"I almost met Allyson once, but got lost instead. Reading her book is the next best thing!"
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Gris - Feb 21, 2006 9:50:17 am PST #8327 of 10001
Hey. New board.
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2006 9:54:19 am PST #8328 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Hello, we're Tim's beagles. If we could talk (and read, for that matter) we'd be telling you how good this book is."
dcp - Feb 21, 2006 9:57:07 am PST #8329 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Blurbs can be powerful things. I checked out The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks based on the jacket blurbs, including one from William Gibson ("Banks is a phenomenon...Wildly successful, fearlessly creative.") and one proclaiming that it is a Hugo nominee for Best Novel. I gave up after ten pages.
Sample:
Luseferous had long, sheen-black straight hair and a naturally pale complexion which had been skilfully augmented to make his skin nearly pure white. His eyes were artificially large, but just close enough to congenitally possible for people to be unsure whether they had been augmented or not. The whites beyond the black irises were a deep, livid red, and every one of his teeth had been carefully replaced with a pure, clear diamond, giving his mouth an appearance which varied from bizarre, mediaeval toothlessness to startling, glistening brilliance, entirely depending on angle and light.
Allyson - Feb 21, 2006 10:00:02 am PST #8330 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
omg, that's totally how I described Joss.
Jessica - Feb 21, 2006 10:01:41 am PST #8331 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Banks is a phenomenon...Wildly successful, fearlessly creative."
I think that quote is on the back of all of Banks' novels.
msbelle - Feb 21, 2006 10:23:01 am PST #8332 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
HA! Allyson.
Betsy HP - Feb 21, 2006 10:28:55 am PST #8333 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
your book sells a brazilian copies
What, nearly nonexistent except for a thin landing strip?
Allyson - Feb 21, 2006 10:34:50 am PST #8334 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Well, there's also the itching.
Vortex - Feb 21, 2006 10:47:14 am PST #8335 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
sheen-black
what the hell is this? The Grammar Nazis are ready to attack!
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2006 10:55:20 am PST #8336 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For Betsy:
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
I'm reading The Algebraist. I quite like it.