I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


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."


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!

Here I am!


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.


le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 7:38:55 am PDT #18233 of 28286
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

dammit.


Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2012 7:41:06 am PDT #18234 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That's what I thought.