Nove i pročitane knjige (u 2017.)

[Gaff]

Ne kontam zašto kolutaš očima, pa Resnick je dobio pet Huga!? John Shirley je jedan od glavnih sajberpankovaca. Kenjonova svakako ne zaslužuje  . Zettelova ima prvenac koji je nominovan za PKD nagradu, a dobila za isti Lokus. Paul Park nominovan za Nebulu. Greenwood je stvorio Forgotten Realms (nije da se nešto palim na D&D, ali opet...). A ni ostali nisu za bacanje.

[Perin]

Mislio sam pre svega na prva dva imena....Kevina Andersona i Alan Dean Fostera. Sa ovim autorima sam upoznat, i oni nisu nešto. Ove druge autore nisam čitao. (Andersona i Fostera sam čitao u SW knjigama i nisu oni nešto - ni stilom, ni rečenicama, ni razradom).

[Gaff]

Mislio sam pre svega na prva dva imena....Kevina Andersona i Alan Dean Fostera. Sa ovim autorima sam upoznat, i oni nisu nešto. Ove druge autore nisam čitao. (Andersona i Fostera sam čitao u SW knjigama i nisu oni nešto - ni stilom, ni rečenicama, ni razradom).

Naravno, u ovome se slažemo. Zato njih i nisam pomenuo. No kada vidim Širlijevo ime na naslovnici D&D antologije, to mi privuče pažnju.

[Perin]

Pa dobro, kažem, nisam čitao ništa od pomenutih  autora sem početnog dvojca My mistake!  


P.S.

Sad pogledah u svoju kolekciju SW knjiga, čak dve su od Alan Din Fostera na polici:

Splinter of a minds eye i Approaching storm. 

[Nightflier]

Da, autori su baš...strava.  

Da, jesu strava.

[Mo]

Treći tom 1Q84, Haruki Murakamija, izlazi u oktobru! Rejoice! 

eto , tek sam sada videla ovaj post

Upravo sada, na pola citanja druge knjige okrenuh na blurb i procitah poslednju recenicu Nastavice se u trecem delu...... sa sve sest tackica. Mislim se WTF  . Ja znam da sam nepazljiv konzument ali kada kupis dve knjige u jednom omotacu sa sve naznakom ispod cene, kupuje se u kompletu, pomislis da je to jedan, sasvim zavrsen roman 

[Lord Kufer]

Čitam ga upravo i ubijam se od dosade. To je toliko razvodnjeno i na kašičicu, čista podvala.

[Perin]

Eh, pa sad....

Koliko sam ja upoznat, sam Murakami je polagao nade uovaj roman, relativno ga proglašivši svojim najambiocioznijim romanom. Onako, na preskok, vidim da je roman pisan u trećem licu, to mi baš i ne godi, ali dobro.

Ja nisam pročitao, čekam treći tom, a ova dva mi stoje na polici,  čim su izašla, kupio sam. Novog Erlend Lua dobijam za desetak dana, biće prikaz na blogu. A od Murakamija je najbolje delo "Kafka na žalu", u Srbiji to još nisu izbacili, ali jesu u Hrvatskoj. Prelep i obiman roman, Murakami at his best.

[Mo]

Murakami voli polako i natenane, pun digresija i asocijacija raznih što i volim kod njega, ali ono sto mi nikako ne leži u ovom romanu jeste besumucno ponavljanje. Činjenice koje protagonista shvati u drugom trecem poglavlju izvesno je da će se ponoviti dva tri čak i četiri puta par poglavlja kasnije. To možda daje na nekoj konstrukciji koju ja ne mogu da shvatim ali me svakako nervira i taj deo teksta prelećem misleći, opet on o tome... i da naravno, fali mi kraj 

[Nightflier]

Laguna je objavila "Dveri kuće mrtvih" Stivena Eriksona, drugi nastavak Malazana.

[Perin]

Izašla "nova" zbirka pesama od Bukovskog. Zove se "Za Džejn."

Cena sitnica:

740 dinara u knjižarama,  s popustom kod L.O.M-a 490 dinara. L.O.M. je izdavač, inače.

[Lord Kufer]

Murakami "tvrdi" u 1Q94 da je uređivanje i lektorisanje teksta - nemoralno!
Izem ti takvu moralnu dilemu...

