C.T. Phipps Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Esoterrorism by me just came out on audiobook if you like spies versus monsters. https://www.audible.com/pd/Esoterrorism-Audiobook/B07S1C59DF?qid=1558658830&sr=1-6&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_6&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=V4TETQHXK4ZBF5WTAEKC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 June picks: 06-04 Laurie J. Marks Air Logic • Elemental Logic #4 06-04 Neal Stephenson Fall, or Dodge in Hell 06-04 Fran Wilde The Fire Opal Mechanism 06-04 Sarah Gailey Magic for Liars 06-04 Karen Lord Unraveling 06-11 Cameron Johnston God of Broken Things • The Age of Tyranny #2 06-11 Richard Kadrey The Grand Dark 06-13 Peter Newman The Ruthless • The Deathless Trilogy #2 [UK] 06-18 Max Gladstone Empress of Forever 06-25 Michael Swanwick The Iron Dragon's Mother • The Iron Dragon's Daughter #3 06-27 Ed McDonald Crowfall • The Raven's Mark #3 [UK] I'm looking forward to God Of Broken Things and Crowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Just finished Crowfall and it brings the trilogy to a satisfying close! I just interviewed Ed McDonald and you can find our chat here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Adding this to the list as I don't think I've seen it mentioned here, and even though it's a reprint, it should be celebrated: Random Penguin are republishing Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, with new covers and typeface - one that is far easier to read than the previous Ace editions that featured a think, ink-blot serif typeface that was difficult on the eyes (and which also featured a blurry world map, for reasons unknown to me). The Summer Tree came out in January of this year. Here's the link: https://penguinrandomhouseeducation.com/book/?isbn=9780451458223 (This is the hill I will die on - a bad typeface or font will absolutely guarantee that I will not read your book. I get eye-strain *way* too easily these days, even with reading glasses, one of the, uh, "perks" of getting older.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Oh good, I have't read Song ofrArborne specifically cause the ones in the store make me feel like i have eye drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, Darth Richard II said: Oh good, I have't read Song ofrArborne specifically cause the ones in the store make me feel like i have eye drops. Yeah, the Roc version is (sorry to any Roc publishers reading this!) absolutely awful. The Harper Voyager edition is the best edition to obtain, if it's within your means and ability to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 35 minutes ago, IlyaP said: Yeah, the Roc version is (sorry to any Roc publishers reading this!) absolutely awful. The Harper Voyager edition is the best edition to obtain, if it's within your means and ability to do so. Hey at this point I'll track down a decent hardcover if i have too. My god that font. I had to show it to other people to make sure I wasn't having eye problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, Darth Richard II said: My god that font. I had to show it to other people to make sure I wasn't having eye problems. *claps* I did the same! Showed it to store staff and friends alike as we marvelled and wondered who thought such a thing was a good idea - and was that person or persons even a book reader? Aim for that Harper Collins edition if you can! It would not be surprising if we start seeing new editions of all of GGK's books being reprinted, given that The Fionavar Tapestry was optioned for development two years ago. If production actually does go forward on that, chances are new editions of all of his works will start coming out as part of a concerted marketing push. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Hah yeah I returned it to amazon thinking it was a fuck up and when the second one was the same...i was just like what the fuck. FONTS MATTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 3 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: FONTS MATTER Thank you for getting that! Would you like me to have a look around the stores in Sydney? If I can find a copy that has a modern typeface, I'd be happy to post it your way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 12 hours ago, IlyaP said: Thank you for getting that! Would you like me to have a look around the stores in Sydney? If I can find a copy that has a modern typeface, I'd be happy to post it your way! Already snagged a Harper Collins copy off the Amazon, but thanks for asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 4 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Already snagged a Harper Collins copy off the Amazon, but thanks for asking. Welcome! Facilitating book-reading is obviously near and dear to me, so, y'know, I'll never not make the offer if it puts a gem into a reader's hands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I started reading Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever. It's reallllllly good so far (about 200 pages in I think). Lightly written yet dense enough that it packs a lot in. Also, it's marketed heavily as the big space opera of the year and it definitely has space opera in it, but it's almost more of a modern planetary romance, old school pulp style given a