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clash_bowley
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You can see the serial structure. I don't mind it, having grown up with my nose in my father's Galaxy, If, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Analog magazines. Many of my favorite novels were originally released serially.
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Very cool!
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Why does everyone but R. F. Kuang have asterisks after their names? Did they write it in a 162 game season?* * Old timer's baseball joke...
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I have read that abortive sequel, set in the reign of King Elessar and Arwen Undomiel's son, and I agree it is grim. One could work with that - it reminded me of Lewis' That Hideous Strength is some odd ways, but it wasn't Tolkien, and I understand …
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(Quote) Intact? Seemed to be missing a few bits when I went through! Not as bad a replication as the Maine instantiation of Paris and London, though. :D
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I've gotta say it looks great, @Michael_S_Miller! :D
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My trained deer arrived, but between the Mission of Gravity and Book of the New Sun, I'm too busy to read it!!!!
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I assumed from the name (Urth) and the single moon, that this was, in fact, Earth. I am probably wrong.
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Excellent news, @rossum! I was a bit afraid I would be late!
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Had some trouble getting this on my kindle - ordered it last month. Finally it showed up, so I will do my best!
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Hi, Ray Otus! Gormenghast is a giant, rambling, partly ruined castle with an inward focused population, set in a technologically advanced world, though the castle mostly ignores that. It would be accurate to say if Gormenghast was built on the Dying…
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The Citadel reminds me of Gormenghast.
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Damn you and your speedy post, @RichardAbbott! Here in the new world we have to rely on trained deer!
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(Quote) ... Oh! That's right! Never mind! Carry on! Nothing to see here!
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I get the "weird-ass", and can agree for the most part, but isn't calling redditors "aliens" a bit harsh?
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As long as those dratted shirrifs didn't confiscate it. I am sure reading is against the rules!
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(Quote) You are too funny, Paul! :smiley:
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@dr_mitch - I have often thought the same thing about the ancients and wondered if the nature of reality was as plastic as they make it seem back then... Might be an interesting game world... :wink:
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I noticed that about the propulsion system, @NeilNjae! the overall medieval feel of the setting is overlain with ancient technology. There are references to people going to the stars long ago, much like the Dying Earth series. As for the torture thi…
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Bears were said (by Plato? Aristotle? Maybe some anonymous bestiary author?) to lick their cubs into shape - literally. They were initially shapeless lumps and the mother bear licked them to form them into cubs. As for the dogs, they sounds like ma…
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Do you know for sure that dragon hordes are not involved, @RichardAbbott? I would not be that positive without real proof...
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That was the butterfly that was stepped on which caused the supervolcanos exploding, forcing us all to move to the moon. Don't you remember?
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Well, he was taller than average for his time, 5' 8 3/4" in his seventies, so probably 5'10-11" in his prime. As for "strong and powerful" he rowed crew, played rugby, and I believe swam, so was fairly in shape. He called himsel…
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Greetings Evangineer!
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None that I know of, Richard! That would be cool as hell though!
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Cool! A game where a turn is a century, and humans buzz around like mayflies!
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My head-canon shoots your head-canon!
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Ordered! :D
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You rock, Michael! This is going to be amazing! :smiley:
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The more 'l's, the tighter the fellowship. With three 'l's, the fellowship is tighter than a bull's arse in fly time!