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Member Posts: 9 | I'd like to ask for "INDEXING" by Seanan McGuire. Thanks!! | ||
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Veteran Posts: 182 Location: Rockford, IL | Could you please add the last two books of Elizabeth Moon's Paladin's Legacy series - Limits of Power and Crown of Renewal. Thank you! | ||
Tantara |
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Member Posts: 26 Location: Washington state | I'd appreciate it if you could add "Babayaga" by Toby Barlow and "Lexicon" by Max Barry. Both authors are already in the database, but not these (their most recent) books. Thanks! | ||
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New User Posts: 4 | Ah! Okay. I found the request thread. Oh dear admin what I would like best of all to complete my challenge is: Andrei Platanov The Foundation Pit (It would be vunderful) Thanks so much! | ||
justifiedsinner |
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Could you please add J. B. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition. I wish to read it for the Sort Fiction Challenge. | ||
HRO |
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | New Amsterdam and The Chains That You Refuse by Elizabeth Bear. (And everything else by her that is missing as well but those are the two I need for RYO.) Thankies! | ||
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | I was looking at New Amsterdam for Elizabeth Bear, too. | ||
HRO |
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | DrNefario - 2014-01-21 8:25 AM I was looking at New Amsterdam for Elizabeth Bear, too. Doesn't it sound yummy? Steampunk and non-sparkly vampires! And the cover art? Fantastic! | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | Well, more importantly, it sounded cheap. On the UK Kindle store, at least, it seems to be Bear's cheapest full-length book, along with its sequel Garrett Investigates. | ||
HRO |
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | The Third Bear by Jeff Vandermeer. Also, the database lists Finch by Vandermeer as a non-series work. It's actually book 3 of the Ambergris series, the first two books being The City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword (neither of which are in the database). | ||
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Uber User Posts: 456 | Bear's New Amsterdam series is quite good, with my favorite being the third book in the series, The White City. Garrett Investigates would probably be considered the fifth book in the series and is a collection of short stories featuring a side character from the third and forth books in the series. Some challenge requests are as follows: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron Turbulence by Samit Basu The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer (sequel to The House of the Scorpion) The World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla I Travel by Night by Robert R. McCammon Vicious by V. E. Schwab Luminous Chaos by Jean-Christophe Valtat (sequel to Aurorarama)
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Veteran Posts: 182 Location: Rockford, IL | Could you please add the latest book in the Jane Yellowrock series to Faith Hunter's list - It's called Black Arts. Thank you. | ||
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Veteran Posts: 182 Location: Rockford, IL | Also, the latest from Barbara Hambly - The Kindred of Darkness - it's the 5th of the James Asher series. Thank you. Never mind - I found it. Sorry. Edited by controuble 2014-01-25 2:28 PM | ||
Engelbrecht |
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Uber User Posts: 456 | Please add: The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente (sequel to The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden) Thanks! | ||
HRO |
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja Black Opera by Mary Gentle The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Possession by A.S. Byatt The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Hello, Two authors/books I was hopping to add to my reading challenge for the 2014 Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color Challenge don't seem to be available right now. "The Lives of Tao" by Wesley Chu "Nexus" by Ramez Naam also, each of these books has a sequel - "The Deaths of Tao" and "Crux". | ||
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Uber User Posts: 794 | HRO - 2014-01-27 6:09 PM Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja Black Opera by Mary Gentle The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Possession by A.S. Byatt The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker I'm not sure I'd classify Possession as fitting any of the genres covered by WWE. Similar in structure to The French Lieutenant's Woman it is a literary detective novel with two modern day academics researching the possible affair between two Victorian poets. It is a wonderful book, however. If you haven't read it I'd also recommend Byatt's "The Children's Book" based on the life of children's author Edith Nesbitt. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | justifiedsinner - 2014-01-28 10:12 AM I'm not sure I'd classify Possession as fitting any of the genres covered by WWE. Similar in structure to The French Lieutenant's Woman it is a literary detective novel with two modern day academics researching the possible affair between two Victorian poets. It is a wonderful book, however. If you haven't read it I'd also recommend Byatt's "The Children's Book" based on the life of children's author Edith Nesbitt. This post on the Tor blog says that it could be considered fantasy because it includes folk and fairy tales. Also, both this site and this one include Possession in a list of recommended reading for the gaslamp fantasy subgenre. Additionally, I've seen several comparisons between Possession and Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand (which is in the database). For example, there is this quote on Hand's website: " Mortal Love contains numerous echoes of A.S. Byatt's Possession." Edited by HRO 2014-01-28 10:16 AM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Well that's their opinion but I don't see that writing about somebody who writes about fairies is the same as writing about fairies. The fantasy in the book is subsidiary to the main plot which is highly literary as are all Byatt's novels. It is more commonly described as a detective novel or in some places as a adultery novel. The actual writing about fairies and folktales is in the form of poems as Byatt emulates the work of her two Victorian characters. These are loosely based on Christina Rossetti (The Goblin Market) and Alfred Tennyson (Idylls of the King). The main point of introducing such work is to evince Victorian sensibilities they were quite obsessed with mythology and fairytales all the while they were sending their children to work in mines and sweatshops. I have no objection to adding the book. It is up to the administrator after all but adding it would, I think, greatly expand the guidelines of what can be added to the site. I'm surprised the blogger didn't mention Byatt's "The Children's Book" which I alluded to above. Edith Nesbitt was a Children's author who wrote about magic a subject which she knew very well as she was a member of the Golden Dawn Society with Alastair Crowley and W. B. Yeats. The book contains several instances of these tales as well as recounting an incident where one of her children escapes to the forest and tries to turn into a fox as per David Garnett's novel "Lady into Fox". If you would allow "Possession" then I think "The Children's Book" would be equally valid. Perhaps the blogger has not gotten around to it yet. I guess when you are dealing with meta-fiction of this nature the question becomes how many meta levels you are prepared to encompass before the genre becomes too dilute. Edited by justifiedsinner 2014-01-28 10:53 AM | ||
HRO |
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Uber User Posts: 265 Location: Neither here...nor there | You make a valid counter-argument. Of course, there are other books on the site that could be questioned (she says, pointing at the Guardian list). In the end, it's all up to the WWEnd Powers That Be. | ||
Jain |
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Regular Posts: 54 | The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin Adaptation by Malinda Lo The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald | ||
Kata |
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Member Posts: 13 | Hi, I just finished reading Down These Strange Streets, which is edited by George RR Martin. Could you please add it to the Worlds Without End database and then the Short Story Challenge list? Many thanks as always, Kata | ||
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | Here are some from my my TBR pile that I'd love to be added when you can: The Five Fates by Harlan Ellison, et. al The Simultaneous Man by Ralph Blum Somerset Dreams by Kate Wilhelm Also, would you see if you think The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova belong in the database? They might be too mainstream. ☺ Thanks, Rhonda | ||
Jain |
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Regular Posts: 54 | Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | Herbert and Anderson's latest Dune creation, Sisterhood of Dune, has yet to find it's way into the database. And since everything else is here already...tidy...tidy. | ||
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