post-tech-revolution... makeover is the wrong word. It takes modern ideas as its ludicrously unscientific justification for way old school tropes and settings. Anyway I'm having a ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 "step by step" the autobiography by Simon Reeve is fascinating. His childhood and background are not what i expected based on his onscreen persona. I've just covered the part where he spent 4 years of his life researching and writing his book on al quaeda and how it was a massive flop. Then 9/11 happened and he suddenly found himself to be the only person on the planet to have written a book on the perpetrators. Fiction wise I'm reading "dispel illusion" the sequel to mark lawrence's "one word kill" released way back in May. It's just as fun as the first book and the prose is far more comfortable than his fantasy prose and i get the impression contemporary phrases and thoughts really brings his writing alive. There was nothing wrong with his fantasy prose either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 I have Empress of Forever and Limited Wish, the Mark Lawrence one (Dispell Illusion is the third one I think ), lined up. So, very pleased to see the good reviews. Also, almost certainly will get around to October Man, the Ben Aaronovitch novella sooner than later. For some reason, and this feels like a share in group therapy, I’m currently reading fucking Name of the Wind for probably the fourth time. I swear I only went to check something I saw on a thread on reddit, but now I’m reading the whole book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 1:22 AM, polishgenius said: I started reading Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever. It's reallllllly good so far (about 200 pages in I think). Lightly written yet dense enough that it packs a lot in. Also, it's marketed heavily as the big space opera of the year and it definitely has space opera in it, but it's almost more of a modern planetary romance, old school pulp style given a post-tech-revolution... makeover is the wrong word. It takes modern ideas as its ludicrously unscientific justification for way old school tropes and settings. Anyway I'm having a ball. That's good to know, I really enjoyed Gladstone's Craft Cycle books, so I'm definitely interested in other things he's doing. I see he's also got a book (co-written with Amal El-Mohtar) called This is how you lose the Time War coming out soon, which also sounds intriguing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 July picks: 07-02 Bradley P. Beaulieu Beneath the Twisted Trees • The Song of Shattered Sands #4 07-02 Ed McDonald Crowfall • The Raven's Mark #3 (US) 07-02 Duncan M. Hamilton Dragonslayer • The Dragonslayer #1 07-02 Paul Tremblay Growing Things and Other Stories 07-02 Peter McLean Priest of Lies • War for the Rose Throne #2 07-02 Wayne Barlowe The Heart of Hell • God's Demon #2 07-02 Chuck Wendig Wanderers 07-09 Michael J. Sullivan Age of Legend • Legends of the First Empire #4 07-09 Sean Grigsby Ash Kickers • Smoke Eaters #2 07-09 Mercedes Lackey Eye Spy • Valdemar: Family Spies #2 07-09 S. L. Huang Null Set • Cas Russell #2 07-09 Tade Thompson Survival of Molly Southbourne 07-09 Cherie Priest The Toll 07-11 Benjanun Sriduangkaew And Shall Machines Surrender 07-16 Christopher Ruocchio Howling Dark • Sun Eater #2 07-16 Kerstin Hall The Border Keeper 07-16 Evan Winter The Rage of Dragons • The Burning #1 (Hardcover debut) 07-16 Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone This Is How You Lose the Time War 07-16 Molly Gloss Unforeseen 07-23 C. S. E. Cooney Desdemona and the Deep 07-23 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow 07-23 Fonda Lee Jade War • The Green Bone Saga #2 07-23 Emily Devenport Medusa in the Graveyard • Medusa Cycle #2 07-23 Tricia Sullivan Sweet Dreams (US) 07-23 David Wellington The Last Astronaut 07-23 H. G. Parry The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 07-23 Anthony Ryan The Wolf's Call • Raven's Blade #1 07-25 Andrew Caldecott Lost Acre • Rotherweird #3 07-25 Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson Shadows of the Short Days 07-25 Anna Smith Spark The House of Sacrifice • Empires of Dust #3 (UK) 07-25 Aliette de Bodard The House of Sundering Flames • Dominion of the Fallen #3 07-30 JY Yang Ascent to Godhood • Tensorate #4 07-30 Pierce Brown Dark Age • Red Rising #5 07-30 Levi Black Death Goddess Dance • Mythos War #3 07-30 Andrew Bannister Iron Gods • The Spin Trilogy #2 (US) 07-30 Claire O'Dell The Hound of Justice • Janet Watson Chronicles #2 07-30 Leo Carew The Spider • Under the Northern Sky #2 (US) I'm almost done with Crowfall and have pre-ordered The Wolf's Call and The House of Sacrifice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Benjanun Sriduangkaew? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 4 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Benjanun Sriduangkaew? Really? Hey man, i'm just the messenger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 3 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: Hey man, i'm just the messenger. No I'm picturing some old 80s fantasy where a knight rides into the court to inform everyone that the armies of the Dark Lord are on the move again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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