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I felt so loving clever towards the end of TFP, around the time all the things started to get together and I finally started getting all the pieces together. Sometimes 2+2 was 3 though (and a couple times 5), but I felt clever. Then I got to the final 50 or so pages of the book. Not so clever anymore.
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coffeetable posted:The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way about the ending sequence was that Chen's haven was basically a nuclear artillery shell. Did that get foreshadowed but I just missed it? I just took it as a safety mechanism, like a nth century panic room. I didn't see any foreshadowing and I agree it was a bit deus ex machina, but still cool. Need to read it again starting tonight I think. edit: I read and liked Malazan so being dropped in the middle of things with 0 exposition has grown on me.
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Yeah I totally got it, just commenting on the nature of the thing. The best part for me was trying to connect the terms used in Tales of Transhuman Nights to the ones in Quantum Starship Boogaloo. The only one I didn't really get by myself was the ather, well ether (obviously) but in the all three lines of exposition we get Flambeur said it was analogous to the spimescape. I'm probably stupid but when they revealed that Sumanguru was actually Flambeur, it all made so much more sense.
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Nov 17, 2012 17:58
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Watching an interview from last year and the dude speaks like he's on amphetamines. Or just really really enthusiastic. Pretty funny.
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Nov 24, 2012 21:29
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Space-Bird posted:Without all the 'weird poo poo' it would have just been Arsene Lupin in space. with its follow up sequel 'arabian space nights'. He should use my "Tales of Transhuman Nights meets Quantum Starship Boogaloo" from page 1 as a cover blurb.
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May 13, 2013 19:59
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I finally bothered to start rereading and I'm almost through The Quantum Thief. Man, it's so much better the second time.
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inklesspen posted:Sydän (Finnish for "heart") Also Mieli = mind. Heart and Mind. And Perhonen = butterfly in case anyone was wondering.
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