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The Scar is $2 at the Kindle store today. And still so good!
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$2 for Deathbird today. Ellison rules! https://www.amazon.com/Deathbird-Stories-Harlan-Ellison-ebook/dp/B00JVCHFFQ/ref=sr_1_17?qid=1570898325&s=digital-text&sr=1-17
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Oct 12, 2019 17:39
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Ritual observance patterns build the underlying magical terrain which you can then act on in whatever ways work for it. So you do high calendar rituals and get the appropriate terrain and use Kel formation instinct and formations to magic all your ships invulnerable until your enemy observes the ritual of blossoms a week early (massacring millions) and now your formation blows up all of your ships because the terrain's different. I really want a videogames based on this
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Nov 18, 2019 23:25
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Ellison's Shatterday $2 on kindle. A classic collection of great short stories https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90EME...d_i=11552285011
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Dec 14, 2019 16:44
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To Say Nothing of the Dog is funny and good be with a good audiobook too
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Dec 16, 2019 01:29
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I don't understand what he thinks Materialism had to do with this but I know he's invoking it incorrectly
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Dec 23, 2019 05:36
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You should post your hot political takes in C-SPAM, not the scifi thread. 'Omelas' but there's only one job left and everyone fights for it and everyone but the lady who gets it is a big stinky loser on the dole. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Dec 31, 2019 18:56
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Kalman posted:Griffin is a pen name for Catherine Webb, who also writes as Claire North. As North, her First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is excellent. I didn't realize they were all the same person but Matthew Swift stuff was pretty good and so was Harry August and so is the XMen ripoff of Harry August
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Feb 18, 2020 17:36
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Clark Nova posted:lol I read that as "genders are mostly marketing bullshit" Also true!
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Mar 28, 2020 17:44
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I really liked the one with the shitweasel that they kind of ruined for a movie. Edit- Dreamcatcher. There was stuff that was kinda clunky and weird in it but it was mostly cool.
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Apr 10, 2020 01:21
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Gonna say Gideon the Ninth because of all the decay vibes
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May 4, 2020 17:08
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD46PQ...d_i=11552285011 Ted Chiang's Exhalation for $5. great stories. Guy who wrote "arrival"
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May 10, 2020 17:09
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I just want a space magic tactics game based on 9FG
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May 15, 2020 01:11
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TheAardvark posted:drat it, 93% through The Praxis, it gets revealed that the two girls regularly having sex with adults are actually 14 years old because lol surprise we weren't using Earth years. What the gently caress
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Jun 15, 2020 20:20
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The Days of Solomon Gursky by Ian McDonald - short story spanning near future to the end of time. Semiosis by Sue Burke- duology regarding colonization of a new planet with sentient but slow plant life
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Jul 16, 2020 17:56
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pradmer posted:How Long 'til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin - $2.99 I think this is my favorite work by her so far. 
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Jul 26, 2020 18:00
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I'm just starting Harrow and already it's making me laugh. I fear no puns. Spoilered but it's an early joke that reveals nothing and I probably didn't need to.Harrow the Ninth posted:Another officer said, “My gracious lord, the loyal Saint of Joy…” “Has not yet learned to wait,” said God. “Hold the comms. I answered three of them just this morning.” “But her order countermands—” “A Lyctor’s order is the order of God and should be carried out with the same grace you would have honoured me with,” he said. “Except for right now. Station the last person to graduate Trentham on the stele and tell them to make static noises if she keeps it up.” “Lord?” “Air blown through the teeth, tongue high, hand flaps up and down over the mouth. Sounds suspect, I know, but she’s never caught on when I’ve done it.”
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Aug 7, 2020 18:24
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I'm not sure I understood the end of Gideon which is suddenly hugely important again for Harrow. So far my theory at 40% through is They partially memory wipe Harrow and gaslight her and that's the Ortus stories then at the end regular Harrow comes back and we have Gideon (who knows what a pommel is) tell her what she did as gaslit Harrow so she's ready for part 3. Woops thank you! Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Aug 11, 2020 03:02
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Finished Harrow. Confused about Alecto. she was freed because Gideon's blood under Harrows fingernails was enough to undo Dad's ward? where has she been this whole time?
