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Posted 11 December 2012 - 07:20 AM

Picked up "Martian Time Slip" and "The Crack in Space" more P K Dick craziness for me.
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 02:09 PM

WITCH by Don Mcquinn.
Am sort of psyched about this having hunted it for almost a decade. Read his first book in the series Wanderer ages ago and the sequel Warrior a few years later. Fun post apocalypse sf with some minimal fantasy elements, tribes with superdogs, time lost soldiers with machine guns and a future messiah with the odd great white shark bodyguard
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 04:59 PM

Ordered just now:
Blood and Bone
Forge of Darkness
The Heroes
A Red Country
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Posted 12 December 2012 - 10:12 AM

picked up:

The Lies of Locke Lamora & Red Seas under Red Skies
- Scott Lynch

The Cold Commands
- Richard Morgan
impulsively bought this when i saw this, may take sometime before i could read this, as i don't have The Steel Remains yet, but put up a pre-order for it,
all of this books are Gollancz paperback,

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Posted 12 December 2012 - 11:26 PM

Just received Stealing Light by Gary Gibson, one of my ALIENS recs from the other thread. Got it from The Book Depository, since it seems to have gone out of print in the U.S. for some reason, while it sat on my Amazon wishlist. I also ordered the Empyrion omnibus (which is one of the few Stephen R. Lawhead books I have yet to read) but they must have shipped it in a separate package.
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Posted 13 December 2012 - 06:15 AM

View PostBriar King, on 13 December 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:

Did you read Morgans Koviacs 3 book yet?


not yet, this will be my first time to read Morgan's, and I will immediately read The Steel Remains when it arrives,
though I'm also considering his Kovacs as i saw before his Woken Furies, but will have to pre-order Altered Carbon and Broken Angels
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Posted 13 December 2012 - 08:50 AM

View Postyuna_anomander25, on 13 December 2012 - 06:15 AM, said:

View PostBriar King, on 13 December 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:

Did you read Morgans Koviacs 3 book yet?


not yet, this will be my first time to read Morgan's, and I will immediately read The Steel Remains when it arrives,
though I'm also considering his Kovacs as i saw before his Woken Furies, but will have to pre-order Altered Carbon and Broken Angels


Judging by your listed interests, you will enjoy Morgan quite a bit. There are some extremely light references in Steel Remains/Cold Days to the Takeshi Kovacs novels. You certainly don't need to reed the Kovacs stuff first, but I would suggest it :)
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Posted 14 December 2012 - 04:48 AM

View PostBriar King, on 13 December 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

I agree read Kovacs 1st as it takes place before the ones you have.


That is debatable...
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Posted 14 December 2012 - 11:21 PM

I have Hide Me Among The Graves by Tim Powers, which promises to be a sequel of sorts ot The Stress Of Her Regard

I also have Bleak History by John Shirley - which was astoundingly cheap. I haven't read him since the early 90s, when he was writing agitprop cyberpunk, so I'm interested to see what he does with the conventions of Urban Fantasy.
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Posted 15 December 2012 - 04:27 PM

Since studying is so dull, i bought myself a couple of books. Before they are hanged, and a tease of this desdencrak of yours, Storm Fornt.
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Posted 15 December 2012 - 08:54 PM

Picked up James Treadwell's _Advent_, an omnibus edition of David Brin's first Uplift trilogy, and Brin's _Existence_, which appears to be a Big Dumb Object novel, so looking forward to seeing what Brin does with that.
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 02:06 AM

Part I of the Holiday splurge:

-Ordered "Blood and Bone"
Bought the latest "Iron Elves" book by Chris Evans... after re-reading the first, I couldn't figure out what I didn't like about this series. After reading the second one, I liked it a lot.
also picked up "alloy of Law", the fourth Mistborn book. I wasn't as crazy about Mistborn as some (although that ending... goddamn, it was beautiful)

I also got a bunch of new authors I wanna check out reccos for before buying. I'm guessing there's still a lot more books to come.
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And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 06:24 AM

View PostBriar King, on 17 December 2012 - 02:28 AM, said:

My FoD and Stoneweilder order should be in tomorrow.

Nice. I should be getting the RotCG and SW hardcovers in the mail tomorrow, as well as the omnibus collection of the first 3 or 4 DS9 relaunch books!

