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Has there been any word on an Alecto release date? Nona came out about 2 years after Harrow, and its been 18 months since Nona...
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StumblyWumbly posted:Has there been any word on an Alecto release date? Tamsyn's not in a great way, is my understanding, so it will come out when it comes out. Apparently there's a speculative 2025 date but I think that's just a placeholder.
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sebmojo posted:Tamsyn's not in a great way, is my understanding, so it will come out when it comes out. Apparently there's a speculative 2025 date but I think that's just a placeholder. Oof, good luck to her, she's an absolute treasure and I hope she stays healthy.
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Mr. Teatime: Your wife is an amazing artist!sebmojo posted:Tamsyn's not in a great way, is my understanding, so it will come out when it comes out. Apparently there's a speculative 2025 date but I think that's just a placeholder. I used to chide myself that artists/creators (in whatever medium) don't owe their audience anything whenever GRRM's writing delays came up (of course, this was like A LITERAL loving DECADE AGO). I've since stopped caring about that particular series but I guess the same underlying truism applies here, except with a whole lot more good will attached to it. Will echo StumblyWumbly that I hope she focuses on herself and stays/gets healthy and I look forward to getting Alecto when/if ever she may grace us with it 
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I'm a lot more sympathetic to not giving an author poo poo for delays when they don't spend years promising "next year soon for real!" for years until they stop, george but feast for crows killed all my interest there anyway so, you know, hope things improve for tamsyn soon lookin forward to the book but you know, the book's not the most important thing in this sentence
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As long as she doesn't pull a Stephen King and try to get herself run over by a van, we will all just have to deal with the wait. Edit: my first reaction upon hearing King had been hit by a car was to think "aw gently caress now he'll never finish it" mdemone fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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neongrey posted:I'm a lot more sympathetic to not giving an author poo poo for delays when they don't spend years promising "next year soon for real!" for years until they stop, george but feast for crows killed all my interest there anyway It also really changes things that she's apparently got something going on that's messing her up whereas GRRM just spent the last twenty years perfectly fine but utterly unable to finish his series. If we get to 2034 and are still waiting on Alecto but Muir's releasing a "Galactic Atlas" or "Complete List of Every House Member Ever (Volume 3: Second House Part 2)", I will start feeling like it's time to give her poo poo. In the meantime, no motivation to do anything except wish her a speedy recovery and/or resolution to whatever's up.
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don't worry; in the worst case the backup plan is to parachute in brandon sanderson to finish the series
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redleader posted:don't worry; in the worst case the backup plan is to parachute in brandon sanderson to finish the series That makes me incredibly worried.
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At least it's not Kevin J. Anderson
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3 Action Economist posted:At least it's not Kevin J. Anderson oh, good point. he has more experience in this sort of genre
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writers can't really afford to have things "go wrong", i'm very worried
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redleader posted:don't worry; in the worst case the backup plan is to parachute in brandon sanderson to finish the series I can imagine no worse fate for this series than for Branderson to get his fingers all over it
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Strange Cares posted:I can imagine no worse fate for this series than for Branderson to get his fingers all over it As someone who actually enjoys Sanderson's stuff, I can't help but agree. The magic here is the literal inverse of Sanderson's style/method.
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You complete one abandoned book series and then everyone proposes you to finish every other book series everywhere until the end of time
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mewse posted:You complete one abandoned book series and then everyone proposes you to finish every other book series everywhere until the end of time Honestly if you get a reputation for it in other industries then it’s not that unusual. I have a feeling, for example, very few people know how many beloved scripts Carrie Fisher finished/doctored/overhauled. It’s fun to think about who would finish a series if for whatever reason the original author can’t do it, but also a little ghoulish
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Zierham posted:As someone who actually enjoys Sanderson's stuff, I can't help but agree. The magic here is the literal inverse of Sanderson's style/method. Yeah, there's the magic, but also style-wise he is a real bad fit, loving as he does the easiest and clearest possible sentence to get across what's going on. Plus, he cannot write a joke to save his life. Also he is a full-blown mormon who tithes to the church so his relationship with religion is... not one that shares the introspection that this series has. And his character relationship-writing is pretty thin at best. He would finish the plot, but the plot isn't why I like these books. Don't get me wrong, plot is important and I want to see what happens, but the reason I care about what happens isn't the plot. If that makes sense.
