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Offline Artobans Ghost

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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #675 on: September 07, 2020, 05:49:46 PM »
Didn’t know a sequel to Larry Niven/Jack Pournelle’ s book Inferno existed. It does.. 2007 and I just finished it. Escape from Hell was as fun to read as the first.

Also just finished The First Wall in the Siege of Terra series. Again, loving this series. Got the order mixed up. This one should have been before dan abbeys one but what the heck.
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #676 on: September 11, 2020, 02:37:30 PM »
I finally managed to find a copy of the old Machine gunners novel. It was something I had to read many moons ago, in high school. I discovered something whilst reading it. The protagonist is a 5th columnist

Chas McGill discovers a downed Dornier and doesn't tell anyone about it
He lies to a policeman about it
He and his friend steal tools in order to pinch the machine gun
He steals supplies to build a tacky bunker
He helps a German pilot escape
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #677 on: September 11, 2020, 02:40:56 PM »
I just finished the Henry IV biography by Ian Mortimer.  Really good read.  I really like Mortimer's work. 
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #678 on: February 23, 2021, 06:07:44 AM »
I finally finished "Treasure Island." It was a good pirate adventure and I can see why there have been so many adaptations of it. I guess now I have to watch "Black Sails."
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #679 on: June 17, 2021, 01:49:25 PM »
Just finished Mortis by John French. 5th book in the seige of Terra series. Love how all the history’s and rumours are getting sorted. Loving this series
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #680 on: June 25, 2021, 07:47:41 AM »
Found a 'loved' copy of Pyramids today. I read the first 30 pages whilst at the doctors

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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #681 on: July 14, 2021, 11:09:08 PM »
I am looking for an immersive and atmospheric cyberpunk story. Any recommendations? I have an idea for a cyberpunk story but other than visualizing it in my head, seeing a couple of art pieces, and playing a couple of games, I am not terribly familiar with the genre and need to do some research.
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #682 on: September 29, 2022, 02:18:44 PM »
While on my trip to NYC in late July I read Neuromancer by William Gibson which has collectively been called the "Cyberpunk Bible." After reading it, I can understand why. Everything cyberpunk that came after that novel directly pulls from this novel. Whether its the Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, Johnny Mnemonic or the Dues Ex and Cyberpunk 2077 games. They all seem to borrow from it. Its pretty good, its essentially a heist story. A former hacker that was chemically forced into retirement is hired by a mysterious man to infiltrate a space casino and steal the corporation's shackled AI. The mysterious man isn't all what he seems and his crew consists of a mercenary girl with surgically implanted sunglasses, a sociopathic holographam illusionist, and a Rastafarian pilot. They do some globe trotting before going into space and visiting a few floating colonies. Some stuff are dated, like payphones going off while the protagonists walks by, but its part of the charm.

I am currently halfway through the novel Drachenfels by Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil). Its a Warhammer Fantasy book (which is rare to find these days, especially in audiobook form) about the vampire Genevieve who teamed up with the son of an Elector Count and an adventuring party that goes to kill the infamous enchanter and daemonologist, Drachenfels. The prologue unfolds like a D&D campaign or a mission from Darkest Dungeons and right at the climax it skips to 25 years later and we meet the famous playwright and actor Detlef Sierck (our other protagonist aside from Genevieve) whom is released from debtor's prison by the elector count's son to put together a play of the events that made him famous and it will be performed on location at castle Drachenfels for the emperor and many other big wigs in the empire. Those that survived the adventure come out of the woodwork to give their accounts of what happened, including Genevieve herself. Strange things start to happen and one of the actors starts to behave in a rather shady way as we try to uncover what really happened 25 years prior when the battle against the evil enchanter occurred. Its up to Genevieve and Detlef to figure it out what happened and what is happening. Its defined as a horror story and with all the gore and crazy stuff that has happened so far, it does feel that way.
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #683 on: September 29, 2022, 06:59:31 PM »
Is this the one where he put on a play including hiring goblins to play goblins in Sigmar's victory

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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #684 on: September 30, 2022, 12:27:08 AM »
Is this the one where he put on a play including hiring goblins to play goblins in Sigmar's victory
Yes! That's how he ended up in debtor's prison. He tried to put on the grandest show ever of his own work on the life of Sigmar. He wanted to have real goblins to play themselves but no one wanted to work with goblins so he had halflings and dwarfs in elaborate costumes. Unfortunately some of the extras contracted plague and everyone pulled out of the production last minute. The Elector count of Middenland forced him to take full responsibility at knife point which is why he ended up in debtors prison. His fellow inmates couldn't fathom the amount of money he owed and would repeat it all the time which really ate at him. "119,255 gold crowns, 17 shillings and 9 pence." It was pretty much a life sentence since it would be impossible to pay off at the prison. But then the Elector Count's son from Ostland paid his debt in exchange that he put on the play that made the EC's son famous, him taking down Drachenfels, and on location!
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #685 on: September 30, 2022, 04:09:28 AM »
Seems like some twists and turns to that one. :icon_eek:
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Re: What literature are you reading?
« Reply #686 on: October 12, 2022, 06:12:20 AM »
I finished Drachenfels and it was great! Some of the lore surrounding Ostland is dated but its still a fun time, no alcohol required.
Something we as painters and hobbyists should always remember:
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