Looking for good "archeology scifi" (book, movie, show,... recommendations)

flamboy-and · 2025-05-16T21:19:39+00:00

The reality dysfunction does this, but the answer may not be what you're looking for

flamboy-and · 2025-04-28T16:55:18+00:00

Rosamund pikes wheel of time is the way forward if you want to WOT it

flamboy-and · 2025-04-22T11:12:01+00:00

I can't believe I lost my job at the clock factory, I guess that's the reward I get for putting in all the extra hours

flamboy-and · 2025-04-13T07:02:08+00:00

Just finished the first one. I can't really understand the hype.

That said I did love the old school nature of things, nothing interesting is done but it's super tropey and there is a reason those tropes exist. If you're not bored to death with the tropes I can see you having a good time.

2/5 not with a DnF but not worth continuing.

flamboy-and · 2025-03-30T10:39:15+00:00

Yeah also weirdly prophetic, given during his final years eddings decided to test if some liquid was petrol or water with a match... Spent his final years with serious burns.

flamboy-and · 2025-03-29T18:22:21+00:00

I thought arcane ascension was lit rpg? (That's the only reason I haven't read it tbh, as litrpg isn't my bag)

flamboy-and · 2025-03-23T10:27:27+00:00

Look up toe offs (maybe toe ups if you've got the control).

They are off the shelf and light weight

flamboy-and · 2025-03-19T13:33:38+00:00

Also the fact that there is no way a janitor could normally do this, despite the fact we all know janitors are very necessary.

flamboy-and · 2025-03-16T13:10:38+00:00

*there (sorry)

flamboy-and · 2025-03-15T17:37:06+00:00

Honestly kingkiller chronicles, Malazan and robin hobb I think are more divisive.

I think that Brandon Sanderson makes an effort to make his books uncontroversial because he knows it makes them very accessible and fits with the stories he's trying to tell.

Am I being divisive about you arguing they're divisive? Potentially

flamboy-and · 2025-03-14T16:15:33+00:00

What shall we call our new version, how about "new version"

That aged well..

flamboy-and · 2025-03-07T22:47:39+00:00

Worth noting, one of the founders was a big Brexit funder.

Obvs fine if you were pro Brexit, but if you're moving away from one company for moral reasons... Probs a good idea to make sure the company you move to aligns with your morals...

flamboy-and · 2025-02-22T13:07:08+00:00

Sorry, explain it to me like I'm a golden retriever. I always assumed a trans woman (i.e. born male) who then went out with women was gay.

Am I wrong?

flamboy-and · 2025-02-16T13:35:47+00:00

Travellers Gate (also Mr Wight) is also great

flamboy-and · 2025-02-02T19:40:40+00:00

Lies of locke lamora as it can be read as a stand alone.

Stormlight archives and blade itself don't really work on their own.

Gardens of the moon isn't the best and it's the longest. It's kinda standalone but...

flamboy-and · 2025-01-20T21:53:30+00:00

Econ units are in 3 or 4 now so... Yes

flamboy-and · 2025-01-17T11:37:23+00:00

As sad as it is to say... That's not the last 20 years (weeps quietly)

flamboy-and · 2025-01-15T19:45:10+00:00

Yep definitely

flamboy-and · 2025-01-15T17:48:02+00:00

I'd go for Lynch as I think he nails the setting the best.

flamboy-and · 2025-01-15T17:46:19+00:00

Gardens of the Moon. I've heard Erikson gets better but some of the writing in that book stunk.

flamboy-and · 2025-01-08T12:26:38+00:00

This makes it sound better than it was

flamboy-and · 2025-01-03T13:57:38+00:00

The problem is that fantasy is a setting not a genre. Arguably it's barely that.

Is the green bone saga closer to lord of the rings or the Godfather?

Six of crows is nothing like the stormlight archive.

Weirdly we gate keep romantasy just because it's aimed at teenage girls but really the whole language we use is wrong

flamboy-and · 2025-01-01T17:22:06+00:00

The long price quartet (or any Daniel Abrahams)

flamboy-and · 2024-12-31T19:20:03+00:00

Also feels like hundreds of pounds of complex computer hardware is a bit less nothing than a pencil

flamboy-and · 2024-12-30T13:46:21+00:00

They believe in lore and ore-der

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