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]
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
hippocampus - Mar 20, 2012 4:21:32 am PDT #18228 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
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.
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 8:17:16 am PDT #18235 of 28286
"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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2012 8:36:21 am PDT #18236 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
Nope.
he's killed as punishment for the outcome, so in the second book, there's the effigy with his name on it to get the gamespeeps attention.
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 8:41:11 am PDT #18237 of 28286
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, okay. Then the scene is question is actually pretty awesome.