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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | Thanks, Dave. There's a typo in the Dreambuilder title--Dresmbuilder. Otherwise, they look great. Thanks again. Rhonda | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | D'oh! It's fixed now. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | Not a bad list here: http://blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books Hows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Fantasy:_The_100_Best_Novels coming along? I note the wikipedia link is not working right now due to the sopa/pipa protests. Its interesting looking at that the US Govt is trying to do while keeping in mind things like https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_banned_sff.asp. I also note that WWEnd could be "dissapeared" from the internet with no due process or recourse based on an accusation of copyright infringement if these laws pass. I therefore encourage those of you in the US to add your voices in pressuring your representatives to reject these pieces of legislation. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | Some context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | oh and to tie this all together, here's Cory Doctrow "28c3: The coming war on general computation". When Clay Shirky talks about being ready for whats coming in the previous clip, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | htaccess - 2012-01-18 6:02 PM Not a bad list here: http://blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books Hows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Fantasy:_The_100_Best_Novels coming along? I note the wikipedia link is not working right now due to the sopa/pipa protests. Its interesting looking at that the US Govt is trying to do while keeping in mind things like https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_banned_sff.asp. I also note that WWEnd could be "dissapeared" from the internet with no due process or recourse based on an accusation of copyright infringement if these laws pass. I therefore encourage those of you in the US to add your voices in pressuring your representatives to reject these pieces of legislation. Not a bad list at all. I've read most of those and a good many would be on my own "best" list. The Pringle Fantasy has stalled a bit here lately because of the GMRC but I'll pick it back up soon. It would be just our luck that SOPA/PIPA would rain on our parade. Dill-holes. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | In Accelerando, Stross used a great word for those in the legislature who had no clue about what's going on, suddenly found out, and then promptly overreacted. They are the legislatasuarus. They're extinct but don't have brains to fall over dead. This fits with the theory that all laws, beyond the most basic, are codifications to old problems, which may or may not still exist. | ||
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Member Posts: 29 | i assumed it was $$$ motivating them, not being out of touch. mpaa donations have been fairly constant, tho they spiked in 2008: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000027729&year=2... riaa donations increased considerably starting in 2008: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000581&year=2... my guess is that the guys backing away from it now are doing so do to public outrage, rather than new information. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | gallyangel - 2012-01-18 7:32 PM In Accelerando, Stross used a great word for those in the legislature who had no clue about what's going on, suddenly found out, and then promptly overreacted. They are the legislatasuarus. They're extinct but don't have brains to fall over dead. This fits with the theory that all laws, beyond the most basic, are codifications to old problems, which may or may not still exist. Legislatosaurus. I think it should be nominated for new word of the year. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | Have you ever thought about adding the Masters of Science Fiction list from Carroll and Graf publishers? It's exactly like the SF Masterworks list, one publisher's idea about what is master status in SF. Ring around the Sun, Miracle Visitors, On Wings of Song, and the Walking Shadow, are all part of the series. Your links to those books are from the series. I think there are less than 50 books. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | Today's Random Reads contains Eight Skilled Gentlemen. It looked interesting, so I clicked on the book. The book blurb notes that it is the sequel to The Bridge of Birds (in WWE) and The Story of the Stone (not in). Thought I'd let you know, but, of course, that just adds more to my Reading List. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | @Galleyangel: I've not heard of that series before but it sounds interesting. When I try to look up "Masters of Science Fiction" I only get the TV series. Do you have a link? @Rhondak101: I hate a broken series. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | On the Masters of Science Fiction series by Carroll and Graf. Ive never been able to find a website for this series, so Im guessing there is none out there. Ive had to recreate the list from a varity of sources. The checklist of titles in the back of their books, cross checked with various book sites to see if those books have the Masters of Science Fiction cover or not. Carroll and Graf published other SF during the same time as the Masters series which wasnt part of that series. The Locus mag. website has a searchable publisher index, so that helped too. These are the for sures, with one exception. Masters of Science Fiction Galaxies Malzberg Beyond Apollo Malzberg On Wings of Song Disch The Walking Shadow Stableford The Forgotten Planet Leinster Quarantine World Leinster The Forever Machine Clifton/Riley vermilion sands j g ballard Hello America J.G. Ballard the book of ptath van vogt the house that stood still van vogt the beast van vogt the universe maker van vogt cosmic encounters van vogt The Mind Cage Van Vogt the night mayor kim newman the goblin reservation simak cemetery world simak the werewolf principle simak Ring Around the Sun Simak All Flesh is Grass Simak chekhov's journey ian watson the embedding ian watson Miracle Visitors Watson The Metal Monster Merritt Venus plus X sturgeon ??? (I have not been able to confirm or denigh this one. It was published in the right time frame but Ive never seen the cover to this issue.) the golden helix sturgeon Some of your Blood Sturgeon you're all alone leiber the muller-fokker effect sladek the zap gun Dick the penultimate truth Dick clans of the alphane moon Dick last orders aldiss the dark light years aldiss Non-Stop aldiss the alteration amis day of the triffids wyndham Carroll & Graf Pub also did an aborted Masters of Horror and Masters of Fantasy series. Masters of Horror demons of daylight campbell The Complete Werewolf boucher, anthony Seeds of Evil bingley The Watchers Out of Time lovecraft Masters of Fantasy The Jewel of the Seven Stars bram stoker the moon pool abraham merritt Some of these titles seem rather obscure. And trying to find these specific print editions has been difficult and expensive, in a few cases. