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Old 07-29-2024, 02:02 PM   #2926
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Yes it is, but I hate almost all cover remakes. So uninspired.
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Old 08-13-2024, 12:09 PM   #2927
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A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock is $3 at Amazon. Full price elsewhere

This one has been on my wishlist after seeing some good reviews of it on YouTube.

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A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor’s business is exotic plants – lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he’s seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.

Driven by the glory he’ll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.

The experiment – or Chloe, as she is named – outstrips even Gregor’s expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor’s experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?

Told with wit and warmth, this is an extraordinary tale of family, fungus and more than a dash of bloody revenge from an exciting new voice in queer horror.
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A beautiful cover.
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Old 08-14-2024, 07:58 AM   #2929
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A beautiful cover.
The old cover included AI-generated elements, but they replace it after the community complained.

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Old 08-14-2024, 10:02 AM   #2930
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Not much difference. I like both.

Especially the screaming skull.

Nothing's better than a screaming skull.

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That is just silly to me. Not every use of AI generated artwork is bad.
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That is just silly to me. Not every use of AI generated artwork is bad.
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But the main ethical issue for me is that these generative systems ‘scrape’ real artists’ work to feed their algorithms. AI is really a misnomer, because it really isn’t ‘intelligent’ — it’s an elaborate macro for chewing up and regurgitating art-seeming images, with no credit.

I’ll say it again:

AI generation represents human theft of human art on a global industrial scale.
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If the author requested the changes, that's fine. But every new thing is the death of creativity. Sampling in music was treated the same.

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I had forgotten about that film.

That's a great poster!

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Old 08-16-2024, 02:25 PM   #2936
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New Valancourt Sales



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Two new $2.99 Kindle deals! Stephen Gregory's THE WAKING THAT KILLS is a spellbinding novel of psychological horror and Francis King's NEVER AGAIN is a classic from our LGBT catalog, a masterful coming-of-age novel. Grab both worldwide thru 8/15 at a bargain price!

Waking that kills - https://www.amazon.com/Waking-That-K...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Never Again - https://www.amazon.com/Never-Again-F...xt%2C82&sr=1-1
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I have been having fun grabbing up some of the retro ya horror Nightmare Hall series set at Salem University. Cheesy but fun and all written by Diane Hoh

Many are on sale for 1.99 and it keeps changing.

Amazon series page - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQBFHCS...rwt_sb_pc_tkin
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From their tweet -

Two new $2.99 Kindle deals! Stephen Gregory's THE WAKING THAT KILLS is a spellbinding novel of psychological horror and Francis King's NEVER AGAIN is a classic from our LGBT catalog, a masterful coming-of-age novel. Grab both worldwide thru 8/15 at a bargain price!

Waking that kills - https://www.amazon.com/Waking-That-K...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Never Again - https://www.amazon.com/Never-Again-F...xt%2C82&sr=1-1
Thank you for those! Aside from their horror, I'm also interested in their gay classics. But I'm not a Twitter guy and don't know where else to find out about the sales.
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Waking that kills - https://www.amazon.com/Waking-That-K...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Never Again - https://www.amazon.com/Never-Again-F...xt%2C82&sr=1-1


Hmmmmmm.....it appears as though your post was made yesterday (August 16), but the sale ended on August 15. (I am sad.)
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Hmmmmmm.....it appears as though your post was made yesterday (August 16), but the sale ended on August 15. (I am sad.)
I had the same experience.
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