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Gotta say parts of it felt uncomfortably close to debugging software. ;)

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As you can tell from the 'Fan of', this is a weird book that takes some big swings & is destined to be a classic.
Not just because it's very compelling and obscenely well thought out, but because there's nothing else like it.
Finished it in an evening.
Will be thinking about it a lot longer.

Cover of Qntm's There Is no Antimemetics Division. A skyscraper sized rectangular column of black brick dwarfs the misty hills and forests around it as the sun sets. Cover text reads There Is No Anti Memetics Division A novel by QNTM

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Fan of:
- Working with negative space
- Debugging
- Amnesiators
- Always being your best
- Second first days
- Weaponized hard drives
Try: @qntm.org's
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm.org/antimemetics
A secret agency tracks deadly things that don't want to be remembered.

(And as Katta mentioned Pratchett, here's a bit more)
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I'll +1 the Pratchett and Kingfisher (see other post). Pratchett's early Discworld books are pretty quick reads, and they get a bit more dense as they go along. Pretty much anything by him is gonna be good.

Or T. Kingfisher:
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Or Naomi Novik:
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Lawrence Watt-Evans' stuff comes to mind:
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...aaand some thinking person's horror SF to start...
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Some 'messed with the wrong people' SF.
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Some mysterious drifter SF
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Well, we got military SF with some side effects:
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That Halloween, Crumpet was a SPIDER!

Ah. Understandable, but a real bummer.

Yeah, that's like picking a favorite child.

I gotta say, though, that the John Carter covers defined how I pictured everything in those books.

I just looked, and while they don't seem to be there, if prints of them are ever available in the shop I'll be first in line.

(Hm. There seems to be no good way to reliably point to one's profile picture.)

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Hey, you had this guy at 'Om Nom Nom.'

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The fun of TKPS is JS coming up with plausible explanations for the physics of these beasts and presenting it through the eyes of a bio-engineering in SF major.

It's quick. It's fun, & JS already knows what you're thinking and is there with an answer.

It's a must for any fan of giant monsters.

The cover of John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society. A white plastic tag on a lanyard lies on the ground. It's dirty, with blood smeared in the top right corner. The title is on the badge, with the gap in the Kaiju A being an arrow shaped tail, and the A in Scalzi being a mushroom cloud. Cover text reads: New York Times Bestseller The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi A novel "A great romp all the way through" - The Wall Street Journal

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Fan of:
- A particular Blue Öyster Cult song
- Big-ass monsters!
- Large animal vets
Try
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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A literature major gets a job working for a secret agency dedicated to the study of city destroying monsters.

Peter Clines' Threshold books feature cosmic horror. One of my favorites was:
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Can confirm. +1 for Dungeon Crawler Carl and the rest of the series. It's way better and a lot deeper than you might think.

Not gonna lie, I did zoom in to see if I could find a Red Bull logo on it :).

Though on topic, I know Starship Troopers used that idea, but can't immediately think of any other books that did.

Re: always the economy.

In my experience there are a lot of people in this country that (manufactured outrage aside) believe if it's not _their_ problem it's not _a_ problem.

So bombing someone _else's_ children is fine, until the price of gas goes up.

And that's the media pitch for engagement.

Predictably, Frank's manners blew his cover.

I think I'd read Boneshaker, around it's publication date and recall it being pretty good.

Sounds exactly like my house. Hair tie theft is the most common crime. So my wife keeps buying more, so then there are more to steal.
It's a vicious cycle.

Same here. We put straw-on-a-string to drag around and that was a hit.

I dunno why we bother with cat toys when a plastic straw, a hair tie and an approximately cat sized cardboard box to pounce out of is peak entertainment.

Me: my cat is bored.

Vet: Say no more. Have you tried...garbage?

A few thoughts:

- There doesn't seem to be a film adaptation of TFP, but book -> film adaptations aren't nearly as straightforward as you'd think.

- What _would_ happen with the salvaged parts of a haunted house that were sold?

- & a shout out to John Wiswell for the rec:
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Look, if the summary above didn't sell you on this book, I don't know what to tell you.
I'd be hitting "Buy!" as fast as I could.

CP does an excellent job of pacing out the backstory of the place with a flawless execution of the haunted house salvage concept.

This book does _not_ disappoint.

Cover of Cherie Priest's The Family Plot Cover is a photograph of a path down hedgerows with trees over them. The hedges are in shadow while the trees are lit by a recently set sun. Floating in the middle of the path is an ethereal looking woman wearing a white sleeveless dress, facing to the left of cover with her head down and long hair covering her face. Cover text reads: "Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness... Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads." -Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of Blackbirds The Family Plot Cherrie Priest

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Fan of:
- 📺 American Pickers
- MCs who know horror movies
- Antiques!
- Family businesses
Try
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The Family Plot
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It's a salvage crew VS. Haunted House.
Bringing this energy:
"Second, we quit pretending this house isn't haunted as f***"