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News/Announcements / Re: Any news or updates from Bakker?
« Last post by Wilshire on February 04, 2023, 03:03:11 am »
Yup, no news since then.
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News/Announcements / Re: Any news or updates from Bakker?
« Last post by SmilerLoki on February 04, 2023, 02:12:24 am »
Sent!
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News/Announcements / Re: Any news or updates from Bakker?
« Last post by Nil'giccas on February 03, 2023, 09:08:40 pm »
SmilerLoki any chance you can DM me a link to the Second Apocalypse Discord channel? I've heard there is a fairly active one, but I can't seem to find a link anywhere.
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Author Q&A / Re: The Rape of Omindalea
« Last post by SmilerLoki on February 02, 2023, 10:07:01 am »
This is indeed not in the books and never was in any published versions, at least to my knowledge, so the canonicity of the event is moot.
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News/Announcements / Re: Any news or updates from Bakker?
« Last post by SmilerLoki on February 02, 2023, 10:05:17 am »
The last bit of news we got was this: https://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=3044.0
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Author Q&A / Re: The Rape of Omindalea
« Last post by Nil'giccas on February 02, 2023, 12:42:01 am »
Hold up, did this entry exist in the published books? I can't find it in any of my Kindle copies.
That seems like something that could be updated. I certainly would like to know more about this considering the implications of potential Nonman/Human mixing going on.
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News/Announcements / Re: Second Apocalypse Discord Server [Yes, we have one!]
« Last post by Nil'giccas on February 02, 2023, 12:21:17 am »
Is the Discord server still active? I'd like to join if it is.
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News/Announcements / Any news or updates from Bakker?
« Last post by Nil'giccas on February 02, 2023, 12:20:14 am »
Has there been any news or updates regarding Bakker or the series? The latest post was an update in June 2022 from his brother.
I've been revisiting the series again recently and I'm back down the rabbit hole.

Is there a way to get in contact with the man? I know he was good about responding to comments on his blog, but that hasn't seen an update in three years. I've tried the email on the blog, but no luck so far. Not that I'm owed a response, but I'd love to know if the series has anything planned to look forward to in the coming future.

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Literature / Re: Yearly Reading Targets 2023
« Last post by The P on January 11, 2023, 04:26:07 pm »
30 last year for me.  That also seems low from the halcyon days of no kids or other responsibilities, but I'm on the rise.  Does that mean I'm taking less responsibilities?  Maybe the kids are less demanding.

For sure (maybe) reading this coming year:
Reread of TGO and TUC
Last two of the new Osten Ard books
Books 3-5 of Ruocchio's Sun Eater series
KJ Parker short story collection out in spring some time
Muir's Locked Tomb series

But so far
Isolation by various authors (1)

Short story "horror" collection broadly around the theme of isolation.  This was actually pretty good all around.  The last horror anthology I read last year (Howls from the Dark Ages) was... amateurish and often not that good. All the stories here are good.  There is a lot of variation in how each author tackled the theme, whether physical isolation or social, emotional, spiritual (?), etc.  The best story came from Laird Barron (I read some collection of his a while back that was lovecraftian), who had a completely wild far future "true crime" kind of story.  The worst, easily, came from Ken Liu.  Surprising, because he's one of the few authors I'd heard of.  His was kind of a "what if the pandemic was the first of many" kind of thing.  It wasn't very creative or interesting.  It felt like he just wanted to make some commentary about the social and political climate of the past few years, while kind of making it a sci-fi story in the dullest way possible.
That one aside, I fully enjoyed the other stories in this collection.  Worth checking out even if only to read the Laird Barron submission.
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Literature / Yearly Reading Targets 2023
« Last post by Wilshire on January 02, 2023, 01:32:23 am »
2023... Go read a book or something.  ;)

16 last year, seems low and I'm not really sure what to do about it. Motivation to read has not been high but hopefully I'll find something that catches my eye.

Holdouts from last year:
Startide Rising by David Brin
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
Dune by Herbert

Someone mentioned  Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Heroes Die by Matthew Stover (1)
Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover (2)
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover (3)
Caine's Law by Matthew Stover (4)
Sleight of Shadows by Kat Howard (5)
Bloodline by Will Wight (6)
Reaper by Will Wight (7)
Dreadgod by Will Wight ( 8 )
Waybound by Will Wight (9)
Eragon (10)
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by V. S. Villoso (11)
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