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Anyhow, here’s the fun part. Some of you know that I’ve owed Bill Schafer at @SubPress a set of Gentleman Bastard novellas for an embarrassing length of time. I have decided to remedy that. The exciting, world-shatteringly brilliant title of this work?
Uh, it’s UNTITLED GENTLEMAN BASTARD NOVELLA #1.
I’m sorry, that’s what I’ve got for now. For fifteen years I’ve had titles firmly in mind long before word one hits the page and this one, it’s just being fucking squirrely.
So we’re not gonna talk about it much this week or next. It’s kinda difficult to give a hard push to something called UNTITLED #1. The next novella in the sequence is THE MAD BARON’S MECHANICAL ATTIC, and the last is THE CHOIR OF KNIVES. Those novellas have their shit together.
Collectively, these three novellas form a bridge …
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“Berserk will resume serialization starting in Young Animal issue 13, on sale from 6⁄24. To commemorate this reserialization, we have also posted special messages from the Young Animal editorial team and Kouji Mori-sensei. We hope everyone will continue to read and enjoy BERSERK.”
(Translated by me)
This is pretty big news. According to Wikipedia, Mori, who will be supervising this continuation, is a childhood friend of Miura’s since high school who has published manga in Young Animal himself, so I hope that means we can trust him to be respectful of the material. For my part I’m happy to see the story be concluded even in this semi-official way and I really can’t wait to see what they come up with.
Keep on keeping on, fellow strugglers.
EDIT: Official English translations of the statements by Mori and Young Animal editors: …
I am reading ‘Treasure Island’. Hats off to Jim Hawkins. He’s a feisty kid who goes toe-to-toe with Long John Silver and a crew of bloodthirsty maniacs without blinking. At once point, he’s pursued around a beaching ship by the venomous Israel Hands, a chase that only ends when Jim blasts the crawling madman directly in the face with a pair of flintlocks. He’s ten or eleven years old. Kim, Huckleberry Finn, Mowgli and even Alice and Wendy and Dorothy were pretty hardcore and did not apparently require counselling.
My husband and I only put books we read on the bookshelf. The rest of those “we will read this someday” book are on the floor in a box.
My husband and I moved from America to Canada in 2016 and 50% of those books are from when we lived in Merica.
I have known my husband for 10+ years and the book The God Father is from my last boyfriend.
Me and this dude dated in 2008. In fucking Manchester, UK. I am first generation Italian American and he gave me this book because of my heritage. I read maybe 150 pages and then I had to go back to America so he gave it to me on the plane ride home. So this book has been tossed in three fucking countries and I’m still on page 150ish.
Let’s be real. I am never going to finish reading it.
And no it isn’t a sentiment thing. We are still good friends. We were in love with the idea of love and just eh. He met his husband the following year and so did I. Now the four of us are good friends.
There are books from when my …
Hello everyone,
I remember seeing the Redwall books as a kid, and even started Redwall, but for some reason never got that far into it. I picked it up at the library and decided to give it a try.
Oh my god.
The plotting. The description. I cried at the end when Father Abbot dies.
The whole world is fantastic. Jaques’ ability to give each species their own dialect is amazing. I do a fair bit of writing myself, and the thing that I kept being drawn to was how each scene is cause-and-effect. Matthias’ journey and character growth seemed so real, not contrived. The stakes were *real*. The penultimate battle with Asmodeus in the tunnels was top-notch, and reminded me of the tunnel scene in “True Detective.”
Cluny was a truly great villain; the only thing that I thought was kind of missing was some sort of sympathy for him, but he was as brilliant a war leader as he was evil, so that made him believable.
Anyway, I guess those are some of my initial thoughts. It …
You seemed to enjoy the one with Peter F. Hamilton, so I am sharing the conversation with Tchaikovsky as well here. Enjoy and have a great weekend everyone!
One of my favorites I don’t think anyone remembers is Christopher Stasheff. His mixing of SF and Fantasy through evolutionary drift built a fun juxtaposition.
I am fascinated with Aztec, Mayan, and Inca culture. Is there any science fiction based on these cultures? Especially portrayals of what the cultures might have become in present day or the future without interference from European contact. Thank you.
Douglas Adams wins by default everytime. Any votes for Bill the Galactic Hero or Meta Game On?
Basically the title.
Looking for a well written dark MilSF or space opera with epic space battles and graphic descriptions of people getting their heads blown off.
Preferably a beefy book or long series. Thanks
Hey all, I’m a researcher in Economics working on a paper related to signal/message preservation across time. I need some ideas and some help with fleshing out some discussion sections and I’d like to draw on science fiction.
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I’m particularly concerned with sci fi that deals with long-term decision making, the preservation of goals across long spans of time, cultural spread, that sort of thing. Some near-perfect examples of what I’m looking for are Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Three Body Problem), Foundation, and A Canticle for Leibowitz. I’m currently reading Reynold’s Revelation Space, and have been recommended one of Vinge’s books.
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Edit: Books I plan to read or buy based on recommendations so far: Freeze Frame Revolution (Watts), Anathem (Stephenson), Dune (Herbert), Neptune’s Brood (Stross), Vacuum Diagrams (Baxter), Diaspora (Egan), Mars Trilogy (Robinson), Deepness of the Sky (Vinge), Pushing Ice and …