cj
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Post by cj on Apr 29, 2016 17:51:51 GMT -5
I imagine there's a few Joe Abercrombie fans here. He's just put out his short story collection SHARP ENDS and it's great so far.
A lot of familiar faces show up, as well as some fun new characters. In fact, I want to read a whole book with Javre and Shev.
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Post by deuce on May 2, 2016 2:06:45 GMT -5
I'd recommend the Dresden Files. They're a pretty good Urban Fantasy series with a fairly rough start that quickly improves into a funny, well written and well crafted series. It has good balances of humor, tragedy and badassdom. Butcher is an REH fan (not that such necessarily means he's a good writer). I like Butcher's novels. Not particularly "deep" (IMO), but fun reads. I need to check out his new steampunk stuff.  |
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Post by almuric on May 2, 2016 19:48:54 GMT -5
I second the Butcher recommendation. The Dresden Files just get better and better as they go on, the Codex Alera is a Fat Fantasy Series that actually has an end, and the Cinder Spires is shaping up to be equally incredible.
As to what I've been reading . . .
The Reavers of Skaith, by Leigh Brackett. We come now to the end. Eric John Stark's efforts to save the people of the dying planet Skaith have met with treachery and betrayal. Now he must fight against barbarian tribes, galactic pirates, and time. I love how Brackett extracted some of the themes of Burrough's Mars and expanded on them without her work becoming a slavish imitation. When a great author creates something, they spread seeds which future authors can plant and grow for themselves.
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Post by almuric on May 12, 2016 20:50:50 GMT -5
Dinosaurs & a Dirigible, by David Drake. Amazing amounts of alliteration! This is a Baen collection of Drake's four Henry Vicker's time travel dinosaur-hunting stories, as well as a fifth, unrelated story "Travellers" which might be described as quasi-Steampunk with a time travel twist.
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Post by deuce on May 12, 2016 21:03:54 GMT -5
Dinosaurs & a Dirigible, by David Drake. Amazing amounts of alliteration! This is a Baen collection of Drake's four Henry Vicker's time travel dinosaur-hunting stories, as well as a fifth, unrelated story "Travellers" which might be described as quasi-Steampunk with a time travel twist. I've read them all (separately) and they're excellent. |
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Post by KiramidHead on May 12, 2016 21:18:33 GMT -5
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, by Kim Newman
It's an interesting collection of short stories so far, and Colonel Moran makes for one hell of a memorable narrator. It's not quite on the level of Newman's Anno Dracula series, but still very good.
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Post by deuce on May 17, 2016 15:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 20, 2016 22:15:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 30, 2016 0:32:41 GMT -5
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Post by KiramidHead on Jun 1, 2016 10:42:34 GMT -5
Just starting up on reading The Stars My Destination.
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Post by deuce on Jun 7, 2016 14:07:05 GMT -5
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Post by almuric on Jun 15, 2016 11:23:08 GMT -5
Blood in the Water, by Taylor Anderson. Eleventh book in the ever-expanding Destroyermen series. I could say this series is "WW2 with dinosaurs" but that would be selling it short. This is one of the best military SF series out there. Great action, great characters, great worldbuilding. If you haven't read the series yet, best to start with the first volume, Into the Storm. |
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Post by deuce on Jun 21, 2016 22:01:41 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 22, 2016 21:44:20 GMT -5
Sarah Hoyt, a successful author of sf/f, talks about why she's leery of reading novels from "new" female authors: accordingtohoyt.com/2016/06/14/on-reading-women/I think she brings up a lot of good points. Mostly gone are the days of Moore, Brackett, Norton, Cherryh, Lee, May and others. I don't need to pay good money to read boring politicized screeds.  |
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Post by almuric on Jul 19, 2016 10:48:09 GMT -5
The Return of Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. For some reason, this seemed like a good time to revisit this. ;-) |
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Everyone (IMO) should seriously consider reading The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth:
