Thanks for that, and while you've caught up now, failure to produce the nominations longlists in a timely fashion was also an entirely avoidable error.
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Thanks for that, and while you've caught up now, failure to produce the nominations longlists in a timely fashion was also an entirely avoidable error.
The Obsidian Tower by @melissacaruso.bsky.social is currently just 99p on UK Amazon - an excellent read! www.amazon.co.uk/Obsidian-Tow...
Unfair to the coyote.
#UKSFFBookBargains Annihilation by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social is, today only, reduced to 99p on both Kindle and Koko. www.amazon.co.uk/Annihilation... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
The Kobo list, far more than Amazon has a lot of stuff at £2.99 which might be worth looking at, and seems a bit more prone to listing works which are out of copyright (Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and so on). That's what Project Gutenberg is for.
Going though the Kobo list I also spot The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I enjoyed the first a lot, I was a bit meh about the second and have never read the third. www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Trilog...
So that's the #UKSFFBookBargains spot on the Kobo list. There are doubtless things I shouldhave mentioned The list I'm looking at is here www.kobo.com/gb/en/list/s...
The Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis One of these days I will actually read That Hideous Strength. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Moon over Soho by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social, also 99p. Very worth it. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Wyrd Sisters, @terryandrob.bsky.social at their best. A mere 99p www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Bridge by @laurenbeukes.com www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Excalibur by Bernard Cornwall. I really can't explain why I so like this book. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Two showing up by @joeabercrombie.com Half a King, which is also 99p on Amazon, hadn't noticed www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... note that Half a War is reduced on Amazon but not Kobo. The Wisdom of Crowds www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
The Copper Promise by @sennydreadful.bsky.social is also cheap on Kobo. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Station Eleven is still cheap, but might ping up to full price. Good though. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
OK, Kobo has updated for the start of the new month, so a bit more #UKSFFBookBargains. Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Looks interesting, but I know little about it. If you missed it, the Amazon list is here: bsky.app/profile/nick...
Oh certainly. But we're not unique in that.
We know what we are, but we also know that British Indian cuisine is a creative fusion, not simple theft. Though if we're going to insult other countries' histories, yours is built on ethnic cleansing and genocide.
He'll be going for Haggis Pakora next...
Oh dear, he doubled down.
Just in case, my pass through the UK/IE monthly list bsky.app/profile/nick...
And that's my pass through the UK Amazon sales offerings this month. Highly subjective I know, please feel free to tell me what I should have looked at. The full list is here. www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripboo...
Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Free on audible with prime. I know nothing about this save that GdT is worth looking at, did I mention free, and there are five more in the series currently 99p. Might be trash, but free trash if that. www.amazon.co.uk/Falling-Down...
The Copper Promis by @sennydreadful.bsky.social which I have not read but I know plenty of people who have and have enjoyed it. www.amazon.co.uk/Copper-Promi...
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis. I remember this getting some buzz as kind of realistic WW2 X-Men. I've been watching for it coming up cheap for some time. www.amazon.co.uk/Bitter-Seeds...
Bridge by @laurenbeukes.com www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-dazzl... Fairly new, which is my excuse for not reading it yet, but I've loved other works of hers (yay! Sloth!) so going onto the TBR pile.
Red Sonja: Consumed by @gailsimone.bsky.social. Not read it, not really my thing, but I've enjoyed Gail's other worth, so if you like barbarians, give it a try. www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Sonja-Co...
Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Another of the respect the author, haven't read this one school. But everyone should have at least one Norse Myth book to hand, and ideally not NG's. www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Book...
And another @aptshadow.bsky.social, Dragonfly Falling, the second of the Shadows of the Apt series. Confess I have not read this, but I have massive respect for Adrian's writing and so should, I'm just a bit scared of starting a 10 part series. www.amazon.co.uk/Dragonfly-Fa...
And a @scalzi.com . There's always a Scalzi in the sale. Book two of an entertaining trilogy. Worth reading, worth getting since it's cheap and watching for the others to come up. www.amazon.co.uk/Consuming-Fi...
Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social. I know nothing about this, save that I respect the actual author www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Author...
Legends and Lattes by @travisbaldree.bsky.social. Charming. www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Latt...
Excalibur by Bernard Cornwall. Historically kind of accurate Arthurian with one of the best fakeouts I've ever read in such books. www.amazon.co.uk/Excalibur-No...
Another @joeabercrombie.com. Book three of a sequence (which actually I think the other might have been) but perhaps worth banking. www.amazon.co.uk/Half-War-Sha...
City of Last Chances, our first @aptshadow.bsky.social this month. Wonderful book. When I got it on kindle, it came with a honking discount on the superb audible reading. note this is £1.49 rather than the ususal 99p. Worth it. www.amazon.co.uk/City-Last-Ch...
Moon Over Soho by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social, which I have read and swear by. Nice to see further volumes in the series popping up. www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Over-So...
Thw Wisdom of Crowds by @joeabercrombie.com (congratulations on the Dragon win) which I have not read by my wife swears by them. www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Crowd...
Wyrd Sisters by @terryandrob.bsky.social. This is where Pratchett really hits his stride. If you haven't read it, you really should. www.amazon.co.uk/Wyrd-Sisters...
Another new month? Where do they come from? New #UKSFFBookBargains Thread. NB: Amazon only. Kobo will follow, but they don't update straight away. Iron Gold by Pierce Brown. I know people like them. Not my taste. www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Gold-ex...
