Sci-Fi and Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS

[Blackhawkswincup]

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new, unfinished novel from Romero. It’s new material, not a novel using one of his movies as source material.

Loved Night , Dawn and Day but George destroyed the dead legacy with the crap he put out after Land (A meh but acceptable film)

Diary of the Dead was so bad and Survival of the Dead was one of the worst zombie films ever IMO

Anyone read this book to tell me if it continued the downward trend or does it go back to his original Dead idea's and atmosphere/storytelling?

Should just put out the original Day of the Dead script (Before it got cut down dramatically because of costs)

 

[captainpaxil]

Faith of the fallen was where I end my rereads of sword of truth. I I heard the books after the series are decent but I haven't read them.

Wheel of time was the best ending to a series. Sanderson missed a bit in the middle but man does it close well.

What are your thoughts on Malazan? It's a big investment for the set but I keep hearing good things

 

[The Rage Kage]

Have any of you been reading the preview chapters for Rhythm of War?

Spoilers for the most recent chapters.

Spoiler

I think Kal and the windrunners are going break off from the Knights Radiant at somepoint, no one is going to agree with them honourably fighting and even sparing some of the singers/fused

 

[Flyotes]

I'm still working on the 3rd book (like 325 pages in). My wife has read the preview chapters to Rythm.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Terry Goodkind is unadulterated trash and anyone who disagrees is wrong.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Faith of the fallen was where I end my rereads of sword of truth. I I heard the books after the series are decent but I haven't read them.

Wheel of time was the best ending to a series. Sanderson missed a bit in the middle but man does it close well.

What are your thoughts on Malazan? It's a big investment for the set but I keep hearing good things

Wheel of Time was an unmitigated disaster - he "rescued" it insofar as it was possible for that mess to be rescued. The end was basically him upending the giant trash can that contained all the various plot threads and characters and sorting them out one by one. It's a miracle that he did as well as he did.

Malazan is excellent, but it's pretty easily the most challenging series out there in fantasy - there is no hand-holding whatsoever. I read the first 10 and felt like it was very well worth it, but I think that's mostly because I was able to relax and "absorb" it, taking what pleasure from it that I could without worrying when there were parts that I just couldn't understand in the context of the whole. There weren't as many of those moments as I thought there would be, but when they came up I just kept going and hoped to knit it together later.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

Wheel of Time was an unmitigated disaster - he "rescued" it insofar as it was possible for that mess to be rescued. The end was basically him upending the giant trash can that contained all the various plot threads and characters and sorting them out one by one. It's a miracle that he did as well as he did.

Malazan is excellent, but it's pretty easily the most challenging series out there in fantasy - there is no hand-holding whatsoever. I read the first 10 and felt like it was very well worth it, but I think that's mostly because I was able to relax and "absorb" it, taking what pleasure from it that I could without worrying when there were parts that I just couldn't understand in the context of the whole. There weren't as many of those moments as I thought there would be, but when they came up I just kept going and hoped to knit it together later.

I'm reading WoT for the first time and am just about to start book 6. I liked 1-3 more than 4 and 5 so far...but I'm kind of wondering at this point how there are 8 books left.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm reading WoT for the first time and am just about to start book 6. I liked 1-3 more than 4 and 5 so far...but I'm kind of wondering at this point how there are 8 books left.

Yeah, it's ... I don't know. What I would say is just ignore what I said and make up your own mind - there are plenty of people who love it unreservedly, and I'd be happy if you were one of those.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

Yeah, it's ... I don't know. What I would say is just ignore what I said and make up your own mind - there are plenty of people who love it unreservedly, and I'd be happy if you were one of those.

Yeah, I've seen this take and a few other complaints as well - there certainly has been a lot of hair braid pulling, smoothing of skirts, men vs. women, etc... - but I can ignore or look past most of that stuff. I'm just curious what's going to happen to some of the characters and if the books will run into the same issue that the later books of ASOIAF did where the story gets too spread out with too many things going on at once.

 

[ajgoal]

Wheel of Time was an unmitigated disaster - he "rescued" it insofar as it was possible for that mess to be rescued. The end was basically him upending the giant trash can that contained all the various plot threads and characters and sorting them out one by one. It's a miracle that he did as well as he did.

