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daxxh
Posted 2015-01-05 9:46 PM (#9179)
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Posted 2015-01-06 11:06 PM (#9191 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-01-13 4:29 PM (#9275 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-01-13 6:40 PM (#9277 - in reply to #9179)
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Also, look around for small and indie press books.
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Posted 2015-01-13 8:29 PM (#9278 - in reply to #9179)
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I plan on starting with Jo Walton's The Just City once it comes out
Lots of interesting books this year!
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Posted 2015-01-13 9:24 PM (#9279 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-01-14 7:20 AM (#9284 - in reply to #9275)
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illegible_scribble - 2015-01-13 10:29 PM


io9's Mind-Blowing Science Fiction And Fantasy Books To Watch Out For In 2015



I find io9's hyperbolic headlines really off-putting. Maybe my Britishness coming through.
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Posted 2015-01-14 7:30 AM (#9285 - in reply to #9284)
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DrNefario - 2015-01-15 12:20 AM

I find io9's hyperbolic headlines really off-putting. Maybe my Britishness coming through.

Agreed -- as with pretty much every site these days.

I generally tend to just roll my eyes at the headlines and look at the content to decide whether an article on any given site deserves my attention. If so, I read on, if not I click "close". I do most of my surfing on a desktop, which makes that easy. But if I only accessed the Internet via smartphone, I'd be a hell of a lot more selective.

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Posted 2015-02-01 1:47 AM (#9426 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-02-01 2:02 PM (#9457 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-02-20 9:18 AM (#9678 - in reply to #9179)
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The SFF Blog site Fantasy Faction polled several publishers for their favorites, and created a list,
Publishers’ Choice: Most Anticipated Fantasy Novels of 2015

There are quite a few on here of which I hadn't heard before, and some of them sound pretty fantastic.

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Posted 2015-03-18 3:20 AM (#9909 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-03-18 3:22 AM (#9910 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-04-10 11:10 PM (#10090 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-04-11 4:56 AM (#10101 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-04-11 12:06 PM (#10103 - in reply to #10101)
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DrNefario - 2015-04-11 9:56 PM

Io9 a bit less hyperbolic, and no exclamation mark. I approve.

heeheehee, so true  

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Posted 2015-05-13 3:03 PM (#10512 - in reply to #9179)
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Posted 2015-05-13 4:20 PM (#10514 - in reply to #10512)
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pizzakarin - 2015-05-13 1:03 PM

Well, I had to give up on Edge of Dark. The villains break the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and I just couldn't take it though the story was good enough for me to at least keep going. Guess not every book is going to be a winner. I'm still waiting to read this year's awesome breakout book. I feel like I read so many good ones last year.


So what? If you have problems with breaking the laws of physics, a good half of everything is immediately unreadable. Besides, Newton and his "laws' have already been "broken" in the lab. The fact nobody knows about it, is science not knowing what science knows. (Or, even worse, science ignoring what science finds in order to prop up an outdated, politically and economically acceptable model.)

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Posted 2015-05-13 7:45 PM (#10516 - in reply to #10514)
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Location: Austin, Tx		It wasn't so much that I can't handle physics being bent or broken, it's that this story is an off-the-shelf transhuman story with a level of technology that comes with that. The author relies on the audience to be familiar with things like mind-uploading, artificial gravity, genetic manipulation, etc and so does not bother to explain any of these things. So when she casually throws in robots that gain energy by moving, it's a violation of the physics of the setting as established not through worldbuilding but through piggybacking on the collective worldbuilding of the genre. If she had deviated from that standard (in more than just reskinning) and established a reason for me to believe that the laws of physics had been rewritten (and I would like to note that I don't think we've come close to creating a perpetual motion machine in the lab) I might have been able to do the mental gymnastics necessary to accept this as a part of the story.
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Posted 2015-06-01 4:22 AM (#10671 - in reply to #9179)
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