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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Interesting, where exactly do these lapses happen? I can't find it right now. I seem to recall it being during a chase scene. Possibly when he was running after the face destroying guy. https://twitter.com/Ben_Aaronovitch/status/28898203734646784 I did find that though. There were a couple other examples that I ran across. From moon over Soho quote:I’m not a player, but I’d never had a girlfriend who’d lasted more than three months. Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar base don my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya–counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes. Lesley is telling us that Peter isn't always great at self-evaluation or reflection on why some things happen.
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So. Japanese covers for the Rivers of London series. http://zenoagency.com/news/peter-grants-conquest-of-japan-continues/ 
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Wolpertinger posted:So. Japanese covers for the Rivers of London series.  It's everything I could have imagined...
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For what it's worth, the translations appear to be even more inaccurate than the covers may have you suspect. Huge number of critical review on Amazon, and I can't help but notice that the Japanese précis (from the back cover?) gives away about 2/3 of the book.
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I'm going to mention this here because, well, Jim Butcher. He has made a post to Facebook looking for the community to help this little boy. Jim said he would match donations. Zola fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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So I posted this when I first got it back in March but I got my Harry Dresden and Murphy watercolors by Tyler Crook framed. Check it out
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Speaking of Dresden Files art, I got this bad motherfucker at Dragon Con:
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Ornamented Death posted:Speaking of Dresden Files art, I got this bad motherfucker at Dragon Con: Where's the hat?
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fordan posted:Where's the hat? Harry in Changes posted:I don't do hats
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He doesn't look disheveled enough. He needs longer hair, it should be unkempt and there should be more bloodspatter. Dresden never comes from an adventure looking that GQ.
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There should be a ghost hat. So it doesn't exist, but does at the same time. I think this would solve most of the hat dilemma. 
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Shinjobi posted:There should be a ghost hat. So it doesn't exist, but does at the same time. Half the time, anyway. Would there be a Schrodinger's cat in this Schrodinger's hat?
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I'm giggling way too hard at this.
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Error 404 posted:I'm giggling way too hard at this. Yeah, Tyler and I were goofing off at the table we shared at Emerald City Comic Con while he was painting sketchcard examples. After he did Harry I told him "Now draw Murphy" and he very quickly painted her. After the show he gave them to me, it just took me forever to get them framed. :P
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Ornamented Death posted:Speaking of Dresden Files art, I got this bad motherfucker at Dragon Con: I really like this. Is this a scene from one of the books or is it just some random Denarian?
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Ague Proof posted:I really like this. Is this a scene from one of the books or is it just some random Denarian? Just a random Denarian. Also Dan Dos Santos should be doing the book covers. Edit: I also got a print of Harry riding Sue from him (Dan), but it's not as baller as the giclee. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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KellHound posted:So I posted this when I first got it back in March but I got my Harry Dresden and Murphy watercolors by Tyler Crook framed. Check it out I'm so jealous.
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Apologies if this has been posted already, but this is a long thread... Anyone looking for more urban fantasy/detective books might want to check out Dead Things by Stephen Blackmore: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Things-Stephen-Blackmoore-ebook/dp/B00AVA4NPM/ref=la_B004XW62A8_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413164393&sr=1-2. It's a pretty good read. I'd rate it above the Alex Verus books, maybe below the Felix Castor series in terms of quality. There's a sequel too.
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newts posted:Apologies if this has been posted already, but this is a long thread... I've liked all Blackmore's urban fantasy so far (I think there are three).
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So I have offically started up my Daily Dresden Drawings again. They'll all get posted on my site at noon EST. Here's Harry as he first appears in Summer Knight, ya know the time when he doesn't remember the last time he shaved or showered. http://www.sorcery101.net/news/daily-dresden-drawings-summer-knight-harry-dresden/
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http://storybundle.com/fantasy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=urbanfantasyStory Bundle has a wee Bigfoot short story collection [/URL] from Butcher. E: fuckin phones man
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mirthdefect posted:http://storybundle.com/fantasy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=urbanfantasyStory Bundle has a wee Bigfoot short story collection [/URL] from Butcher. Anything in there worth buying other than the Bigfoot stuff?
