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Yeah... not really. Alex should have stayed dead, as far as I'm concerned. I thought it was moving along nicely as a quasi-personal political drama in which someone has to come to terms with the new normal, and would she eventually toe the Aztec lin…
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I liked the book. Early in the reading, I was thinking I'd probably rate it 3 stars (which in GoodReads terms means 'i liked it') but as the plot developed through the middle of the book, and the relationship between Catherine and Extepan deepend an…
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APRIL 2021 I definitely didn't keep up the blistering pace of the first three months, but still managed to complete 4 books - two print and two audio. Here they are: Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories by various authors, 2019, 184pp …
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I had no issues with the pace, and never wondered if the book was progressing, though I did wonder at some time where the author was planning to take things. I liked how the pace gradually picked up and the book progressed - or was it just my intere…
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Further to my thought at the end of the last chapter about islands being people (or islands being stories about people), consider this third paragraph from the introduction, changing the words Archipelago or Islands to 'city' and or 'people': (Quo…
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So, with the next book - THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO - we have short stories of varying lengths. I've tried to stick to about 20 pages a week, but most of the stories are 40 or 70 pages long. So I split the 40-50 page stories into two parts, and the 70-pa…
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I guess that’s why Glaund is sometimes referred to as simply ‘The Federation’. I only ever recall Glaund and Faiandland being mentioned in a military context.
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To those hunting for insights, I'd suggest re-reading the introduction again before we close the book for good - something might pop out that hadn't before.
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Not to mention slightly older BSFA and John W Campbell Award winners!
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And therefore the Islanders, like the Islands, are broken and separate?
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I do agree that this relationship is devoid of a real connection (I don't think it's trued for every relationship in the book). The final chapter feels more to me like a story about conception, than it does about sex as a pleasurable or titilating t…
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I'm seeing Yo and Oy as being inspired by Yin and Yang, a female principle and a male principle which oppose one another but contain an element of each other within. "Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, seen in all forms of cha…
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Makes no difference to me.
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(Quote) Good news!
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It doesn't much matter to me when you post, but I will personally not be done before the end of the weekend, and quite possibly not even then - I'll join when I can.
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Hmm - four people have voted but the poll only shows three votes. Did someone not actually cast a vote, or is something amiss with the poll function?
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I also picked A Memory Called Empire, as I've been meaning to read it for a while.
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Fictoplasm mentions The Dream Archipelago in passing in their most recent entry (which actually discusses a podcast about The Channel Islands). http://www.fictoplasm.net/2021/04/18/podcast-sunday-3/
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@clash_bowley There's that old question about whether the writer or the reader is more important :-)
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Wells was a great writer and I've found his works generally really still stand up today. They're also more sophisticated than the rather shallow media portrayals would suggest. BTW, the June selection will be your's, @NeilNjae . Followed by @Ray_Ot…
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(Quote) Yes, that's a mystery. My working theory is that the intro wasn't written by Kammeston at all. Perhaps by his brother before he died? Probably it's all just games. (Quote) Maybe... or maybe Kammeston's 'never leaving the island' was always …
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Hmm, interesting. Seevl is an anagram of Elves, too. It's tantalizing, but I'm missing the smoking gun.
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(Quote) Because there are certain common themes emergent from the stories in the book. He hasn't used all these things in two different stories by accident. But in the theatre hand short story, the one with The Lord of Mystery, the glass was used me…
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(Quote) This perhaps plays into the frequent Priest theme of twins. Both Caurer and Kammeston have twins/doubles. We were earlier given two nearly identically named islands on opposite sides of the world. And now we have two accounts of the same eve…
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I think the culture of Faiandland and Glaund on the northern continent seem as different from the artsy detachment of the islanders as the Easterlings seem from Gondor. We only imagine the Easterlings are different because we’re applying age old st…
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> @RichardAbbott said: > (Quote) > Another duality here is the insistence that each island has two names - and apparently only two, such as RAWTHERSAY vs Declare/Sing, rather than a whole multitude of different names in different dialects…
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@WildCard You can't change the notifications for individual threads, only for the categories into which threads are posted. When it comes to new categories, the default for selection is 'off', so when a new category is created, you have to manually…
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(Quote) What I mean is simply that most of the entries are designed to present 'factual' information - a description of an island, mostly, or sometimes an excerpt from a report, or a copy of Wolter Kammeston's testament. A few of the entries make n…
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I bought mine, btw.
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Yes, posts are ranked by recent activity, but there are 5 or 6 pinned posts at the top, so those get ranked first, then the rest appear below them. The pinned posts are the welcome thread and site rules, as well as announcements for upcoming club…