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Anyone read Paul Cornell's Severed Streets yet? I finished a re-read of London Falling last night, and it's such bullshit that I have to wait another five days because I'm using the US kindle store. I'd cancel my pre-order, but the UK ebooks are waaaay more expensive. I'm so conflicted! e: Dammit. It's apparently because I'm in NZ, a country that was once under the thumb of the UK but we still have to wait an extra week. Weak. Big Bad Beetleborg fucked around with this message at 08:19 on May 22, 2014 |
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Given Butchers predilection for borrowing liberally from other mythologies, any one got a clue as to whether or not Goodman Grey has a basis in anything/anyone else? I did a quick google after I finished and found this which talks about a Goodman Grey advocating at the Salem Witch Trial for magic being intrinsically neutral, and that any evil is in the practicioner themselves. Seems relevant for a naagaloshii (who have heretofore been portrayed as evil down to the bone) trying to rise above his heritage.
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May 28, 2014 00:11
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Wolpertinger posted:That sort of reminds me, I wonder what's going to happen in regards to the coins lost in Hades - there's some sort of equilibrium with the Coins, and removing some from the game permanently in a way that they can't be 'recirculated' might allow potentially the Fallen to act in some way to restore that equilibrium. Surely that would be due to free will of the agents involved in the book, so "they" couldn't do anything about it? It's not as if Heaven or Hell directly acted to achieve that.
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May 28, 2014 00:25
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There is a quote somewhere about how even the most powerful wizards have to burn a heap of energy to scratch an Outsider, which would seem to imply that they're resistant rather than impervious. Said artefacts are probably so powerful (owing to the nature of their creation) that they can just push right through that resistance. They might be better wielded by a Starborn, but they'll still get the job done if not.
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May 29, 2014 01:50
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Roger Tangerines posted:Anybody else read The Severed Streets? Yeah pretty much everything you said there is spot on.
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Jul 5, 2014 07:16
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Reveilled posted:He has to do it as part of the committee overseeing HR policies and health and safety regulations for vampiric employees, which is codenamed DRESDEN RICE, too. I spent several pages trying to remember any link between Dresden and a staple carbohydrate
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Jul 11, 2014 10:57
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StoryBundle has a bunch of urban fantasy up now. Never heard of any of it except Twenty Palaces, look worthwhile to anyone?
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Aug 28, 2014 03:09
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Wade Wilson posted:The current humble book bundle is better. This Humble ebook Bundle? Yeah, I got that one already.
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Aug 28, 2014 03:33
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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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Oct 15, 2014 19:03
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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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Oct 15, 2014 19:52
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WRT Butters being a Mary-Sue... didn't Butcher play him in the TV show?
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Oct 25, 2014 06:47
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Skippy McPants posted:Nah, played by a guy named Matt Gordon according to IMDB. My bad. He was an "extra" working as Butter's assistant in the background.
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Oct 25, 2014 07:58
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Wittgen posted:Butcher has said that he wrote Butters so that he would have a character he could cosplay. Maybe that's what you were thinking of? Nope. Dude behind Justin's coffin. 
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Oct 25, 2014 21:01
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Kate Griffin's Midnight Mayor/Magicals Anonymous books are pretty fun too. Nice and light, and no weird sex stuff that I can recall.
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Nov 18, 2014 07:36
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Ika posted:So, I now finished Who killed Sherlock Holmes. After reading it it seems like its doing a significant amount of setup for whatever is coming next, but it feel like it answered that many questions about the otherarching story. Is it better than the previous one? I really enjoyed the first, but the bullshit with Gaiman really messed with the tone and soured me on the second. Glad to hear about the overarching story stuff though, it certainly has potential there.
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Jun 12, 2016 03:58
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Digital? fake edit: yes, two, right there on the cover
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Jul 27, 2016 22:07
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awesmoe posted:that is an amazingly amazingly low bar. How does it compare to actual good tv? Personally thought ep1 was a little odd, but then I'm very familiar with the book and may take away different things than your average job public. Seems like it would have been better if you could immediately roll into the second ep a la netflix releases, but there you go. Watch episode one, and if it doesn't grab you still watch the start of ep 2 because holy poo poo.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:OK I read the whole Paul Cornell Witches of Lychford series Is the third one good? I was put off by the Gaiman stuff in the second and never picked it up
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