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Kim Stanley Robinson
Been sitting on my shelf for ages. Im pretty sure its great but i never do seem to get around to it.
The Book I bought today is...
#202 Guest_Jay Tomio_*
Posted 15 December 2005 - 05:31 PM
Crytsal Rain by Tobias Buckell
Summer Isle by Ian R. Macleod
Nocturne by Jus Neuce
Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe
Summer Isle by Ian R. Macleod
Nocturne by Jus Neuce
Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe
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Posted 20 December 2005 - 07:31 PM
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1 By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Grunts by Mary Gentle
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Grunts by Mary Gentle
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Posted 21 December 2005 - 02:13 AM
Well yesterday it was one Xmass book for someone..
And while not quite other Fantasy;
The Collapse of Globalism - John Ralston Saul..
Maybe it can balance out;
Thomas Friedmans - Luexus and the Olive Tree that I've been reading.
Though Im also sure Im going to get a whole bunch of books for Xmass, some of which no doubt fantasy..
And while not quite other Fantasy;
The Collapse of Globalism - John Ralston Saul..
Maybe it can balance out;
Thomas Friedmans - Luexus and the Olive Tree that I've been reading.
Though Im also sure Im going to get a whole bunch of books for Xmass, some of which no doubt fantasy..
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Posted 21 December 2005 - 08:46 PM
A Shadow in Summer, the first book in The Long Price Quartet - really been looking forward to this series.
GRMM Martin said of it:
GRMM Martin said of it:
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he tells their stories in an elegant style that reminded me by turns of Gene Wolf, Jack Vance and M. John Harrison"
-GRRM
-GRRM
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Posted 23 December 2005 - 10:06 PM
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart
Been meaning to get this for some time so really looking forward to reading it...
Been meaning to get this for some time so really looking forward to reading it...
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Posted 25 December 2005 - 09:11 PM
werewolfv2 said:
Grunts by Mary Gentle
grunts sucks...
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Posted 25 December 2005 - 10:09 PM
Try her more serious books (Ash/Sundial in a Grave). Much better.
Not that i thought grunts was all that bad.
Not that i thought grunts was all that bad.
#210 Guest_Jay Tomio_*
Posted 27 December 2005 - 03:37 PM
QUOTE]Try her more serious books (Ash/Sundial in a Grave). Much better.[/QUOTE]
I rather prefer her Rat Lords work, Rats and Gargoyles, The Architecture of Desire, and Left to His own Devices.
Today I received:
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Tides by Scott Mackay
Context by John Meaney
I rather prefer her Rat Lords work, Rats and Gargoyles, The Architecture of Desire, and Left to His own Devices.
Today I received:
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Tides by Scott Mackay
Context by John Meaney
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Posted 27 December 2005 - 09:29 PM
Just finished the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Oooh, that was damned, damned good.
Now I'm reading the Viriconium collection (it's either three or four novels and several short stories) by M. John Harrison. Really, really, really good stuff. I picked it up and looked in the jacket and it had blurb after blurb from people saying, in essence, "THIS IS GOOD. YOU'RE STUPID IF YOU DON'T BUY IT. HOPELESSLY, IRREDEEMABLY STUPID."
I think I have to agree with the gist. Reminds me somewhat of Wolfe's series with Severian, even though I didn't even finish the first book (Shadow & Claw- go somewhere into Claw and just... meh), but it's primarily, I think, because of the setting- ultra far future where the status of the world as earth or not is somewhat in question. Much more accessible, I feel, than Wolfe.
I think it also helps that The Pastel City, the first novel in the book, is somewhat straightforward, language and writing wise. A Storm of Wings and In Viriconium are a little more dense with language and structure, but Pastel City was enough to fascinate me.
Pretty interesting, because, while the typical fantasy elements are in there, they're so twisted out of the norm that it's really interesting. That, and the fact that Harrison doesn't shy away and pull his punches.
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Now I'm reading the Viriconium collection (it's either three or four novels and several short stories) by M. John Harrison. Really, really, really good stuff. I picked it up and looked in the jacket and it had blurb after blurb from people saying, in essence, "THIS IS GOOD. YOU'RE STUPID IF YOU DON'T BUY IT. HOPELESSLY, IRREDEEMABLY STUPID."
