Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Scifi/Fantasy Books Part 2 - Page 3

Timeo · 04-20-2003, 03:40 PM

Soz: Which part are you missing? If worst comes to worse, you can always go to the bookstore, pick it up off the shelf and continue reading it... [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] I've finished a number of books like that...

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Originally posted by calico:
<STRONG>I thought Hominid was boring. I had to read several other books at the same time in order to get myself through it. I generally dont enjoy Sawyer. BTW, Timeo has your name got anything to do with an old Sci Fi book called, The Time Storm about different times rolling over the world as if blown by the wind?</STRONG>

Well generally I read like 15 books at the same time. It's kind of ridiculous but it helps me get through things. I actually finished Hominids in a few days without any splicing between books, but that's because I had time to read it (I actually remember WHERE I was when I was reading the different parts of it, like going on a bus, and waking up early and going downstairs and finishing it etc. Kinda freaky...I usually never remember where I read books but I digress (I do that a lot))

Eh. About my username...umm, no. [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] My nickname is actually Timeo in real life, which means "I fear" in Latin. Our class was learning Latin in grade 8 and we were conjugating some verbs (damn annoying) and we got to this verb and Timeo just kinda stuck on me since then...

calico · 04-20-2003, 04:19 PM

conjugating - I remember. Lucky for you that you didnt get stuck with timeum or timeorum

elisheva · 04-20-2003, 08:21 PM

Now I'm pronouncing the name in my head totally differently [img]smilies/look.gif[/img]
I don't think they really teach Latin anywhere here. My mom started to teach me a little bit though; it's going to be useful next year. (Yay cegep.)

Magic · 04-21-2003, 10:31 AM

Nebula Winners Named

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the 2002 Nebula Awards at its annual Nebula banquet on April 19 in Philadelphia. Members of the SFWA vote for the Nebula Awards, which reward literary excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Members of SFWA include most professional writers working in the field. A list of winners follows.

Best Novel

�American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Best Novella

�"Bronte�s Egg" by Richard Chwedyk

Best Novelette

�"Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang

Best Short Story

�"Creature" by Carol Emshwiller

Best Script

�The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

elisheva · 04-21-2003, 10:51 AM

American Gods was a good book. Neil Gaiman is great [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
And yay for LotR! [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Soz · 04-21-2003, 02:43 PM

Darn it, darn it, darn it! If only Gaiman's American Gods had won the World Fantasy Award, it could have achieved an unprecendented sweep of all four major speculative fiction awards. Not that I'm disappointed that Le Guin won, but it would have been really cool for Gaiman to win the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Stoker awards.

Also, there were two other awards handed out at the Nebula Ceremony:
Grand Master: Ursula K. Le Guin
Author Emeritus: Katherine MacLean

For more info on what these two awards mean, the SFWA has explanations here: http://www.sfwa.org/awards/grand.htm
and here: http://www.sfwa.org/awards/author.htm

[ 04-21-2003: Message edited Soz ]

Magic · 04-22-2003, 02:25 PM

BSFA Winners Announced

The winners of the British Science Fiction Association Awards were announced April 20 at Seacon '03, the 54th U.K. National Easter Science Fiction Convention in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The awards were presented at a ceremony hosted by John Jarrold. The winners were voted on by members of the BSFA and by members of the Eastercon. A list of winners follows.

Best Novel

�The Separation by Christopher Priest

Best Short Fiction

�"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Best Artwork

�Interzone 179 cover by Dominic Harman

Best Related Publication

�Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek by Ken Macleod

Soz · 05-01-2003, 04:50 PM

I finally finished Dreamfall by Joan D. Vinge. I wish I hadn't been so tired recently, otherwise, I would have finished it a while ago. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I really liked this book, except for the end. Vinge loves to torture her heros in cruel and unusual ways and it felt wrong to end the book the way she did. I hope there is at least one more book in the series because Cat definitely still needs closure.

I think I'll read Neil Gaiman's Coraline next. I'll stick to short books for now, so my fatigue doesn't hinder my progress and make me forget the earlier parts of the book because it's taking so long to read.

yossarin · 05-02-2003, 12:16 AM

I just finished reading The Chronolith and it was really great. I was expecting something grander in the end, but it was a nice resolution. The mystery continues the whole way thru and it's very strange how the arrival plays upon the main character's life. And it's very scary how current it made the story feel... aka he used a Seinfeld reference [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Soz · 05-12-2003, 04:03 PM

Hmm, it looks like no one is reading SFF anymore. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] I just finished Coraline and I plan to pick up LOTR: FOTR again now because I saw the movie again over the weekend and I want to get more in-depth with Middle-Earth now.

Rachel · 05-12-2003, 04:59 PM

I've been on a mystery kick, actually. Haven't read sci-fi/fantasy in a while, though the library did get in the first book in the "Warriors" series that I mentioned a while ago (the one about the cats). So I'll be reading that sometime in the future.
--Rachel

Soz · 05-17-2003, 01:34 PM

Well, I did pick up LOTR again and I can't put it down! I've tried to read it several times and the first time I got mid-way through The Two Towers and never finished. Then I tried re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring last year and never finished. I guess I just tried to read it at the wrong times in the past. I hope to finish reading the books before the third movie comes out, and it actually looks like I might achieve that goal now. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

yossarin · 05-17-2003, 04:50 PM

the LOTR series was a tough read since it's not that exciting. I think it was better as a movie than it was as a book. I'd reread the Dune books and the Hyperion saga before i'd start w/ LOTR again... and even then w/ hesitation [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Soz · 05-17-2003, 06:36 PM

I'm finding LOTR quite exciting and I like the book a lot better than the movie- which is always the case with books to movies, for me. I can understand why it can be a tough read though because it's long and there isn't always a lot of action going on.

yossarin · 05-17-2003, 10:09 PM

The climax of ROTK was a total letdown b/c I thought it was going to be an epic battle, but instead it was that Gollum scene. It was a major letdown when I thought that Frodo and Sam were going to do something miraculous and do something grand. Then the whole Shire plot at the end of the book felt misplaced w/in that series since the whole goal of the series was getting to Moldor to destroy the ring, not the sidestory involving the Shire post the Hobbits' departure.

But that's just me [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Anyways, Xenocide isn't that bad, but.. gotta love the buts... the tracing the lines w/ her body to cleanse herself was pretty stupid. Any god that makes you, in essence, pat your head and rub your belly to show piousness is a dumb diety [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]