The Not-So-Black Library

[Hoxtalicious]

Lady Blodwynn

And NOW you decide to finally develope a good taste in literature?! talk2hand

My timing is as always, impeccable.  

[Hoxtalicious]

Decided to reread Freefall and Strange Flesh, two novels based on the FFG game Android. Like them both, though Freefall telegraphs Chekhov's Skill a bit too much.  

[Hoxtalicious]

Started properly reading my many Rogue Trader splat books for a change, which I more or less gave up on after the group broke up and emigrated to the corners of the globe.

Just done with Battlefleet Koronus, an excellent read on how the Imperial Navy works, plus what kinds of opponents one might face in the Expanse.

Right now I'm on the Navis Primer, regarding Navigators, Astropaths and other psychic entities. Bit light on fluff sadly.  

[Sean King]

Finished reading Unremembered Empire, Vengeful Spirit, Fall of Macharius, and the Space Marines anthology. Currently reading Scars.  

[GeneralFishSama]

http://www.lulu.com/shop/sean-p-nolan/shades-of-grey/ebook/product-17354286.html

Heavily influenced by WH40k  

[Vikki Stardust]

GeneralFishSama

http://www.lulu.com/shop/sean-p-nolan/shades-of-grey/ebook/product-17354286.html

Heavily influenced by WH40k

I want to read a preview, I need to confirm if it is as generic as the cashgrab title and description make it out to be. rofl  

[Sean King]

Just finished rereading the Eisenhorn omnibus and started rereading Ravenor.  

[Hoxtalicious]

Decided to re-read Neuromancer, I think it is finally growing onto me.  

[GeneralFishSama]

Check Smashwords.com for a preview.  

[Vikki Stardust]

GeneralFishSama

Check Smashwords.com for a preview.

Okaaaaay, I'll dig thru the site tonight and track it down.  

[Hoxtalicious]

Vikki Stardust

GeneralFishSama

Check Smashwords.com for a preview.

Okaaaaay, I'll dig thru the site tonight and track it down.

Here you go: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/42228

Good luck, I couldn't get past the foreword myself.  

[Vikki Stardust]

BrookM

Vikki Stardust

GeneralFishSama

Check Smashwords.com for a preview.

Okaaaaay, I'll dig thru the site tonight and track it down.

Here you go: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/42228

Good luck, I couldn't get past the foreword myself.

You're missing out on some amazing stuff, like this gem that leaves you breathless:

Quote:

The smoke from the reeking fire of trash that he had built for himself next to the cardboard box that had become his home in an alleyway near the home he had once had filled his nostrils, mouth, and eyes.

 

[Sean King]

Still, its got to be better writing than 50 Shades of Grey.  

[Hoxtalicious]

I'd comment about not reading fan fiction, but 50 Shades is scraping beyond the bottom of the barrel and giving a horribly wrong example on how a relationship with a dom-sub should work. "Lol, I got raped by Grey, but that's okay, I needed it!"

I've given Shades of Grey another try and well.. Pretentious foreword aside, it misses world building, it misses context, it misses explanations. I'm missing a general background here, because right now all I've read about is futuristic IRA doing something and a short story about a guy moving to the city, losing his house because of his neighbour and killing him because of it, all the while making a BOLD statement about being someone. There's a lot of name dropping going on, but without an explanation as to where it is really taking place, it's all nothing to me.

I'm neither seeing how this is inspired by 40k or how this is cyberpunk, because aside from the odd reference to fancy-schmancy stuff, it's just not there.  

[Vikki Stardust]

He may sound critical, but we did a dramatic reading yesterday and we had one big laugh. emotion_awesome