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Captain Capacitor posted:I'm going to be meeting Jim next week when he wanders by Seattle, so if you have any pressing questions I'll Ask him if the White Court was at all inspired by Varney the Vampire.
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-Fish- posted:At another signing he said there are seven vampire courts in total. Ask him what the names of the three we haven't heard of are, where they're from? Maybe even how they feed? All we currently know is the bonus three are apparently really wimpy... hopefully he'd give a bit more than that.
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May 23, 2014 15:58
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I'm pretty sure that killing was justified. Michael woulda gotten away with it, which seems to be the metric that matters
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ImpAtom posted:I know that Little Chicago got wrecked because it was obviously a bad idea from a writing perspective but man was that a frustrating fizzle of a plot. I was really hoping there'd be a =voodoo type thing with little Chicago causing the next Great Chicago Fire.
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Also, Harry could walk while being pierced by those steel manacles
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apostateCourier posted:Wait, doesn't the ectoplasm thing make shapeshifting even more dangerous than we thought? I mean, if you get Circled then you'd lose bits, and I can't see that being anything other than fatal. I'm pretty sure you can maintain your ecto-form inside a circle, since the Erlking managed it. That said, at a signing Jim mentioned that since fairy food is made of ectoplasm, going back to the real world after eating it for a while is a Very Bad Idea.
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There are a few things on the forum about doing some au story called Mirror Mirror, but I don't know anything about plot details.
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I wonder if, metaphorically speaking, Michael ended the book with a complimentary bag of peanuts or a copy of Skymall.
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Zore posted:Yeah, it seems the further down the totem pole you go the more turnover there is. Well, yeah, since if you bump off one of the queens the lower ones shift up.
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'Eldest' is apparently one of the more powerful mantles.
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Jun 18, 2014 15:19
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Sarissa's a changeling.
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Jun 18, 2014 23:44
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WindmillSlayer posted:Why is a different man reading me ghost stories It's just another one of those Changes.
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Jun 28, 2014 07:13
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Fried Chicken posted:I don't think so as a "newborn" she could barely speak without being exhausted, so possessing a statue is probably beyond her. That said it isn't covered in the books or Word of Jim yet Statue was demonreach, I believe.
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Honestly, I liked Laundry 1, thought Laundry 2 was so-so, and found Laundry 3 pretty unreadable. Given the progression, I'm not really that interested in Laundry 4.
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Aug 3, 2014 00:32
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Dietrich posted:Welcome to comicon, where nerds paid good money to go somewhere to buy stuff they could have ordered on the internet for 1/4th the price. It's the same price online
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Aug 6, 2014 23:48
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Ha! Like you can sell diamonds at anywhere near market value. If DeBeers isn't controlled by some supernatural group, I'd be surprised.
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Aug 17, 2014 02:56
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Yomtom posted:One thing that I find odd is that in Small Favor Harry almost kills Nicodemus, and down the line he remarks that he doesn't think anyone else has figured out the secret to it. Long story short, Harry thinks that in the future he might really need a necktie.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:16
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Weren't Marcone's brothels previously all tied to the Red Court?
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Aug 26, 2014 23:06
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SystemLogoff posted:So, I started Urban Shaman on recommendation from a friend. It lost me at the second book, which backpedals a lot on stuff that happened in the first one.
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I think it's pointed out that pretty much everyone qualifies for the blood of kings. Might have been Jim on one of the reddit AMAs if it wasn't in a book.
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Oct 30, 2014 06:11
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The swords DO turn nasty stankwater into pure rose-scented mist, probably works on radioactive stuff too.
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Oct 31, 2014 07:53
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AlphaDog posted:My reading was that tech messes up unless it's older stuff, but "older" is liked to the wizard instead of being a hard rule. Harry is kinda behind the times in many ways, and that shows through what he regards as old enough to be reliable. That's how the RPG does it, sorta.
