Rob’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2012)

Rob’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

My guess was going to be late fall/early winter. My hope was they were going to announce "available now"

However I think the show could use a bit marketing blitz so just dropping a new season without annoucing anything might hurt the growth.

Then again they essentially need to get people to watch seasons 1-3 ahead of the new season so they watch 4 whenever it comes out.

I'm not sure how much (if at all) they are advertising the old seassons. I see stuff on social media and twitter, but I follow a bunch of expanse stuff so that's probably not a good gauge of what your typical person who would like/be interstered in the show but doesn't know about it/watch it yet.

Either way I'm excited for season 4. I really hope it does well so we get seasons 5-9 or whatever it takes for them to do all 9 books.

I'm hoping they will announce the release date this weekend.

Ruth wrote: "Trike wrote: "Correira can go straight to hell. He can burn for all goddamn eternity while he’s there.

Am I missing something here??"

Larry Correia is the guy who created the Sad Puppies and was a big part of the whole Hugo slate drama a few years ago.

Is the sci-fi story about a world where Digg still exists? I thought digg had shut down years ago..

They do have 1 decent book deal. If you buy a physical book of $15 or more, you can get $5 off. I think they do the same deal around Black Friday for 20/25 minimum and 10 off, but I still used it to buy the latest hardcover collection of Lumberjanes yesterday.

But yeah, I check for sales on ebooks every day. I have a few wish lists I use to monitor, and none of those books ever seem to be on sale.

There is an interview with Myke Cole about a new Sci-Fi book he's written called Sixteenth Watch. Coast Guard on the moon!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/15/20...

Welcome Alex.

Yeah, they got a pretty decent looking guest lineup. I won't be able to make it though. I hope you have fun.

Mike wrote: "anyone going to the shore leave convention this year ?

Mike"

I don't know what that is.

I think that scene is meant to be a throwback to 80s movies, but yeah I didn't like that scene either.

But apart from that I had no issues with the first episode. So maybe this season just won't be for you. I don't know.

I thought there was some good character development this season, especially with Eleven.

Really? I rather enjoyed the entire 3rd season. I found it better than season 2.

Tassie Dave wrote: "Terence wrote: "Just a friendly reminder:
Will Wight has made ALL of his individual ebooks FREE today, July 4th. (I actually just got all of his ebooks free on Amazon.)"

It's nice that he has exte..."

If you like shonen fighting series at all, I'd recommend Unsouled.

Otherwise his joint series (Of Sea and Shadow/Of Shadow and Sea) might be a better place to start. Although I haven't read them yet myself.

You guys are going to meet in space? I'm super jealous. We just meet at an Irish pub.

Silvana wrote: "Not sure where to put an SF short story collection. Shorts or Laser? "

for collections, I'm not sure. You could count it as 1 SFF book, or N short stories.

I don't really read short stories, but if I did I'd probably do the latter myself. of course the counting is based on your good reads shelves, so if you only have the collection on your shelf then it would count as 1 book towards that challenge rather than N things.

You'd have to shelve all N stories in the collection..

The Fated Sky - $3: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0756JKWCJ

Artificial Condition - $3: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Forge of Darkness - $3: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008BU74J6/

For my own personal challenges, I'm finished with:

Sword: 18/40 (45% complete, 5% behind)
Laser: 8/20 (40% complete, 10% behind)
Comics: 6/10 (60% complete, 10% ahead)

This month I've added +4 Sword, 1 Laser, 1 Graphic novels. My reading continues to be down, but it helps that I did a few shorter fantasy books in audio. My one Sci-fi book was a monster (34 hours) though.

I've been mixing in more non SFF again, so I'll have to make up some ground in the second half of the year. I think next year I may drop my goals to like 30 or 35 fantasy, 15 sci-fi and maybe 5 comics.

With G. Willow Wilson's run of Ms. Marvel done, and Saga on hiatus there isn't much I plan to read right now. I know there is a ton of great stuff out there, but I don't want to follow a lot of ongoing stuff, so I'm more likely to look for something already completed that I can borrow from my library.

For next month I will do at least 1 fantasy (Age of Legend) and 1 sci-fi in audio, plus the Vessel in hardcover.

I'm sure I'll do another fantasy or two as well. I feel like there is more than 1 book coming out in July that I had planned to pick up, but I forget what the second one might be.

I was also thinking of continuing my discworld read with Small Gods if my reading of Vessel doesn't go the way of my last 2 non-audio books.

June Results:

Sword Challenge
Total Participants: 401 (+8)
Total Read: 3,252 (+579)
Average Books Read: 8 (+1)
Total Committed: 6,820(+208)
Average Books pledged: 17 (0)
Total Challenges Completed : 3 (+1) NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.


Laser Challenge
Total Participants: 399 (+7)
Total Read: 2,779 (+526)
Average Books Read: 7 (+1)
Total Committed: 6,380 (+242)
Average Books pledged: 16 (0)
Total Challenges Completed (Goodreads): 2 (0) NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.


Graphic Novel Challenge
Total Participants: 113 (+4)
Total Read: 891 (+89)
Average Books Read: 8 (+1)
Total Committed: 2,586 (+79)
Average Books pledged: 23 (0)
Total Challenges Completed : 1 (0) NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.

Short Story Challenge
Total Participants: 37 (+1)
Total Read: 254 (+48)
Average Books Read: 7 (+1)
Total Committed: 502 (+20)
Average Books pledged: 14 (+1)
Total Challenges Completed : 2 (+1) NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.

We're at the halfway point. If the numbers hold up, we'll get about 6,500 fantasy books, short of both the pledged books of 6,820 and the goal of 10k books. Similarily we'll only get 5,600 sci-fi books short of the 6,380 pledged.

The average pledge for fantasy is about 1 book more than the average per user look to read, and 2 more for sci-fi books.

I had expected after the survey last year and the monthly advertising that participation would be up this year, but apparently I was wrong.

OK, now I guess I can make my Bon Jovi/halfway there joke..but meh. I need more coffee.

Whatcha reading in July?

Will Wight is apparently making ALL of his individual ebooks FREE on July 4th.

http://www.willwight.com/a-blog-of-du...

I personally love his Cradle series that starts with Unsouled

July meetup: https://www.goodreads.com/event/show/...