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io9's Science Fiction And Fantasy Books You Can't Afford To Miss In January!
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io9's Mind-Blowing Science Fiction And Fantasy Books To Watch Out For In 2015
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| I plan on starting with Jo Walton's The Just City once it comes out
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | Just a a quick note for those in the Gaslamp Fantasy challenge. The Eterna Files by Leanna Hieber, which I just added, and isn't out until Feb. sounds like a perfect option for the Gaslamp challenge.
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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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Kirkus Reviews' 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror Books to Look Forward to in 2015 (Part 1)
Kirkus Reviews' 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror Books to Look Forward to in 2015 (Part 2) Tor.com's Fiction Affliction: February Releases
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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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Kirkus Reviews' The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reads for February
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io9's Science Fiction And Fantasy Books You Can't Afford To Miss In March!
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| io9's The Most Essential Science Fiction And Fantasy Books In April
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Location: UK | Io9 a bit less hyperbolic, and no exclamation mark. I approve. |
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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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Location: Austin, Tx | 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. |
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | 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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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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io9's The May Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About
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