The Green Bone Saga is my all time favorite series. I have it ranked higher than big names like The Wheel of Time and The Dresden Files and smaller but still high quality names like The Dandelion Dynasty and The Memoirs of Lady Trent. I’ve recently started my fourth read-through of the series—I read it once a year—and once again I am utterly stunned by how good it is.

Many people have probably heard this series pitched one way or another over the years on this sub and elsewhere, but I encourage you to read this post anyway as my pitch for it and the things I like about it tend to be quite different from most people. I’ll also have a section at the bottom for what sorts of people might not enjoy this series, as I feel that while it’s amazing, it’s definitely not for everyone.

What is the Green Bone Saga?

The Green Bone Saga is a Cold War epic fantasy series about a warrior society that undergoes change and modernization as its two largest clans collide and …

I’m tired of Kings and Swords and Runes and Cloaks and Daggers and Intrigue.

I want strange gods. I want fish people. I want cultures with 10,000 genders and no eyes. I want absolutely bananas.

I want good, compelling stories in a world that’s so alien to me I’ll feel like I’m in a foreign country where I don’t speak the language.

What’s out there?

It seems like if a character in a book is An Assassin, it means he’s going to just be a rogue that has a background in murder.

What I’m looking for is the fantasy novel equivalent of the Hitman game: the assassin is given a target, puts together a plan, and carries it out. Like a heist plot but with murder.

(I will also accept sci fi recs if they have this)

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I was just wondering if anyone else had the same experience with “A hundred hears of solitude” by Garcia Marquez.

All the childs having sexual relationships with adults just made me sick honestly. Don’t get me wrong, I love Garcia Marquez and I have read most of his work, but this book was way too much with all the sex between grown ups and children.

I made it to the part where Aureliano marries Remedios and, it clearly states, that she barely made it to womanhood for the wedding. And I just sat there with the book wondering why I was reading this to begin with.

So, I don’t think I’ll ever finish this book.

Anyone had a similar experience?

Edit: I should make it clear here just in case, I am from Argentina, right at the bottom of south america. So these types of sexual relationships are not something out of the ordinary around here (sadly). I know real examples of this kind of things, so thats why I really dont enjoy reading it.

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This Japanese word describes a habit that many readers unknowingly engage in every time they acquire new copies of titles on their list

A few months ago I watched a Booktok about a book I had never heard of previously and the premise was something I would not normally read. But the review was intriguing and so I started reading “Dungeon Crawler Carl”. I have basically done nothing since but read the series. I’m on the fourth book now.

This book is crazy weird but delightful and imaginative. The author Matt Dinniman writes without rules which provides a refreshing and surprising story line.

I haven’t heard many people talking about it, and like I mentioned before, the premise is wacky so I just had to come on here and sing its praises! Read it if you haven’t!

Nafisi’s descriptions of those early days after the Iranian revolution just hit a little bit too close to home. The sense of dread mixed with a fool’s hope that some reaction will come. The incredibly human, but blindingly stubborn intrusion of daily life. The shocking mundaneness of the antagonists. The sense of loss and helplessness in the face of such blind devotion.

Every time I put the book down I’m left with a sense of foreboding. We cannot fathom what is yet to come, we cannot believe people will go to such depths. They will.

Hello printSF! Picked up some books from a second hand store the other day. The Stugatsky and the Delany books caught my eye because i already read and liked most of their other stuff, but then i noticed these other two books are from the same series, with pretty cool cover art if you ask me, so i bought all four. The theme of the series seems to be unerapreciated authors and less known works of more popular authors. Does anybody know or recommend other books from the series? I read the Harrison, Lem, Triptee, Vonnegutt and Zamyatin books from the list and based on that, I like the selection.

I recently finished the first Murderbot novel. I enjoyed it, but I was surprised how short and simple it was. The main character is amusing, but otherwise there isn’t much to say.

It’s short. The plot is straightforward. The worldbuilding is minimal. The character development is… very minimal. Mostly, it felt like the writer took one joke (killer robot just wants to watch TV), and stretched it into a novel.

Not knocking anyone’s preferences, but given how popular the books are, and the upcoming live action show, I had expected more. Do the later books develop more substance?

City - Simak Night’s Master and Death’s Master - Tabitha Lee The Dreaming City - Michael Moorcock City of a Thousand Suns - Delany

A company called Must Read Publishing has purchased Analog and Asimov’s from Penny Press, and apparently F&SF from Gordon Van Gelder. This is a recently incorporated outfit based in Florida, a division of a much larger entity called 1Paragraph Publishing. The CEO is a person named Steven Salpeter, a former editor at Curtis Brown. They have also purchased Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

Good luck to them. Let’s hope that they keep everything in print, and also solve whatever the issue is at F&SF.

I’m currently turning the first page of The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton, and I think the series so far - in regards to The Reality Dysfunction - is truly awesome and beautiful, with mythos and lore that have amazing depth.

The thing is, I never heard of the series till I came across a random Reddit post, and I’m glad I did - and while Hamilton is known and The Nights Dawn trilogy gets a lot of praise (and in some ways, critique) on this sub and others, I feel it’s not super popular and we’ll known as other series or IP’s in general.

I’d love everyone else’s thoughts on what they think some under-appreciated series are worth reading!