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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Kanden wrote: »
    Sanderson just finished Dawnshard, couple of days for proof reading, copy editing etc, then it'll be ready, seems like they're expecting sometime next week to send the ebook out to kickstarter folks

    Woop!

    On the sad side, I got my Bridge 4 poster from the Kickstarter, immediately turned around and mailed it to Zoe and the post office promptly lost it. Or perhaps it's on a magical whirlwind journey around the nation.

    Don't stress to much. Probably half a dozen packages I've lost in the USPS only for it to arrive months later.

    It did indeed finally arrive!

    Slightly related. My wife just got a pin she had ordered on etsy. We had assumed it was gone. This shit was postmarked JULY 15TH

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    holy fucking shit

    one of the biggest pieces of vaporware in literary history is actually happening

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    J. Michael Straczinski, the creator of Babylon 5 who is now the literary executor of the late SF giant Harlan Ellison (who he befriended late in life, a bit like Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi), just announced that Ellison's infamously delayed project, the third installment in the Dangerous Visions trilogy of anthologies by top SF writers, is being finished and will actually come out next year

    It's hard to emphasize what a big deal this is to science fiction. The original two Dangerous Visions anthologies from the late 60s and early 70s (Dangerous Visions, 1967, and Again, Dangerous Visions from 1975) kind of chronicled, and also popularized, the New Wave in science fiction. They featured super hardcore experimental cutting-edge science fiction by authors that were either red hot at the time or were about to become famous and basically marked the start of the New Wave, the moment when science fiction broke out of the pulp magazine action-stories-for-men ghetto.

    folks like Gene Wolfe, William Gibson, George RR Martin, Dan Simmons, Octavia Butler, NK Jemisin etc etc were all influenced by the New Wave and by these authors

    so the anthologies were a big deal. But the third one, due out in the mid-1970s, just...never came out

    Harlan always told people that he was "working on it" and that it was "almost done." It became one of the longest-running bad jokes in SF. Nobody knew where it was or why it wasn't happening. It wasn't even like a Game of Thrones situation, it was a book mostly made up of other people's work! A lot of the authors involved got furious with him and sued to get the rights to their stories back. Various incomplete lists of the featured stories have floated around the internet for basically as long as the internet has existed. Harlan Ellison himself basically stopped writing original fiction almost entirely after the mid-70s.

    And now it's...done?

    Apparently one of the stories, according to JMS, is by Harlan himself and will justify/explain the decades of delay. i am putting money on either a coming out story or a for-real confession of murder.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Having finished a short Victorious war, I feel a great deal of sympathy for various members of the Peep navy.

    While certain events might have felt over the top on haven, when I look at history here on Earth, it as she actually seems kind of normal. Almost subdued

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Turned out I had enough credits to get the Baru Cormorant books which people here talk about a lot, Gideon and Harrow the 9th, which same, and after cancelling my preorder credit on the 4th Stormlight book, cause I'd really rather read it physically as mentioned earlier, Ancillary Justice.

    You're in for a TREAT with Ancillary Justice -- it's one of my favorite books, but also Adjoa Andoh's narration is amazing.


    Also, Murderbot fans may enjoy this fan-made animatic. It does contain spoilers all the way though Network Effect. Additional warning: you may cry

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Rhythm of War is out tomorrow and I am excited.. Haven’t felt this way about a new book in years.

  • KandenKanden Registered User regular
    Does anyone have any experience with ebook release dates? Cause I'm fully prepared to stay up all night reading if it comes out at midnight.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Still working through Gideon the Ninth and jesus, how many names does each Necromancer have

    Like, it's Harrowhark (her name?), Her number (Nonagenimus), her title (Reverend Daughter), then can just be called the Ninth all together.

    Then you multiply that by eight for each Necromancer, then you've got some who have military titles as well and then some houses have multiple necromancers and Christ!

    Lot to keep track of.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Still working through Gideon the Ninth and jesus, how many names does each Necromancer have

    Like, it's Harrowhark (her name?), Her number (Nonagenimus), her title (Reverend Daughter), then can just be called the Ninth all together.

