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(Quote) Why do you characterize it in this way? What is different about this entry from the other narrative entries we had? Do you mean that it is intended to be taken as fiction within the fictional world? (Quote) I thought about this last week bu…
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(Quote) Sorry, but this doesn’t provide me with any practical advice for turning off the notifications. I don’t have trouble finding recent comments. I just want to turn off notifications for those particular threads. Well, I look at my profile no…
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I still don’t have a clue how the notifications work on this site. I went to turn off the notifications for posts in the discussion for this book, but they don’t even show up in my notification options. I’ve got options for every monthly discussion …
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I won’t be joining in this time, but I will be next month. Have fun!
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I just ran across this one-page RPG. There’s not a lot to it, but it reminded me of our discussion here. Someone is doing research in “The Library,” which contains the sum of all knowledge but requires the loss of some of your own memories as the co…
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(Quote) This is the much more interesting option. This makes me wonder what’s on the other side of the world from Meequa and Tremm.
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(Quote) I’m not sure this is a short story, any more than other chapters are travelogue entries. We’ve talked here about fiction posing as science, and what I think we have here, and in “The Seacaptain,” is a novel chapter posing as a short story. N…
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(Quote) I like this observation a lot!
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(Quote) What do you think Mort is about? I thought about this quite a bit before seeing your comment, and I can’t really come up with anything in particular. I’ve read only the Discworld novels in release order up through this one. I’ve read that as…
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I talked a bit about subverting tropes in Question 1. I hadn’t yet read this question. I agree that he loves the genre. Even when he makes a joke about a fantasy trope, he is not emptying that trope of meaning.
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Masks, a superhero game Powered by the Apocalypse, tries to mechanize the emotional states of adolescent superheroes. I guess it tries to show the increasing maturity as the character levels up, but I’m not certain of that. I’ve been playing fir mon…
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I think there’s enough here to say that _Mort_is more than just a romp. Except for “and they all lived happily ever after,” Pritchett is playing with and often overturning fantasy tropes. Keli wants to be, demands to be regal, but she still just the…
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It seems like you left out an important part of the story in your summary. Hike climbed back up into the rigging and loosened the plate of glass. And Hike doesn’t slam an imaginary door on the Mustachioed Man at the end, during the outdoor chase; h…
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I’m reading The Affirmation. I’m about halfway through, and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I like the ideas about identity, memory, narrative, and fiction.
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I couldn’t remember whether losing memory was mentioned in this book or only in The Affirmaton, so I didn’t bring that up. Self-identity is such a huge theme in The Affirmation, and maybe here, too. We’ve got mirror locations, body doubles, purporte…
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I get the feeling there’s a lot here for me to scratch at under the surface, and I delight in that kind of exploration of a book. I’ve just been exhausted from work, so I’ve kind of floated from island to island without much critical thinking. I do…
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(Quote) Collago sounds like Key Largo to me. Athanasia sounds like euthanasia to me. Of course, one means “no death” and the other, “good death.”Athanasius was a bishop around the time Christianity started becoming the religion of the Roman Empire,…
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(Quote) Wow, now that you mention it, I see Cuba in there. Cuba jam ree? Cuba ram jee? Cuba ream je? Cuba ear jem? Cuba jar mee? Cuba Raj Mee? Cuba Marjee? Cuba Meer Ja? Cuba Mere Ja Cuba Jeer Ma Cuba Arm Jee? I can’t pull it out, but I don’t want…
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(Quote) The Affirmation does have more to say about Deloinne than we’ve encountered so far in our reading here.
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Collago and the lottery for atahansia are featured in The Affirmation, and some of the other islands we’ve encountered here are named. I don’t know how prominently featured the lottery will be. I’m about a quarter of the book, and this world makes i…
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I’ve purchased and have started on The Affirmation. Too anal to do otherwise.
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I looked up Don’t Rest Your Head, and it sounds like a game I’d give a try.
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I didn’t realize this was not the first book. I don’t enjoy trading books In a series out of order. Just reading Amazon’s summary of the first book gives me new information about this one. Or does it? The Glass Window Bridge on Eleuthera, an island…
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(Quote) I agree. I was delighted by it. I hadn’t yet read it when I selected it, so I don’t have any emotional defensiveness against assertions that it’s a 3.5 star book, but I don’t see it that way.
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I just now searched for it, and found this interview in which she says Dune was seminal for her. https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fantasy-books/ So she knew what she was doing.
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I have moved toward playing story-forward games precisely because they allow me to roleplay elements like this. I’m running a sci-fi game right now, very light on the rules, in which I could see introducing some of these elements. I couldn’t just im…