SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
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You find the most insightful, compelling enlightenment fantasy novel you've ever read and you can't recommend it to anyone because it's named something like "The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delerium Chronicles"
@mcc I came extremely close to skipping “Horizon: Zero Dawn” and “Dragon Age: Origins” for exactly this reason
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You find the most insightful, compelling enlightenment fantasy novel you've ever read and you can't recommend it to anyone because it's named something like "The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delerium Chronicles"
@mcc "Book VII of the Tassederian Qualia Cycle"
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@mcc my biggest problem is that I find stuff with titles like "The Mage Who Wandered" or "A Storm of Galaxies" and the title is so unfortunately generic that there's like 9 other books with the same title on Amazon and half of them are _extremely_ explicit
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SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
@mcc A couple decades ago, I noticed at my local Borders that every single book on the “new fiction” table had “a novel” somewhere on the cover. It’s become a game, finding new fiction from a mainstream publisher of *any* genre that doesn’t have some such annotation.
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@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good
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@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good
@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real
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@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real
@glyph @ami_angelwings "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a real book about a bunch of *extremely* queer women and the book I just checked out from the library actually did claim on the first page to be by "the bestselling author of the Licanius trilogy". As far as I know the others are fake.
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"A Theseus Imperium novel"
@mcc "Book 1 of a series the author never continued"
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@mcc "Book 1 of a series the author never continued"
@uberpinguin I really want there to be a Path of the Final Form book 2!!
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SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
@mcc I read one that said “by the author of Earth”
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@mcc I read one that said “by the author of Earth”
@mcc @ShadSterling Someone trying to sneak religious scripture into genre fiction again...
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@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title
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@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title
@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points
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@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph I'd have to make a classy looking dust cover for it. Not even making it look like a literary novel. Just like a slightly more highbrow spec fic novel.
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@mcc I read one that said “by the author of Earth”
@ShadSterling @mcc (trying to resist the temptation to cc in the actual author, he's on here)
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@mcc Obviously I am not the intended referent of 'anyone' because I would read the hell out of something called 'The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delierium Chronicles' if you or some other person I strongly suspect has very good taste in such things were to recommend it to me.
@conniptions @mcc I would pick it up just based on the title and probably be very surprised by the content, it would seem
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