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Aug 12, 2020 13:58
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Quinton posted:That was my take... Probably somewhat due to Harrow's skill, but Gideon's blood was the key that allowed her to succeed. I assume she's just been haunting Harrow ever since, presumably after nearly 10000 years in the Tomb she's patient enough to wait for the right opportunity to ... well, I have no idea what... Ok but is the ghost in the sword Alecto and also the Sleeper or was the Sleeper the ghost of Gideon's mom who went to 9th for reasons. I thought that's who the Sleeper was but then there's two ghosts and I don't think there were two
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Aug 13, 2020 18:38
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Grimson posted:Spoiler question for Gideon/Harrow the Ninth: H9 Chp 51. It was worse when I was a kid. I remember the time you caught me telling her, I love you, and I can’t even remember what you said, but I remember that I had you on your back—I put you straight on the loving ground. I was always so much bigger and so much stronger. I got on top of you and choked you till your eyes bugged out. I told you that my mother had probably loved me a lot more than yours loved you. You clawed my face so bad that my blood ran down your hands; my face was under your loving fingernails. When I let you go you couldn’t even stand, you just crawled away and threw up. Were you ten, Harrow? Was I eleven? Was that the day you decided you wanted to die? You remember how the gently caress-off great-aunts always used to say, Suffer and learn? If they were right, Nonagesimus, how much more can we take until you and me achieve omniscience?
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Aug 28, 2020 16:59
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Real excited to read bort 3 someday
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Sep 2, 2020 19:18
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StrixNebulosa posted:A friend asked me for sci-fi/fantasy books that tended feminist and were mostly happy, and she'd just finished Gideon the Ninth, so here's what I came up with in case anyone else wants my recs: Thread favorite Becky Chambers will suit your friend well.
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Sep 8, 2020 16:05
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mewse posted:Confession time I actually enjoyed reading the notorious Ready Player One a while ago. RPO is a lot like Name of the Wind in many ways. Sweet candy that received outsized praise implying it was actual food
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Sep 8, 2020 18:08
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Mr. Nemo posted:Has anyone posted about Exhalation by the Chiang around the time it came out and can link me to the thread pages? I-d like to read what people thought. We didn't talk about it hardly at all but here's some from search. Personally, I'm always down to talk about it more, it's real good. I enjoyed the button that disproves free will a ton, off the top of my head. Harold Fjord posted:Ted Chiang's story "Exhalation" is real cool. It's about argon pressure powered robots who discover that their source of power is losing pressure. I'm only disappointed there wasn't a group of them that decided to depressurize even faster. I call them exhalerationists Mr. Peepers posted:Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a remarkable short story about a scientist trying to understand the inner workings of their own brain. A lot of Chiang's stories will fit the bill to some extent, really. TA Metis posted:I'm reading Ted Chiang's latest story collection, Exhalation. Turns out I've already read quite a few of the stories in this one but that's fine, they're good stories! And from "what did you just finish": Sock The Great posted:Exhalations: Stories by Ted Chiang Another collection of short stories from the same author of the short story which inspired the film Arrival. The highlight to me was the titular "Exhalation", which also happens to be one of the shortest stories in the book, is a beautifully written piece about androids dealing with the end of their existence. To me the worst was "The Lifecycle of Software Objects". It was so much longer than every other story and I just don't find the relationship between pet animal AI and their owners interesting. "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" probably has the most potential to be another feature film. There is definitely a world to explore there. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Sep 9, 2020 17:28
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Silver2195 posted:I found that rather baffling, honestly, given the vivid portrayal of the Cultural Revolution in The Three Body Problem. Does he not see the obvious parallels between what the Chinese government did then and what it's doing now, or does he just think it's OK when it's directed at religious/ethic minorities instead of intellectuals? Lots of people think the US state department may be lying or exaggerating. Maybe he's one.
