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.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Kate P. - Mar 19, 2012 9:50:14 am PDT #18224 of 28476
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Toddson - Mar 19, 2012 9:59:46 am PDT #18225 of 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
"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 28476
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 28476
"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 28476
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.
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 7:38:55 am PDT #18233 of 28476
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
dammit.