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Sunday, 6 April 2014
quote [ Costs less than an actual bag of sand! ]
Hugh Howey is favorite author right now and Amazon has put his latest book SAND on the cheap list. If you haven't heard of HH before this is a good place to start. I would encourage everyone to check out his site and read everything he's written.
Amazon Link Daily Deal! 2014-04-06 only! (That means it's only good for one day) SAND is Amazon's Kindle Daily Deal today! That's kind of a big deal. It means they drop the price to $1.99. Yeah, for the entire novel. Sure, that means I get paid less, but I'm down with that. It also means (hopefully) more readers. And more people reading! If you subscribe to this newsletter, it's probably by accident. If it's not an accident, maybe you've already read SAND and now you're feeling like you overpaid. Don't let your friends and family overpay! Tell them to put down that bag of sand (or coffee) and pick up a book instead! You don't need a Kindle to read this edition, you know. They have a free Kindle app for every tablet, phone, laptop, and PC imaginable. Better yet, they also dropped the price of the audiobook to 99 cents (for those who already own the e-book). Which means you can have both for three bucks. It's criminal. And I'm encouraging it. The best part of a Daily Deal is watching the book climb up the Amazon charts. As I write this, it's 6am on the east coast, and SAND is at #322. If it reaches #1, I'm going to attribute it to my newsletter subscribers spreading the word. In which case, I'll be entering you all in a giveaway for a very unique prize. I have a full set of the five individual proof copies of SAND paperbacks. There will never be more of these. They will never go on sale. It's unlikely that SAND will get to #1, but if it happens, one of you will receive that proof set. Just so you know the odds, there are 7,025 subscribers to this newsletter. But most of those signups were accidental, and most people deleted this as soon as they saw it. So your chances are pretty good. Here's SAND on Amazon for $1.99 Thanks for the support, everyone. And Happy Sanday! -Hugh Howey
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Mr_Flibble said @ 7:20pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:3 Underrated]
I always post in haste. I've made some corrections but if this post is still deemed unworthy then let it live and die by it's own graces.
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steele said @ 7:43pm GMT on 6th Apr
That's the spirit! :D
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Bob Denver said @ 4:42am GMT on 7th Apr
Are you Hugh Howey?
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Spartacus said @ 5:26am GMT on 7th Apr
I'm Hugh Howey!
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Bob Denver said @ 6:41am GMT on 7th Apr
Howey's Hugh doin'?
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Dumbledorito said @ 7:41am GMT on 8th Apr
Huge Hooey.
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arrowhen said @ 8:47pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:2 Funny]
Ok, what the fuck is this shit, OP? The first two paragraphs appear to be written BY Hugh Howie, the next refers to Hugh Howie in the third person, and the rest seems to be copy/pasted from some kind of newsletter, again written by Hugh Howie.
I can only assume one of these three this is happening here: 1) My phone is failing to render some kind of vital formatting that would clearly distinguish your words from those of Mr. Howie. (Unlikely but not impossible, so out of fairness I'll withhold my down mod until I can see this on a real computer.) 2) You're a fan of Mr. Howie's work whose enthusiasm exceeds your copy/pasting skill. (But not enough of a fan to tell us in your own words why this book is any good instead of just copying crap out of a newsletter.) 3) You ARE this Hugh Howie person and you're a shitty writer. |
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satanspenis666 said @ 4:34pm GMT on 6th Apr
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Try posting an interesting article/interview and then casually mentioned that it is also cheaply available. If everyone posts their favorite link to Amazon, new SE will become a very boring place.
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Dumbledorito said @ 6:22pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:3 Funny]
Can we still post links to the comment sections of products like the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer?
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GordonGuano said @ 6:34pm GMT on 6th Apr
How can I be simultaneously repulsed by an object's uselessness and consumed by a desire to own it?
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arrowhen said @ 8:49pm GMT on 6th Apr
That sounds like an ex-girlfriend of mine.
