Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'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."


Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2012 10:02:04 am PDT #18226 of 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
"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 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That's what I thought.


megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 8:17:16 am PDT #18235 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Huh, I could have sworn he was the one that helps get her out in the second book.

It has to do with a plot point of the first movie, which was cool, but I thought contradicted the later books.