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Offline StarSlayer

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Many girls do that (teen SF/F writers at workshops are overwhelmingly women) but here is the talented Miss Yu's story: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_04_11/

That was pretty awesome.
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Been attending a lot of teen girl sci fi conventions lately, batoot?

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-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
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-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
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-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Thanks! If you're up for more WORDS of mine there's this piece which I like a bit more -- http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=178

e: you might like it particularly as it has some (probably botched) neuroscience

I preferred Ritter, but that was also quite cleverly written.  You make me want to put my own writing cap back on if I ever find the time. =)
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
:necro:

(Hey, it's still 2012.)

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
The Snow by Adam Roberts
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Peter Watts' Rifters trilogy, available for free here, while waiting for Iain M. Banks' Hydrogen Sonata to come out.
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Napoleonic Uniforms Volumes I & II John R. Elting

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
I can't find Foundation and Empire from Asimov anywhere! I want to continue reading   :(
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Dune.  Holy crap so good why did I not read this several years ago.

 

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Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium. Simply hilarious.

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium. Simply hilarious.

I recently got via a friend Dead In The Water, the audiobook-only Cain book, but I'm afraid to listen to it for fear they're just not going to sound anything like they do in my head.

Though I gather Amberley is worth the listen regardless...
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
"His Master's Voice" by Stanislaw Lem. Awesome book, though extremely difficult and very slow to read. If you like an intellectual challenge, it's a book for you. :)

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Lem owns hard, he was decades ahead of most Western SF writers.

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Dune.  Holy crap so good why did I not read this several years ago.

do yourself a favor and stop reading after the original six books. it only goes down hill from there.
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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Implying K.J.Anderson & B.Herbert's crap is cannon? What the hell man! are you a Harkonnen spy?! or did the Corrinos send you as part of their plot?

The only Cannon is F.Herbert, stop your heresy or I will call my Fremen brothers to a Jihad against thou!

 

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Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium. Simply hilarious.

I recently got via a friend Dead In The Water, the audiobook-only Cain book, but I'm afraid to listen to it for fear they're just not going to sound anything like they do in my head.

Though I gather Amberley is worth the listen regardless...

Did you read the Emperor's finest? Is that one any good?

 

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Re: What Literature Be Ya Absorbed In? © 2012
Dune.  Holy crap so good why did I not read this several years ago.

do yourself a favor and stop reading after the original six books. it only goes down hill from there.
I'd heard the dire warnings about those, but I was going to ask if I should continue on with everything that Frank Herbert himself wrote.  (Granted, it'll probably take me years before I get around to it.)  Is that a yes, then?

 

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Implying K.J.Anderson & B.Herbert's crap is cannon? What the hell man! are you a Harkonnen spy?! or did the Corrinos send you as part of their plot?

The only Cannon is F.Herbert, stop your heresy or I will call my Fremen brothers to a Jihad against thou!

of course its not canon (theres a gun named frank?). its a horrible addendum at best and a horrific fanfic at worst. its loaded with self references. like if you read sandworms/hunters, its full of references to characters in their other spinoffs, as if the whole time they are trying to sell their own ****. and if thats not enough there is so much recap it makes me want to vomit. thats not even bothering with the fact that they keep filling in non-existant holes in f herbert's plotlines. it got infuriating after awhile. whats worse is they keep throwing in stuff from the 80's movie. its really sad.

im glad they are going back to the machine era plot. thats far enough detatched from the dune series to be a standalone plot. you can skip the prelude series, that was a painful read. the finale was kinda ****ty, and all the intermingling plots arent worth reading at all.

Dune.  Holy crap so good why did I not read this several years ago.

do yourself a favor and stop reading after the original six books. it only goes down hill from there.
I'd heard the dire warnings about those, but I was going to ask if I should continue on with everything that Frank Herbert himself wrote.  (Granted, it'll probably take me years before I get around to it.)  Is that a yes, then?

yes do. they are all pretty good. it kinda does end on a cliffhanger but thats because herbert died before he got to dune 7. the bh+kja solution to which kinda sucked though.
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