SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

"A Theseus Imperium novel"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

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"

[adriano@lile.cl]

@mcc “book three of seven”

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@mcc
It's fun later in thrift stores and used book stores to find books 3 and 7.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@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

[mylittlemetroid@sfba.social]

@mcc that one got accused of plagiarism and taken down despite the fact that the author had replaced all the words.

[conniptions@mastodon.social]

@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.

[catfish_man@mastodon.social]

@mcc I came extremely close to skipping “Horizon: Zero Dawn” and “Dragon Age: Origins” for exactly this reason

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@mcc "Book VII of the Tassederian Qualia Cycle"

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

@glyph @mcc yeah they're all harems

[eschaton@mastodon.social]

@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.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@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.

[uberpinguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc "Book 1 of a series the author never continued"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@uberpinguin I really want there to be a Path of the Final Form book 2!!

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@mcc I read one that said “by the author of Earth”

[glennseto@mastodon.social]

@mcc @ShadSterling Someone trying to sneak religious scripture into genre fiction again...

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points