Are you on Twitter?? I looked for your various pseuds. I'm Wordslingeuse.
Hee, no, I am not on Twitter. I am on the Internet enough as it is!
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2012 12:15:47 pm PST #17997 of 28266
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strix - Feb 26, 2012 1:51:45 pm PST #17998 of 28266
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
- sniff* I'm on Twitter for PROFESSIONAL REASONS, ok?!
Um.
hippocampus - Feb 26, 2012 2:37:58 pm PST #17999 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
I'll second the fact that derivative came from a late reader.
Props for naming the main character Hiro Protagonist, though.
That won me. The rest kept me. Diamond age converted me.
Volans - Feb 27, 2012 10:00:38 am PST #18000 of 28266
move out and draw fire
Yeah, it was that he read it last year, and assumed Stephenson was late to the game for "metaverse" and "avatar" and, you know, Google Earth.
hippocampus - Feb 27, 2012 10:10:43 am PST #18001 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
and, you know, Google Earth
that reference in REAMDE was excellent authorial revenge.
Volans - Feb 27, 2012 10:38:38 am PST #18002 of 28266
move out and draw fire
Wasn't it? I applauded.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 8:16:48 pm PST #18003 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can I have book-identifying help? The first Tarzan I was exposed to (confusingly enough) was a meta book that presumed that all of ERB's work one was consistent and true history, and tried to string it all together and make sense of it.
I seem to recall later learning that it was by a pretty prominent fantasy or sci fi author, but I can't remember who it was, and it's not like you can googl...oh, wait...you can.
Never mind. Consider this instead a random recommendation for the book Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer. It's really pretty good, if memory serves. Of course, Wikipedia is telling me some interesting erection-ridden things about sequels that I'm nervous to investigate...anyone know if it's worth it?
Burrell - Feb 27, 2012 8:39:02 pm PST #18004 of 28266
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The original Tarzan is a shockingly bad book. It's got more WTF than an acid trip.
DavidS - Feb 27, 2012 8:41:49 pm PST #18005 of 28266
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of course, Wikipedia is telling me some interesting erection-ridden things about sequels that I'm nervous to investigate...anyone know if it's worth it?
I really loved Tarzan Alive but there's diminishing returns going back to the Wold-Newton-verse. But you'll always remember the gray eyes.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2012 9:05:47 pm PST #18006 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah the bits with the guys who can only get it up in mortal combat and only ejaculate when they kill--sue me for limited imagination, but how many times can you go to that well, porn or no.