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sanepride said @ 5:20pm GMT on 6th Apr
Not to mention all the self-promotion for a 'newsletter'.
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cb361 said @ 7:41pm GMT on 6th Apr
I used to be worried that the new SE was boring too. But then I found out that azazel thinks we are rape-enabling pornmongers, the sysop is a cross between John Norman and the Love Guru, and now RRR is dying.
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steele said @ 7:44pm GMT on 6th Apr
See, we'll be fine.
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azazel said @ 9:57pm GMT on 6th Apr
Are you saying you're not rape-enabling pornmongers?
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Naruki said @ 10:10pm GMT on 6th Apr
Some of us are porn-enabling mong-rapers.
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azazel said @ 10:55pm GMT on 6th Apr
That's horrible, won't someone think of the mongs?
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seneschal said @ 12:24am GMT on 7th Apr
They were asking for it. Did you see the way they were monging?
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arrowhen said @ 9:42pm GMT on 6th Apr
Actually, I think even a simple Amazon link would be worthy IF it was accompanied by a detailed personal review ("Here's why I think SE-ers might like this book..."), had links to similar authors in the extended, sparked a discussion about the genre, etc. Basically, if the link goes to a single product, then the post has to be about MORE than just the link.
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HoZay said @ 6:12pm GMT on 6th Apr
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Amazon is selling 100 remastered recordings by Thelonius Monk for $4. I thought about sharing that, but I kind of hate to post commercial links. Pretty good deal tho, if you like Monk.
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sanepride said @ 6:32pm GMT on 6th Apr
I think it's perfectly fine to share this kind info as a comment, or in the extended jump of a post. As a post itself, yeah...not so much.
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eggboy said @ 8:59pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:1 Underrated]
There's a post about books, right fucking there on the front page too.
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GordonGuano said @ 3:32pm GMT on 6th Apr
Can you drop a hint as to what it's about for those of us too lazy to click the link?
Also, I can heartily recommend the books set in Robert Bevan's Caverns and Creatures universe. The best description I've read of them is "if The Hangover was set in Middle-Earth". If you follow Bevan on Facebook, he will periodically give away his short stories and his first C and C novel, Critical Failures. Full disclosure: he did dedicate his short story, "Cooper's Christmas Carol" to me when I singlehandedly doubled his hardcover sales. |
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Dumbledorito said @ 6:18pm GMT on 6th Apr
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I've read it. It's... okay. It's a post-apoc story set in a desertified Colorado where the business of "sand diving" drives the economy. You get yourself a dive suit, put its electrodes on your head, and you can dive through sand as if it was water. You can also then use sand as a superpower, "drowning" people or making the sand as hard as cement around them.
Divers find artifacts of the old world hundreds of meters below the sand, bringing up suitcases, metal artifacts, and sometimes working technology (a neon sign in a bar is one such item). All the while, the rich live in a walled-off estate behind a massive dam against the encroaching sand while the poor dive, haul sand away, and rebuild their homes as the sand buries/collapses the old ones. The actual story is about a family that used to rule the town most of the story takes place in, a mysterious land to the east where nobody returns, and the discovery of the "Lost City of Dan-var" (Denver). If this isn't the first in a series, it leaves a lot more questions than answers, and the sci-fi is pretty sci-fantasy. Hugh Howey is best known for his "Wool" Omnibus, which is far, far better. It's post-apoc with survivors living in vaults, overseers with agendas & secrets, and what the fate of humanity's remnant will be. If you like Fallout, it's a good series, though it lacks mutants, radiation, or FEV. |
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GordonGuano said @ 6:30pm GMT on 6th Apr
Ok, now this is kinda weird-Robert Bevan is part of a self-published writers collective called Dead Pixel Publications, and one of the other authors in the group, Will Swardstrom has written a couple books set in the Wool universe. Weird.