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 454 | @Rhondak101: Hugart's Master Li trilogy is fine (although I found that the first book was the best of the three). However, if you're interested in humorous adventures in a China that never was, I would highly recommend Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung's books instead. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | Engelbrecht, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly take a look at them. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.... seems to be going away ... pity, it was quite a good list although it suffered from the dynamic list problem. Interesting new one: http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sflib.htm http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/102-essential-scifi-books/ Looks like a good one Edited by htaccess 2012-02-07 4:21 PM | ||
Rhondak101 |
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | Since we know that Dave abhors an incomplete series, I offer this. The Lev Grossman book just added, The Magician King, is the sequel to The Magicians. http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Lev-Grossman/dp/0452296293/re... | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Rhondak101 - 2012-02-10 9:26 AM Since we know that Dave abhors an incomplete series, I offer this. The Lev Grossman book just added, The Magician King, is the sequel to The Magicians. http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Lev-Grossman/dp/0452296293/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328887410&sr=1-3 Work is kicking my ass right now so I've fallen off the pace here lately. This one does stick in my craw Could have sworn I'd already added The Magicians! When I get my second wind I'll take care of some of these. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | The new Radium Age (1904-33) Series from HiLo books looks like it will be an interesting list if they keep adding books: The Scarlet Plague By Jack London With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D. and As Easy As A.B.C. By Rudyard Kipling The Poison Belt By Arthur Conan Doyle When the World Shook By H. Rider Haggard http://hilobrow.com/hilobooks/ http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/the-radium-age-science-fiction.htm... | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | The poison belt is already in the database. The other prof. Challenger stories would be good to add too. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | Just wondering which lists we can expect to see added soon? I would most like to see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Fantasy:_The_Hundred_Best_Novel... and Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | htaccess - Just wondering which lists we can expect to see added soon? That's a good question! Here are some of the lists/awards we're working on adding:
The number next to each indicates how many books or authors we're lacking from each list. We've made a bit of progress on some of these and there is some overlap in these so adding a single book can knock it off of 3 or 4 lists at once. So which one is next? Well, none of these actually. We're working on a different list all-together: Books Reviewed on WWEnd That's right. All the reviewed books in a single list so you can peruse the reviews easier. We've got over 800 reviews on the site (huge props to our contributors!) and we want to be sure you guys are finding them. We're going to make it like the Series list with the alpha pagination and I'm guessing it'll be at least 300 books long. All the usual BookTrackr color coding will be there as well as a page that shows all the reviewed books that you've tagged as read. Should be coming up pretty soon so keep an eye out for it. After that? Pringle's Modern Fantasy seems to have a lot of people excited so that's a good pick methinks. The new 101 Best Novels list is getting some love in another thread so that one's rising to the top as well. What do youthinks? | ||
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Uber User Posts: 454 | The Books Reviewed list looks like a great addition - looking forward to it! Pringle's Modern Fantasy and the Mythopoetic award have been hanging fire for some time now - it would be nice to see them completed. Fantasy awards are somewhat underrepresented with only 2 awards vs. SF's 7 (the BFS is really more horror than fantasy), so some more fantasy would be nice. The book lists are even more unbalanced - around 11 SF lists vs. 1 fantasy list. On the book lists in progress:
I can tell that you don't have enough work on your plate, so I've come up with some other possible additions (more fantasy lists):
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | @Engelbrecht: Glad you like the new list ideas. The ones you mentioned are new to me but I dig 'em - especially the Vandermeer. Here's a progress report on the current list of lists: Books Reviewed on WWEnd list is LIVE! Check it out and let us know what you think! Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels - I've got all the images ready and we've started to get them into the DB. I'm guessing we'll have that done in the next couple weeks on the outside. More to come in the next few days including a blog post about the reviewed books list. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | And another one! My thanks to jynnandtonnyx for jumping on those last 50 books. | ||
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