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#1041 Aptorian

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Posted 01 March 2009 - 09:35 PM

Numbering them? There were numbers once?

Just open the jacket and look at the list. Purchase those that you don't already own, end of problem

#1042 Slum

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Posted 01 March 2009 - 09:48 PM

I never knew they were numbered.

You can find your answer on the internet.

#1043 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 01 March 2009 - 09:50 PM

Well, the paperbacks are numbered. Also, no buy. Library.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#1044 Werthead

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Posted 02 March 2009 - 11:56 PM

This turned up in the post today. Totally sweet

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#1045 Morgoth

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Posted 03 March 2009 - 07:39 PM

Werthead, on Mar 3 2009, 12:56 AM, said:

This turned up in the post today. Totally sweet

must. control. rage. :zanth:

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#1046 Obdigore

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Posted 03 March 2009 - 08:00 PM

Werthead, on Mar 2 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

This turned up in the post today. Totally sweet

like the release edition, or an early read one?

Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.

#1047 Slum

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Posted 03 March 2009 - 08:04 PM

The Blade Itself - Marcus Sakey

Hardcover on sale for $1.99 at the campus store. Supposed to be the best crime fiction debut in the last 10 years or so. "Vintage Elmore Leonard crossed with classic Dennis Lehane," reads a blurb on the back. I'm sold.

He and Jabbercrombie can fight it out as to who was the first to steal the title from Homer...

#1048 Werthead

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Posted 03 March 2009 - 08:05 PM

Obdigore, on Mar 3 2009, 08:00 PM, said:

Werthead, on Mar 2 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

This turned up in the post today. Totally sweet

like the release edition, or an early read one?

Early review copy. The official release date is June in the UK and July in the USA.

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#1049 Obdigore

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Posted 03 March 2009 - 08:10 PM

I didnt think it was out yet.

Add me to the Morgoth 'I hate you' bandwagon.

Also, if you look on amazon, 'best served cold' is also the subtitle of a 'trailerpark mystery' or something horrible like that.

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#1050 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 09 March 2009 - 01:20 AM

I just won a "like-new" copy of Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth omnibus on eBay. My max bid was $10, and earlier this week someone pushed it up to $9.99, but that's where it stopped. Also, early this week, I won a copy of Kay Kenyon's City Without End from Pat's blog.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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#1051 GanoesSavesTheWorld

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Posted 09 March 2009 - 04:26 PM

Salt-Man Z, on Mar 8 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

I just won a "like-new" copy of Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth omnibus on eBay.

Sweet! Does anyone else read Vance on here? I think that he is one of the greatest scifi writers ever.

My older brother actually worked on the VIE project, and got to to have dinner with Vance and some close friends. Pretty cool.

#1052 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:38 PM

I've yet to read anything by Vance, but this purchase aims to fix that. I'll have finally collected and read all the books reference in Glen Cook's blurb of GotM. ("The Black Company, Zelazny's Amber, Vance's Dying Earth, and other mighty drumbeats are but foreshadowings of this dark dragon's hoard.")

#1053 GanoesSavesTheWorld

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Posted 09 March 2009 - 10:30 PM

I haven't read everything by Vance (he has written a LOT) but in addition to Dying Earth I would also reccomend the Demon Princes series and Planet of Adventure series.

How was Black Company? I've been real curious about those.

#1054 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 10 March 2009 - 03:21 AM

There are a couple of recent topics about the Black Company in this forum. I was fortunate enough to be able to find all 10 books at Half Price Books last summer/fall, and read them all straight through. Loved 'em. It's very easy to see Cook's influence on Erikson when you read them. It's often said that it's much like a series based entirely on the Bridgeburners, and that's fairly accurate for the first trilogy. The later books have a quite different feel to them, but are (IMO) much deeper and richer. I highly recommend them all. A lot of people on this board have started reading the series the past few months, and I don't recall hearing any regrets.

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Posted 10 March 2009 - 02:50 PM

Seeds of Earth -- Michael Cobley.
Start of a series tracing humanity's flight from Earth after alien invasion, and galaxy-spanning space operatic hi-jinks ensue.

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#1056 stone monkey

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Posted 10 March 2009 - 07:42 PM

Just started on that one myself. I'm not sure what to make of it after 40 or so pages. I'm going to persevere and hope it'll reward my efforts. So far it's reminding me a lot of The War for Eternity by Christopher Rowley, certainly in what the central mystery of the planet appears to be; which isn't necessarily a bad thing because that is a fun, if fairly lightweight, sf romp...

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#1057 alestar

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Posted 12 March 2009 - 12:12 AM

Just picked up Joe Abercrombie's "The Blade Itself"...liked the jacket blurb...any good...anyone?

#1058 masan's saddle

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Posted 14 March 2009 - 12:29 AM

Salt-Man Z, on Mar 10 2009, 03:21 AM, said:

Cheers matey, just got a copy of the first Black Company novel to see what all the fuss was about, if it's anything like you say I should enjoy it. Just wanted to ask someone before I start frittering away my hard earned dosh on another series......

Also, probably a stupid question, does anyone know where I can get relatively cheap copies of the Korbal/ Bauchelain books ?
Everywhere I look they're about 50-80 quid, sod that. :Surprise:

Now all the friends that you knew in school they used to be so cool, now they just bore you.
Just look at em' now, already pullin' the plow. So quick to take to grain, like some old mule.