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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1260 on: 25 March 2023, 23:20:40 »
Catyalist Game's House Davion Handbook.  I got it off of Amazon; I can't find anything about the four-freedoms mentioned in the original House Davion book; the House Kurita book was selling for $2,999.99; really.  Look it up.

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1261 on: 27 March 2023, 11:55:17 »
Catyalist Game's Shrapnel issue 12.  Going slow, digesting everything in.
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1262 on: 31 March 2023, 05:42:31 »
Almost finished with Aliens Vs. Predators: Rift War (by Weston Ochse & Yvonne Navarr), then I'm probably going back to my BT backlog.   ;D  I've still got The Damocles Sanction, Fox Tales, and Jaguar's Leap to read (not necessarily in that order), along with Down These Dark Streets for Shadowrun.  I've also got Alien 3, the unproduced first-draft screenplay, and several others to get to at some point.   xp


I'm telling you, switching from dialup to broadband has severely cut into my reading time!   :D
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1263 on: 13 April 2023, 22:56:45 »
Time Life books such as, Deserts, The Universe and The River Plate Republics. They're from the '70's I think, but they are soothing.

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« Reply #1264 on: 23 April 2023, 03:45:30 »
Peter Elstob - Warriors for the working day

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1265 on: 24 April 2023, 09:35:31 »
Decided to start a re-read of Astrodragon's The Whale Has Wings over on the Alternate History forums
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« Reply #1266 on: 02 May 2023, 20:18:32 »
Decided to start a re-read of Astrodragon's The Whale Has Wings over on the Alternate History forums

I actually liked going to AR-forums; they had a good mix of ideas and I especially liked their memes threads, but, the admins are nuts. 

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1267 on: 03 May 2023, 02:47:10 »
1809: thunder on the Danube Vol.III. By John Gill
Third book in the series exploring the 1809 Napoleonic campaign in Austria up to Wagram (and consequences) and the side theatres (like Poland). Very well written, reads in a breeze and it is extremely well researched. Top notch book if you are interested in the period.
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1268 on: 04 May 2023, 19:04:21 »
I finished Black Snow (James Scott) a few weeks ago. Its about the fire bombing campaign against Japan, and chiefly focuses on the massive raid in April on Tokyo. Not for the faint of heart, yet it is an extremely good read IMHO.
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1269 on: 05 May 2023, 07:04:06 »
Started Heir to the Dragon; got it (and many others I didn't yet have) from the latest BattleTech Humble Bundle.

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1270 on: 11 May 2023, 07:37:55 »
Neuromancer. William Gibson
130 pages in, and it looks good. The net is less exciting than when it was released in the 80s though. It is the part of the book that visually does not appeal to me., The rest of the book and its society is fantastic. I can see why it has been described to me as the cornerstone of the cyberpunk genre.

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« Reply #1271 on: 13 May 2023, 22:58:03 »
Dropships and Jumpships via my tablet as a .PDF.  Back in the early-90's, a book store, that was literally, across the street from me, had it, but I didn't buy a hard-copy despite having it in my hand.  I think if I did buy in then, my Battletech and Mechwarrior RPG games would have been different.

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« Reply #1272 on: 14 May 2023, 05:28:56 »
That book definitely impacted my game play! :)

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« Reply #1273 on: 15 May 2023, 20:39:55 »
House Davion Handbook (new one); so, I read a bit and I looked up the Six-Liberties, which, I remember clearly reading in the Federated Suns: House Davion back from ('87?); it was one page 153, but I didn't find it, so I looked up wiki to find the exact reference.  I can't find my original House Davion book so I found a .PDF, but it doesn't have page-numbers, so, well. 

The first Battletech book I read, was Draconis Combine: House Kurita back in the early'90's; it was OK, until I got to the  Pillar of Ivory section, then I completely understood House Kurita and was able to run awesome Mechwarrior-games.



That book definitely impacted my game play! :)

Back then, and perhaps now, I was more interested in FTL space-travel than owning my friends in Battletech, though, owning's fun!!!

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« Reply #1274 on: 18 May 2023, 08:23:23 »
Started Heir to the Dragon; got it (and many others I didn't yet have) from the latest BattleTech Humble Bundle.
That and Wolves on the Border helped me STOP Hating House Kurita.   :thumbsup:

When someone started a 1st Ed. MW RPG, he wanted us to write a background for our character.  About all I knew about the BT Universe was "The Kentares Massacre", and Jurita's "Death to Mercenaries" decree!  So I HATED Kurita from the start.  Novels like WotB and HttD got me to see the Current (back THEN!) leaders as decent human beings.  I never came to "Like" them, but now I'm Neutral to them rather than outright Hating them.   :thumbsup:


Dropships and Jumpships via my tablet as a .PDF.  Back in the early-90's, a book store, that was literally, across the street from me, had it, but I didn't buy a hard-copy despite having it in my hand.  I think if I did buy in then, my Battletech and Mechwarrior RPG games would have been different.
That's been one of MY favorites from the start.   :thumbsup:  Cool info about the Dropships and Jumpships.  Like one DS has a large lounge, where the crew can catch reruns of The RFL-3N.  While it was before my time, I've seen a few reruns of The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors!  Apparently, someone with FASA liked it as a kid!   ;D
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1275 on: 19 May 2023, 00:27:52 »
fiasco
by stanislaw lem
read it decades ago in polish and recently re read it in english
good story about preconceptions and anthromoporsing things and creatures
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1276 on: 20 May 2023, 09:57:33 »
Star Wars: Ahsoka.

