claim to fame before Game of Thrones was some kick-rear end snappy and to the point little SF short stories. "Sandkings" still rules. Sandkings owns but I think my favorite of his was The Pear-Shaped Man.
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I raided a the second hand bookstores of a welsh village last weekend for sci fi and came up with a pile of mint old paperbacks from clarke, ballard, niven and le guin, all with that real good schlocky cover art
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In the ’80s, Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton Recorded an Imaginary Civilization https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/03/22/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh-ursula-le-guin-interview/ https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh Non Poster fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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Feb 8, 2019 18:23
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check out this crackhead 
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Feb 8, 2019 18:23
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started 17776, the first chapter and prologue were really cool but im worried ill just get lost or bored from now on because i know nothing about footballKaedric posted:I remember liking this book and then kind of coming to the same realization that the author clearly did: oh poo poo this book is already like a thousand pages long and I need to very quickly come up with an ending whoops thats why we need that sequel!
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Feb 8, 2019 18:43
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how modern american football works doesn't start mattering a lot more after the football game featuring people getting launched across Nebraska by tornadoes
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Feb 8, 2019 18:59
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The novel doesn't do justice to the moral and ethical complexities of assassination, and instead wastes the whole theme in the service of teenage fantasy. I can't argue too hard with that. You're right on the money with the lack of moral complexity. There is one scene where he's drubbing a kid for information and he's like "this is just like when I was tortured". The introspection only last for 3 pages or so and then poof. I guess my soft argument would be that the books aren't really about him as an assassin. I don't think we actually have a scene of him assassinating anyone, just killing in hot blood or, one time, giving a woman boils. As an assassin, all the successes are related and we see only his failures. If anything, it's about him not being an assassin. At the end of the trilogy he's finally freed himself from the monarchy almost, and he can live as his own man, sort of.
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all i gotta say is if I crack open a book called the Assassin's Apprentice I better see a god drat teenager loving up a god drat assassination
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:all i gotta say is if I crack open a book called the Assassin's Apprentice I better see a god drat teenager loving up a god drat assassination
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Feb 8, 2019 20:23
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That ends up happening in book 4, Fool's Buttplug
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I can't wait for Hobb to hurry up and have her ghost writer start the new trilogy
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i feel like liveship is way more "literary" while still being exciting. its like if the main characters were the rest of the royal family, but competent. way less psychic dogfucking too
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The terrible truth is that "wrestling meaning" out of Book of the New Sun is not difficult at all. It's about man in a broken world being manipulated by strange and ambiguous forces to become its ruler and perhaps savior. The main narrative isnt the most interesting part on a reread. It's all the little details that make it truly worthy of being read through as many times as I've read it. I'm gonna avoid earnestly arguing w you about these books but I also sort of want to pick q fight with you over your idea that severin gets no characterization. What? The entire tone of the books is "severin lying to make himself seem like a badass".
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Nathilus posted:The main narrative isnt the most interesting part on a reread. It's all the little details that make it truly worthy of being read through as many times as I've read it. Severin (sic) doesn't have character because that would imply some voice or personality. He's really only just some mild tones of narration (modestly assertive, obsequiously self-denying, sharply observant, and philosophically musing). He isn't lying to to himself to seem like a badass, he's simply unobservant and doesn't notice or understand the contradictions in his narrative. There's an illustrative moment in the first book where some guard captain interrogates Severin (sic) on his journey and demands proof of his skill as an executioner before he leaves. Severin (sic) appears meek and humble, but is able to easily overpower and incapacitate one of the captain's men. The chapter ends there and Severin (sic) says nothing about what he feels and thinks about having done that, or being able to do that, or even what happens immediately afterwards. That's how his "character" works: in negation. There are gaps like these throughout the books and rather than evoking a sense of mystery, they're just inconsistent. Like I said earlier, Severin (sic) is unobservant about the contradictions in his narrative, but throughout the books he's sharply observant and philosophical, so it makes no sense that he would be uninterested in the strangeness of his own life-story. The general impression is that he's simply too busy writing everything down to stop and think about it, which leads to his inconsistent, negative characterization.
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Lol you are strongly characterizing yourself as a wanker E: though your analysis is solid so props
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I'm rereading a few of my favorite Pratchett books rn and taken altogether I will admit: tropes don't have to be subverted literally every time. Like, just once you can just play something, anything straight.
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I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon in this long-rear end thread about garbage sci-fi writers. Some of her short stories are amazing and I would recommend her to anybody. Plus the story of her life is interesting. She was in the army and the CIA and killed her husband and herself when they got too old to function. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is a good collection of her stories. She also wrote two novels which are not that good. I'm a fan of obscure czech writer/drunk Ladislav Klíma. He wrote two short novels which are both worth reading - The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch and Glorious Nemesis. They are both about supernatural horror with some philosophical themes. They are also somewhat lighthearted and pretty funny which makes them easy to read. When it comes to sci-fi-ish novels, my favorite is definitely Nabokov's Ada or Ardor though. It's about love story between a brother and sister and takes place in an alternate universe with some similarities to the turn of 19th/20th century. It's probably even more perverse than Lolita which might turn some people off but the characters are great and the story is actually quite touching. The first 50 pages or so can be really confusing but it gets way more readable afterwards, if anyone cares to pick it up. Nabokov can be kinda hit or miss from my experience, but when he hits, he hits hard. This is my favorite novel by him.
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I mentioned Sheldon on literally the first page, dude.
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Just started reading LeGuin for the first time - the Hainish Cycle - and I'm hooked. She brings warmth and humanity to her tales, and her world-building is top-notch. The concepts cross between sci-fi and fantasy... technology and mysticism. 100% recommended.
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Labes for days posted:I mentioned Sheldon on literally the first page, dude. Well, that was many pages ago and she should be mentioned as often as possible.
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Feb 9, 2019 14:47
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Ayn Rand is loving terrible op
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Severin (sic) doesn't have character because that would imply some voice or personality. He's really only just some mild tones of narration (modestly assertive, obsequiously self-denying, sharply observant, and philosophically musing). your argument is total poo poo and you continued to use and then sic my misspelling of the protag's name constantly through your whole post. lol. id type in more words to make you look like a loving idiot but youre doing a pretty great job of that on ur own. moron.
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The protagonist is named the river Severn (sic)
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I remember when I was little and my grandma's coffee maker broke and my dad was leaving to go get her a new one and she shouted from the kitchen "eikä mittä Saatana Severi!" roughly translating to "and no loving Severi!" referring to the appliance brand Severin which she perceived to be of less than stellar repute well that's my Severin story god bless.
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