Discussion: Dystopia, Sci-Fi: Discussion & Recs • M/M Real Talk • BookLikes

#1 by: Antoinette date: 11 years ago discussions stats

This can also be post-apocalyptic without science fiction elements, but dystopia is often listed under the Science Fiction branch.

#2 by: maramara date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Can I just list some cool dystopian books??? I love this genre so much and I want MORE!!!

Great ones so far:

The Administration (even though I burned out on it...I can see it's a great series)
After Midnight (love)
Evenfall (I'm waiting for the rest of ICoS to be edited....I know if I love the series, I'll want to read how they change it...and I don't want to read thousands of pages only to want to read the new version again....)

#3 by: Little fish date: 11 years ago discussions stats

"When You Were Pixels" is a dystopian short that's turning into a series in the future (I think it's only available on Goodreads because of one of those anthologies). It's really short but I'm interested to see how it develops in the future.

#4 by: maramara date: 11 years ago discussions stats

I've read that...it has an interesting premise but the writing is REALLY melodramatic for no real reason that I could detect....I had a "what the heck???" moment when I saw people low-rating other books based on the purple prose but then the same people gushing over the purple prose in Pixels.

#5 by: Les Aventures De Léna Léna date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Reply to post #4 (show post):

That's because of the personality cult phenomenon we've been discussing on the other thread. People have different standards when they are besties with the author.

#7 by: maramara date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Yeah....I had that feeling. NGL I was scared to give a blunt review. I walked into GR at the same time as the major wank over this story was going on...

#9 by: Antoinette date: 11 years ago discussions stats

The full story on that wank was a thing worthy of the "fanficwank" Livejournal community. Every dramatic plot twist from accusations of trolls, to side-taking and secret pacts, to rumors of obsession and the angsty past of the writer in question as reason why people shouldn't critique his work.

#10 by: Les Aventures De Léna Léna date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Good times.... good times.... I'd never been called a 'heinous witch' before. It was certainly an experience.

#11 by: Antoinette date: 11 years ago discussions stats

WTF?

#13 by: Les Aventures De Léna Léna date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Reply to post #11 (show post):

I got a little more actively involved in that wank than I had planned to, let's put it that way.

Knight Errant is decent, but for the love of God, skip the sequel.

#14 by: maramara date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Yikes. >.<

What's Knight Errant about? I'm trying to add all of these books to my TBR....but I'm still in some weird GR/BL limbo and don't know where I want to be. ;_; I'm so used to the GR format and BL won't transfer my shelves. :(

#16 by: Les Aventures De Léna Léna date: 11 years ago discussions stats

You didn't read the sequel because I told you would hate it.

#20 by: Gloria's Pages date: 11 years ago discussions stats

I'm reading Bone Rider. I haven't finished yet (Nanowrimo keeps getting in the way) but from what I've read so far I'd totally recomend it. It's m/m/m with an alien armor system that wields itself to its host's bones as the third guy, so, uh, that's interesting. It's also pretty decent science fiction all on it's own.

#22 by: Nova date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Great! Bone Rider is on my to-read pile and I wasn't so sure if I should read it or not. :)

#23 by: Library Liz·ard date: 11 years ago discussions stats

I read Bone Rider last week, totally loved it.