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I was confused about why anyone could be confused about whether or not Alan Dean Foster wrote non-adaptation material, since that was where I remembered encountering him. Then I realized I was thinking of Craig Shaw Gardener.
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I am an outlier in not being a Cradle fan, so I am not the best evangelist for it. That said, based on my read of the first book it doesn't scratch the 'epic fantasy' itch if you define that as ASoIaF/Malazan/WoT-esque; the scale is perhaps comparable but, at least with Cradle, there is a primary protagonist perspective and if you jump into someone else's head it's largely to explain or support something that has happened or is about to happen (or is foreshadowed to happen in later books) to that protagonist. Maybe it changes as the series goes on, although I was not interested in finding out; in any case, I don't think it's a match for the ask.
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dwarf74 posted:I had only known him from the Wild Cards series, which I ate up. For a while. My online nickname was Popinjay for a period of time, I ate those books up. On re-examination later in life, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wanna return to this, fourth book of the four starts off with an antagonist witch that, shock! horror! turns men into women! and one of the first symptoms is that they start to care about their house's cleanliness! That sucks, although as someone who has read Chalker it feels kind of quaint.
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pik_d posted:just need to get the Esslemont novels now I think? you do not
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An historic issue with adaptations of Earthsea is that no one quite gets (or got, and ignored) that LeGuin's intention was that those characters were capital-b Black.
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I don't remember his transformation thing having much to do with being furry although I was not a completionist back when I was a less discriminating reader and do not care to try and remember in any case.
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NinjaDebugger posted:bimbofication That's the one I remember 
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They don't have Amazon's massive supply chain advantage or pull with publishers.
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re: language and loan words, for years I had a snobby attitude about KJ Parker because one of his books used the word "kudos" and I found it unbearably anachronistic and wrote him off as a hack. When I learned about it being a Greek loanword from the 18th century I felt quite foolish.
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