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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
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holy fucking shit
one of the biggest pieces of vaporware in literary history is actually happening
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.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
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.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I believe that's around the point I made a post asking "hey uhhh where does this go" because I was getting discouraged.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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.
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
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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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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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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
one of the biggest pieces of vaporware in literary history is actually happening
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I had no idea "myriad" had like an actual meaning that wasn't just "a lot".
Is that normal?
Yes.
Besides DEATH, he is always a treat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm proud of you, and I support your choices.
Yeah I'm super excited about that book but it's all about the physical copy for me
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
"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
"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
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.
"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
oh yeah no it was totally on purpose
I think I posted the progress video in the last book thread
Serious serious spoilers do not open if you're not finished
https://gofund.me/fa5990a5
I neeeeed it.
Also Jesus that dinner scene.
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.
Edit 3: This one is pretty good, too.