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Nov 5, 2014 07:59
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Wade Wilson posted:To defend the American renaming a bit, I thought that they didn't want the initial book title to be identical to the name of the book series, which is the way books have been published for decades (I'm honestly not thinking of any book series where the first book title is the same as the series title). Mistborn?
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computer parts posted:Technically the name of that book is Mistborn: The Final Empire. It's the first book in The Final Empire trilogy, and also the first one in the overall Mistborn series, making it a rare twofer.
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Ghetto Prince posted:the genre started out as vampire/werewolf/faerie porn and it's no coincidence that the Dresden Files is full of sexy vampires, werewolves and faeries. The classic wizard detective didn't have time for such foolishness.  Even if he did take the occasional jaunt down to Chichen Itza 
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Jan 27, 2015 02:08
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jivjov posted:Has the "case file" "framing device" ever been implied to be an in-universe thing? I mean, yeah there's that bit with the journals, but there's no prologue or anything setting up that Harry is writing this all down. It's explicit in a couple of the other things, like the RPG.
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It'll be interesting to see Evil Harry in a few years, when Mirror Mirror comes out.
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Wade Wilson posted:I never said one would be better than the other. The Darkhallow is a Halloween thing and I'm pretty sure Harry wouldn't have had time to do it during Changes. True, but if he got to the ziggurat he probably coulda eaten all the stored sacrifical energy or something.
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Mar 10, 2015 22:19
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Simon R Green writes one novel per series.
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Basically a bunch of people got together and organized a five vote slate, which is a great piece of game theory.
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ookiimarukochan posted:That's a bowler hat, not a fedora. Arguing about whether a hat is technically a fedora only increases its fedora score.
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Ringo thinks it's garbage too. But it's too profitable to stop writing.
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Blasphemeral posted:'What is a "Suvudu Cage Match?"' turns up nothing incredibly descriptive in Google. Suvudu is a website about books/ Every year they put up a bracket of characters from various fantasy series, and have votes on who would win. Authors often get involved and do a short piece about interesting matches. For example, Vin vs Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander, which is pretty funny.
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computer parts posted:To be fair, they're basically fallen angels, right? Those guys don't normally reproduce either. Let me tell you about nephilim.
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Norns posted:I'm closing in on the end of storm front. If this is the weakest book in the series, I'm so excited for the rest of them. Second-weakest. Fool moon isn't great.
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May 11, 2015 23:36
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Exmond posted:Has anyone picked up the Paranet Papers (Dresden RPG expansion). Is it any good? It's pretty good, yeah. Lots of neat stuff. I think you can check out the vegas chapter as a preview.
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May 12, 2015 15:42
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Norns posted:My nostalgia brain remembers these being a really fun read. I was a stupid tween at the time though. It's Piers Anthony. Avoid.
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Magical realism is 'magic happens, but nobody gives a gently caress about it'. Like in a fantasy book where it rained donuts, you'd expect a society to maybe worship a donut god or have a donut-based magic system, and in any event agriculture would be vastly different. In a magical realism book a husband looks out the window and says 'It's raining donuts again', and his wife turns the page of her newspaper and says 'that's nice dear'.
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And here's a similar discussion, with Sanderson's take in the comments.
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mistaya posted:I know everyone loves Sanderson but I really just can't get into him because it's like reading glorified Player's Handbook fluff. I got about two chapters into Way of Kings and he takes this actually interesting fight scene between a dude with gravity bending powers and a dude in magic armor and makes it completely soul-less. It's like reading an Ikea manual. Step one, tether yourself the ceiling. Step two, tether Enemy A to the ceiling. Step three, untether yourself and chop Enemy A from step 2 in half as you descend from Step one. Step four, repeat as necessary. Nah, it's pretty well-agreed that chapter is pretty much the worst videogame tutorial level poo poo he's written. It's supposed to show that Szeth really understand what he's doing, when nobody else does, but it really fails at that. Rest of the novel is a lot better. You should try reading The Emperor's Soul instead.
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