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Nymeria
Posted 2014-01-18 10:50 AM (#6146 - in reply to #3662)
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I'd like to ask for "INDEXING" by Seanan McGuire.
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controuble
Posted 2014-01-18 4:09 PM (#6148 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: Rockford, IL		Could you please add the last two books of Elizabeth Moon's Paladin's Legacy series - Limits of Power and Crown of Renewal.
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Tantara
Posted 2014-01-18 4:43 PM (#6149 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: Washington state		I'd appreciate it if you could add "Babayaga" by Toby Barlow and "Lexicon" by Max Barry. Both authors are already in the database, but not these (their most recent) books. Thanks!
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Textual
Posted 2014-01-19 10:11 PM (#6174 - in reply to #3662)
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Ah! Okay. I found the request thread. Oh dear admin what I would like best of all to complete my challenge is:

Andrei Platanov

The Foundation Pit

(It would be vunderful)

Thanks so much!

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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-01-20 8:06 PM (#6182 - in reply to #6174)
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Could you please add J. B. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition. I wish to read it for the Sort Fiction Challenge.
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-20 10:25 PM (#6184 - in reply to #6182)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		New Amsterdam and The Chains That You Refuse by Elizabeth Bear. (And everything else by her that is missing as well but those are the two I need for RYO.) Thankies!
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-01-21 7:25 AM (#6190 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: UK		I was looking at New Amsterdam for Elizabeth Bear, too.
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-21 8:49 AM (#6192 - in reply to #6190)
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DrNefario - 2014-01-21 8:25 AM

I was looking at New Amsterdam for Elizabeth Bear, too.


Doesn't it sound yummy? Steampunk and non-sparkly vampires! And the cover art? Fantastic!
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-01-21 11:11 AM (#6193 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: UK		Well, more importantly, it sounded cheap. On the UK Kindle store, at least, it seems to be Bear's cheapest full-length book, along with its sequel Garrett Investigates.
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-22 1:28 PM (#6203 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		The Third Bear by Jeff Vandermeer.

Also, the database lists Finch by Vandermeer as a non-series work. It's actually book 3 of the Ambergris series, the first two books being The City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword (neither of which are in the database).
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-01-23 6:58 AM (#6213 - in reply to #3662)
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Bear's New Amsterdam series is quite good, with my favorite being the third book in the series, The White City. Garrett Investigates would probably be considered the fifth book in the series and is a collection of short stories featuring a side character from the third and forth books in the series.

Some challenge requests are as follows:

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron

Turbulence by Samit Basu

The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer (sequel to The House of the Scorpion)

The World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla

I Travel by Night by Robert R. McCammon

Vicious by V. E. Schwab

Luminous Chaos by  Jean-Christophe Valtat (sequel to Aurorarama)

 

Thanks!

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controuble
Posted 2014-01-25 2:23 PM (#6230 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: Rockford, IL		Could you please add the latest book in the Jane Yellowrock series to Faith Hunter's list - It's called Black Arts.
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controuble
Posted 2014-01-25 2:23 PM (#6231 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: Rockford, IL		Also, the latest from Barbara Hambly - The Kindred of Darkness - it's the 5th of the James Asher series.
Thank you.

Never mind - I found it. Sorry.

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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-01-26 1:10 AM (#6233 - in reply to #3662)
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Please add:

The Orphan's Tales:  In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente (sequel to The Orphan's Tales:  In the Night Garden)

Thanks!

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HRO
Posted 2014-01-27 5:09 PM (#6254 - in reply to #6233)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja
Black Opera by Mary Gentle
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
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jxilon
Posted 2014-01-28 8:43 AM (#6262 - in reply to #3662)
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Hello,

Two authors/books I was hopping to add to my reading challenge for the 2014 Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color Challenge don't seem to be available right now.

