my bony fealty posted:

A good opening sentence in a SF novel is "The bureaucrat fell from the sky."

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I remember someone made a movie version of Billy Budd that was just unapologetically gay as gently caress

Ccs posted:

or going on the writers cruise that Sanderson & co organize.

sebmojo posted:

It's not that weird, there are a bunch of smaller cruise ships where people give talks as part of the ticket.

chernobyl kinsman posted:

hieronymous doesnt come into this thread because he is a coward

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Look at how "objectively" evaluative this is. You have the three criteria of Characters, World, and Plot, given equal weight,

lofi posted:

What else would she be tanned from?

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His first wife broke with Communism around this time after visiting the Soviet Union and learning far too much about it; their divorce soon followed, and he married Helen Spurway, a young geneticist who shared his political delusions.

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This led him to leave the Communist Party in 1950 and stop his endless blathering about dialectical materialism – although as late as 1962, he still thought of Stalin as “a very great man who did a very good job.” You know, like Tamerlane.

I Before E posted:

Personally I prefer Excel World, wherein a mild mannered accountant finds himself in the world of his favorite spreadsheet and gets to meet all the integers

pikachode posted:

jokes have been made but nobody has yet had the courage to write an orthodox jewish vampire who refuses to drink blood after they've been turned and chooses a slow death by starvation

Strom Cuzewon posted:

The crucifix glitch serves to highlight the fragility of the brain. It seems bizarre that vampires could have such a crippling disability, that there could be a loophole in neural functioning, but this is meant to reflect the same loopholes in the human brain, both real (like uh... blindsight) and speculative.

Bilirubin posted:

it would actually take only a single Stephen J. Gould essay

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

Karia posted:

its glassy surface perfectly transparent

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

Little demons, large demons, fat demons, demons of every shape, color, and description imaginable

pseudanonymous posted:

I mean he could stop right? How much money is enough? I don't mind cynically exploiting people's love of awfulness up to a point but it seems like if that's the case then you'd turn around and write something good.

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When I returned, Teraeth and Juval were finishing their negotiations. Teraeth’s mother Khaemezra now stood by Teraeth’s side. Money changed hands, and one of the sailors showed us a tiny cabin filled with four bunk beds where we could sleep (in theory)* for the voyage.

*_{The beds on board an average Zheriaso-built slave ship can comfortably accommodate a person under 5'2" tall. By comparison, the average Quuros is 5'6" tall, the average Zheriaso is 5'8", and the average vané is 6'2" tall. So in answer to the question “Who could possibly find such accommodations comfortable?” the answer is “No one.” This only highlights the desire of Zheriaso slavers to squeeze every possible bit of space, even from their paying passengers.}

avshalemon posted:

especially not if they've had the pleasure of hearing a maggot-infested corpse. en masse, they are actually quite loud

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

loving lol if you know enough about « genre » to go « lol i will troll these nerds for 100000 posts a day »

« By reading and commenting upon every possible piece of genre fiction »

Cardiac posted:

Botl brought nothing interesting to the book discussions and was in general boring. He didn’t bring any interesting insights but mostly disparaging insults.

As for saying his critics are thin skinned, he managed to get a mild mannered mod like HA to probe him on sight.

Making a thread about Rothuss and dissecting his work is one of those “why the gently caress do you do that”. Most people in TBB who read his work have dismissed it as thrash.

I would say fantasy in general are aware of the issues in the field, but Botl never seemed to grasp the fact that it is perfectly ok to read a book just as a way to pass the time.

Finally, if one thinks Mervyn Peake and Ghormengast is the height of literature, I don’t know what to say.
Good riddance.