io9 compiled the rules of magic for dozens of magical universes: [link]
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
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."
Consuela - Dec 08, 2011 2:47:56 pm PST #17014 of 28283
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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§ ita § - Dec 08, 2011 3:18:01 pm PST #17015 of 28283
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 got some shit wrong. Hmmph.
Amy - Dec 08, 2011 3:39:34 pm PST #17016 of 28283
Because books.
The entry for The Witches of Eastwick is a little suspect, for sure. The plot of the book was very different than the movie, and in the movie the whole witchcraft aspect was a metaphor. It's been years and years since I read the book, but even there, it was satire, not serious.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2011 3:55:31 pm PST #17017 of 28283
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Buffy's wrong, IMO, and Anne McCaffrey's Pern shouldn't even be on the list. It's not magic. It was an ambitious effort, and I think they depended too much on memory and not enough on research.
eta: Oh, and when did The Secret Circle become a "great fantasy saga"? They don't even think it's good enough TV to recap.
Amy - Dec 08, 2011 3:59:26 pm PST #17018 of 28283
Because books.
Oh, and when did The Secret Circle become a "great fantasy saga"?
It definitely seemed like a half-assed list to me. I don't even read fantasy and I know there's stuff they missed. The Dresden Files isn't on there, right? And if you're going to include The Secret Circle, why not Sanctuary or Warehouse 13 or Haven?
JZ - Dec 09, 2011 3:45:21 am PST #17019 of 28283
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
A retelling of Cinderella - with robots!
Hey, I've read that! I picked up an ARC at a booksellers show last month. It's really, really fun. Very well written, with detailed, complex worldbuilding (woven unobtrusively into the flow of the narrative without a single out-and-out infodump) and a really engaging heroine. I snarfed it down in two days and thoroughly enjoyed it.
sumi - Dec 09, 2011 4:21:53 am PST #17020 of 28283
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, then I will be sure to get it when it comes out.
Anne W. - Dec 09, 2011 4:33:33 am PST #17021 of 28283
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Ooh. That looks intriguing.
sumi - Dec 09, 2011 7:58:47 am PST #17022 of 28283
Art Crawl!!!
Thomas Canty has donated a drawing he did for the illustrated special edition of A Feast for Crows to the Terri Windling fundraiser. (Not surprising - I believe he did the covers for the Fairy Tale series and for various anthologies that Terri Windling edited.
DavidS - Dec 09, 2011 9:02:52 am PST #17023 of 28283
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do you know somebody who needs a Margaret Atwood doll?