Malazan is excellent, but it's pretty easily the most challenging series out there in fantasy - there is no hand-holding whatsoever. I read the first 10 and felt like it was very well worth it, but I think that's mostly because I was able to relax and "absorb" it, taking what pleasure from it that I could without worrying when there were parts that I just couldn't understand in the context of the whole. There weren't as many of those moments as I thought there would be, but when they came up I just kept going and hoped to knit it together later.

I like how Malazan didn't give you any "ok, this is how the magic works, this is who these people are." and just pushed right ahead with telling the story.

 

[ajgoal]

Yeah, I've seen this take and a few other complaints as well - there certainly has been a lot of hair braid pulling, smoothing of skirts, men vs. women, etc... - but I can ignore or look past most of that stuff. I'm just curious what's going to happen to some of the characters and if the books will run into the same issue that the later books of ASOIAF did where the story gets too spread out with too many things going on at once.

I'm a few books ahead, and it does. People disappear for looooong stretches and you begin to wonder if they've bought the farm.

 

[Chinatown88]

Got lucky and won a copy of The Wolf's Call (paperback) and a copy of The Black Song (hardcover) by Anthony Ryan.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

WE HAVE WORMSIGN

 

[Here4ThaLids]

WE HAVE WORMSIGN

I only heard two BAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWMMMMMs in this trailer. Perhaps Hollywood is learning.

Will indeed see DUNC but suspect the casting will let me down more than the mainstreaming.

 

[Rebels57]

WE HAVE WORMSIGN

Looks f***ing awesome

 

[Lord Defect]

I watched #Alive, on Netflix, a South Korean zombie flick. It was pretty good for what it was.

 

[Flybynite]

RoboCop Prequel Series in Development (and It Won't Feature Robocop) - IGN

A RoboCop prequel TV series that will detail the rise of Omni Consumer Products and the company’s Vice President, Dick Jones, is in early stages of development.Talking to Movieholen.net, Ed Neumeier, scriptwriter of the original 1987 movie, revealed that he is working at MGM on the series. “It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop,” he said.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

RoboCop Prequel Series in Development (and It Won't Feature Robocop) - IGN

A RoboCop prequel TV series that will detail the rise of Omni Consumer Products and the company’s Vice President, Dick Jones, is in early stages of development.Talking to Movieholen.net, Ed Neumeier, scriptwriter of the original 1987 movie, revealed that he is working at MGM on the series. “It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop,” he said.

I don't remember it that well, so correct me if I'm wrong, but "all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop" = "no cool stuff"

Sounds dead boring.

 

[Lord Defect]

RoboCop Prequel Series in Development (and It Won't Feature Robocop) - IGN

A RoboCop prequel TV series that will detail the rise of Omni Consumer Products and the company’s Vice President, Dick Jones, is in early stages of development.Talking to Movieholen.net, Ed Neumeier, scriptwriter of the original 1987 movie, revealed that he is working at MGM on the series. “It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop,” he said.

So it’s just a cop show based in Detroit. Pass

 

[ajgoal]

Yeah, I've seen this take and a few other complaints as well - there certainly has been a lot of hair braid pulling, smoothing of skirts, men vs. women, etc... - but I can ignore or look past most of that stuff. I'm just curious what's going to happen to some of the characters and if the books will run into the same issue that the later books of ASOIAF did where the story gets too spread out with too many things going on at once.

Yes. Yes it does. And I'm really not sure how time is passing at any given point anymore.

 

[Chinatown88]

Free stuff. Maybe one of us bookworms get lucky.

 

[ajgoal]

Free stuff. Maybe one of us bookworms get lucky.

Do I have to read the whole series when I win? My backlog isn't getting any shorter.

 

[Chinatown88]

Terry Goodkind passed away.

 

[Lord Defect]

Terry Goodkind passed away.

That sucks

 

[Lord Defect]

Free stuff. Maybe one of us bookworms get lucky.

Thanks. I haven’t read any of the series but free is in my price range.
FYI, that one thing is a dice tray and not a pillow, like I originally thought.