aylwin13 Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Doc Sidhe and Sidhe-Devil by Aaron Allston. His diesel-punk/pulp novels. Failed kick-boxer Harris Greene's accidental discovery of the Fair World, and his adventures with the Sidhe Foundation. Spence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Yup....The only part I don't really keep up on is the Crown sub-series. Same here. I even got them on a CD with a bunch of free pdf books, and haven't started them yet. Don't care for the co-author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 Same here. I even got them on a CD with a bunch of free pdf books, and haven't started them yet. Don't care for the co-author. For me it wasn't that. I don't have a real issue with the co-author writing, just not that interested in his chosen story-lines. It was the story was spy'ish/political intrigue'ish but seemed to skip the interesting parts of the genre and concentrate on the boring parts. Like a text book with no payoff at the end.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Read the sea without a shore by Drake. Leary and Mundy are asked to handle two linked but separate problems on a planet undergoing an insurrection/rebellion. CES Spence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Read "The Hollow City", sequel to "Mrs Peregrine's home for peculiar children". It was mediocre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. It just did not work for me. A bit sub Dresden to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Speaking of . . . Fan made, so I don't know if the later bits (the ones that weren't in the 5 chapters already released) were guesses or if Jim Butcher colluded with his fans. He did post the trailer at jim-butcher.com, so there is that. death tribble 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Just read J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" with some editing, this could be a half way decent film... Figured with turning 50, I should just go ahead and read the silly thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Pattern Ghost and death tribble 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 "Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman. It's short, so you aren't risking much of your life if you pick it up, and it is Neil Gaiman, so the risk automatically pays off. Anyway, the author really captures the 7-year-old voice and point of view. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. With the world in decline a hunt to be the heir to a billionaire's fortune turns nasty when a corporation uses any means necessary to win. Lots of 80s trivia, And likeable protagonist. Thoroughly recommend to any who lived through or grew up in the 80s. Equations of Life by Simon Morden. When Petrovich intervenes and stops a kidnapping, it lands him in more trouble than he bargained for. Set in London after the bombs have dropped this is an interesting look at post Apocalyptic life which is not Mad Max like. I liked it so much I was leant the sequels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 has anyone read the DESTROYER spin off legacy heirs of sinanju ? if so whats the consensus ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 Just finished listening to Velveteen vs the Juniot Super Patriots. Highly recommend for all champions players. Really well written stories and is a cool super world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 Read The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell. Neil Gaiman is a murderer in this mystery based in the universe of London Falling. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 Sea Without a Shore by Drake Skin Game by Butcher Sociotard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Theories of Flight by Simon Morden in which Samuel Petrovich makes anti-gravity work, survives the invasion of Metrozone by the Outies, rescues his wife from the CIA and loses a couple of more friends. Very good but maybe not for an American audience as they are the bad guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 More "magical realism" than anything else (and there's enough deniability to explain everything away), but Tigerman by Nick Hardaway. A British army sergeant is assigned to a dying island in the Arabian Sea, and finds he must adopt a costumed identity to deal with the situation. http://www.skjam.com/2014/07/30/book-review-tigerman/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 Degrees of Freedom. Samuel Petrovich saves London again and loses another friend but is becoming more like a cyborg. It is very good. Any yes the Americans are still the bad guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Snuff by Terry Pratchett. Catching up with one I missed. Interesting story and still has the trademark humour. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 The Curve of the Earth, the last currently of the Petrovitch books and Sam goes to America after his adopted daughter goes missing in Alaska. The book is set about a decade after the events of Degrees of Freedom. It is very good and fast moving. But again the Americans are the bad guys, so maybe not for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 The Shining Girls by Lauren Beurkes. An unusual sci-fi story. A woman who survives a murderous attack tries to trace her attacker who it turns out is hiding in the past. I liked it. A nasty antagonist and a gutsy protagonist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted September 1, 2014 Report Share Posted September 1, 2014 Sledgehammer 44 and Hellboy in Hell: the Descent by the Mignola team. Sledgehammer brings back the Vril suit and the professor's daughter from the Iron Promethesus and The Black Flame from the Burning Hand as a dead man decides the course of the future. The Descent is the start of Hellboy's adventures in the underworld after he is killed by Nimue. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Read Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mignola and Golden. A mad doctor wants to summon a monster from beyond time and space. What will happen to the world if he succeeds? CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 It must have been "British author month" for me or something The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey. This was a great read. Zombie apocalypse, but some of the child zombies are intelligent! Oh, they still have an overwhelming desire to consume human flesh. They're only nice until something rubs off a researchers scent-blocker. The story starts off at a prison camp/research facility studying them, and the story is principally about one little girl in particular. The Outsorcerer's Apprentice by Tom Holt. Lots of funny in this one. Lots of economics jokes. The only thing I didn't like was the unresolved questions, like where did the two mercenaries come from? How did the Unicorn know all he did? Was the last prince to ask for a doughnut another relative of Florizel? American Gods. I finally got around to it. Good, and it was nice to see Odin as a trickster, after certain other recent works only remember he was a king. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 The Dumb Gods Speak by E. Phillips Oppenheim: A rare outright SF book by an influential spy thriller author, a spy thriller set in the future year of 1947. Using advanced television and EMP weapons, the mysterious International Bureau is about to score its greatest coup, an end to war! The good guys' plan is what would normally be supervillain territory. http://www.skjam.com/2014/09/01/book-review-the-dumb-gods-speak/ The Cloak Society 3: Fall of Heroes by Jeramy Kraatz: The villainous Cloak Society has captured the heroic Rangers of Justice and have taken over Sterling City by posing as the New Rangers. Only former Cloak Society trainee Alex Knight and his group of superpowered kids know the truth, but they've been branded as criminals. Can they rescue the Rangers, expose the Cloak Society (including Alex's parents) and save the city? This book has a hidden fatal flaw, which I talk about in the postscript to my review. http://www.skjam.com/2014/09/05/book-review-the-cloak-society-3-fall-of-heroes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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