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Dlw28

Posted 2014-12-10 2:27 PM (#8999 - in reply to #3662)
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Tell us more about the upgrade-I don't think I've heard about it.

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Posted 2014-12-10 3:35 PM (#9000 - in reply to #3662)
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Copying and Pasting Dave's previous post: (Just trying to save you some effort, Dave, so you can work on the updates

Here is a partial list of the projects that we have started or intend to do:

Current Projects:

New Lists:
- The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1950s
- The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1960s
- The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1970s
- The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1980s
- The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1990s
- Winston Science Fiction

New Awards:
- Locus First Novel Award
- James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award

My World Section:
- new landing page
- new Awards Reading Stats page
- new Lists Reading Stats page
- new Novel Ratings page
- new My Reading List page
- new Books I've Read page
- new My Favorite SF Books page
- new My Favorite Fantasy Books page
- new My Favorite Horror Books page
- new Books I've reviewed page
- new Authors I've Read page
- new My Favorite Authors page
- new Create a Cutom List page

Reading Challenge Updates:
- new genre filters (genre, authors and Awards/Lists)
- Reader Level settings (Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Master)
- custom facebook widget
- correct novel sorting on the display page
- add list of challenges accepted to My World landing page

Other Projects/Fixes:
- Award Worthy Books list and functionality
- Bookstore Mode for lists and awards (alpha by author text lists with easy filtering and printing)
- Short Story functionality (required for Tiptree etc.)
- adding Short Stories to Author page
- new WWEnd Stats page
- Buddy Lists (so members can follow each other's activities on the site: reviews, forum posts etc.)
- Uber User stats added to My World (books, authors and publishers added etc.)
- Uber User blog posts (blog access for UU's)
- add sorting to publishers pages
- code Horror Grand Master page
- update Conventions list
- lots of updates in Resources in general
- Forum software replacement (we need a new forum with modern features that will tie into the blog)

Dlw28

Posted 2014-12-10 4:24 PM (#9001 - in reply to #3662)
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WOW-sounds amazing n a ton of work. Many nice ideas!

illegible_scribble

Posted 2014-12-11 1:10 AM (#9002 - in reply to #9001)
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Thanks to whoever's added the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series! Could we get Bujold and Egan added, too?

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Posted 2014-12-11 11:47 AM (#9004 - in reply to #3662)
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What Bujold are we missing? I thought it was pretty complete.

Rhondak101

Posted 2014-12-11 2:21 PM (#9005 - in reply to #3662)
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I think illegible scribble means this, but the book is not due until 2015 according to the website
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/find_books.php?type=series&sea...

gallyangel

Posted 2014-12-11 3:29 PM (#9006 - in reply to #9002)
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illegible_scribble - 2014-12-10 11:10 PM

Thanks towhoever's added theModern Masters of Science Fictionseries! Could we get Bujold and Egan added, too?

The Bujold is in. The list I was working from didn't have it yet.
Their will be more books in this series. Undoubted taking several years to finish publishing them.

illegible_scribble

Posted 2014-12-15 8:02 PM (#9022 - in reply to #3662)
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Fluency, by Jennifer Foehner Wells

I've just gotten this through my library, and it looks really interesting -- 4.2 average on 1,650 Amazon reviews.

gallyangel

Posted 2014-12-16 9:36 PM (#9023 - in reply to #9022)
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illegible_scribble - 2014-12-15 6:02 PM

Fluency, by Jennifer Foehner Wells

I've just gotten this through my library, and it looks really interesting -- 4.2 average on 1,650 Amazon reviews.

It's in.

Thankfully it doesn't happen ofter, needing to put in both an author and a publisher.

I could find nothing on this publisher. Zip. Nada.
With more access like this micro-publishers like this will undoubted become more common.

illegible_scribble

Posted 2014-12-20 11:46 AM (#9030 - in reply to #9023)
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gallyangel - 2014-12-17 2:36 PM

illegible_scribble - 2014-12-15 6:02 PM

Fluency, by Jennifer Foehner Wells

I've just gotten this through my library, and it looks really interesting -- 4.2 average on 1,650 Amazon reviews.

It's in. Thankfully it doesn't happen ofter, needing to put in both an author and a publisher. I could find nothing on this publisher. Zip. Nada. With more access like this micro-publishers like this will undoubted become more common.

Thanks for that. Well, I really enjoyed it. Actually, I thought it was great -- except for the sex scene on pages 244-246, which had me rolling my eyes, and which you may or may not want to skip. I love sex -- but in person, not in my SFF. Heinlein, Shepard, Delany, et al -- I have yet to see any SFF writer who I think does it well, such that it doesn't just detract from the plot and the action.

