Yeah you are right I was mixing up Stross and Scalzi, which is unfair to both.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - Sep 01, 2011 5:48:50 pm PDT #16203 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Typo Boy - Sep 01, 2011 5:52:17 pm PDT #16204 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Stross did write the Merchant Princes series which is what I mean't by ""multi-world travel used to teach basic economics".
Yeahs it had characters, action, adventure, sex, tragedy and intrigue. But I found none of it very intriguing. The economic stuck in my head by default, not because it was that fascinating, but because it was less boring than the rest.
Jessica - Sep 02, 2011 2:53:09 am PDT #16205 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I like the Merchant Princes series as light reading, but I really wish they would just get on with it already. I originally thought it was going to be a trilogy, but now I'm worried they may never end. (Unless Trade of Wueens actually ended it? I'll admit I got kind of bored with them and never bothered to pick that one up.)
Ginger - Sep 02, 2011 9:20:42 am PDT #16206 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The book festival has Kevin J. Anderson in a relatively small venue. Does that strike y'all as problem? He's not the world's most exciting writer, but he has been involved with a lot of high profile books.
Another question: A fairly new venture called Story Portals [link] has various writers writing about the same universe. One prominent character, a hedge witch, is named Bel Thorne. As a Bujold fan, I find this quite odd.
Consuela - Sep 02, 2011 9:21:21 am PDT #16207 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
As a Bujold fan, I find this quite odd.
Yeah, that's... oddly specific.
Consuela - Sep 02, 2011 9:23:50 am PDT #16208 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And... oh, dear. Someone hasn't been watching the Women Fighters in Sensible Armor tumblr: [link]
And, oh, dear, I've also found a character named Alessan, which is a bit of a problem for anyone who's read Tigana. The writing on the one story I've opened is a bit... eh.
smonster - Sep 02, 2011 10:41:15 am PDT #16209 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
From Consuela's tumblr link, I got to this awesome collection of Eowyn images: [link]
Which is full of awesome, except for this (NSFW): [link] WTFF? At what point in the epic battle did did Eowyn not just lose her armor, but her CLOTHES?!?! Lady Godiva she ain't.
![[link]](http://theartorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Alejandro-Dini-Aledin1.jpg){kind=link}
Consuela - Sep 02, 2011 11:37:36 am PDT #16210 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, those are cool, smonster. I really like these: [link] [link] [link]
![[link]](http://theartorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Chase-Stone1.jpg){kind=link}
![[link]](http://theartorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Clark-Huggins1.jpg){kind=link}
![[link]](http://theartorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Sidharth-Chaturvedi1.jpg){kind=link}
At what point in the epic battle did did Eowyn not just lose her armor, but her CLOTHES?!?! Lady Godiva she ain't
OMG yes, that's ridiculous. WTF.
JZ - Sep 02, 2011 1:03:40 pm PDT #16211 of 28282
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, I love this one, and this portrait, and this Nouveau imagining, and this painting, so blocky and chunky but very alive and this faux Beardsley. And, holy shit, this.
smonster - Sep 02, 2011 1:50:35 pm PDT #16212 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I would so buy a calendar of Eowyn pictures. Gah. Right now I'm trying to pick one to use as a desktop.