"The Lives of Tao" by Wesley Chu
"Nexus" by Ramez Naam

also, each of these books has a sequel - "The Deaths of Tao" and "Crux".
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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-01-28 9:12 AM (#6263 - in reply to #6254)
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HRO - 2014-01-27 6:09 PM

Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja
Black Opera by Mary Gentle
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker


I'm not sure I'd classify Possession as fitting any of the genres covered by WWE. Similar in structure to The French Lieutenant's Woman it is a literary detective novel with two modern day academics researching the possible affair between two Victorian poets.
It is a wonderful book, however. If you haven't read it I'd also recommend Byatt's "The Children's Book" based on the life of children's author Edith Nesbitt.
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-28 9:46 AM (#6264 - in reply to #6263)
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justifiedsinner - 2014-01-28 10:12 AM
I'm not sure I'd classify Possession as fitting any of the genres covered by WWE. Similar in structure to The French Lieutenant's Woman it is a literary detective novel with two modern day academics researching the possible affair between two Victorian poets. It is a wonderful book, however. If you haven't read it I'd also recommend Byatt's "The Children's Book" based on the life of children's author Edith Nesbitt.


This post on the Tor blog says that it could be considered fantasy because it includes folk and fairy tales.

Also, both this site and this one include Possession in a list of recommended reading for the gaslamp fantasy subgenre.

Additionally, I've seen several comparisons between Possession and Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand (which is in the database). For example, there is this quote on Hand's website: " Mortal Love contains numerous echoes of A.S. Byatt's Possession."


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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-01-28 10:51 AM (#6265 - in reply to #6264)
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Well that's their opinion but I don't see that writing about somebody who writes about fairies is the same as writing about fairies. The fantasy in the book is subsidiary to the main plot which is highly literary as are all Byatt's novels. It is more commonly described as a detective novel or in some places as a adultery novel.
The actual writing about fairies and folktales is in the form of poems as Byatt emulates the work of her two Victorian characters. These are loosely based on Christina Rossetti (The Goblin Market) and Alfred Tennyson (Idylls of the King). The main point of introducing such work is to evince Victorian sensibilities they were quite obsessed with mythology and fairytales all the while they were sending their children to work in mines and sweatshops.

I have no objection to adding the book. It is up to the administrator after all but adding it would, I think, greatly expand the guidelines of what can be added to the site. I'm surprised the blogger didn't mention Byatt's "The Children's Book" which I alluded to above. Edith Nesbitt was a Children's author who wrote about magic a subject which she knew very well as she was a member of the Golden Dawn Society with Alastair Crowley and W. B. Yeats. The book contains several instances of these tales as well as recounting an incident where one of her children escapes to the forest and tries to turn into a fox as per David Garnett's novel "Lady into Fox". If you would allow "Possession" then I think "The Children's Book" would be equally valid. Perhaps the blogger has not gotten around to it yet.

I guess when you are dealing with meta-fiction of this nature the question becomes how many meta levels you are prepared to encompass before the genre becomes too dilute.

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HRO
Posted 2014-01-28 11:38 AM (#6267 - in reply to #6265)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		You make a valid counter-argument. Of course, there are other books on the site that could be questioned (she says, pointing at the Guardian list).

In the end, it's all up to the WWEnd Powers That Be.
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Jain
Posted 2014-01-28 12:20 PM (#6268 - in reply to #3662)
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The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald
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Kata
Posted 2014-01-31 12:16 PM (#6289 - in reply to #3662)
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Hi,
I just finished reading Down These Strange Streets, which is edited by George RR Martin. Could you please add it to the Worlds Without End database and then the Short Story Challenge list?

Many thanks as always,
Kata
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-02-01 4:30 PM (#6302 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: SC, USA		Here are some from my my TBR pile that I'd love to be added when you can:

The Five Fates by Harlan Ellison, et. al
The Simultaneous Man by Ralph Blum
Somerset Dreams by Kate Wilhelm

Also, would you see if you think The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova belong in the database? They might be too mainstream. ☺
Thanks,
Rhonda
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Jain
Posted 2014-02-01 7:19 PM (#6308 - in reply to #3662)
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Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
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gallyangel
Posted 2014-02-06 4:04 AM (#6370 - in reply to #3662)
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Location: The Wilds of Washington		Herbert and Anderson's latest Dune creation, Sisterhood of Dune, has yet to find it's way into the database. And since everything else is here already...tidy...tidy.
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