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#3561 Serenity

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Posted 26 January 2015 - 02:09 PM

Pre-ordered Ian Tregillis's next, The Mechanical (Alchemy War Bk 1).

Also got books 4 to 9 of Scott Mariani's 'Ben Hope' series for £1.99 each on Kindle.

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 01:35 AM

Serenity, on 26 January 2015 - 02:09 PM, said:

Pre-ordered Ian Tregillis's next, The Mechanical (Alchemy War Bk 1).

Also got books 4 to 9 of Scott Mariani's 'Ben Hope' series for £1.99 each on Kindle.

I haven't pulled the trigger on pre-ordering the Mechanical yet but I know I will (it's been on my audible wish list since I saw it). The setting looks freak'n fascinating.

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 06:21 AM

I'm psyched for Tregellis' new series, but I'll likely wait til it's done and read it all. Loved his MILKWEED TRIPTYCH and his SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT sits high in the TRPFH.

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#3564 Serenity

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 08:53 AM

Abyss, on 27 January 2015 - 06:21 AM, said:

SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT sits high in the TRPFH.

I've not got that one as yet. For some reason it hasn't been released on Kindle in the UK (not that that should stop me getting the paperback, of course . . . ).

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 07:09 PM

Picked up GRAVE MERCY by Robin Lafevers (ninja nuns in 14th century Alt-France who worship the god of death)

THE PROVIDENCE OF FIRE by Brian Stavely (2nd Unhewn Throne novel)

DEPARTMENT 19: ZERO HOUR by Will Hill (didn't even realize this book was out till I stumbled across it!)

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Posted 30 January 2015 - 07:51 AM

Finally put down an order on Ben Galley's The Written.

Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle

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Posted 30 January 2015 - 06:11 PM

Oh, also found a second hand copy of 'The Black Company' which was on the cheap. Tried to get 'The Last Wish' but inputted my card details wrong and now gotta wait for a while for it to be restocked into their systems...

Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle

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Posted 30 January 2015 - 07:52 PM

Serenity, on 27 January 2015 - 08:53 AM, said:

Abyss, on 27 January 2015 - 06:21 AM, said:

SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT sits high in the TRPFH.

I've not got that one as yet. For some reason it hasn't been released on Kindle in the UK (not that that should stop me getting the paperback, of course . . . ).

The Kindle app can pull books from amazon.com, .uk or .ca.
The actual Kindle can't?

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Posted 30 January 2015 - 07:53 PM

Abyss, on 30 January 2015 - 07:52 PM, said:

Serenity, on 27 January 2015 - 08:53 AM, said:

Abyss, on 27 January 2015 - 06:21 AM, said:

SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT sits high in the TRPFH.

I've not got that one as yet. For some reason it hasn't been released on Kindle in the UK (not that that should stop me getting the paperback, of course . . . ).

The Kindle app can pull books from amazon.com, .uk or .ca.
The actual Kindle can't?

Prepare yourselves, as it's VERY different from his first trilogy.

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Posted 31 January 2015 - 10:15 PM

Was browsing thru chapters today....

Apparently Tor is now publishung Charles Stross' "merchant Princes" series in an omnibus trilogy. Grabbed volume 1, "The Bloodline Feud" it contains the first 2 books. Gonna check it out, see if the series is worth my time.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#3571 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 03 February 2015 - 06:30 PM

Picked up Glen Cook's Darkwar omnibus and Ian Tregillis' Necessary Evil on the clearance shelf for $2 each yesterday.

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Posted 08 February 2015 - 12:29 PM

Bought the two omnibus sets of The Monarchies of God by Paul Kearney today. I read the first book but never got round to the rest. Looking forward to it now.

Also bought The Cold Commands and The Dark Defiles after noticing them in a bookshop.

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Posted 09 February 2015 - 08:52 AM

Salt-Man Z, on 19 January 2015 - 04:27 AM, said:

worry, on 18 January 2015 - 09:33 PM, said:

I bought Hunter's Run by Martin/Abraham/Dozois and Summer of Night by Dan Simmons at a Goodwill.

Let me know what you think about these. I picked them both up on the clearance rack for a buck or two each on a whim a while back, and haven't gotten around to them yet. (I realize that that description holds for a couple hundred of my books, but still...)

Finished Summer of Night. It was good but not great. It's clear why people seem to compare it to IT, but in all honesty it's much less ambitious and nowhere near as scary. That said, its good guys are all well drawn and they don't do anything horror-movie dumb just to push the plot forward. In the end it actually reminded me a lot more of Super 8: very likable character-wise, rather uneven plot-wise.

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Posted 12 February 2015 - 07:22 PM

Mentalist, on 31 January 2015 - 10:15 PM, said:

I'll be interested in hearing your thoughts.Bks 1 and 2 sit in the TRPFH.

Someone... Wert i think?... has a lot of love for this series, but my first glance at bk 1 gave me more of a ACCELERANDO than a LAUNDRY FILES vibe, and i like my Stross a little less technical.

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Posted 14 February 2015 - 08:21 PM

Bought Vol. 2 of Brian McClellan's Powder mage trilo, "the Crimson Campaign". Saw it in paperback in a store, and grabed it right away, as who knows when it'll be gone from stores .

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 15 February 2015 - 02:48 PM

And I just ordered Vol. 3 of the Powder Mage books with a gift card. I'm getting excited as I've got some great looking books on the top of my trp from the last couple months.

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Posted 19 February 2015 - 07:29 PM

K. J. Parker - Devices and Desires. It was cheap on ebay. I couldn't resist.

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Posted 20 February 2015 - 01:54 PM

Found Larsson's Millenium II and III in HMV for £2.99 a pop. Grabbed 'em.

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 08:35 PM

Just bought a boat load of Kate Elliott as a birthday gift to myself. She been someone I've been wanting to check out for a while as seems to write about themes that interest me and, from what I read, creates some very unquie and diverse fiction so I ended up buying her first three epic fantasy series and plan on doing a read through and maybe even attempting to formulate a written response (not necessarily a review but something more like a critical reflection) to them.

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Posted 24 February 2015 - 11:22 PM

I have many unread book because I have irrational fear of having books I want to read run out of copies and I can't get them. But generally when I by full series I read through them when I get them. It'll be nice to get back to epic fantasy too, I haven't read a proper epic fantasy since Malazan.