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backrow wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 1:10 pm

Nolanator wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:02 pm Doesn't that end on the planet with the perpetual forest fire front sweeping around it and the final game takes place with it bearing down on the castle?

Love that set design, if that's the right term.

Still haven’t got around to shifting any of my dads sci-fi books yet like that 1st edition Beagle or the autographed boxed Pratchet stuff

Just been doing DIY there and throwing out shite,all very depressing - at least the books are up out the way

flaggETERNAL wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:03 am Re-reading Dune, in anticipation of the film of course. Herbert may not be the best writer, and some of the book feels dated buy my lord the ideas still feel staggering.

Intend to read all the books in the original series then the ones by his son. Don't get the hate for the prequels tbh.

Floppykid wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:07 pm

flaggETERNAL wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:03 am Re-reading Dune, in anticipation of the film of course. Herbert may not be the best writer, and some of the book feels dated buy my lord the ideas still feel staggering.

Intend to read all the books in the original series then the ones by his son. Don't get the hate for the prequels tbh.

For me it ends after God Emperor.
Everything else isn't worth putting up with Herbert's odd writing choices.

jamesfreeman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:54 am

Floppykid wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:07 pm

flaggETERNAL wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:03 am Re-reading Dune, in anticipation of the film of course. Herbert may not be the best writer, and some of the book feels dated buy my lord the ideas still feel staggering.

Intend to read all the books in the original series then the ones by his son. Don't get the hate for the prequels tbh.

For me it ends after God Emperor.
Everything else isn't worth putting up with Herbert's odd writing choices.

Miles Teg was cool though, especially when his ghola wakes up with extremely fast fighting abilities. Yeah heretics and chapter house were weird. I do like brian and kevin books as I like Erasmus as a character as he is fun read...

Bindi wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:58 am

robmatic wrote:

Doc Rob wrote:

Bindi wrote:

ukjim wrote:
thanks for these names. any particular favourite titles?

I have been doing the afro futurist stuff recently and enjoyed Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun and the sequel after the flare

Best places to start are:

NK Jemisin - Broken Earth trilogy. Each book won the Hugo award in consecutive years, which has never been done I think. Loads of other awards. Absolutely at the top of her game. Will be one of the all time greats.

Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Definitely what I'd consider speculative fiction rather than fantasy or sci-fi. Not pulp - literary like Iain Banks. Brilliantly original.

Tom Sweterlitsch - Gone World. Crime solving time travel, but dark as fudge. Also very original.

Robert Jackson Bennett - The Divine Cities trilogy. Great characters, story, world building - pretty much everything.

Yoon Ha Lee - Machineries of Empire trilogy. Awesome space opera. The best since Iain M Banks.

I really enjoyed the Broken Earth trilogy. I didn’t think they were good enough to justify three consecutive Hugo awards though. Good, but not that good. IMHO ofc.

Jemisin is a good writer but those Hugo awards were the voters responding to an alt-right hate campaign about her.

Maybe. I tend to read most of the stuff nominated for the major awards each year + whatever else is recommended on various Goodreads groups.

Her work is a significant level above nearly all of it.

danthefan wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:10 pm I really got bored of Ozzie's story tbh.