[Mentalist]

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.

I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up

[Abyss]

Mentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.

I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up

I can have the drones deliver it to your house.
We just need to know longitude, latitude, colour, and whether you want it on the front step, back step, or cranium as you innocently depart one day.

[QuickTidal]

Mentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.

I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up

I'm still not sure Abyss isn't a sentient cat with WiFi access...there is no evidence he's a human at all really.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 08 April 2019 - 06:23 PM

[Aptorian]

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 06:56 PM, said:

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.

So he's this dimensions Spiders-man?

makes sense.

[pat5150]

I was asked to wait before posting my review for A Brightness Long Ago. Now that the pub date is just a few weeks away, you can now check it out here.

Not as sprawling or as vast in scope as Under Heaven or River of Stars, Kay's latest remains another memorable read.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 08 April 2019 - 06:23 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.

I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up

I'm still not sure Abyss isn't a sentient cat with WiFi access...there is no evidence he's a human at all really.

Coco with marshmallows, on 08 April 2019 - 08:34 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 06:56 PM, said:

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.

So he's this dimensions Spiders-man?

makes sense.

Spider-cat, spider-cat, goes wherever the party’s at...Can he spin? ...listen spud, he smokes radioactive bud,Look out! ...here comes the Spider-cat.....

[Abyss]

Just finished STILETTO, O'Malley's bk 2 in his Chequay series.

It was much MUCH better than book 1 THE ROOK. The cast is more interesting and better developed, the humour more present and worked in better, the action more over the top and violent, the sf/f elements better thought out and genuinely fun to read about. The author improved on all his strengths from bk 1 with this book, and even managed to keep the espionage/spy elements prominent and logical to the story.

I can't say much about the plot without spoiling some major developments from the first book, so let me leave it with this: the duology is entertaining urban fantasy with a spy theme, the first book is worth a look and the second is just great great fun.



Started the latest Expanse book TIAMAT'S WRATH... 3 chapters in and oh god, the feels... SO MUCH THE FEELS.

(i mean that in a good way btw)

[QuickTidal]

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 10 April 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

Abyss have you read Inheritance books? Macros to.

Just curious about something

Only bk 1.

[Macros]

Only read book 1. Wasn't a huge fan, possibly actively disliked from what I remember. Was a long time ago but wasn't for me and felt zero inclination to continue.

I think QT or Morgy sing the series praises though? Could be wrong

[polishgenius]

Finished Tchaikovsky's Cage of Souls. That is an excellent book - he's crafted an incredibly rich world and a pretty massive cast of interesting characters within the 400-odd pages. There's a whole bunch of completely different great ideas in here without it ever being rushed. Basically he's created a dying world with a long long long history and done a great job of having the fragments and remains of several different parts of that history come together into one concrete story in the world's dying throes. Probably my favourite Tchaikovsky so far.



Then I read Permafrost. Was enjoyable, though it didn't grab me the way it did some of y'all others. I share the view that a bit more could have been done to establish a certain character and generally feel the stakes feel more personal.

[polishgenius]

On Inheritance:

Spoiler

I can't remember how incesty it gets later on- I think less- but the second two books make the breathless, button-popping side of the romance a lot less of a big deal in the text so it's not as in your face even it it's there.

They're both significantly better books than the first one imo, you could really see Jemisin learning her craft. It took me a fair while to read on after the first book, but I read the second two in quick succession.

[polishgenius]

Yeah. It's incredibly vague. Although I think I misunderstood your question anyway?

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 10 April 2019 - 09:24 PM, said:

Macros, on 10 April 2019 - 08:49 PM, said:

Only read book 1. Wasn't a huge fan, possibly actively disliked from what I remember. Was a long time ago but wasn't for me and felt zero inclination to continue.

I think QT or Morgy sing the series praises though? Could be wrong

It's Morgypoo that does. I was just curious how you 2 reacted to the

Spoiler

very Tigana like incest loving gods/mortals?

Is that a factor into anything going forward for y'all?

I liked, didn't love bk 1. Didn't read 2 because I was more drawn to other stuff. On the strength of Broken Earth, i likely will eventually.

As for the thing you mentioned, it's utterly different...

Spoiler

...from Tigana.
First, it exists in the story for a reason other than titillation.Second, those involved are wholly inhuman.Third, it's not the entire basis for large chunks of pointless filler.
....unlike Tigana.
IMHO.

My problem with Tigana isn't that the storyline includes incest... it's that the incest adds nothing at all to the story.Also, that's just the obvious problem I have with that book. There are other things was more significant.

[Aptorian]

QuickTidal, on 10 April 2019 - 03:07 PM, said:

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.

That sounds like a bad idea. Why wait three months when you can just pirate 5 MB on a torrent site.

[Macros]

I disliked Tigana because overall it was a crap book.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Just finished listening to Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy. Very good books. First one probably shows some signs of being a first novel, and the plotting reminds me a bit of 19th century Gothic novels, but overall the world-building is excellent. The erotica scenes almost start to get boringly repetitive but ultimately transcend repetition. Books 2 and 3 go in more of an "urban fantasy" direction (though the level of technology remains mostly pre-industrial) and are far less focused around erotica. No audiobook of the novella alas but I plan to read it soon (won't fit into my limit on screens right before bed, though... so next bedtime audiobook is Holy Sister).

[amphibian]

Jemisin has said numerous times that the one area of book publishing that she pays lots of attention to is the romance novels bc they keep publishing as a whole afloat.

That's possibly why the first book of the Inheritance trilogy is somewhat romance novel-y.

I too liked the shifts in the second and third books, plus the novella. But it might have been necessary for her to get the first novel in that form in order to get published.

[QuickTidal]

Aptorian, on 11 April 2019 - 04:12 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 10 April 2019 - 03:07 PM, said:

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.

That sounds like a bad idea. Why wait three months when you can just pirate 5 MB on a torrent site.

Because every single backer is likely very respectful of the author and his team? I would certainly never do such a thing to one of my favourite authors. Pirating books is the epitome of dirtbagness and it disgusts me those who do it. Pay for your entertainment.