I haven't read a Star Wars novel since Vision of the Future back in the 90s.  These days I mostly classify myself as an ex-Star Wars fan due to the toxicity that erupted over the Sequels.  Only reason I got it was because it was free on Kindle Unlimited.

It's not a bad book but it's also not a very substantive one.  Don't think it's going to get me back to reading Star Wars fiction.
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« Reply #1277 on: 04 June 2023, 21:54:05 »
ok it had been 15 years since i even picked up a copy of any frank herbert dune books
so  i started to re read original dune..

silly question am i only one that when they re read a book after long time the "flavor" of the book changes?
not sure how to describe it but its like story feels its changed  in some way sometimes for the better or for worse?
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« Reply #1278 on: 17 June 2023, 21:52:54 »
ok it had been 15 years since i even picked up a copy of any frank herbert dune books
so  i started to re read original dune..

silly question am i only one that when they re read a book after long time the "flavor" of the book changes?
not sure how to describe it but its like story feels its changed  in some way sometimes for the better or for worse?

I want to read the Dune-Series, but then again, I don't.  But, I wish I read the books when I was playing/running Renegade-Legion; I think I could have used a lot of their material in my games.

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1279 on: 17 June 2023, 22:39:22 »
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals- Steve Brusatte

It's a new paleontology book tracing the history of mammals all the way back from the split between Synapids and Sauropsids some time around 320 million years ago all the way up to the present.
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« Reply #1280 on: 18 June 2023, 08:06:45 »
The new Hollows book by Kim Harrison.

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« Reply #1281 on: 03 July 2023, 21:59:02 »
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals- Steve Brusatte

It's a new paleontology book tracing the history of mammals all the way back from the split between Synapids and Sauropsids some time around 320 million years ago all the way up to the present.

I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about synapids etc. 

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« Reply #1282 on: 03 July 2023, 22:02:48 »
A fascinating subject and one that honestly doesn't get enough mainstream attention.
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1283 on: 25 July 2023, 04:30:12 »
Neuromancer. William Gibson
130 pages in, and it looks good. The net is less exciting than when it was released in the 80s though. It is the part of the book that visually does not appeal to me., The rest of the book and its society is fantastic. I can see why it has been described to me as the cornerstone of the cyberpunk genre.

When you think that this book was written on a mechanical typewriter, before almost any of what we consider the interwebs existed, yes, it does deserve its reputation.

And like the original Star Wars trilogy, the first book of the Sprawl Trilogy deserves its kudos for blazing brightly, even if I personally think the second book (Count Zero) is better written. The third book (Mona Lisa Overdrive) is also very good, just not quite as stellar as the first two.

If you haven't read it already, Elmoth, Neal Stephenson's "Snowcrash" does for the concept of metaverse what Neuromancer did for hackers, and again was written before the thing existed. And has one of the coolest villains around - Raven. Get it & read it!

Me, I just finished the 61st book in the Horus Heresy series. Now it must be said that, up to about book 50, it's been
- one-third competent genre fiction
- one-third rubbish genre fiction
- one-third gloriously written enthralling adventure in a genre universe.

When they get up to the Siege of Terra, the last 10 books or so, though - they only let the writers in the last third play. And they're damned good books. Not quite finished yet either ... the 62nd book comes out in November according to plan, and there's a feeling there'll be another one after that mebbe.

I do recommend starting from the beginning, if you can access the books. A LOT of thread-building & connection laying down happens in the beginning, and they are tying a lot of it together. THey're managing a great balance of dealing with real-world old lore, sometimes subverting it in interesting ways, sometimes playing to the base, occasionally even ripping up the old lore (after all, the 'lore' was written from the point of view some 10,000 years later.)

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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1284 on: 29 July 2023, 06:41:31 »
I was going through some storage boxes and found my old paperbacks of The Black Company (by Glen Cook) original trilogy. I grabbed them and just finished rereading them this morning. I truly enjoyed revisiting Croaker and the inane magical duels between One Eye and Goblin!  :grin:

As I recall The Silver Spike was a good one-off, however I do remember reading the continuation series (The Books of the South) and as I recall I began losing interest, although I can no longer remember specific reasons why. In any case the original trilogy works well and ends satisfactorily, I think, without a requirement for a continuation.
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« Reply #1285 on: 29 July 2023, 07:02:58 »
The series did wander off, but wasn't bad.  Not as good as the original trilogy as you said, but not bad.

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« Reply #1286 on: 21 August 2023, 21:29:48 »
Dune:  House Corrino

I'm not a fan of Dune, but, I'll try and read this book to see if I might like it.

But, I won't get far; I'm dead tired; I went to the beach today after the hurricane.

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« Reply #1287 on: 28 August 2023, 22:41:02 »
finally dune universe the caladan trilogy is complete...will be atleast a month till i get to read it
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Re: What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian
« Reply #1288 on: 28 August 2023, 22:53:50 »
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime, and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet

it narrates the first public rape trial in American history (1793)

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« Reply #1289 on: 28 August 2023, 23:00:36 »
The Underworld: Journeys To The Depths Of The Oceans by Susan Casey.  It's a fascinating book about the history of the exploration of the deepest parts of the ocean, including the author's own experiences riding (or piloting) submersibles down to the hadal zone.
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