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Dumbledorito said @ 7:51pm GMT on 6th Apr
I wasn't aware there were other novels outside of "Wool," "Shift," and "Dust."
Given the setting (don't want to spoil anything), it'd be easy to have more tales, I guess. It could be quite Vaul-Tec if they wanted it to be. |
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sanepride said @ 3:38pm GMT on 6th Apr
First USL on the new SE?
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steele said @ 5:55pm GMT on 6th Apr
don't give up, try again!
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mechavolt said @ 8:05pm GMT on 6th Apr
Are you the guy that wrote Wool? I've been meaning to read that.
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cb361 said @ 9:57pm GMT on 6th Apr
I had to go to Bicester on Saturday. I always think of the name as a combination of bisexual and incest.
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arrowhen said @ 5:34am GMT on 7th Apr
[Score:1 Funny]
But in British wouldn't that be pronounced, like, "bista" or something?
Kind of like how we Americans pronounce Worcestershire "War! Chester! Shire!" but you guys say "Wooster(mumble)"? |
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midden said @ 12:58pm GMT on 7th Apr
Woost-a-sheer in my family. East coast US.
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mechavolt said @ 3:01pm GMT on 7th Apr
New England family. Worst-er-shire.
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HoZay said @ 5:12pm GMT on 7th Apr
Same in Missouruh.
We learned English from television. |
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cb361 said @ 3:45pm GMT on 7th Apr
Yep. I pronounced it to rhyme with quester until I found out it was to rhyme with sister.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:33am GMT on 7th Apr
Sorry, did you say you have relations with your bisexual sister? If not, would you mind if I do?
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lilmookieesquire said @ 1:04am GMT on 7th Apr
Sorry, why do we hate this?
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sanepride said @ 1:13am GMT on 7th Apr
Mainly because it's basically just a plug to buy a book, which happens to be extra cheap for just one day.
But also, tomorrow it won't be cheap anymore, and the post will be not just a plug, but a lie. |
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arrowhen said @ 5:29am GMT on 7th Apr
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Tomorrow it won't be cheap anymore, but it'll still be free...
http://kickass.to/dust-by-hugh-howey-epub-t7767106.html |
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sanepride said @ 5:24pm GMT on 7th Apr
See, now if this link were part of the original post I would have upmodded.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 3:16am GMT on 7th Apr
JUST LIKE OLD SEEEEEEEE
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midden said @ 1:44am GMT on 7th Apr
Despite all the down modding, I did read Wool and enjoyed it very much. I've got Shift in my queue at the library. If I wasn't still a 95% dead tree book reader, I'd go for the deal.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 3:17am GMT on 7th Apr
Fuck the police, I'm upmodding it.
That said, this would have been an excellent addition to the bookz post. |
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steele said @ 3:29am GMT on 7th Apr
[Score:1 Insightful]
No, don't fuck the police. That's exactly what they want!
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papango said @ 5:31am GMT on 7th Apr
Upmodding because I loved Wool and was going to keep an eye out for his other stuff, but then forgot.
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seneschal said @ 5:23pm GMT on 7th Apr
Huh. I tried for +/- meh, but it didn't work. did I miss-click?
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steele said @ 7:03pm GMT on 7th Apr
there is no meh. only zuul.
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Taleweaver said @ 6:03pm GMT on 7th Apr
I'm all for making this a +1 Unworthy Self Link.
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Taleweaver said @ 6:05pm GMT on 7th Apr
And strangely, when I tried modding it +1 Insightful just now, it didn't register. Weird,
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steele said @ 7:04pm GMT on 7th Apr
known issue. unknown solution, so far.
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graham said @ 10:30pm GMT on 7th Apr
Just tried to mod it +1 Interesting and nothing.
Steele, are you behind the conspiracy to let this post die? |
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steele said @ 10:38pm GMT on 7th Apr
I'm behind the conspiracy??? This sure looks like the sort thing a Person like grahaM would do! angry face!
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