[Nightflier]

Čarobna knjiga je najavila romane iz serijala True Blood, autorke Šarlin Haris.

[Perin]

http://www.knjizara.com/knjige/knjiga/94984_Smrtonosne+ma%C5%A1ine_ISBN:86-331-1069-5

Sećam se da sam ovo pročitao pre skoro desetak godina i svidelo mi se tada. Ima li kakvih planove, nekih drugih izdavača da preuzmu ovo? Čini mi se da ima i drugi deo, ali nema 3 i 4....

[Dobrotvor]

NBS kaže da je izdata i treća knjiga... A ima i tri prikvela.

Izgleda da će Piter Džekson da snimi film, pa možda neko i nastavi, ili još bolje, krene od početka.

[Nightflier]

Knjiga kojoj sam se najviše radovao poslednjih meseci - pored dve Martinove - konačno je objavljena i na mom tabletu. Reč je o romanu

Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda—and he begins to move.

The family hides the child—whom they name Stony—rather than turn him over to authorities that would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a secret—until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run and he learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.

[PTY]

I? kako ti se dopada?   ja tek danas ima da prevalim polovinu, i sumanuto mi se dopada, zaista.

[Nightflier]

Još nisam krenuo da čitam, pošto sam počeo Spectyr by Philippa Ballantine, koje sam se dokopao nešto ranije. Verovatno ću je dovršiti do kraja nedelje, pa da napišem prikaz i nje i "Đavolje azbuke". Doduše, "Đavolju azbuku" nekako doživljavam kao produžetak "Pandemonijuma", pošto se jedan roman bavih duhom a drugi telom, tako da je moj utisao obojen izvanrednim "Pandemonijumom". Videćemo za RSM.

[Anomander Rejk]

N. jel valja taj Aberkrombi i Oštrica ? Vidim da je Laguna izdala. Da ne počinjem čitati još jedan serijal, ako je neki suvi prosek žanra. Otprilike znaš moj ukus ( Martin, Erikson, Wilijams, Džulija Džouns... ) . Jeli bar približno tog nivoa ?

[Perin]

Jeste, okej je Aberkombi. Ako ti se sviđaju Martin i Erikson, svideće ti se ovo. I uzmi već jedom pomenutu Robin Hob.

[Gaff]

Ellen Datlow (Ed.) - Naked City - Tales of Urban Fantasy

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher’s ”Curses” Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ “Fairy Gifts,” a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr’s “Guns for the Dead,” the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black’s “Noble Rot,” a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is not to be missed!

[Gaff]

Robert Charles Wilson - Vortex

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals.” In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.

[PTY]

hm... cenjeni Vilson je sa Axisom silno izvaćario nas koji smo pali na Spin, pa će zato ovaj roman startovati sa dna "za čitanje" liste... 

[Gaff]

Ali... ali... Liebe?! Pa zar ne vidiš hvalospeve Vortex-a na Amazonu?????!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Vortex-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/0765323427

Review

“ I'm not a big science fiction fan, but I'll read anything with a story and a low geek factor. Wilson is a hell of a storyteller, and the geek factor in his books is zero. Like Battlestar Galactica on TV, this is SF that doesn't know it's SF…. There's plenty of imagination here, as well as character and heart.” —Stephen King on Spin

“ An astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable, and apocalyptic fable in prose that sings the music of the spheres.” —Publishers Weekly , starred review on Spin

“ Spin is many things: psychological novel, technological thriller, apocalyptic picaresque, cosmological meditation. But it is, foremost, the first major SF novel of 2005, another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs.” —Locus

“ Of all SF writers currently alive, Robert Charles Wilson may be the best at balancing cosmic drama with human drama.” —Locus

[PTY]

mda... vidim ja da i ova knjige jaše na uspehu klipsalog prvenca u trilogiji...  čekaću ipak da neko od vas spiska posveti svoje dragoceno vreme ovoj knjizi... pa me izvesti o rezultatu... 

[Gaff]

E tu ćeš se načekati 

[PTY]

pa... nadam se da je tako, pošto je svet zaista prepun dobrih knjiga, pa ne bi trebalo gubiti vreme na one osrednje...

inače, ovo me trenutno zanima: Robopocalypse

 

[Gaff]

Dan Simmons - Flashback

 
             

America, 2036: a wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback - a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive drug that allows its users to re-visit their happier, past experiences.

Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive a proposition. Flashback dependency has taken his badge, his reputation, and the love of his son. All he has left are the flash-induced memories of his beloved wife, Dara, taken from him in a tragic car accident.

Now powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs Bottom's services, and, in particular, his memories.

As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura's son - an unsolved and seemingly impossible mystery - Bottom's flashbacks now, six years later, hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career.

But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to Dara's death, it is not only Hiroshi Nakamura who wants answers.

[Gaff]

George R. R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .

[дејан]

скинух .епуб верзију...сад још да стигнем кући да почнем да читам 

[дејан]

хеј, нф, знаш ли кад ће српска верзија?

[Gaff]

Charles Stross - Rule 34

Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh is head of the Rule 34 Squad, monitoring the Internet to determine whether people are engaging in harmless fantasies or illegal activities. Three ex-con spammers have been murdered, and Liz must uncover the link between them before these homicides go viral.

The title is a reference to Rule 34 of the Internet, a meme which states that "If it exists, there is porn of it."

[Nightflier]

хеј, нф, знаш ли кад ће српска верзија?

Mart naredne godine. Takav je za sada plan.

[дејан]

у јбт...па то је баш касно

[Roda]

Algoritam iz Hrvatske deli DWD na 2 dela da bi citaoci  imali bar jedan deo knjige sto pre u rukama. Prvi deo izlazi samo 2 nedelje nakon izlaska knjige u svetu - 26. jula. Drugi deo bice u prodaji sredinom septembra.
Za razliku od njih, kod nas treba da prodje skoro cela godina.     

[Gaff]

P. C. Cast, MaryJanice Davidson, Susan Grant, Gena Showalter - Mysteria Nights

Dobro, jeste da je od pre deset dana, jeste da je reizdanje (kombinacija) dve već prethodno izdate antologije, ali...

Four New York Times bestselling authors. One supernaturally seductive town where "Desperate Housewives meets Charmed" (Fresh Fiction).

Welcome to Mysteria, Colorado, home to a vegan vampire, a neighborly werewolf, a pair of sisterly witches, a demon nanny, and more. Passions run high in this hot two-in-one omnibus edition of Mysteria and Mysteria Lane. 

[Anomander Rejk]

Algoritam iz Hrvatske deli DWD na 2 dela da bi citaoci  imali bar jedan deo knjige sto pre u rukama. Prvi deo izlazi samo 2 nedelje nakon izlaska knjige u svetu - 26. jula. Drugi deo bice u prodaji sredinom septembra.
Za razliku od njih, kod nas treba da prodje skoro cela godina.     

Tačno se razmišljam da nabavim nekako knjige iz Hrvatske. Ne čeka mi se još 7 meseci... mada, taj Algoritam je obično papreno skup, pa videćemo...

[Roda]

Vec sam preko Vulkana narucio knjigu, mada moze i preko superknjizare u Zagrebu, tako da je to jedna od opcija da se ne ceka toliko dugo. Jesu skupe ali su zato i kvalitetno uradjene, tvrdi povez sa mapama u boji na unutrasnjosti  naslovne strane. 
 

[Anomander Rejk]

Na strani Algoritma piše cena, 150 kuna, koliko je to evra, dinara ?

[Roda]

150 kuna računaju kao 20,83 EUR, u Vulkanu sam plaćao GRRM knjige iz ciklusa ASOIF oko 2200 - 2400 din.

[Nightflier]

Ne smem ni da zamislim na šta će da liči ta knjiga koja će biti prevedena tokom jula, izlekturisana, štampana i objavljena. Jedino da su dobili tekst znatno ranije - a nisu, pošto su čak i advance readeri, među njima i jorz truli, dobili knjigu tek nekoliko dana pre zvaničnog objavljivanja.

[Roda]

Kazu da su sa prevodom prvog dela koji su dobili  krenuli 15. maja, a kada je krajem juna dosao rukopis drugog dela prvi deo je sa prevodom bio pri kraju.
Ne treba biti skeptik uvek i uporedjivati ozbiljnost na jednoj i drugoj strani.
Cinjenica koji ne treba prenebregavati i omalovazavati je da ce njihovi citaoci imati u rukama bar jedan deo aktuelne knjige mnogo pre nas.   