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Kesper North posted:writers can't really afford to have things "go wrong", i'm very worried at least she lives in a country with civilized healthcare
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Oh, sorry - to clarify by "the magic", I meant what is great about the books.. not the actual magic system! Like you said, Strange Cares, the best part about these books is the polar opposite of what I enjoy about Sanderson's stuff, so him doing it just couldn't work well.
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Andrew Hussie will finish the books, as a webcomic.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Andrew Hussie will finish the books, as a webcomic. Oh yeah, I finished listening to Homestuck Made This World, having seen exactly zero panels of the comic. Very entertaining stuff.
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silvergoose posted:Oh yeah, I finished listening to Homestuck Made This World, having seen exactly zero panels of the comic. Very entertaining stuff. At least listen to the music!
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Homestuck is a blast, i just started reading it a week ago. Also the cake is a lie, guys that's from a little game u haven't probably heard of
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did you fax that meme to the thread
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Sitting Here posted:did you take a photo of the screen and email that meme to the thread
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MonsieurChoc posted:At least listen to the music! Yeah the music rules, it's the best thing about Homestuck (and I say that as someone who quite likes the comic).
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Homestuck peaked with "You wish the knife had failed to launch." Anyway, art: https://twitter.com/Marceline2174/status/1781648489207963895/photo/1
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Dawgstar posted:Homestuck peaked with "You wish the knife had failed to launch." aunty g taking the kids for a day out
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Zierham posted:Oh, sorry - to clarify by "the magic", I meant what is great about the books.. not the actual magic system! Like you said, Strange Cares, the best part about these books is the polar opposite of what I enjoy about Sanderson's stuff, so him doing it just couldn't work well. Oh that makes sense. My b, didn't mean to go off on you there.
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silvergoose posted:Oh yeah, I finished listening to Homestuck Made This World, having seen exactly zero panels of the comic. Very entertaining stuff. Have they done a Locked Tomb episode yet? Homestuck Made This World was good.
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M_Gargantua posted:Have they done a Locked Tomb episode yet? Homestuck Made This World was good. Ranged Touch? Not that I know, no, they mentioned Harrow in passing, but nothing in detail. Maybe someday!
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silvergoose posted:Ranged Touch? Not that I know, no, they mentioned Harrow in passing, but nothing in detail. Maybe someday! Per their Discord, they might do TLT on Shelved by Genre but it wouldn’t be until the series is finished and the fandom is a little more mellow.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Per their Discord, they might do TLT on Shelved by Genre but it wouldn’t be until the series is finished and the fandom is a little more mellow. I'm unconvinced that last bit is likely, but cool, good to know!
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DreamingofRoses posted:Per their Discord, they might do TLT on Shelved by Genre but it wouldn’t be until the series is finished and the fandom is a little more mellow. I never considered the last part since I basically only talk TLT here and with like one other person.
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Dawgstar posted:I never considered the last part since I basically only talk TLT here and with like one other person. The TLT Reddit is actually p deece
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sebmojo posted:The TLT Reddit is actually p deece True; some of the effort posts on there are pretty wild. Pretty decent about spoiler levels, too.
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Speaking of Shelved by Genre, has there ever been a comparison between TLT and The Book of the New Sun on Reddit or elsewhere? I listened to their episodes on that and had the strongest sense of de ja vu.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Speaking of Shelved by Genre, has there ever been a comparison between TLT and The Book of the New Sun on Reddit or elsewhere? I listened to their episodes on that and had the strongest sense of de ja vu.
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bitprophet posted:Been ages since I last read BotNS but I can kinda see them being interestingly compare/contrast’d. Somewhat epic sci-fi/fantasy blend setting, reasonably to very dark tones, unreliable narrators, whose roles in society are strongly associated with death. I was also thinking of a Severian/Jod comparison with Sun comparisons, and the whole Thecla + Alzebo process compared to Lyctorhood
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