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  1. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    30 April 2025 - 01:59 PM

    View PostWhisperzzzzzzz, on 28 April 2025 - 08:28 PM, said:

    Making my way through Moon's Deeds of Paksenarrion and enjoying it. I can't help but feel like Paks is the player character in a solo D&D campaign though...


    Pretty sure Moon has confirmed it was a D&D campaign at least partially.


    View PostAbyss, on 29 April 2025 - 04:26 PM, said:

    View PostJPK, on 29 April 2025 - 04:06 PM, said:

    View PostAbyss, on 29 April 2025 - 03:41 PM, said:

    View PostChance, on 29 April 2025 - 05:02 AM, said:

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    View PostAbyss, on 28 April 2025 - 01:39 PM, said:


    View PostChance, on 27 April 2025 - 09:54 AM, said:

    Probably finishing the Raven Strategem today having taking a lot of time mostly because I haven't had any good reading time recently but it is pretty damn good when I get a few hours.


    Just Finished RAVEN STRATEGEM, very satisfying book. The author worked in some great twists, where the reader knows more than the characters but will doubt what they think they know. Straight on to bk 3, REVENANT GUN, which has an excellent start.


    Yeah this re-read is cementing it as one of the recentish greats of SF.

    Also continuing into the Revenant Gun which I don't think I've re-read yet.


    The whole trilogy (so far) is extremely clever and well written. There is so much risk to what the author does w the setting
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    and it's kind of stunning how well he pulls it off.


    I think my favorite part of the entire series is how well he tends to take expectations and flip the table. Book 2 spoiler territory:
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    leaving aside some of the particularly iccy elements, those characters and their relationship were fascinating.
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    Even minor characters like the droids in the hidden base are wonderful to read and of course Cheris will notice their stone garden. The author is awesome at building up the least expected characters and making me care.

    I think something very refreshing with the unconventional relationships (which is most all of them) and sexuality in the book is they don't become the point of the character or the main driver for the plot but compliments to understanding who they are. No one in world cares or even knows about current day or last century morals. They live in their own strange and fascinating reality something few authors completely pull off.

  2. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    29 April 2025 - 05:02 AM

    View PostAbyss, on 28 April 2025 - 01:39 PM, said:

    And if you haven't read Chris Woooding's TALES OF THE KETTY JAY, it's got a similar heist/nice criminals vibe, tho can go dark at times.


    Certainly one of the best steampunkish crew of criminals series around.

    View PostAbyss, on 28 April 2025 - 01:39 PM, said:

    View PostChance, on 27 April 2025 - 09:54 AM, said:

    Probably finishing the Raven Strategem today having taking a lot of time mostly because I haven't had any good reading time recently but it is pretty damn good when I get a few hours.


    Just Finished RAVEN STRATEGEM, very satisfying book. The author worked in some great twists, where the reader knows more than the characters but will doubt what they think they know. Straight on to bk 3, REVENANT GUN, which has an excellent start.


    Yeah this re-read is cementing it as one of the recentish greats of SF.

    Also continuing into the Revenant Gun which I don't think I've re-read yet.

  3. In Topic: The Star Wars MegaThread

    27 April 2025 - 02:44 PM

    View PostSlow Ben, on 27 April 2025 - 12:02 AM, said:

    And I’m still standing my ground and have yet to watch The Last Jedi.


    A sound strategy...I wish I hadn't payed to see it or The Rise of Skywalker. The most rational stance on the last trilogy is that they are a weird fan-fiction universe of no particular importance to star wars in general.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    27 April 2025 - 09:54 AM

    Probably finishing the Raven Strategem today having taking a lot of time mostly because I haven't had any good reading time recently but it is pretty damn good when I get a few hours.

    View PostGwynn ap Nudd, on 27 April 2025 - 04:17 AM, said:

    Edit again: It does not need to be about magic coppers/spies in London, just that level of thinkyness. Something like the True Bastards would be good too.


    Some fairly entertaining magic London can be found in either of Benedict Jacka's series Alex Verus is a bit more high magic dresden style, while Inheritence of Magic is unfinished and rather interesting take on a magic world perhaps a bit more low key like Rivers of London.

    For something like True Bastards can never go wrong with A Crown for Cold Silver which is perhaps a bit grim but also a glorious actiony take on classic fantasy gone wholly wrong or Seven Blades in Black which is a revenge epic that very often get hillarious and awesome.

  5. In Topic: The Star Wars MegaThread

    24 April 2025 - 09:01 AM

    View PostSlow Ben, on 23 April 2025 - 10:11 PM, said:

    View PostChance, on 23 April 2025 - 06:13 PM, said:


    I found it slow but also very good. Pretty sure Andor, Rogue One and Mando S1-2 are going down as the only good star wars from Disney, with some of the others being mediocre and some outright offensive.


    I’d definitely agree.


    They’re also the only shows where they didn’t try to make a “good Star Wars show”, they were good shows that took place in the star wars universe. So I assume the stories had to be solid before being green lit. As opposed to “ let’s make an obi wan show!”


    Sounds right.

    A lot of the marvel/disney stuff seems designed by committee with a vague idea to do something around favorite characters instead of being driven by telling a good story, which is an awful way to do art and entertainment. Basically I think most of the people at disney these days don't understand why Star Wars was successful or why the fans love it. If they did they would have filmed Heir of the Empire fairly faithfully (maybe reducing some of the weirdest parts) instead of the last trilogy and likely had a smash hit at least with the core audience.

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    Tsundoku 

    24 Dec 2021 - 14:48
    Hey dude
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