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Post by macdoc » Mon May 20, 2024 8:30 am

Flavour is very like Erikson...decent humour...have not quite got a feel for the wider world being created. :pop:
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Post by macdoc » Fri May 24, 2024 12:29 am

Taking a reading break for a few weeks and switching to audio books and for once I'm ahead of using up the credits :shiver: ...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 ).
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Post by macdoc » Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:14 am

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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
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So he is describing the boardwalks at Cradle Lake ....et voila :ask:
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. :pop:
Making me chuckle as he talks about the bakery town of Exeter and up pops Exeter Bakery.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:26 am

I've spent some time on those board walks.
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Post by macdoc » Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:49 am

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 :levi:
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Post by macdoc » Mon Jun 10, 2024 7:54 am

Really enjoyed the three Tas novels above. Very unique.
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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.
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Add a nursery in Cairns to the list....something magical in the name

62 reprints, hundreds of covers, several movies.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:21 pm

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.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:52 am

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”....

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:12 pm

and?

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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.
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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.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Aug 21, 2024 9:11 pm


macdoc wrote:and?
what?

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:07 am

your just dropped in a quote critical of the Hugos without comment or completing the actual story. :pop:
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That's capitalism.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Aug 22, 2024 7:36 am

macdoc wrote:your just dropped in a quote critical of the Hugos without comment or completing the actual story. :pop:
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.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:47 am

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"
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:55 pm

macdoc wrote: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.
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