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You fing should read Stover's f*ing ACTS OF CAINE books... spoilers in blocks / excessive profanity / damn fucking right

#381 End of Disc One

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 06:32 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 17 February 2015 - 06:10 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 February 2015 - 06:06 PM, said:

Sadly, i'm blanking on the mirror thing. Fuck. Can you add a detail?

That was the device Raith used to torture Caine, right?

I think he's talking about the device they use to communicate. Basically Facetime.

And I'm not sure; I remember at first thinking it was Earth technology, but the way they described it made it seem more like magic.

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 06:54 PM

Im already ten percent into Black Knife... Loving the then and now splits, A communications device sounds right, I think I missed where it came in and was like where the hell did that come from!

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 08:04 PM

Cajun King, on 17 February 2015 - 07:48 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 17 February 2015 - 06:10 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 February 2015 - 06:06 PM, said:

Sadly, i'm blanking on the mirror thing. Fuck. Can you add a detail?

That was the fucking device Raith used to fucking torture Caine, right?

Fixed. Fuck.

Cajun King, on 17 February 2015 - 07:50 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 17 February 2015 - 06:32 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 17 February 2015 - 06:10 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 February 2015 - 06:06 PM, said:

Sadly, i'm blanking on the mirror thing. Fuck. Can you add a detail?

That was the device Raith used to torture Caine, right?

I think he's fucking talking about the device they use to communicate. Basically Facetime.

And I'm not fucking sure; I remember at first thinking it was Earth technology, but the way they described it made it seem more like fucking magic.

Fucking Fixed. Fuck.

Cajun King, on 17 February 2015 - 07:52 PM, said:

Mcardle, on 17 February 2015 - 06:54 PM, said:

Im already ten fucking percent into Black Knife... Loving the then and now splits, A communications device sounds right, I think I fucking missed where it fucking came in and was fucking like where the hell did that fucking come from!

FUCKING FIXED! FUCK FUCKATTY FUCKING FUCKS OF ALL FUCKS LIKE A CHICKEN POT FUCKING PIEFUCK. FUCK

Fucked.

Also, fixed. Caine style.

Fuck.

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#384 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 08:06 PM

That was a fucking "Artan mirror" that they used for fucking communication. I thought the fucking "Caine mirror" was another fucking thing entirely.

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#385 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 08:10 PM

Fucking Google motherfuckers:

BoT said:

The Caineslayer had a device.

The Caine Mirror, he called it privately; a box shaped roughly like a medium-sized valise, filled with tangles of fine cabling and a bank of transparent glass bulbs, powered by a chip of griffinstone smaller than the nail of the Caineslayer's little finger. On its front were a pair of handgrips covered with thin-beaten gold; between the handgrips was a mirror of silvered glass. To hold those handgrips, to direct his disciplined mind into that silvered glass, was to enter an intimacy so extreme that it transcended obscenity: as though he'd gouged out the man's eye and fucked his bloody socket.

It let him inside the man who had been Caine.

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 09:27 PM

Well fuck me like a virgin fucking goat.

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 11:13 PM

By jove, the parlance has got somewhat salty in these parts of late!

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Posted 21 February 2015 - 08:16 PM

Fuck me im all out of CoCaine!!! Third book was an absolute blast, fourth book had my head going round and Fucking round in circles. I need some fucking Acts of Caine stand alone story cubes pronto!!! How is this series not popular!!!!

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 05:42 AM

Mcardle, on 21 February 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

You can find a couple of Stover's Caine short stories online. One about young Hari and a meta thing involving Conan and Elric I think. After that, you're just as fucked as the rest of us I'm afraid. Sorry man.

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 12:43 PM

On it, cheers!

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 01:59 PM

I recommend, if you haven't already, the Takeshi Kovacs books by Richard Morgan, Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle, and The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence, all of which have similarities to an extent to the Caine experience. Takeshi Kovacs most of all despite being the least similar in setting.

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 10:27 AM

I will add them to my ever-growing list!

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 02:56 PM

I'll second PG on that. Morgan nails a similar tone to Stover and his Kovacs books are noir/mil sf candy.

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 11:13 PM

I'll also add that the Land Fit for Heroes trilogy by Morgan (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, The Dark Defiles) is also similar and a lot moreso because of the fantasy/SF hybrid mash-up setting.

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 04:09 AM

Abyss, on 23 February 2015 - 02:56 PM, said:

I'll second PG on that. Morgan nails a similar tone to Stover and his Kovacs books are noir/mil sf candy.

Werthead, on 23 February 2015 - 11:13 PM, said:

Totally true, but worth reading KOVACS first.

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 03:03 PM

Got it, once ive finished listening to MOI on audiobook (for the 5th time) ill use my stockpule of audible tokens for Kovacs, first one is Altered Carbon yeah?

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 03:27 PM

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies is the order. You can also add in Black Man/Thirteen (alternate titles in the UK/US) anywhere you like.

The books aren't temporally next to each other - as considerable time passes in between each installment - yet Broken Angels and Woken Furies are indeed direct sequels to Altered Carbon.

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Posted 30 June 2015 - 12:54 PM

I felt compelled to post here, after all the "hype"

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I finally got round to reading the first two (e-)books. In my opinion, the first one was ok to good and quite enjoyable. The second one, however, was only decent at best (somewhat trite and poorly written). I'll still give the third one a go and hope for the best.