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Fighelm said:
Finally finished this, taken months. Almost like you need an astrophysics PhD (like the author) to read it!

Thoroughly good book- hard sci-fi genre though - space-opera. You could say it's has themes strongly reminiscent of RT /40K (and/or the 80's Traveller rpg) with assassins, interplanetary travel/'space hulk'-like vessels + with captains, gunnery officer and navigator wired in, 'doomsday' tech, pathogens, ancient xenos +archeology, civil war, etc. Totally unrelated but themes will strike several cords with those versed in RT.

The story has 3 threads unrelated that eventual bind together. Recommend 9/10. :)
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I will absolutely look that up. Sounds fantastic!
 
Brother Meredith said:
Have you read this? https://www.tcj.com/reviews/all-of-the-marvels/
(The book, maybe not the review…🧐)
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No actually, I have not. What's the book about? I tried to skim that review but it did nothing to hint at what the book actually contains.

EDIT: Ah, I see... it's like a curated history of the MU continuity. Cool!

I do have a ton of comics history books, mostly by Twomorrows Publishing and focusing on individual artists.

I'm on a pilgrimage of sorts, reading (nearly) all of Marvel Comics' superhero titles from 1961-1985. About four years into the journey and I've slowed down a bit... I'm currently still reading 1973's mags.
 
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Yeah, the author read all of the Marvel comics published up to 2017!!
I used to be a major devourer of comics (mainly Marvel), but have almost weened myself off that habit now. Still have stacks of longboxes and piles not boxed… 🫣
 
Brother Meredith said:
Yeah, the author read all of the Marvel comics published up to 2017!!
I used to be a major devourer of comics (mainly Marvel), but have almost weened myself off that habit now. Still have stacks of longboxes and piles not boxed… 🫣
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Good on you! My biggest regret is selling all my longboxes off (same time I almost all my minis).

Honestly, I stopped reading new comics in the mid 90s. I still adore the Bronze Age books though... I Oldhammer my comics as well :)
 
Just finished Elizabeth George's Payment in Blood . . .

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and started John Scalzi's Starter Villain.

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Payment in Blood was pretty a pretty standard mystery novel with a little bit of political intrigue throw in for spice. It's set in various parts of the UK I actually managed to visit in the last two trips: some Scotland, some East Anglian fen country, and a little London. Kind of fun to read about the fields of beats and say "Oh, I remember that!" It also involved a lot of theatre people, though they were much more the Hollywood archetype of rude, self centered and oversexed theatre people, and less the theatre people I've actually worked with. (Who are by and in large pretty normal.) Still, I spent a lot of my life backstage, so that wasn't unpleasant.

I only just started the Scalzi, so no reviews yet, but he's usually fun, and it looks promising so far. The cover blurb is that a broke substitute teacher's rich uncle dies and he inherits the evil overlord empire and has to fight off some serious evil overlord enemies.
 
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