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  On 2/6/2025 at 1:34 PM, Crazing said:

Wells is overrated imo

I heard this as well. this is the first I am reading from her but maybe I should start chronological. 

Started with a memory called empire and it's pretty abstract and monotonous at the beginning. does this get better? 

did you check Greg Egan yet? 

  On 2/6/2025 at 1:34 PM, Crazing said:

Just finished the new james s corey which is cool 

The Mercy of Gods? 

  On 2/6/2025 at 2:25 PM, o00o said:

I heard this as well. this is the first I am reading from her but maybe I should start chronological. 

Started with a memory called empire and it's pretty abstract and monotonous at the beginning. does this get better? 

did you check Greg Egan yet? 

The Mercy of Gods? 

 

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The memory of empire gets better. All these require a bit of time to get the whole way in which the world's build. Yea mercy of God's is nice. Have not tried Egan. 

reading Not Quite Narwhal to my kid at bedtime, and on the pages when they are underwater I just make bubbling sounds instead of reading the speech, which really pisses her off and is hilarious

this is wild 

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The Age of Madness trilogy by Abercrombie. 
 

Taking place roughly 30 years after the events in the first law trilogy the Industrial Revolution has come to the major cities along with all its progress and brutal exploitation of the peasant class. Meanwhile those with seats on the open and closed councils in Adua as well as kingdoms across the seas are at the mercy of the usury of the largest bank in the world, Valint and Balk. Wars are brewing within and outside the city gates while an even bigger uprising is taking place with the breakers and the burners who hope to ignite a great change for the good of the people. I don’t know why I just wrote a real generic description but yeah, it was actually really good. As with his other works the characters here are just so well written and distinct. And while I’ve thought the “grim dark” genre label given to Abercrombie seemed a little unwarranted in the past I’d say it is justified here. It’s been a good journey and feels more rewarding than playing another shitty video game with a terrible storyline or binging brain-decaying stream slop on Netflix. I’m doing that tomorrow. 

New Thomas Pynchon? Methinks this ain't no hoax. Looks like the big dog had one final novel in him. Can't wait if this is real!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon/

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About Shadow Ticket

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

 

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