    Then you multiply that by eight for each Necromancer, then you've got some who have military titles as well and then some houses have multiple necromancers and Christ!

    Lot to keep track of.

    Nicknames, too. Gideon has about half a dozen for her alone.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Took me roughly two hundred pages to figure out that the crappy teens are not the twins. Rather there is one set of twins and one set of teens.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Rhythm of War is out tomorrow and I am excited.. Haven’t felt this way about a new book in years.

    I thought it wasn't out until the 20th?

    Dangit. I listened to Edgedancer yesterday, which reminded me I didn't remember a lot of the deets from books 2 and 3, but I couldn't just do a reread from the middle do I started book 1 again last night. I thought I had a little more time.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Quid wrote: »
    Rhythm of War is out tomorrow and I am excited.. Haven’t felt this way about a new book in years.

    I thought it wasn't out until the 20th?

    Dangit. I listened to Edgedancer yesterday, which reminded me I didn't remember a lot of the deets from books 2 and 3, but I couldn't just do a reread from the middle do I started book 1 again last night. I thought I had a little more time.

    17th November, at least in the states. I’m working my way through Edge Dancer right now trying to beat the clock.
    Kanden wrote: »
    Does anyone have any experience with ebook release dates? Cause I'm fully prepared to stay up all night reading if it comes out at midnight.

    Looking through some old posts from when Words of Radiance released, the time is set by the publisher and that one came out after midnight EST. That was six years ago though so who knows.

    Edit: Actually it looks like it’ll be midnight local time for each time zone.

    Quid on
  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    I've used the Kindle Dictionary more times for Gideon the Ninth than I think any other book I've ever read.

    I had no idea "myriad" had like an actual meaning that wasn't just "a lot".

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    I just finished Dawnshard and my RoW will be here tomorrow. I too, am excited. I didn't get on the Way of Kings leather-bound early enough so my order of those isn't due till next year. But thats fine I guess.

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    All right maybe 20% through Harrow the Ninth and I feel like I'm back at square one and have no idea what is going on, no idea what is real or a hallucination, and somehow even less understanding of how the book universe works.

    Is that normal?

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    All right maybe 20% through Harrow the Ninth and I feel like I'm back at square one and have no idea what is going on, no idea what is real or a hallucination, and somehow even less understanding of how the book universe works.

    Is that normal?

    Yes.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I don't blame anyone who bails at that point. I wanted to bail at that point. But when it all came together, it was extremely good.

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    I believe that's around the point I made a post asking "hey uhhh where does this go" because I was getting discouraged.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Readong moving pictures, really waiting for some interesting characters show up.

    Besides DEATH, he is always a treat.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    You people have got to stop striking at the big glowing weak points of my favorite authors here.

    Yeah, the actual protagonists of Moving Pictures are among the weakest in the series. It ends up fitting thematically, but it's an early enough book that I'm not sure we can argue it was on purpose. It's mostly about the stuff that's happening rather than who it's happening to in that one.

    Also: Gaspode.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Kinda worried I will bounce of this book the way I bounced off kindred. Lets see in 100 pages or so

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    I don't blame anyone who bails at that point. I wanted to bail at that point. But when it all came together, it was extremely good.

    Thank you for this because after the five or six pages of describing the River in all its grotesque wonder I was just like.... Getting tired.

    I'll stick with it though I like the setting.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Read some graphic novels like a nerd
    Little Bird: Cool concept (well the US empire controlling Canada is a bit laughable in 2020) but I thought it was gross art and hard to follow, didn't finish
    Mystery Science Theater The Comic: just not funny, didn't finish
    Highwayman: pretty good, although the reveal that he was a colonist at Jamestown before becoming immortal was unnecessarily yikes
    Locke and Key vol 1: OH SHIT A GHOST

    Happiness is within reach!
  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    Read some graphic novels like a nerd
    Little Bird: Cool concept (well the US empire controlling Canada is a bit laughable in 2020) but I thought it was gross art and hard to follow, didn't finish
    Mystery Science Theater The Comic: just not funny, didn't finish
    Highwayman: pretty good, although the reveal that he was a colonist at Jamestown before becoming immortal was unnecessarily yikes
    Locke and Key vol 1: OH SHIT A GHOST

    Vol 1 and 2 start lock and key off incredibly. Need to read the rest of the series.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Do you need a weird smart British dude to talk quietly about fungi at you for nine and a half hours?

