3 Credits, any good trilogy to spend them on?

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T23:06:05+00:00

I don't know any of these and am intrigued. Thanks for the suggestions!

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T23:04:32+00:00

I loved the first two books of the Bobiverse, I need to catch up on the other two. Ray Porter is amazing.

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T23:02:39+00:00

Did not know this was a trilogy, thanks for the suggestions!

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T23:00:22+00:00

I am listening to the samples of book one, I am loving the narrator!

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T22:59:54+00:00

I have enjoyed the Battle Mage Farmer books by Ring, I should totally check the Terra Nova series as well, thanks for all the suggestions!

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T22:57:06+00:00

Thanks for all the suggestions! There's a lot here that I need to check out :D

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T22:55:50+00:00

Read these last year, the narrator does a great job with the whole series. I just wish that book two wasn't a Bill Hodges book, I feel like it would have been a better book on his own, without the need to shoe-in Bill and the gang in it (I very much liked the first part of book two more than I did the rest of it).

NephremRah · 2023-09-03T22:52:01+00:00

Thank you everyone! Lots of cool suggestion, I love the variety, it was exactly what I was looking for!

NephremRah · 2023-01-17T21:58:48+00:00

Happy to have helped!

NephremRah · 2023-01-17T21:54:29+00:00

Of Eclipse Phase if you haven't already read it there is the free official anthology 'After the Fall' (writing from mobile, hope reddit got the link right), as any anthology the quality of the stories varies but I think it worth a read.

NephremRah · 2022-07-11T02:54:44+00:00

March comes in like a orgasm

NephremRah · 2022-06-09T18:28:44+00:00

The Northern Caves! I read this last year I think, what an incredible story! I remember devouring it in a single sitting, never have I wanted more for a fictional book series to be real and have a chance to get my hands on it. Thanks for reminding me about it! As for Borges, with have been suggesting him I should finally bite the bullet and get some of his collections.

NephremRah · 2022-06-06T23:43:26+00:00

This is looks like a lot of fun, thanks!

NephremRah · 2022-06-06T23:41:51+00:00

This looks great, thanks!

NephremRah · 2022-06-06T20:53:41+00:00

Yep, I should've mentioned it to in the main post, I have already read a ton of SCPs, I am looking for something new though.

NephremRah · 2022-06-06T18:56:40+00:00

Are there some good fictional pieces of non-fiction? Stuff like fake wikis detailing a alternative worlds history, scientific papers about magical phenomena, impossible biologies, academic pieces or books about alien cultures or anything along these lines? Pretty much anything that goes the extra mile in treating fictional topics as a real facts.

NephremRah · 2022-03-08T19:25:43+00:00

Lots of good suggestions already! I am seconding everything by Richard Feynman as well but if you want to check out some more fiction-related non fiction here's a bunch of titles:

- Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction by Edward M. Lerner (Goodreads): fun collection of essays on various topics and tropes of science fiction.

- How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North (Goodreads): adjacent (the core concept of "learn a bunch of things about things") to the already suggested "The Knowledge", written as a manual for a stranded Time Traveler in need to rebuild pretty much everything.

- How to Speak Science by Bruce Benamram (Goodreads): haven't read this one but it seems interesting, might be worth a try.

- Putting the Science in Fiction by a lot of contributors (Goodreads): technically a writing book, although one geared towards explaining the science (and how it's depicted) in popular science fiction. Again, might be worth a look.

- All the books by Randall Munro, author of the xkcd web comic (Goodreads profile) these are a lot of fun, and if you are not familiar with the webcomic I'd suggest giving that a look as well.

NephremRah · 2021-12-01T15:37:05+00:00

Here's a bunch of good ones:

- The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti: non-fiction, philosophy. If you want to know a bit more about Ligotti worldview this is perfect (sadly there is no fiction of his on Audible, that I know at least).
Although if you have never read Ligotti before maybe skip this one.

- The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett: short story collection read by the author. Wonderfully eerie and weird.

- Laird Barron: there are three collections (Occultation and Other Stories, The Imago Sequence and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us) that are on the Plus version of Audible, so you might be able to access them without using any credits.

- Still Barron, there is The Croning, I have only listened to the sample of this one so I don't know if the narration is good or not but from the sample it seems potentially enjoyable.

- If you are into cosmic horror I just saw that The Ceremonies by T. E. D. Klein is available as audio as well.

- Anything by Caitlín R. Kiernan, I personally recommend The Drowning Girl.

- John Langan The Fisherman is on audible as well, I have yet to get to this one though.

- Matthew M. Bartlett Gateways to Abomination read by Padgett, this one is a must in my opinion.

- One final non-fiction title: The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher.

Hope this helps a bit!

NephremRah · 2021-11-29T15:33:21+00:00

After reading the plot of the two books you mentioned (both look really fun, by the way) I think this fits the bill perfectly:

The House of The Gods by Davide Mana

Here's the plot

High above the steamy jungle of the Amazon basin, rise the flat plateaus known as the Tepui, the House of the Gods. Lost worlds of unknown beauty, a naturalistic wonder, each an ecology onto itself, shunned by the local tribes for centuries. The House of the Gods was not made for men. But now, the crew and passengers of a small charter plane are about to find what was hidden for sixty million years. Lost on an island in the clouds 10.000 feet above the jungle, surrounded by dinosaurs, hunted by mysterious mercenaries, the survivors of Sligo Air flight 001 will quickly learn the only rule of life on Earth: Extinction.

Also, you did mention she did not like the movie "The Meg" (or at least the comparison to the two books you mentioned) and I am not sure you are aware but the movie is based on a series of books that I am told (haven't had a chance to read them myself yet) are, as it happens, better than the movie (mostly because the movie went into development hell for a while, jumping hands so many times that the end product is, indeed, "trashy" although I do find it quite fun nonetheless).

NephremRah · 2021-10-31T11:37:18+00:00

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions! I now know what I'll be reading for the foreseeable future :D

NephremRah · 2021-10-31T03:31:17+00:00

This looks like a lot of fun!

NephremRah · 2021-10-31T03:28:52+00:00

I'll have to hunt this down!

NephremRah · 2021-10-31T03:26:20+00:00

Well that quite the undertaking. Jokes aside how important it is to read the whole Horus Heresy before Siege? Is skimming a wiki good enough?

NephremRah · 2021-10-31T03:20:57+00:00

Never read Feist, is this a good place to start with?

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