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My version had a map, though sadly not all the named places were on it.
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There isn't another question that discusses this, but honestly this seems like the best place to catch the people who didn't finish the book. Although the writing was generally lovely, sometime even lush, there was a real distance set between the ev…
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This isn't something I particularly note it books, to be honest.
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I interpreted the little dark people as unromanized britons, where Artos and crew were Romanized Britons. The picts would also be unromanized. The Scotti are Irish (who are also little dark people).
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Mythic Britain captures things quite well for me, though I would personally do more with the north and with the Picts in general. I rather liked how Sutcliff brought in the various peoples of Brtian to create a complex society so that it wasn't just…
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I've never read her before. Certainly, this book feels like it's for adults.
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It was OK for me, but not really a noteworthy feature. The language was very nice, and yes, there are good descriptions. Some places stood out more - Badon (and maybe this in part is due to @RichardAbbott 's pictures, the flatter and more marshy eas…
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I've read many Non-fiction takes. I rather enjoyed Alastair Moffat's take in Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms which was an impassioned piece that puts Arthur in Kelso, Scotland. It's not the most convincing word, but was a fun read. For convincing, I li…
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I was wondering if Artos was meant to be a gay character, or asexual.
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Lots of good elements here for the history buffs who like to marry legend to history. She also gives us the Lady of the Lake (or at least, the tossing of the sword into the lake) and Avalon (The Isle of Apples), which I assume is Glastonbury Tor, wh…
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I liked the little people - not sure they were a 'stand in for fairies' so much as a stand in for pagans. Obviously, they're meant to be non-romanized Welsh. If Picts and Scots had features more in the book, I suspect they may have been the same. Th…
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I think any theme that asks 'what do we do with the time we are given' is an interesting one. Certainly there are other themes - filial vs. romantic love, what it means to be a husband or father, and to a lesser degree the clash of cultures are all …
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I have to say that none of the minor characters or the major characters particularly stood out for me. I actually found the characterization to be fairly bland in this book. I suppose the dark haired people resonated with me somewhat, and Medraud an…
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I'm not sure how big they were, but the events that struck me most were the various interactions with the locals. The somewhat bizarre sex scene with Ygerna early in the book, the meeting of the dark people and the earth mother, and the scenes in Gu…
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Lancelot is there, in the form of Bedwyr.
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Saw this quote posted on RPG.net - a reference to this book? “Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a…
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Well, there you go.
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Never heard of this game. I would have liked to learn more about the mechanics - card based, it seems, from watching a bit of the AP video. I think 170pp is a fine length for an RPG. A game like this does need to devote some time to setting, and 170…
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Nice article, and seems well researched, too.
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Oh, I always read the intro. I can't think of any time when it's simply been 'here's a book by my friend'. They're often written about authors who are dead, for example, or remote. My version of Sword at Sunset has a brief intro by Jack Whyte, who h…
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Welcome aboard, Loz!
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(Quote) Hmm, that's weird - there's a kindle edition of the second and third books in the series, but the first seems to only be available in Dutch. There's an audio for all three, and print, of course. Maybe from your library via overdrive? https…
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Alastor? I thought that worked out amazing - I went and bought a whole bunch of Vance after that.
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National Trust event? Interesting.
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Actually, we did read Wool by Hugh Howey - that was definitely PA. @clash_bowley There are quite a few about re-building, and I really enjoy those, too. David Brin's The Postman does this.
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(Quote) No, this novel is from 2018 - apparently it does for the Donner party what The Terror did for the Franklin Expedition. https://locusmag.com/2018/05/john-langan-reviews-the-hunger-by-alma-katsu-and-the-teardrop-method-by-simon-avery/
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I just now finished The Barrow by Mark Smylie, a fantasy novel set in the Known World setting that he used for his Artesia graphic novels and the Artesia: Adventures in the Known World RPG. This is, honestly, one of my favourite RPG settings ever pu…
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Thanks @Michael_S_Miller ! I really enjoyed this one, too. It's been playing hard to get for a long time, so take advantage of the new print run while you can.