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Based on comments here, I decided to pick up The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin. I really like her stuff, so was a bit surprised I hadn't read it already. And yeah, turns out I did. Fortunately, I also got Book 2, so I'll read that. I also have to check my boxes and find the first copy so I can...

I've read Year of the Flood (Atwood) and reading Oryx and Crake right now. Will try to find Maddadam at the big book sale next weekend.

Ooo, Little Big!!!! :D Yeah, I gotta read that one again.

I just read The Weathermonger, by Peter Dickinson. It's an older (1968) book wherein "something" affects the British Isles, creating a loathing of machines and technology in people and animals. Reviews call it a children's book; nowadays it'd be called a YA. Actually very well written; I think I...

I loved that book, but haven't read it in decades. I just found my copy, though.... not currently reading anything. :/

Talking to my roommate last night, and she was telling me how, among other annoyances, she hadn't been able to get into reading Redwall*. So we had a little discussion about her reading habits (mostly vet school textbooks; but loves SF, nonfic, and somewhat fantasy; not a fast reader; liked...

There was a point in my life when I loved Orson Scott Card's work. Now...I don't. It's been years (decades, probably) since I've read Ender's Game, and I read the first few sequels when they came out and then stopped. They definitely decline.

Sure. Pick the one I haven't read. (It won the Hugo. Should be OK. ;) ) (OK, she's apparently written less than I thought. I was sure I'd read at least three different series from her, but it's gotta just be Inheritance and Dreamblood...) In other matters, I do not recommend Sam Sykes. I'm...

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I adore NK Jemisin. One of my recent (past 10 years?) favorites.

I've got a policy of disregarding any "Best Fantasy Books" list that doesn't feature either Tigana or Bridge of Birds, or preferably both. (The very best list ought to have Little, Big too....) There's a scene towards the end that always brings tears to my eyes. Not many books do that. And...

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Gah. I dunno, I've seen the trailer twice so far and been bored both times.

Yeah, it's a mystery why anyone would talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe after a reference to a film in the "Marvel universe". So far 2/3rds of the respondents have assumed he was talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is a not at all arbitrary distinction and logically...

The Marvel (Cinematic) Universe is a very clearly defined thing, like D&D. Logan, and all the X-Men and Deadpool movies, (and Fantastic Four), are Marvel properties but they are not "in" the Marvel universe of films and tv shows. And I certainly can argue that all Spider-Man films released so...

I'll echo what trappedslider says above. I in no way am questioning or dismissing his opinion of the film in and of itself. Whether or not Logan is part of the MCU is not, however, an opinion. It's not even an "alternative fact". If someone had made this statement: Actually I was disappointed...

So it's not in the "Marvel universe" as referred to by Garamal immediately previous. It might be the best recent movie from a Marvel property, but it's not part of the defined Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's possible the people in charge of the MCU will look at *Logan* and make a few...

The books are...I don't know that I'd call them deep, or game-changing, but they're *solid*. They are good SF, with alien goop, and people getting spaced, and power armor, and spaceship guns, and all that stuff. It's a lot like a really good D&D campaign in space, I think.