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#27422
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Posted 30 June 2021 - 05:26 AM
... are made of this.
Who am I to disagree?
Who am I to disagree?
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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#27423
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Posted 30 June 2021 - 06:20 AM
I have in fact travelled some fair size chunks of the world and roughly four out of seven seas and determined that yes, everybody IS looking for something.
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#27424
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 03:19 AM
The God is Not Willing by some bloke called Erikson. Sounds promising.
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 05:57 AM
Macros, on 01 July 2021 - 05:52 AM, said:
It's out??
I'd pre-ordered the Kindle version which got delivered to me today (01 Jul) which was the release date for me in India - not sure if it's different elsewhere
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#27428
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 07:13 AM
Aptorian, on 01 July 2021 - 06:21 AM, said:
Reading The God is not Willing right now.
I'm surprised by how excited this makes me. I'll head out to try and buy it today.
I guess SE still has his hooks stuck deep in my soul.
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To speak friendly, Even to the devil
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To speak friendly, Even to the devil
#27429
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 12:14 PM
Pausing CHILDREN OF RUIN because maybe THE GOD IS NOT WILLING but i sure as hell AM...Kindle and Audible both just delivered, IT BEGINS.
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#27430
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 12:15 PM
Abyss, on 01 July 2021 - 12:14 PM, said:
Pausing CHILDREN OF RUIN because maybe THE GOD IS NOT WILLING but i sure as hell AM...Kindle and Audible both just delivered, IT BEGINS.
....FFS the 1st four entries in the Dramatis Personae list just blew my mind.
Time to ded-thread.
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#27431
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 01:01 PM
I am at the cottage till tomorrow, and I have three packages waiting at home...one MIGHT be NOT WILLING from my preorder, I also know one is my Kickstarter of Michael J Sullivan’s latest NOLYN...so I have my reading sorted for at least a week or two once NOT WILLING arrives!
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#27432
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Posted 01 July 2021 - 01:57 PM
My copy of The God is not Willing has just rocked up... hell yeah... now two hours to wait to escape work, roll on!!!
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Posted 02 July 2021 - 07:06 AM
I'm in the middle of Artifact Space by Miles Cameron and very much enjoy it so far. Kind of steam punk like sci fi with massive Reynoldsian (that's a word now) space ships that trade between star systems.
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#27434
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Posted 02 July 2021 - 12:20 PM
Not usually one for space opera, but I do like Miles Cameron
Sell me more
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Posted 02 July 2021 - 02:02 PM
Macros, on 02 July 2021 - 12:20 PM, said:
Not usually one for space opera, but I do like Miles Cameron
Sell me more
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They have a Dune sort of situation where swords are amongst the most efficient killing weapons, so ship to ship combat involves a lot of boarding. The ships are so big it’s often more efficient to drown them in soldiers than shooting.
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#27436
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Posted 02 July 2021 - 02:28 PM
Morgoth, on 02 July 2021 - 07:06 AM, said:
I'm in the middle of Artifact Space by Miles Cameron and very much enjoy it so far. Kind of steam punk like sci fi with massive Reynoldsian (that's a word now) space ships that trade between star systems.
Morgoth, on 02 July 2021 - 02:02 PM, said:
Macros, on 02 July 2021 - 12:20 PM, said:
Not usually one for space opera, but I do like Miles Cameron
Sell me more
Sell me more
They have a Dune sort of situation where swords are amongst the most efficient killing weapons, so ship to ship combat involves a lot of boarding. The ships are so big it's often more efficient to drown them in soldiers than shooting.
Reco noted because Cameron's been on my radar for a while and i usually enjoy when authors rationalize this. Logically any future variation of space combat involves automated or remote controlled drone-type things at distances so great neither side ever 'sees' each other because air combat right now is already that, so i like seeing how clever writers get around that (Meluch) or lean right into it (Campbell).
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#27439
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Posted 05 July 2021 - 01:08 PM
I'm about 75 pages into Michael J. Sullivan's newest NOLYN, and there's already been one moment that resonates from the LEGENDS series and hit me like a tonne of bricks.
It goes without saying, but this book is fantastic just like all his other work. Such a treat to read.
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It goes without saying, but this book is fantastic just like all his other work. Such a treat to read.
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#27440
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Posted 07 July 2021 - 07:39 AM
Briar King, on 06 July 2021 - 11:52 PM, said:
I think I'm pretty close to putting Dreamblood down. I think I'm also pretty close to putting Gaunt 11 down to. I think I'm pretty close to reading nothing at all. I've not not had a book to read since age 11. Hopefully I snap out of this before it gets there but I just don't feel like it once I pick a book up these last 2 months or so.
This is what Kings of the Wyld did to me. Took me eighteen months to get a proper book in my hands again and not even Erikson could lift that funk.
I've started A Shadow on the Glass from Ian Irvine. Seems aight 40 odd pages in.
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