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I just learned today that the audio version of Little, Big is narrated by one John Crowley, who apparently is very good at it. Gonna have to check that out.

I presume Charlie would much prefer it not be. :)

I think so too. The revelations at the climax of The First Law and An Age Of Madness are like textbook examples of catastrophe and eucatastrophe.

Sure. Sorry about that. My apologies. I was not at my best last night and didn’t bring the level of self-scrutiny and rewording the subject demands.

In fact, though, the opposite is true. John Scalzi gained readers and customers for his stands on various issues of the day. So has Larry Correia, for a strongly opposed set of views. The customers each one loses are made up by others who find the author laying out what they think should be...

It’s crucial to the overall development of. Abercrombie’s story, through the three trilogies, that a bunch of people do rise to the challenges of their times. Often they’re as surprised themselves as th reader is about who they turn out to be.

Along with James Ellroy, Barbara Hambly, Lindsey Davis, Ian McEwan, Caleb Carr, Victor LaValle, Robert Harris, Joyce Carol Oates…

Turtledove was a professor but shifted to full time writing in the 1980s. A collleague of his in this regard is Barbara Hambly, who left her medievalist doctorate unfinished to become a full time writer. She doesn’t glamorize her milieus, either fantastic or historical (the Free Man of Color...

It’s all misdirection. They’re work on an Age of Sigmar show. Okay, or not.

A Song Of Ice And Fire isn’t told “I’m the right way” for a bunch of readers with intelligent, adult objections, most b by broadly about the accuracy of asserted historical precedents and whether even if true they constitute sufficient justification for things like the portrayal of sexual...

And “book” can also mean something copied by hand by a scribe, a Folio Society tome, a zine, and ebook, an audiobook…. Objection! Presumes facts not in evidence! Often we don’t! Always happy to see Wittgenstein come up in these things. The point strikes me as something that should be self-evident.

You can’t always be ideologically neutral. Take questions like “Is this group of people we’re considering selling to a bunch of delusional perverts who need to be suppressed?” And “Is that group genetically inferior in cognition to the point too few of them could actually play our games and...

Sure. It’s all about where I think an entry will have neighbors that make for productive comparisons I’m very impure in my taxonomy.

We do, but I think it’s a better horror move with an sf setting and story than it is an sf movie. I don’t think the supernatural element disqualifies from being sf (or we’d get into all sorts of ugly snarl including whether Christins, Muslims, etc. can write hard sf), but the focus of the...

Works for me. And we don’t evoke Valentino and his amazing gaze often enough in these sorry times.

After your trip, compare it to your experience, please.

Yup. A lot of would-be gaming pundits taken it as given that 1) a huge fraction of roleplaying books are made by soulless hacks just cranking them out and 2) they themselves can very reliably identify the books that way. Neither is true. I don’t think most game buyers consciously recognize it...

Well, that and romancing, and dealing with the kids.

Glad to help! Having more names for things enables goofiness about more things.

There’s collapse before the biggest and then the last of the wars. Mad Max makes brief but explicit mention of escalating resource depletion. The absence of innovative tech is part of the point - it’s no longer feasible, at least for social edges like Max’s (We don’t have enough to guess what...