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Sunyi’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sunyi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sunyi Dean’s Followers (1,600)
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Sunyi Dean
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author
Born
in Denton, Texas, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
gene wolfe robin hobb, michael moorcock, ada palmer, geroge macdonald,
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Member Since
April 2012
URL
/blind_nycteris
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The Book Eaters
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2022
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30 editions
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How to Cook and Eat the Rich
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2023
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2 editions
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The Thief of Memory
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2022
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Best of British Science Fiction 2018
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2019
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4 editions
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The Book Eaters Sneak Peek
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2022
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition
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2023
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Grimdark Magazine, Issue 37, January 2024
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2024
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 147, August 2022
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2022
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Flash Fiction Online 2018 Anthology
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2019
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The Girl With A Thousand Faces
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expected publication
2026
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New podcast episode!
Good morning from the UK!
We're pleased to launch Ep 7: An Epic Journey Through Self & Trad with Robin & Michael J Sullivan (transcripts incl!)
Check the show notes for this one - the Sullivans v kindly gave links to their many free lectures 🙂
#podcast #publishing #authorcareer #selfpublishing #tradtionalpublishing #hybridpublishing #michaeljsullivan #publishi Read more of this blog post »
We're pleased to launch Ep 7: An Epic Journey Through Self & Trad with Robin & Michael J Sullivan (transcripts incl!)
Check the show notes for this one - the Sullivans v kindly gave links to their many free lectures 🙂
#podcast #publishing #authorcareer #selfpublishing #tradtionalpublishing #hybridpublishing #michaeljsullivan #publishi Read more of this blog post »
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Sunyi Dean
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read in June 2020
Sunyi Dean said:
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Don't worry, I'm not going to star my own book. That would feel very strange! I'm just filling out this review form because YIKES, I have a novel on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ! This is not the first novel I've written, only the first I managed to get published, and I ...more "
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I encountered Ryan almost ten years ago, when we were both stumbling around on various writer forums as total newbies. He was kind enough to do a critique swap with me in those days, which I appreciated greatly. The book I read then wasn't the book y ...more |
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Sunyi Dean
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Joel Hathaway's
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Ty kindly for the question and sorry I took so long to see this! My next project is a book called The Girl With A Thousand Faces. At some point I'd love to put out a podcast that talks new writers through the process of getting trad published.
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I did not know much about this book before starting it, except that several people I trust had really enjoyed it. I'm a crime fiction fan (my secondary love, after SFF) and this is infact a crime fantasy novel. A crime EPIC fantasy, actually, which i ...more |
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Bought and read on the recommendation of a friend. Eerie, desolate, thoughtful, and hopeless. I have described it to a few folks as feeling like the cross between a feminist answer to Albert Camus' L'ETRANGER, and Plato's parable of the prisoner. It ...more |
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"One of the most extraordinary and affecting novels I have ever read. An absolutely mind-expanding book. More thoughts to come. "
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Sunyi Dean
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The Ministry of Time
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Readers' Favorite Science Fiction
in the
Final Round
of the
2024 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards.
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“We can only live by the light we're given, and some of us are given no light at all. What else can we do except learn to see in the dark?”
― The Book Eaters
― The Book Eaters
“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.
Certainly, it could inspire goodness. She didn’t argue that. Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the heart to keep you warm.
Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive.
And the other thing, the real bloody clincher of it all, was that the good and the bad didn’t get served up equally. If love were a balance of electric lights and electric jolts, two sides of an equally weighted coin, then fair enough. She could deal.
That wasn’t how it worked, though. Some love was just the bad, all the time: an endless parade of electrified bones and drowned lungs and hearts that burned to a cinder inside the cage of your chest.
And so she looked down at her son and loved him with the kind of twisted, complex feeling that came from having never wanted him in the first place; she loved him with bitterness, and she loved him with resignation. She loved him though she knew no good could ever come from such a bond.”
― The Book Eaters
Certainly, it could inspire goodness. She didn’t argue that. Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the heart to keep you warm.
Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive.
And the other thing, the real bloody clincher of it all, was that the good and the bad didn’t get served up equally. If love were a balance of electric lights and electric jolts, two sides of an equally weighted coin, then fair enough. She could deal.
That wasn’t how it worked, though. Some love was just the bad, all the time: an endless parade of electrified bones and drowned lungs and hearts that burned to a cinder inside the cage of your chest.
And so she looked down at her son and loved him with the kind of twisted, complex feeling that came from having never wanted him in the first place; she loved him with bitterness, and she loved him with resignation. She loved him though she knew no good could ever come from such a bond.”
― The Book Eaters
“None of us are truly good,â€� the vicar said, at last. He put a hand on her shoulder, so gently, so kindly, and she almost threw up on the spot. “All we can do is live by the light we are given.â€�
“Some of us don’t have any light,â€� Devon said. “How are we supposed to live, then?”
― The Book Eaters
“Some of us don’t have any light,â€� Devon said. “How are we supposed to live, then?”
― The Book Eaters
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Twelve Kings in Sharakhai by Bradley P. Beaulieu (592 pages)
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The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry (384 pages)
Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff (464 pages)
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“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.”
― A History of Western Philosophy
― A History of Western Philosophy
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”
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“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous�
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
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Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous�
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
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“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“Oriel didn’t move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel’s choice.”
― The Wings of a Falcon
― The Wings of a Falcon
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