I think we remember all that nineteenth century stuff about the golden spike and so on, and assumed that having built cross country railways, you built on that.
Is there anyone in #Austin who would be interested tickets to the Kill Bill 1&2 tonight at 7pm? I bought them a month ago and can't use them, if anyone is interested, ping me.
There needs to be some allowance made for any place with several servers able to deliver bills and the one card machine. Not an ideal position to be in, but those things cost money and smaller places are always trying to save a penny so as to keep your bills down.
Hugs. Hopefully they'll return on their own. Both my cats have wandered off for four or five days only to trot in wondering why their breakfast is late.
Don't know that, but the Niven short Story, The Warriors has entered the chat.
Have someone lay out the Hugo nomination stats the day after the nomination stats close so that they can be released immediately after the awards themselves are given out. Otherwise it looks like there's something dodgy in the numbers you're trying to hide. like that asshole did in 2023,
While I've very little time for the likes of Gorka, that sure does seem like the interviewer is excessively cherry picking the stats to fit their own narrative.
It's certainly used to be implicit in TV that gravity was a function of atmosphere.
Well might be stretching it. Maybe next time.
I would love it if you could make it free outside the US.
Goddess this predictive text is awful - as is my ability to proofread. Novella.
There's a Tyrant Philosophers novel, and I think a boneless coming from @aptshadow.bsky.social and a novel from MR Carey, Outlaw Planet. I know nothing about it, save that I've enjoyed almost everything else he's written.
You mean those stats that could and should be collated three months before the award ceremony and are usually handed out to people as they leave the auditorium?
Body double
There are two new Circles of Hell, for replies to legal and political commentary. The first for: “so what? It will make no difference”. The second for “are you surprised?” For added everlasting torture and torment, these two new Circles will be located in Solihull.
Feeling the urge to pack a red Sharpie and write RNLI into the quadrants of any St George flags I see left on lampposts.
A word of advice, from someone who has just been dealing with all this. If you go on holiday for a couple of weeks, NEVER leave the carcass of a roast chicken in the oven while you're away. Unless, of course, you like the smell of rotting death and maggots are some of your favourite creatures.
Correlation is not causation though. Perhaps he's right. Wanting the guns is perhaps a mental health disorder, one that's uniquely American.
I'm pretty sure it's not the first.
Of hang on, you're wanting what to play on the car not what to play in the show. Sorry. Okay them lot later. Byker Grove by Bellowhead. The Old Dun Cow by Blackbeard's Tea Party.
Trawlerman. John Knakancka. This is War. Seventeen Summers. If the gaff don't let us down. Wanted man. A matter of life and love. Anything fast and hard.
Were they both Apple flavoured?
Gods help us.
More than I could do.
There was a kiwi weightlifter. Placed last in her group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_...
Call of Cthulhu?
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title: The Origin of Tom Clancy's Species.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title: Memoirs of Tom Clancy's Geisha.
That's got a lot to do with why the Dan Slott 'Superior Spider-Man' storyline worked.
"About half of U.S. adults, 53%, say they approve of Trump’s handling of crime, the poll finds." So surely that's at least a net positive?
That the United States government is no longer bound by the law.
One of my pet bugbears is wikipedia articles saying things like "In a recent interview.." without making the date of the interview obvious. I just found one where the interview was from 1979. A new record. A mere 22 years from before wikipedia existed.
I had a t-shirt. It had the words “Become Ungovernable” printed in big bold letters on the front. Unfortunately, the only ones who took that message to heart were the oil companies.
Why are they so bad at being evil?
And I'm getting that we're all geeks. My mother isn't. Fine tuning the OS would be completely beyond her.
Kind of ablist. People have individual needs. You can accommodate those needs without trying to make every app do every job.
Ah. Okay, zoom settings ok. Rendering your raw html in a script font, that's not what notepad is for.
Font settings? Courier New or Courier New. That's all you need.
Seems reasonable. I'd probably run FATE though.
If I were running it now I'd throw out a huge number of individual skills, but I'd tell people that at character generation.
@yplac.bsky.social A fine example of BMW parking entitlement.
I remember getting annoyed with a Gurps gm for telling people "just make a DX roll" for things that I'd bothered to put a point into.
Fair. I'd put wolverine above jubilee.
Can you persuade the Crescent to join us here? I remember they were on the hell site
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OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
Will tell him his work is remembered fondly.
I like to think of the massive conger I found living in the stream catapult mechanism on the wreck of HMS M2.
BBC micro model B, modified to have RAM permanently mounted in the EPROM slot and a load of things I could load into that RAM instead of needing to swap cartridges.
As @darthputinkgb.bsky.social likes to say, the point of disinformation is not to make you believe something, but to make you believe nothing. And do nothing.
Betterige's Law of Headlines applies.
Where is Liz Truss when we need her?
Please wash your hands
Spoons are useful.
If that were true, and no evidence has ever been presented, then sending whatever the Hebrew for Seal Team Six is in to arrest the criminals would be an entirely legitimate response. Bombing hospitals on the basis that a criminal was at some point cared for there is murder. (Tbc Hamas are cunts)
That book's managing a surprising number of releases. This must be at least the third. (It is very good though)
Gorgeous Lisa Free illustration.
