kroh
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Post by kroh on Dec 10, 2017 6:38:40 GMT -8
On Book 4 of the Galaxy's Edge Series by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. They started this as a project to create a novel every 6 months. It was so popular that they now are able to go from concept to creation in 90 days. Subscribers to their in-house subscription service (not Patreon because that is a raging dumpster fire) let fans get the inside track on chapters as they are being written, free beta and alpha-releases when complete, and advanced news for the series. Their tagline was "We want to write star wars not Star Wars." The series is broken into two parts. Every other book either tells a tale of the Legion (think Storm Troopers if Star Wars was modeled after the wars in Afghanistan) or a ragtag group of outlaws fighting a threat from the "Black." For those that want to try out the "universe" before they weigh in with that hefty Kindle money - You can try out a free short story of a pilot making Vietnam War-style medivac runs. Here is the link to the short story: dl.bookfunnel.com/d16w6taj22?mc_cid=7705f1b30b&mc_eid=26b960c5c6I would love to see an adaptation to Savage Worlds or White Star and the authors have already said that some one has been crafting a Starfinder hack. Both the authors are huge into Dnd. I could definitely see a conversion to GURPS for this as the "Stormtroopers" in this story can actually hit what they aim for and the weapons are brutal. Regards, Walt
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Post by rickno7 on Dec 10, 2017 14:57:18 GMT -8
This guy reminds me of how Sanderson wrote with Elantris. The region has 3 types of mages: people that have natural talents, sort of like mutants from X-men. Mages that "touch" the magical realm with runed gloves, and sort of orchestrate magic. And the 3rd are the powder mages, they snort gunpowder like its cocaine and it gives them power over black powder and incredible feats of physical exertion. This books is a cool sort of mishmash of story styles which change depending on which character its following. There's a sort of Victorian era Sherlock Holmes story when you follow the detective(complete with underground bareknuckle boxing). There's a Final Fantasy Tactics/Alexander Dumas kind of political intrigue story when you follow the General. Then there's a high paced action manhunt when following the general's son that reminds me of old frontier stories of Daniel Boone, except he's a junky and addicted as hell to black powder.
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Post by kroh on Dec 10, 2017 15:56:01 GMT -8
I would recommend to stay away from the snorting of gun powder. Knowing luck in the USA, they are going to have to start putting warning labels on bullets so people won't open them and snort...
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Post by chronovore on Dec 11, 2017 17:36:19 GMT -8
Just finished John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, which has been in my backlog forever. Having just come from his new space opera, The Collapsing Empire, this felt like breezy airport bookstore fiction. It was humorous and dramatic and a little predictable. It is, however, a neatly self contained story with a satisfying ending, so there's that.
Moving on to Marko Kloos' second book in his dystopia-but-oh-yeah-there's-bad-aliens-too military SF epic, Lines of Departure. I enjoyed the heck out of the first book, so my hopes are high.
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Post by vyrrk on Dec 12, 2017 12:14:27 GMT -8
This guy reminds me of how Sanderson wrote with Elantris. The region has 3 types of mages: people that have natural talents, sort of like mutants from X-men. Mages that "touch" the magical realm with runed gloves, and sort of orchestrate magic. And the 3rd are the powder mages, they snort gunpowder like its cocaine and it gives them power over black powder and incredible feats of physical exertion. This books is a cool sort of mishmash of story styles which change depending on which character its following. There's a sort of Victorian era Sherlock Holmes story when you follow the detective(complete with underground bareknuckle boxing). There's a Final Fantasy Tactics/Alexander Dumas kind of political intrigue story when you follow the General. Then there's a high paced action manhunt when following the general's son that reminds me of old frontier stories of Daniel Boone, except he's a junky and addicted as hell to black powder. I could be mistaken... but I think this writer was a student of Brandon Sanderson.
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Post by chronovore on Dec 22, 2017 5:41:46 GMT -8
Iain M. Banks Use of Weapons is shaping up pretty nicely. I was having trouble determining if there were multiple Zakalwe characters, or if it was being told out of chronological order. It turns out I'm in a much, much more complicated book than I'd expected, according to wikipedia's introduction: I still haven't finished this. I'm at 80% or something now, according to my Kindle (I miss page numbers). It's very good, but I don't think it's going to be my favorite Culture book.
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Post by blydddreug on Dec 31, 2017 9:37:37 GMT -8
About half way through the The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett. I dig the characters, but the world is a little over the top. Apparently this is first in a series. Anyone else read the series?
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Post by Kainguru on Dec 31, 2017 11:01:14 GMT -8
Persepolis Rising - the new expanse novel. I like it, there’s a twist or two and surprising information on some long hanging story arcs. Aaron
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Post by ericfromnj on Dec 31, 2017 16:19:34 GMT -8
A bunch of Neil Gaiman short stories and the Bruce Dickenson Autobiography.
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Post by blydddreug on May 28, 2018 18:24:57 GMT -8
Almost finished The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes. Reads a lot like I imagine a Dungeon World game would play, but on the darker side.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Jun 8, 2018 6:52:45 GMT -8
I'm currently reading the first Percy Jackson book with my son. He's digging it. I'm also re-reading Ready Player One because I enjoyed it so much, and I'm also (finally) working my way through Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as a bedtime book.
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