[Nightflier]

Ne omalovažavam hrvatsko izdavašto - čak sam do skora (i razgovora sa nekim njihovim piscima) imao izuzetno mišljenje o njemu, ali imam zamerke na njihove prevode. Sem toga, videćemo koliko će Nikoli biti potrebno vremena da završi prevod. Možda nas Laguna i iznenadi, mada se ne nadam.

[Gaff]

E i ovo je od pre deset dana, al' eto, možda nekog interesuje.

Gardner Dozois (Ed.) - The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

[Gaff]

John Shirley - BioShock: Rapture

It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing . . . and many are desperate to take there freedom back.

Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science--where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture---the shining city below the sea.

But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be . . .and how it all ended.

[džin tonik]

Izašla "nova" zbirka pesama od Bukovskog. Zove se "Za Džejn."

Cena sitnica:

740 dinara u knjižarama,  s popustom kod L.O.M-a 490 dinara. L.O.M. je izdavač, inače.

164 stranice, tvrdi uvez... bah. pogledaj sta je antologija bukovih pjesama:
http://www.zweitausendeins.de/charles-bukowski-439-gedichte.html
990 stranica, 439 pjesama, sad je 11 eura, prvo izdanje bilo 6. preveo bukov stari prijatelj carl.

od loma vrijedi putovanje nakraj noci 1-2, steta samo sto je fototipsko izdanje.

[Gaff]

Harry Turtledove - The War That Came Early: The Big Switch

In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938? Enraged, Hitler reacts by lashing out at the West, promising his soldiers that they will reach Paris by the new year. They don’t. Three years later, his genocidal apparatus not fully in place, Hitler has barely survived a coup, while Jews cling to survival. But England and France wonder whether the war is still worthwhile.

Weaving together a cast of characters that ranges from a brawling American fighter in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain to a woman who has seen Hitler’s evil face-to-face, Harry Turtledove takes us into a world shaping up very differently in 1941. The Germans and their Polish allies have slammed into the gut of the Soviet Union in the west, while Japan pummels away in the east. In trench warfare in France, French and Czech fighters are outmanned but not outfought by their Nazi enemy. Then the stalemate is shattered. In England, Winston Churchill dies in an apparent accident, and the gray men who walk behind his funeral cortege wonder who their real enemy is. The USSR, fighting for its life, makes peace with Japan—and Japan’s war with America is about to begin.

A sweeping saga of human passions, foolishness, and courage, of families and lovers and soldiers by choice and by chance, The Big Switch is a provocative, gripping, and utterly convincing work of alternate history at its best. For history buffs and fans of big, blood-and-guts fiction, Harry Turtledove delivers a panoramic clash of ideals as powerful as armies themselves.

[Nightflier]

Ghost Story (Dresden Files, No. 13) by Jim Butcher

The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.

When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.

But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.

To save his friends-and his own soul-Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...

Upravo je čitam. Slabija je od prethodne, ali tek sam na polovovini....

[Nightflier]

U Laguni, pored Aberkrombijeve "Oštrice" (The Blade Itself) objavljen je i roman Pitera Breta, "Noć demona" (The Warded Man).

[Nightflier]

Juče je objavljen

Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire) by Mark Lawrence

A stunning fantasy debut from a major new talent!

When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king...

It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on, to take what's rightfully his. Since the day he was hung on the thorns of a briar patch and forced to watch Count Renar's men slaughter his mother and young brother, Jorg has been driven to vent his rage. Life and death are no more than a game to him-and he has nothing left to lose.

But treachery awaits him in his father's castle. Treachery and dark magic. No matter how fierce, can the will of one young man conquer enemies with power beyond his imagining?

Uz Unremembered, autora Pitera Urelijana, ovo bi trebalo da je fantazijski debi godine. Knjiga je hvaljena do nebesa. Međutim, ja sam skeptičan - pošto je isti glas pratio i Unremembered, pa nisam mogao ni da počnem da ga čitam koliko je loše napisan.

Danas kupujem knjigu, pa ćemo videti...