What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

Flavour is very like Erikson...decent humour...have not quite got a feel for the wider world being created.

[macdoc]

Taking a reading break for a few weeks and switching to audio books and for once I'm ahead of using up the credits ...next one is not until Oct,
Will binge Alistair Reynolds and Alexander Hamilton series. It works well as we both adore those two authors so good use of funds. Been buying the annual 12 credit deal instead of monthly - saves a bit.
It will get me riding more now the wet season is fading ( not fast enough tho - even the locals are whinging ).

[macdoc]

Strange debut novel - the appeal is it is set entirely in Tasmania and using actual locations so I'm following those locations on gmap and actually viewing them

So he is describing the boardwalks at Cradle Lake ....et voila
Interesting journey and some sparkles of real innovation in the writing.
Fairly unique set of circumstances for me
Two more novels from him and will be in Tas when reading.
Making me chuckle as he talks about the bakery town of Exeter and up pops Exeter Bakery.

[pErvinalia]

I've spent some time on those board walks.

[macdoc]

Looking forward to it tho not the cold. Very Interesting experience to track a novel via gmaps to bring the writing to actual visual experience

[macdoc]

Really enjoyed the three Tas novels above. Very unique.

I've never quite understood how a 1909 YA book captured 120 years of readers and Limberlost as a name of a place shows up in the oddest locations around the world.
https://limberlost.weebly.com/blog/wher ... limberlost
Add a nursery in Cairns to the list....something magical in the name

62 reprints, hundreds of covers, several movies.
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/sky- ... -and-loss/

[Brian Peacock]

Greg Egan's new one is... quirky - with an unstated, uncommented-on premise which creeps up on you as you became me drawn further in.

[Brian Peacock]

The prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy writing has revealed that almost 400 votes – about 10% of all votes cast in this year’s awards – were fraudulently paid for to help one finalist win.

The Hugo administration subcommittee, which tallies the votes for the annual awards, issued a statement on Monday saying that they had determined that 377 votes had been cast by individuals with “obvious fake names and/or other disqualifying characteristics”.

These included voters with almost identical surnames, with just one letter changed and placed in alphabetical order, and some whose names were “translations of consecutive numbers”....

https://www.theguardian.com/books/artic ... hor-ntwnfb

[macdoc]

and?

.......

Making me laugh in a very good way. (y)
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Great antidote to Fatal Shore about Australia's convict past...but nary a laugh in all the hundreds of pages.
Of course I just had to finish the convicts tale off with the companion piece.

For the Term of His Natural Life is the classic Australian novel of convict life. Relating the intricate and savage interplay between the gaolers and the gaoled, Marcus Clarke weaves the tragic tale of his wrongfully convicted hero Rufus Dawes.

Published in 1872 pretty much contemporary with the transport era. A Victorian novel while lurid is engaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_T ... its%20hero.

[Brian Peacock]

and?

what?

[macdoc]

your just dropped in a quote critical of the Hugos without comment or completing the actual story.

[pErvinalia]

That's capitalism.

[Brian Peacock]

your just dropped in a quote critical of the Hugos without comment or completing the actual story.

I just thought the facts themselves would be of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. There's nothing to stop you giving your thoughts on reports that the genre's most prestigious literary prize is being gamed.

[macdoc]

It smells of an agenda to diss the Hugos when there is zero reason given the response by the management - best to complete a story. Your "facts" were incomplete.
There was an attempt to game the Hugos which failed. That's the story ....not "is being gamed"

[Brian Peacock]

It smells of an agenda to diss the Hugos when there is zero reason given the response by the management - best to complete a story. Your "facts" were incomplete.
There was an attempt to game the Hugos which failed. That's the story ....not "is being gamed"

Take it up with the committee.