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ConfusedUs posted:Anything in there worth buying other than the Bigfoot stuff? Kevin J. Anderson did those horrible Dune books with Herbert's kid - I think he was the one who also did Star Wars novels and just recycled ideas between the two series? Stackpole did Star Wars too. Elizabeth Bear's name seems familiar but I can't place anything. So... not really? Certainly nothing I'd recommend, but I guess if you've got time and nothing else to read there could be a few OK ones in there.
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Elisabeth Bear is a Hugo Winner, and has a lot of very good short fiction to her name. Vicki Peterson rings a bell for signs of the zodiac but I can't remember if I liked it or not. The others I don't know anything about, but you could do a lot worse than Butcher + Bear + maybe decent Peterson.
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mirthdefect posted:http://storybundle.com/fantasy?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=urbanfantasyStory Bundle has a wee Bigfoot short story collection [/URL] from Butcher. Just a heads-up that the Bigfoot collection has the stories out of order. Actual story order vs. book order is: Read first story, read last story, read middle story. The idea of someone engaging in dark magic against a bigfoot to re-grow their hair (because Rogaine doesn't work) was pretty funny.
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Jomon posted:M lm. , lm.m,l,l lo. [[url=]url= L . Ll . L, l][/url][url=][::/url]/== I couldn't agree more.
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Jomon posted:M lm. , lm.m,l,l lo. [[url=]url= L . Ll . L, l][/url][url=][::/url]/== This is this guy's only post in the live forums. I am so confused.
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It took him two years to formulate perfect opinion on Dresden Files. I think we are just too dumb to get it.
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probably legal perl. In other news you can now preorder dresden files #16, for feb 2016 release.
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Ika posted:probably legal perl. Provide us a link, man!
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Ika posted:probably legal perl. I laughed. A coworker described perl as the worlds first "write-only language".
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^^^^^^ its true!daggerdragon posted:Provide us a link, man! Amazon.de here
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Amazon just throws a date out in the future for stuff like that, if you want to get your pre-order in you can but it's got nothing to do with an actual release date. As of last week Jim was still working on Cinder Spires book 1, it's apparently gotten a lot longer than originally planned. ("200k words and still going!" is what he said. I asked him if it was an Epic Epic Steampunk Epic and he laughed.)
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Can't wait for new Dresden, but don't get your hopes up. Amazon release dates really move a lot, I've been let down so many times...
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I hate Butters. He's the worst.
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LoG posted:I hate Butters. He's the worst.
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My working theory is that when Butters was soul-gazed by the necromancers he actually hardened the gently caress up and puts on the scared nerd act to throw people off. I mean, how else did he end up with werewolf Andi? The Butters that was first introduced certainly wouldn't have been able to start a relationship with her.
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Wade Wilson posted:My working theory is that when Butters was soul-gazed by the necromancers he actually hardened the gently caress up and puts on the scared nerd act to throw people off. Anything those events didn't change in him probably got changed after Harry died and he started getting involved in fighting the Fomor. Also, he had Bob filling him in on everything, and actually knowing more about what he was fighting would probably help with the fear factor. Honestly I can't understand the idea of Butters as a Marty Stu, he was already manning up by the end of Dead Beat so I can't buy him as a real coward (and God knows if *I* started getting attacked by the undead and necromancers I'd probably freak out just as much at first if not worse). He's certainly not an invincible god considering how he got his butt kicked in Ghost Stories by both the warlock and Corpsetaker (hell, it took literal miracles to save him in Skin Games), and most of his "power-ups" have been reasonably logical with the biggest ones being after he got schooled in some way (i.e. courage goes up a lot after Dead Beat, and his actual combat skill in the last book after the aforementioned Ghost Stories defeats) which would certainly give good motivation to him to change.
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Also, the angel Uriel is a dick that loves Star Wars and he always wanted a Star Wars fan for a Knight.
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