mccFeb 5
SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
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"A Theseus Imperium novel"
Show threadmccFeb 5
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"
Show threadGlyph
@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
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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.