mccFeb 5
SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
Show threadmccFeb 5
"A Theseus Imperium novel"
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You find the most insightful, compelling enlightenment fantasy novel you've ever read and you can't recommend it to anyone because it's named something like "The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delerium Chronicles"
Feb 5 at 1:39amTusky
Show threadAdrianoFeb 5
@mcc “book three of seven”
Show threadGlyphFeb 5
@mcc my biggest problem is that I find stuff with titles like "The Mage Who Wandered" or "A Storm of Galaxies" and the title is so unfortunately generic that there's like 9 other books with the same title on Amazon and half of them are _extremely_ explicit
Show threadAmi AngelwingsFeb 5
@glyph @mcc yeah they're all harems
Show threadmccFeb 5
@ami_angelwings @glyph Can't tell yet if "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a harem novel but it's pretty good
Show threadGlyphFeb 5
@mcc @ami_angelwings okay how many of these are real
Show threadmccFeb 5
@glyph @ami_angelwings "Gunmetal Olympics: The Hades Calculus" is a real book about a bunch of *extremely* queer women and the book I just checked out from the library actually did claim on the first page to be by "the bestselling author of the Licanius trilogy". As far as I know the others are fake.
Show threadNeville ParkFeb 5
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph confirmed, would absolutely not pick it up based on title
Show threadmccFeb 5
@ami_angelwings @glyph @nev for the record it is *very* gay and its teeth are filed to the finest of points
Show threadNeville ParkFeb 5
@mcc @ami_angelwings @glyph I'd have to make a classy looking dust cover for it. Not even making it look like a literary novel. Just like a slightly more highbrow spec fic novel.
Show threadWayne MyersFeb 5
@mcc Obviously I am not the intended referent of 'anyone' because I would read the hell out of something called 'The Cartesian Pogrom: Antikythera Delierium Chronicles' if you or some other person I strongly suspect has very good taste in such things were to recommend it to me.
Show threadOblomovFeb 5
@conniptions @mcc I would pick it up just based on the title and probably be very surprised by the content, it would seem
Show threadDavid SmithFeb 5
@mcc I came extremely close to skipping “Horizon: Zero Dawn” and “Dragon Age: Origins” for exactly this reason
Show threadJPFeb 5
@mcc "Book VII of the Tassederian Qualia Cycle"
Show threadBeejFeb 5

@mcc This bugs me too! If an anime has more than three Capitalized Proper Nouns in its synopsis (not counting character names), I just don’t watch it.

I figure anyone should be able to tell me the dust jacket pitch without having to impress me with the depth of their world-building.

Show threadAN/CRM-114Feb 5

@mcc I miss the simpler days of ‘Author Name’s Noun Noun’ books:

Tom Clancy’s Op Center
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City

Show threadMarcos DioneFeb 5
@mcc "Antikythera"? I'm hooked! :)
Show threadBrazMogu (i.e. Bruno Guedes)Feb 5
@mcc You mean CaPo AntiDelCron? Oh, yea, absolute banger
Show threadReinaFeb 7
@mcc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen my favorite series that isn't quite so long winded, but still was hard to remember at times
Malazan Book of the Fallen - Wikipedia