All of the Bauchelain and Broach hardcovers should be arriving within the next month too!
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 11:52 AM

Bought me a little treat to celebrate myself: Butchers fool moon Grave peril and David Chandlers Dens of thieves.
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 04:00 PM

View PostObdigore, on 14 December 2012 - 04:48 AM, said:

View PostBriar King, on 13 December 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

I agree read Kovacs 1st as it takes place before the ones you have.


That is debatable...


debateable but overall i'd go with reading RK Morgan in the order his books were published, minus MARKET FORCES and noting you can take or leave BLACK MAN/THIRTEEN, tho i'd recommend it myself.



View PostOveractive Imagination, on 17 December 2012 - 06:24 AM, said:

Nice. I should be getting the RotCG and SW hardcovers in the mail tomorrow...All of the Bauchelain and Broach hardcovers should be arriving within the next month too!


NICE!


View PostGraablick, on 15 December 2012 - 04:27 PM, said:

Since studying is so dull, i bought myself a couple of books. Before they are hanged, and a tease of this desdencrak of yours, Storm Fornt.


View PostGraablick, on 17 December 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

Bought me a little treat to celebrate myself: Butchers fool moon Grave peril and David Chandlers Dens of thieves.


THE DRESDENCRACK! IT GROWZEZ!!!!!!

As for Chandler, ymmv - suggest holding off grabbing 2 and 3 til you're thru 1 and sure you like.


As for moi, i hadn't intended to buy more of Hearn's IRON DRUID series til i was thru the first three, but 4 and 5 were just sitting there, half price, practically hurling themselves into my bag... what was i supposed to do?
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 05:38 PM

Picked up "The age of Ra" by James Lovegrove. Because I happened to be in the area of the only Chapters in Mississauga that had it in stock yesterday. Gods&guns, how can you go wrong?
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And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 06:57 PM

View PostMentalist, on 18 December 2012 - 05:38 PM, said:

Picked up "The age of Ra" by James Lovegrove. Because I happened to be in the area of the only Chapters in Mississauga that had it in stock yesterday. Gods&guns, how can you go wrong?



i liked AGE OF ODIN enough to pick up AGE OF RA and AGE OF ZEUS. And iirc there's an AGE OF AZTEC available free online somewhere.
ODIN wasn't brilliant but it was entertaining and had some fun variations on the Norse myths, basically a fantasy brand of mil sf. I expect the others will be more of the same.
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 03:35 PM

View PostAbyss, on 18 December 2012 - 06:57 PM, said:

View PostMentalist, on 18 December 2012 - 05:38 PM, said:

Picked up "The age of Ra" by James Lovegrove. Because I happened to be in the area of the only Chapters in Mississauga that had it in stock yesterday. Gods&guns, how can you go wrong?



i liked AGE OF ODIN enough to pick up AGE OF RA and AGE OF ZEUS. And iirc there's an AGE OF AZTEC available free online somewhere.
ODIN wasn't brilliant but it was entertaining and had some fun variations on the Norse myths, basically a fantasy brand of mil sf. I expect the others will be more of the same.



View PostBriar King, on 18 December 2012 - 11:42 PM, said:

Never heard of those. Those Gods were in different places so do they take place in dif times and locations or have they all got the same characters?


According to QT elsethread each is standalone and can be read in any order.

I've only read ODIN but nothing about it precluded storylines about other mythos.
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:58 PM

Indeed, I believe that the theory the author goes off of is that in each book, one particular set of cultural "gods" (or aliens, whatever way you wish to look at it) have kind of "won" humanity and so each takes place in a modern/future time on such an earth.

So in the one I read it was the Egyptian Gods who won, and so there were factions around the planet who took sides with various gods of that particular pantheon and this divided the populace....and the warriors used the god's tech as well.

So I would expect the others simply take place in Alt-versions of that idea where another culture's pantheon "won"

I liked AGE OF RA...but enjoyed the human stuff WAY more than the "god" stuff...which I felt weighed it down a BIT.

I want to read the ODIN one.

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Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:52 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 19 December 2012 - 06:58 PM, said:

...So I would expect the others simply take place in Alt-versions of that idea where another culture's pantheon "won"...



Not in the Odin story. At least, not exactly. It's kind of hard to explain. Worth reading.
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