    Let me rephrase that. It's November 2020. You all need a weird smart British dude to talk quietly about fungi at you for nine and a half hours.

    Procure the audiobook version of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. It's like a soothing, mushroomy bath for your brain. And you'll learn some rad shit about mushrooms and lichen and stuff.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    psh whatever dad I'm going to hold that book with my hands and read it with my eyes, just try and stop me.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    There are apparently some very fine drawings originally made with mushroom-based ink! Either option seems like an admirably chill endeavor.

    I'm proud of you, and I support your choices.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
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    Peen wrote: »
    psh whatever dad I'm going to hold that book with my hands and read it with my eyes, just try and stop me.

    Yeah I'm super excited about that book but it's all about the physical copy for me

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Are you going to grow oyster mushrooms on the book when you're done reading it?

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Are you going to grow oyster mushrooms on the book when you're done reading it?

    If I'm not growing those mushrooms WHILE reading it can i truly be said to be engaged with the subject matter
    i shall bury it in dank potting soil and read 1-2 pages every night, as the words and the fungus merge and become intertwined

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Wait I can't tell if you guys are joking about the fact that Merlin Sheldrake 100% did that, or if it's just a coincidental joke

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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Wait I can't tell if you guys are joking about the fact that Merlin Sheldrake 100% did that, or if it's just a coincidental joke

    Mine was on purpose! I think it's one of the raddest publicity stunts I've seen, and it was the original reason I put the book on my to-read list.

    Well, that and the fact that I didn't want to get hexed by noted mushroom wizard Merlin Sheldrake.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    That man was destined to be a mushroom wizard by name alone

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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Wait I can't tell if you guys are joking about the fact that Merlin Sheldrake 100% did that, or if it's just a coincidental joke

    Mine was on purpose! I think it's one of the raddest publicity stunts I've seen, and it was the original reason I put the book on my to-read list.

    Well, that and the fact that I didn't want to get hexed by noted mushroom wizard Merlin Sheldrake.

    oh yeah no it was totally on purpose
    I think I posted the progress video in the last book thread

  • KandenKanden Registered User regular
    Finished Rhythm of War! Lots of really juicy cosmere stuff, I think all things considered it might be my 2nd favorite Stormlight book so far behind Way of Kings.

    Serious serious spoilers do not open if you're not finished
    No seriously
    The leader of the Ghostbloods being named Lord of Scars has me so damn pumped for the next Mistborn book!

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    I just realized Rhythm of War was released and now Im in agony until Wednesday. I know that some of it were put up legally online but Im not about that life.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    You think that's bad I'm forbidden from buying it until Christmas, along with most other forms of media I'd want, so my family can have it as an option on my list.

    I neeeeed it.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Tamsyn Muir description of human anatomy is downright pornographic and oh my I have the vapors.

    Also Jesus that dinner scene.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Kanden wrote: »
    Finished Rhythm of War! Lots of really juicy cosmere stuff, I think all things considered it might be my 2nd favorite Stormlight book so far behind Way of Kings.

    Serious serious spoilers do not open if you're not finished
    No seriously
    The leader of the Ghostbloods being named Lord of Scars has me so damn pumped for the next Mistborn book!

    Yes, this book was good.

    Edit: The end of the first half of the Stormlight Archive is going to be a hell of a thing.

    Edit 2: I think this may be my favorite chapter epigraph. RoW spoilers below.
    In truth, it would be a combination of a Vessel’s craftiness and the power’s Intent that we should fear most.

    Edit 3: This one is pretty good, too.
    Midius once told me … told me we could use Investiture … to enhance our minds, our memories, so we wouldn’t forget so much.

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