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Sep 9, 2020 21:01
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Finally reading Tyrant and almost done. I loving love it. it's all so cool and neat especially the stuff with the command hierarchy and the trim and the sorcery. Excited to go back and read the spoiler posts. Renascent prediction just stabbed bel where I'm at, shortly after hooking up with baru in a river
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Sep 11, 2020 04:09
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Kestral posted:I'm listening to it on audio, and absolutely lost my poo poo at the pronunciation one. I was thinking about this as a read it. Did she really? JFC. I wonder if this was influenced by the publisher wanting 'consistency'
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Sep 15, 2020 19:26
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The Trader Baru Cormorant
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Sep 22, 2020 16:04
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I've been reading a lot of bad books lately. Thread, recommend me your best or favorites in SF/F. I'm not going to list what I like because I wouldn't mind going outside my comfort zone or usual suggestions. "new" authors I like the most include Hannu Rajenami, Joe Abercrombie, Ted Chiang, and KJ Parker.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:53
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I bought too many discworld books
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Oct 29, 2020 17:28
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tokenbrownguy posted:Finished Soon I Will Be Invincible. The POV characters sucked, the superfights were stilted, and it failed the bechdel test with an intensity and ferocity usually reserved for successes. Some great ~brested boobily~ going on—if you're into that kind of thing. I quite enjoyed the audiobook of SIWBI, which had pretty entertaining voicework, but it's not very good writing as you say
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Nov 20, 2020 23:21
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Let's say that Baru would be incredible at that game, which consists (based on reading about it and about 10 minutes of play before decided to go back to shooters) of a lot of looking at maps and analyzing areas and their local rulers and various relationships between them.
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Nov 22, 2020 06:40
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They had already existed in the setting, so it was more like jurassic park style research. But I'm sure Jurassic Park exists as fiction in the setting and they should have known better. I am gonna have to reread both books
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Dec 4, 2020 22:28
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buffalo all day posted:Why not try blackout / allclear instead Was that good? To say nothing of the dog was so great it made Doomsday book extra disappointing
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Jan 23, 2021 00:01
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Jordan7hm posted:I have a cart from book outlet filled with a bunch of speculative fiction and looking for thoughts on the following before I click buy. Anything stand out as particularly high or low quality? I enjoyed both of these. Among Others is something of a modern fairy tale. Maybe it's magical realism? I'm not sure how to describe it but it's different. I bought City in Middle of the Night after a good reviews.
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Jan 31, 2021 22:24
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Aardvark! posted:it was this, thanks. I remember enjoying reading it although it was a bit... repulsive at times? Yeah it's pretty great I just finished it about a week ago. They are both awful and the creatures they encounter are incredibly grotesque and thoroughly described.
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Feb 10, 2021 17:28
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MockingQuantum posted:Opinions differ on this, but I actually think The Expanse books get worse as they go on. I quit maybe 4 or 5 books in because I felt like they abandoned some of the more genuinely interesting plot points and shifted focus to the least interesting aspects of the main characters. It might have gotten better after I quit but I haven't really heard anyone singing the praises of the later books in particular. It really felt like he exhausted his best ideas in the first three in or so (been a while I'm fuzzy on when I stopped caring) but just had to keep putting out one a year.
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That stupid spaceship
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Based on some goon recommending it for BotM I started Carrier Wave. It's absolutely awesome and everyone should read it. But I feel like it should have a content warning for violence. Nothing sexual yet. I know we are quite used to violence in all our media, and a little surprised to find myself posting this, but this is one of the most brutal books I've ever read. (I haven't read the red wolf or whatever everyone talks about) I'm sure you'll all be fine. In lighter reading, I'd like to recommend Sue Burke's Semiosis and Interference. They are about a new colony on an Earthlike planet. Not quite as comfy cozy as, say, Becky Chambers but it's very much towards that end of the spectrum. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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