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Hi! Trying to find a novel series I once borrowed from a friend I no longer have. It is a fantasy setting. It begins with a wizard creating a boy from flames, then raising it to be a wizard. The wizard performs spells of warding by touching doors/windows thrice. Darkness is trying to enter. The kid does something dumb, wizard is killed, boy wanders off to mundane kingdom. The country has a catholic church analogue; they keep accidentally opening up the kingdom to darkness. The kingdom was previously at war with a country to the north, which is mysterious and sylvan. I believe there's another country that sucks, too? Anyhow it's a lot of political intrigue and ritual magic and subtle dark forces, and I wanna read it again. Help? Edit: THE MOMENT I ASK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortress_Series Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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Apropos of nothing "Alberta Based" strikes me as a username
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Mar 1, 2022 14:55
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Holy poo poo I've tried everything, that's hard. I've seen so many titles now. "The New Vegan Torment" "The New Never Tremble" "The New Regret Trouble" "The New Secret Tomorrow" It's gonna be embarrassing if the second word ends up not being "new"
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Mar 22, 2022 15:27
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I wasn't sure if that was resized to help the typeface fit the yellow building(?) I did a number of yellow building searches that didn't help. My kid is sleeping on me, this is the biggest thing I've got going on rn
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Mar 22, 2022 16:22
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Those BASTARDS
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Mar 23, 2022 12:07
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Fifteen years and an itchy nose is the only thing that crops up?
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Apr 8, 2022 13:49
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...what kid's book was it that had a planet where the "sky" was a thick layer of something like macaroni and cheese, and started about four feet up or so? I want to say it was My Teacher Was an Alien or a sequel
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Apr 30, 2022 03:59
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Brawnfire posted:...what kid's book was it that had a planet where the "sky" was a thick layer of something like macaroni and cheese, and started about four feet up or so? I want to say it was My Teacher Was an Alien or a sequel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Ate_My_Homework Found it!
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Apr 30, 2022 14:12
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"Alright, Mr. Proberman, here's my algebRRAAA--HEY!!!" *the teacher packs the ditto paper into his mouth and thick, green saliva sizzles out around it* "Oh my god, omg I'm so sorry but mmmmm, mmmmmm!"
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Apr 30, 2022 14:25
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I gotta say, I'm pretty hooked by that concept, keep us updated if you find it
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Jun 3, 2022 13:56
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navyjack posted:I read that a very long time ago. Oh Jesus does it hit different now that I’m middle-aged and have a small person in my life. Yeaahhh that's making it hard to even get past the first couple pages with the uh, hot tears and stuff, and it hasn't even gotten to anything more painful than a baby growing up Maybe I shouldn't read this at present lol
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Aug 5, 2022 22:54
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I remember that Futurama episode.
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Sep 26, 2022 12:51
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Alright, a book I remember now and then from my youth. A starship with people in stasis has a malfunction and one of the children ends up growing to adulthood aboard the ship. They end up at some planet that's alive and spreads itself to other worlds via spores. The POV character ends up infected with spores and jettisons himself into space so the spores can't infect any other planets. I think it may have been YA, and in the 90s some time. I also get the weirdest feeling I asked this already but I don't think I did. I'm sorry if I have
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Oct 19, 2022 19:37
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Phew, I haven't asked before, thank God.
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Oct 19, 2022 20:20
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The flat-fronted blue building with a flat roof
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Apr 13, 2023 14:18
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I hope that gets identified because it sounds loving chilling.
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Oct 12, 2023 14:13
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Narzack posted:Very very long shot, but it was a short story in one of our 6th grade English(Reading) textbooks, so mid-nineties. It was a story about a guy stuck on a planet by himself being stalked by some hideous monster, and at the end he sees himself reflected in a puddle of water and you realize that he's the monster. All scraggly hair and wild eyes and junk. I love Grover!
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