Reddit mentions: The best legal thriller books

Someone would be able to tell a story of a species and its development in a world-building setting. In fact, I have a book here at my desk side that does that. Medea: Harlan's World by Harlan Ellison. It is a book that I would recommend to world-builders interested in science fiction or speculative evolution. It is an anthology collection set on a fictional world's moon, and it follows the development of fictional species and alien cultures. Humans exist within the setting, so don't expect an entirely alien setting, but it is still interesting. As an anthology, it contains a set of stories, although world-building was a core aspect in the creation of Medea.

Although Medea was born out of world-building, only the first 100 pages focus upon the world-building content itself. The other 300+ pages contain short stories by various science fiction authors. But within those first 100 pages, Medea is able to describe the with great detail the world, its species, and its characteristics. It also contains a written concept seminar in which the authors collaborate their ideas and concepts. It is a great behind the scenes look at the world-building that was performed.

I am not discouraging anyone from world-building and writing simultaneously. I am also not discouraging new writers or authors from thinking outside the box. I hope it does not come off sounding as such since world-building is something I promote to those interested in creative writing. I am just suggesting that the world-building and the writing balances out, with one holding priority over the other where appropriate.

One could even split up the world-building and the writing. The Dungeons & Dragons franchise is able to do so. It has the campaign guides, which focus on the world-building of the franchise. There are also novel series written by authors such as R.A. Salvatore, which focus on the stories of the franchise.

The recent The World of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, Elio Garcia, and Linda Antonsson is another good example of world-building holding the priority. Where George R.R. Martin holds the story in priority in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, world-building holds the priority in The World of Ice and Fire.

Edit: I should also state that my advice should be taken with a grain of salt. As I mention in the initial post, I world-build as a hobby. I have never tackled writing a proper story or novel.

Year Zero by Rob Reid. It's essentially a book about record labels finding out that aliens have been listening to [and illegally downloading] all of earth's music for decades. When they find out about this, the Alien's realize that they owe Earth an unfathomable amount of money and it would be impossible to ever pay it all. So two aliens hire a lawyer, Nick Carter to handle the case. They hope he can strike a licensing agreement, and the fate of Earth rests in his hands.

I actually haven't finished the book, but it is a really easy read and has a lot of funny pop culture references, as well as fairly legally accurate. The plot is just outrageous, which makes it that much better in my opinion. The idea of it all I think would just make for a great adventure, and would have some great CGI. Would be even better if they got the real Nick Carter to play Nick Carter.

Some great books already on this list, I'll add in a few that I would also recommend, or that I see come up a lot:

• Year Zero. Very funny, in the vein of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
  
• Snow Crash. I actually just bought this book, and don't know much about it, but it is heavily recommended on this sub. Very excited to read it.
  
• Old Man's War Or anything else by John Scalzi (Including Fuzzy Nation and Redshirts ). He's by no mean's a profound writer, but all his books are easy, fun, and pretty imaginative.
  
  Have fun dude!

I'm no expert on sci-fi, but 'Year Zero' was pretty good. It felt like an american angle on a hitchhiker type story. It's more funny than profound, at least when compared to hitchhikers. Most of it takes place on Earth, and the alien world has to be kept from being viewed by humans because it's beauty would overwhelm and possibly kill them. So it's hardly described at all.

The audiobook is read by John Hodgman, and he does a great job with all the voices. I had no idea he did voices.

Remember back in the day when Amazon was pushing a LOT of major new ebooks for 9.99 (or less)?

Publishers were seriously concerned about this leading to the erosion of book prices in general. Apple got involved a bit, and encouraged them to start skirmishing with Amazon and demanding higher prices (with Apple agreeing to sell at those publisher-set higher prices--this is known as "agency pricing").

In the end, after some skirmishing amongst the lawyers, Amazon agreed to the agency pricing model, as dictated by the publishers. That is why now, when you look at the pages for many books on the Kindle store, you'll see a little note saying, "This price was set by the publisher."
Example: http://www.amazon.com/The-Litigators-ebook/dp/B004LROUNG/ref=pd_ts_zgc_kinc_digital-text_8?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&pf_rd_p=1286397762&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=133141011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0T0G18XG8AMWQ45ANH8B

(Look a bit below the price.)

The thing is, agency pricing is legal (many electronics are subject to it). But collusion amongst companies to set a standard, artificial price is not. It creates an even more artificial standard than Amazon did as a single competitive company.

Medea: Harlan's World, great extrapolation of this, with a lot of good short stories by excellent sci-fi authors, edited by Harlan Ellison. Perhaps a bit dated now, but overall very well done.

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I'm currently reading Year Zero by Rob Reid.

It deals with the fact that, due to how twisted our copyright laws are, and how ridiculous the damages are supposed be when copyright infringement occurs, that the alien civilizations who've been listening in and loving our music are now faced with being copyright pirates to the tune of all possible wealth in the universe.

That seemed pertinent to the subject at hand. Also, the book is pretty funny, in a Douglas Adams kind of way.

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This book has a really funny premise.

There's a novel out that reflects this issue, just heard about it on NPR.

Basically in the novel humans suck at everything compared to aliens except for our musical abilities and they love our music so much that they sometimes die of happiness when listening to it. According to our copyright laws, the universe owes us more than three times the amount of money that exists in the entire universe so some aliens are out to destroy earth to get out of the debts.

TL;DR book related to this issue, here

There's a novel called Year Zero with a roughly similar plotline

The publisher fancies himself as a "writer" as well. I'm sure we're all too dense to recognize these masterpieces are not MRA drivel but also brilliant satire.
I mean, bitches just can't take a joke these days.

Excluding the Hitchhiker, I would recommend: "Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid"

Year 0 is on sale right now for 0.99 if you are in the US.

Found it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005X0K520/

Here's the link

That is madness! I've not really perused /r/books that much but that is horrendous even if they are bound legally as 3rd party retailers.

The obvious comparison for me as a musician is digital download vs CD. CD cost more to produce/deliver etc and so is more expensive to cover those costs. I actually can't believe such a scam is going on in the 21st century!

EDIT: Regarding your edit it's this from the Reddit sidebar ads.

Know what we got for Nurses' Week? An assigned country to "celebrate" by decorating the unit and making food related to that country. We also got an invitation to hear a motivational speaker (on our own time) and free copies of his stupid book.

I just want safe-fucking-staffing! Cut the bullshit....

Wer die Idee mag: Year Zero, a Novel

I didn't feel like responding to your stupid description of polls, so I'm changing the subject? I thought the whole subject of this debate was whether Crosby is a diving, whining, bitch.

Your spin on what polling types are accepted by the "statistical community" seems like scrambling to explain away a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Have you ever considered applying for a job at Fox News.

Also Defending Jacob is a book. It's about a father who's son is a murderer, but he can't see/accept it. Maybe you should read it sometime.