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bleacheddecay
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  		   Posted 7/12/2008 1:41 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Has anyone read: Night of Power by Spider Robinson 3/5? I'd love to discuss it a bit.

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  		   Posted 7/5/2008 1:41 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'd love to dicuss any of the following books if anyone else would be interested.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin 4.5/5

From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harrie 5/5

One Thousand White Women, the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus 5/5

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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 5:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thank you so much!!!

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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 3:11 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Here it is, found it with search:

2007 reading list

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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 1:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I looked several times but couldn't find it. Of course my eyes could be failing me.

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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 12:04 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It was unpinned, so I'd imagine it's a few pages back in the forum by now.

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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 2:13 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Does anyone know where the 2007 reading list for members went? I wanted to check on some books I enjoyed for a buddy of mine.

Help?

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 11:44 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hearthweru said...
Somebody said...
Didn't William King have a story in the first ever issue of Flashing Swords? I think that's the case--I never read it, but it would probably be a good sample of his writing before you delve into a book (that is, if you haven't read it already).


Yup, he did. It was a good story...

Gaurdian of the Dawn

There's also a review of one of his Warhammer novels here ...

Skavenslayer


I also reviewed Trollslayer, which I think is a much better effort.

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 10:50 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Somebody said...
Didn't William King have a story in the first ever issue of Flashing Swords? I think that's the case--I never read it, but it would probably be a good sample of his writing before you delve into a book (that is, if you haven't read it already).


Yup, he did. It was a good story...

Gaurdian of the Dawn

There's also a review of one of his Warhammer novels here ...

Skavenslayer

 
'Grimble' at Southern Ocean Review...
 
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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 12:21 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
von Darkmoor said...
Hi Paul - if I've never read a Warhammer book before, which author and book should I start with?


Didn't William King have a story in the first ever issue of Flashing Swords? I think that's the case--I never read it, but it would probably be a good sample of his writing before you delve into a book (that is, if you haven't read it already).

Nicholas Ian Hawkins

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"Knowledge and Dust," in Magic & Mechanica, from Ricasso Press, Winter 2008

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"Relativity," in FLASHSHOT, September 28, 2007


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  		   Posted 1/16/2008 3:56 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bill Ward said:

@Gustavo, how is that New Space Opera? I'm curious about it, worried that it might be too 'self-aware' and post-modern to really be good stuff, not that I've read any reviews or anything.


Bill, sorry to get back just now. I'm about halfway through the book. I'm enjoying it so far, but have only been blown away by a couple of the stories (caveat: this might change, as I have a Reynolds and a Simmons still to read). My main problem is that I'm in a novel reading mood right now and have set it aside.

I did finish, and enjoy Haldeman's Forever War this weekend (reviewed in a little more depth on my LJ)...

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  		   Posted 1/16/2008 11:51 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Definitely the William King Gotrex & Felix tales. I honestly thought Witch Hunter was a little weak (ditto Vermintide).
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  		   Posted 1/16/2008 11:33 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
von Darkmoor said...
Hi Paul - if I've never read a Warhammer book before, which author and book should I start with?


Witch Hunter by C. L. Werner

The Burning Shore by Robert Earl

TrollSlayer by William King

Grudge Bearer by Gav Thorpe

If you want to branch out into the Warhammer 40,000 line of bloody soap opera, then I recommend Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy for a start. (It's reprinted in an omnibus.)

Those have been my favorites so far.

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  		   Posted 1/16/2008 1:19 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi Paul - if I've never read a Warhammer book before, which author and book should I start with?

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  		   Posted 1/16/2008 1:14 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
von Darkmoor said...
Let's see if we can get CW to pin these 2 threads atop - are we all cool with letting 2007 drop out of the pinned positions?

Sounds good to me.

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  		   Posted 1/7/2008 9:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
ah, sorry Bill, just checking this thread for the first time.  Yes, that was my first contact with F & GM - or was going to be.  I finished Flashing Swords #1 at the end of '07 (still to post my review, tho), so that tale in there was my first for the famous duo.  Yes, I do realize the stories have been resorted and I'm playing catchup with these guys compared to everyone else on this board. sad
 
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HEY - Jack of Shadows!  You read all those books in the first week of January?! ! !  Holy cow, you're faster than Bill is!  Half your list I've read and most the other half I have here in my TBR stacks.
 
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Let's see if we can get CW to pin these 2 threads atop - are we all cool with letting 2007 drop out of the pinned positions?

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Assistant Managing & Anthology Editor Flashing Swords Press
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  		   Posted 1/4/2008 3:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm not familiar with any of those.

@Gustavo, how is that New Space Opera? I'm curious about it, worried that it might be too 'self-aware' and post-modern to really be good stuff, not that I've read any reviews or anything.

@Jason: Is that your first Fafhrd & Gray Mouser? What do you think? The stories in the books aren't in the order they were written, by the way, if you were wondering why the style fluctuates a bit. Those two 'intro' openers are some of the later written pieces, while I think 'Ill Met in Lankhmar' was one of the first (if not the first).

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  		   Posted 1/1/2008 7:57 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
i ended the year with some very
strong novels to read. (so this is really
2007 reading, so shake a finger at me. =)
 
picked up ellen kushner's privilege of the
sword. not like any fantasy i've read before,
but well done, in my opinion. really enjoyed
it. has anyone read any of her others?
swordpoint is being shipped to me via amazon
as we speak.
 
currently reading (first book of the new year)
trading in danger by elizabeth moon.
 
i loved her deed of paks book, but
found once a hero a bit slow. wondering
how i'll like this one. i'm not a big sci
fi fan at all.
 
happy new year, fellow readers and writers! smilewinkgrin

cindy p.
a little sweet, a little sour.
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