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by GregD » Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:39 pm | |
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Are there snippets anywhere?
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by phillies » Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:43 pm | |
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Tor does not do this. |
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by GregD » Tue Dec 26, 2023 2:45 pm | |
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The Mad Wizard Weber has been known in the past to post snippets of these books. For example: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10200 |
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by Robert_A_Woodward » Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:54 am | |
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Apple's iBooks store has a sample (13 pages). Amazon's Kindle store (as of Dec 26, 2023) does not (yet). ----------------------------
Beowulf was bad. (first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper) |
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by GregD » Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:25 pm | |
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So they are pure nanotech |
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by George J. Smith » Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:54 pm | |
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The blutb on the apple site
Publisher Description In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast. We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old, very evil aliens who run the Hegemony that dominates our galaxy, and who hold the Shongairi, as they hold most non-Founder species, in not-so-benign contempt. Indeed, it may turn out to be possible to turn the Shongairi into our allies against the Hegemony. There's just the small matter of the Shongairi honor code, which makes bushido look like a child's game. We might be able to make them our friends -- if we can crush their planetary defenses in the greatest battle we, or they, have ever seen. .
T&R GJS A man should live forever, or die in the attempt Spider Robinson Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977) A voice is heard in Ramah |
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by Joat42 » Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:19 pm | |
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Please don't spoil the book and if you do, mark your post clearly that it contains spoilers. We usually keep spoilers for new books in dedicated threads marked as such. --- Jack of all trades and destructive tinkerer. Anyone who have simple solutions for complex problems is a fool. |
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by Robert_A_Woodward » Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:05 am | |
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Why would the blurb on the Apple books store (Amazon's Kindle store has the same one) be a spoiler? ----------------------------
Beowulf was bad. (first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper) |
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by Joat42 » Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:29 am | |
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Because even badly written blurbs can contain spoilers which is why some people avoid them. --- Jack of all trades and destructive tinkerer. Anyone who have simple solutions for complex problems is a fool. |
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by Tregonsee » Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:50 am | |
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Dropped on Kindle yesterday evening. Ruined a good night's sleep.
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