I think I have to agree with the gist. Reminds me somewhat of Wolfe's series with Severian, even though I didn't even finish the first book (Shadow & Claw- go somewhere into Claw and just... meh), but it's primarily, I think, because of the setting- ultra far future where the status of the world as earth or not is somewhat in question. Much more accessible, I feel, than Wolfe.
I think it also helps that The Pastel City, the first novel in the book, is somewhat straightforward, language and writing wise. A Storm of Wings and In Viriconium are a little more dense with language and structure, but Pastel City was enough to fascinate me.
Pretty interesting, because, while the typical fantasy elements are in there, they're so twisted out of the norm that it's really interesting. That, and the fact that Harrison doesn't shy away and pull his punches.
.david
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"- Kurt Vonnegut
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Posted 28 December 2005 - 10:25 AM
Harrison is god - it is known.
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Posted 07 January 2006 - 07:23 PM
Viriconium (omnibus of all 4 books plus some short stories) by M John Harrison
and Hyperion by Dan Simmons - believe it or not I have never read Dan Simmons...
and Hyperion by Dan Simmons - believe it or not I have never read Dan Simmons...
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Posted 10 January 2006 - 02:59 PM
I received my copies of Night of Knives, Blood Follows and The Healthy Dead about a week ago... finished them all that very same day! Set me back a bunch of money for the rest of the month but who cares, they were pure blizz! Thank you Neil Clarke!!!
Oh, right before christmas I got myself China Miéville's the Iron Council. That man amazes me, the book wasn't nearly as good as PSS or the Scar but I just love his writing and I'd sell my soul for some of that imagination..!
Oh, right before christmas I got myself China Miéville's the Iron Council. That man amazes me, the book wasn't nearly as good as PSS or the Scar but I just love his writing and I'd sell my soul for some of that imagination..!
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Posted 11 January 2006 - 04:34 AM
Broken Angels, Market Forces and Woken Furies by Morgan and The Crystal Sun by Robert Temple.
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Posted 11 January 2006 - 10:33 AM
I recently received an anthology edited by Lou Anders, Future Shocks, that has stories by some of my favorites like Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Robert Charles Wilson, Paul Melko, Resnick, and Robert J Sawyer among other, and something called Changelings, a new series by Anne Mccaffery and Elizabeth Scarborough.
I'm not one of those people that run out an buy a book that because an author I enjoy blurbs something positive about it, but Kelly Link was pimping a couple of books when I interviewed her , and I'm figuring someonr that talented as a writer, not to mention an editor/owner of a press that doesn't publish anything but quality might know what the hell she is talking about so I scooped up these:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (which Matt Cheney was also pimping)
Times Like These by Rahcel Ingalls
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelly Jackson
Something to Write Home Aboutby Rachel Ingalls
I'm not one of those people that run out an buy a book that because an author I enjoy blurbs something positive about it, but Kelly Link was pimping a couple of books when I interviewed her , and I'm figuring someonr that talented as a writer, not to mention an editor/owner of a press that doesn't publish anything but quality might know what the hell she is talking about so I scooped up these:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (which Matt Cheney was also pimping)
Times Like These by Rahcel Ingalls
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelly Jackson
Something to Write Home Aboutby Rachel Ingalls
#217 Guest_Jay Tomio_*
Posted 15 January 2006 - 01:18 PM
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint
Starship Mutiny by Mike Resnick
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint
Starship Mutiny by Mike Resnick
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 10:14 PM
Three Books of Known Space by Larry Niven
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
#219 Guest_Jay Tomio_*
Posted 22 January 2006 - 07:08 PM
Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
Shriek: an afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
Savage Messiah by Robert Newcomb (possibly the worst employed author in major publishing history)
Magic Seeds by V.S NaiPaul
Shriek: an afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
Savage Messiah by Robert Newcomb (possibly the worst employed author in major publishing history)
Magic Seeds by V.S NaiPaul
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Posted 23 January 2006 - 01:17 PM
Ainulindale[U said:
Savage Messiah[/U] by Robert Newcomb (possibly the worst employed author in major publishing history)
Worst employed?
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
