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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
1. daniel abraham's long price quartet, criminally underrated
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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alright, alright, here's a thing that's not fucked up: if you're in the mood for fantasy but, like, good, read daniel abraham's long price quartet. it's 4 books spaced 14 years apart and you get to see characters go from being young hotheads to old parents, it's awesome
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
2. daniel abraham's dagger and the coin, somewhat awkward but has a lot of really cool interesting ideas, takes awhile for things to build up
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daniel abraham wrote another series i like a lot called the dagger and the coin which i am probably going to reread next. everything that's cool about this series is a spoiler unfortunately
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
3, 4. peter brett's demon cycle and n.k. jemisin's hundred thousand kingdoms
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Replying to @quotidiania
i had exactly this question and went on a long fantasy binge after reading kingkiller looking for my next fix. nothing was 100% satisfying but some stuff i ran into that i liked: - peter brett’s demon cycle - n.k. jemisin’s inheritance trilogy (not eragon)
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Bailey
@baleatoric
I should have just tagged you
@QiaochuYuan
because I had a gut instinct you'd come through on this q! Of these I have only read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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Bailey
@baleatoric
I read it after reading The Broken Earth series, so was slightly disappointed only because what I really wanted was more Broken Earth. I should actually give it another read now with some distance and reset expectations.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
oh interesting! i read them in the opposite order and i actually like hundred thousand kingdoms a lot more. broken earth has a really cool concept but i wasn't satisfied by how it ends
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Bailey
@baleatoric
agreed, book 3 sort of fizzles at the end. But book 1 and 2 had that almost psychedelic effect of changing the way I thought about the world for a few weeks, and when HTK didnt trigger that same feeling I stopped after book 1. Worth another shot!
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Bailey
@baleatoric
a VERY suitable choice. Recently named as one of my top 4 fave books w/ Stone Sky. Have you read his YA book A Peculiar Kind of Peril?
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1. Calvino, Cosmicomics or Invisible Cities: existential questions as myth 2. Jemisin, The Stone Sky: what are we optimizing for really? 3. Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: brains are weird Bonus 4. VanderMeer, Annihilation: earth as character
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