Perhaps this is the first step. They can fight it out on the Hunger Games set. Two marketing chiefs enter, one leaves.
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
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."
Ginger - Mar 19, 2012 8:49:18 am PDT #18223 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kate P. - Mar 19, 2012 9:50:14 am PDT #18224 of 28286
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ooh, this is fun: Can You Identify These Famous Writers By Their Distinctive Prose Alone?
I got five -- more than I was expecting, though I'd say the subject of some of the excerpts gave me more clues than prose style.
Toddson - Mar 19, 2012 9:59:46 am PDT #18225 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm reading Seanan McGuire's Discount Armageddon and enjoying it a lot. Our very own Polter-Cow makes an appearance - under his real name - in it.
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2012 10:02:04 am PDT #18226 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hil R. - Mar 19, 2012 4:19:48 pm PDT #18227 of 28286
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've seen a lot of maps but this one makes the most sense to me.
That one seems fairly reasonable, except that I think District 2 needs to be much bigger and cover a significant part of the Rockies. District 9 also needs to be bigger, if that's where all the grain is grown. I'd probably push District 8 further north, since that one is textiles and doesn't really depend on having a particular type of land or climate, and give District 9 most of that space.
Also, Panem sure seems to build a lot of stuff for a country that doesn't have any place that produces steel.
hippocampus - Mar 20, 2012 4:21:32 am PDT #18228 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Elizabeth Bear's new book Range of Ghosts is coming out in a week - first in the new series. She let me pester her about food and worldbuilding a bit last week. Interview is up over here: [link]
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 5:44:10 am PDT #18229 of 28286
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hunger Games question for books 2&3: Isn't Seneca the gamemaker for book 2 and part of the rebellion?
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 7:20:55 am PDT #18230 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes to the first, not really to the second. Why?
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 7:22:25 am PDT #18231 of 28286
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I can see why you'd have that question given how he was deposed and all.
P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2012 7:32:37 am PDT #18232 of 28286
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
No to both. You have him confused with Plutarch Heavensbee.