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illegible_scribble

Posted 2014-12-20 11:55 AM (#9031 - in reply to #3662)
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Abracadaver, by Laura Resnick (Esther Diamond #7)

The Paper Magician series by Charlie N Holmberg
The Paper Magician (#1)
The Glass Magician (#2)

Edited by illegible_scribble 2014-12-20 12:02 PM

DrNefario

Posted 2014-12-21 1:09 PM (#9035 - in reply to #9031)
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The Paper Magician books are in, now.

illegible_scribble

Posted 2014-12-21 8:26 PM (#9037 - in reply to #9035)
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DrNefario - 2014-12-22 6:09 AM The Paper Magician books are in, now.

Ta muchly!

jontlaw

Posted 2014-12-27 1:12 PM (#9051 - in reply to #3662)
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Hey there. Some books I'd like to see turn up soon, especially since some of them would fit into a challenge I'm working on.

The Jackelian series by Stephen Hunt:
1. Court of the Air
2. The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
3. The Rise of the Iron Moon
4. Secrets of the Fire Sea
5. Jack Cloudie
6. From the Deep of the Dark

The Chronicles of Isambard Smith series by Toby Frost
1. Space Captain Smith
2. God Emperor of Didcot
3. Wrath of the Lemming Men
4. A Game of Battleships
5. End of Empires

The Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel
1. Airborn
2. Skybreaker
3. Starclimber

Felix Palma's second book, The Map of the Sky (his first book is already here)

And loving the recent addition of the Wordsworth Editions Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural series. More please! The series is at least twice that big.

Thanks!

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gallyangel

Posted 2014-12-28 3:16 AM (#9052 - in reply to #9051)
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jontlaw - 2014-12-27 11:12 AM

Hey there. Some books I'd like to see turn up soon, especially since some of them would fit into a challenge I'm working on.

Felix Palma's second book, The Map of the Sky (his first book is already here)

Thanks!

His second and third books are now in. Number two was the second of a trilogy, with the third coming out this year. I updated the first book to reflect this.

gallyangel

Posted 2014-12-28 3:40 AM (#9053 - in reply to #9051)
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jontlaw - 2014-12-27 11:12 AM

Hey there. Some books I'd like to see turn up soon, especially since some of them would fit into a challenge I'm working on.

The Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel
1. Airborn
2. Skybreaker
3. Starclimber

Thanks!

They're in. Sounds like interesting steampunk. They also remind me of Miyazaki's early work - Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Excellent movie. i wouldn't be surprised if there was influence or inspiration there.

gallyangel

Posted 2014-12-28 4:25 AM (#9054 - in reply to #9051)
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jontlaw - 2014-12-27 11:12 AM

The Chronicles of Isambard Smith series by Toby Frost
1. Space Captain Smith
2. God Emperor of Didcot
3. Wrath of the Lemming Men
4. A Game of Battleships
5. End of Empires

Thanks!

This series is in. It's a wonder what can get done when you have no interruptions and hobbit music booming from the speakers.
What is it with the Brits and parody fiction? They seem to do it far better than the americans.

valashain

Posted 2014-12-28 5:08 AM (#9055 - in reply to #9051)
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I'll have a go at the Hunt ones.

jontlaw

Posted 2014-12-28 11:16 AM (#9056 - in reply to #9054)
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gallyangel - 2014-12-28 4:25 AM

This series is in. It's a wonder what can get done when you have no interruptions and hobbit music booming from the speakers.
What is it with the Brits and parody fiction? They seem to do it far better than the americans.

So true! I'm a huge fan of the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser too. Great historical fiction, and fantastic parody.

Thanks all for the help.

daxxh

Posted 2014-12-28 11:56 PM (#9061 - in reply to #9056)
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Can someone add Iceborn by Gregory Benford? Since it's an Ace Double with The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson, can that one be added as well?

Thanks!

Dlw28

Posted 2015-01-01 1:11 PM (#9086 - in reply to #3662)
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Happy 2015 to all of you!

Could you please add the 4 books in Michael Flynn's January Dancer series? Should be good for the Space Opera Challenge!
January Dancer
Up Jim River
In the Lion's Mouth
On the Razor's Edge

Rhondak101

Posted 2015-01-01 11:53 PM (#9091 - in reply to #9061)
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The Benford and Anderson are in. I will try to get to the others tomorrow.

gallyangel

Posted 2015-01-02 1:22 AM (#9093 - in reply to #9086)
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Dlw28 - 2015-01-01 11:11 AM

Happy 2015 to all of you!

Could you please add the 4 books in Michael Flynn's January Dancer series? Should be good for the Space Opera Challenge!
January Dancer
Up Jim River
In the Lion's Mouth
On the Razor's Edge

These books are in now. Have at them!

illegible_scribble

Posted 2015-01-02 7:21 AM (#9096 - in reply to #3662)
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Would someone please add Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy? Thanks.

1 - Pines
2 - Wayward
3 - The Last Town

gallyangel

Posted 2015-01-02 9:22 PM (#9104 - in reply to #9096)
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illegible_scribble - 2015-01-02 5:21 AM

Would someone please add Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy? Thanks.

1 - Pines
2 - Wayward
3 - The Last Town

So, what category would this be? It sounds like Twin Peaks meets The Prisoner but without the paranormal. I'm thinking it's not quite right for the site.

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