[Abyss]

Rollins' EXCAVATION. it goes into the TRP, but it was a 2ndHS purchase and worth having on hand.

[QuickTidal]

Pre-ordered ORB SCEPTRE THRONE from amazon.co.uk since my STONEWIELDER hardcover is lonely. Cannot wait for that one to drop! Plus it will be nice to get it a year before Chapters/Indigo bothers to put it out...

BTW, CRACK'D POT TRAIL which supposedly dropped in Canada on Sept. 13th....STILL not on shelves in any of the stores.

Fucking Chapters/Indigo.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 03 November 2011 - 07:43 PM, said:

... nice to get it a year before Chapters/Indigo bothers to put it out...
...Fucking Chapters/Indigo.

You're learning.

Briar King, on 03 November 2011 - 07:50 PM, said:

Just Altered Carbon ... Im excited about AC.

as you SHOULD be!

[Dolorous Menhir]

UseOfWeapons, on 28 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

Got a series from the library, by Eric Brown: _Necropath_, _Xenopath_, _Cosmopath_. Anyone heard of this guy, or read these?

Bought and read Helix a while back. Utter disappointment. It reads like my first sci-fi! Enough to put me off the rest of Brown's output - there would need to be a substantial improvement in character, plot and sophistication to make them worthwhile.

[Use Of Weapons]

Dolorous Menhir, on 03 November 2011 - 10:57 PM, said:

UseOfWeapons, on 28 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

Got a series from the library, by Eric Brown: _Necropath_, _Xenopath_, _Cosmopath_. Anyone heard of this guy, or read these?

Bought and read Helix a while back. Utter disappointment. It reads like my first sci-fi! Enough to put me off the rest of Brown's output - there would need to be a substantial improvement in character, plot and sophistication to make them worthwhile.

Well, you can rest easy: there isn't. I actually remembered I'd read _Helix_ some time ago. Utterly forgettable, just like these books (and normally I'm a sucker for anything with psi abilities).

Robert Reed did _Helix_ better in _Down The Bright Way_. And everyone has done psionics better than Brown. Hell, even McCaffrey's psionics in the Rowan series and the Pegasus series are better, without even mentioning Bester, Julian May, or John Wyndham.

[Abyss]

UseOfWeapons, on 04 November 2011 - 03:49 AM, said:

...And everyone has done psionics better than Brown. Hell, even McCaffrey's psionics in the Rowan series and the Pegasus series are better, without even mentioning Bester, Julian May, or John Wyndham.

To this day i still hold May's psionics as the gold standard for the trope.

[Use Of Weapons]

Abyss, on 04 November 2011 - 01:55 PM, said:

To this day i still hold May's psionics as the gold standard for the trope.

Yup. It's very hard to see how it could be done better. And I loved the potential for emergent combinations of the five basic powers. I will say that Sheri S. Tepper's psi abilities (camouflaged at first by a mock-fantasy setting that's gradually revealed as an SF one) in her True Game series is the only one I've felt compared in terms of the complexity potential (she had 13 basic abilities, which could be inherited in various combinations).

Still knocks me out when I read the final reveal in Diamond Mask when

Spoiler

Atoning Unifex is revealed to be Marc Remillard after millions of years shepherding races towards operancy from Pliocene exile. SF sensawunda at its finest.

[Abyss]

UseOfWeapons, on 04 November 2011 - 07:18 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 November 2011 - 01:55 PM, said:

To this day i still hold May's psionics as the gold standard for the trope.

Yup. It's very hard to see how it could be done better. And I loved the potential for emergent combinations of the five basic powers. I will say that Sheri S. Tepper's psi abilities (camouflaged at first by a mock-fantasy setting that's gradually revealed as an SF one) in her True Game series is the only one I've felt compared in terms of the complexity potential (she had 13 basic abilities, which could be inherited in various combinations).

Still knocks me out when I read the final reveal in Diamond Mask when

Spoiler

Atoning Unifex is revealed to be Marc Remillard after millions of years shepherding races towards operancy from Pliocene exile. SF sensawunda at its finest.

To add to May's praises, the way the entire Milieu/Many-coloured land books are all linked is just brilliant.

Brings to mind what another favourite author is doing at the moment but i can't even put the name here without spoiling that element of their most recent book, but if you've read the book and the related thread you know who/what i'm referring to.

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Had a 50% off coupon at Barnes & Noble so I picked up Olympos by Dan Simmons. I'm reading Ilium right now, and its starting to get interesting so I figured I'd pick up the sequel for cheap.

[QuickTidal]

BLACK SUN RISING - C.S. Friedman

THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING - Cat. M. Valente

[McLovin]

WHITE NIGHT (Dresden #9)

and

QUEEN OF SORCERY (Belgariad #2) - I got the rest secondhand, but weirdly couldn't find this one. So eff it, I just ordered new.

Hopefully all my Amazon ordering will keep Mrs McLovin from noticing her Xmas present (a Kindle Fire!) arriving next week.

[Abyss]

McLovin, on 07 November 2011 - 04:18 PM, said:

...Hopefully all my Amazon ordering will keep Mrs McLovin from noticing her Xmas present (a Kindle Fire!) arriving next week.

Ah.. veddy clevah. Yoah amazon fu is strong!

[QuickTidal]

Oh son of a...the Chapters on my way home from work has stocked ALLOY OF LAW early apparently. This might bode ill for my finishing of LIONS....arg!

New Sanderson....must resist....can't ....bacon.....fantasy....guns...mistborn...decisions!

[champ]

Just picked up Inheritance, the final Eragon book! Boom!

[Salt-Man Z]

Though I really enjoyed the first book, I thought David Farland's first quartet of Runelords books fell flat at the end; so I pretty much swore off the later sequels. Still, I couldn't pass up Sons of the Oak and Worldbinder for $2 each.

And yesterday I received a personalized copy of Courtney Schafer's The Whitefire Crossing, which I'm looking forward to reading.

[Abyss]

Salt-Man Z, on 08 November 2011 - 09:46 PM, said:

Though I really enjoyed the first book, I thought David Farland's first quartet of Runelords books fell flat at the end; so I pretty much swore off the later sequels. Still, I couldn't pass up Sons of the Oak and Worldbinder for $2 each.
...

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[Salt-Man Z]

It's all right, they'll just end up on the eternal TBR pile anyway.

[QuickTidal]

I picked up the latest Brandon Sanderson mistborn book ALLOY OF LAW! WooHoo!

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 08 November 2011 - 09:51 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 08 November 2011 - 09:46 PM, said:

Though I really enjoyed the first book, I thought David Farland's first quartet of Runelords books fell flat at the end; so I pretty much swore off the later sequels. Still, I couldn't pass up Sons of the Oak and Worldbinder for $2 each.
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Salt-Man Z, on 08 November 2011 - 10:19 PM, said:

It's all right, they'll just end up on the eternal TBR pile anyway.

Ah yes....



^------- right about there....

[MWKarsa]

Just got my copy of Philip Pullman's "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ" from Amazon the other day. Looking forward to it but have a couple of books in front of it.