Hrm, so I'm seeing these ads for a new TV show called _Revolution_ on NBC (amidst Olympics coverage) and it looks/sounds remarkably like a treatement of SM Stirling's Emberverse books but with different characters and a locale that is entirely written off in the books....am I imaginging this? The wiki page for the show has a link to the Emberverse series but doesn't note how they are related.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
erin_obscure - Jul 31, 2012 9:42:46 pm PDT #19464 of 28343
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Consuela - Aug 01, 2012 4:51:07 am PDT #19465 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, if it is related, I do hope they avoid the really distasteful ethnicity fetishism, which is what made me put down Dies the Fire and decide not to read any more.
Jessica - Aug 01, 2012 6:47:47 am PDT #19466 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I picked up a cheap paperback copy of This Is Not A Game when I realized I didn't have the brain power to dive into another David Mitchell book right now, and the opening few chapters involve an online community banding together resources to extract one of their members from a war zone.
It reminded me of us.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2012 6:57:34 am PDT #19467 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've seen people mention the Emberverse in relation to Revolution, but I've also seen them discard the comparison. I am not familiar with the book, so I wasn't paying attention to the details, though.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 01, 2012 7:01:27 am PDT #19468 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have to make a recommendation to mystery fans- The book "Still Life with Murder" is the first in a series about a lower class Irish girl turned governess solving a mystery for her employer. It is free on Amazon right now, and I really enjoyed it-- not just for the mystery, but the layers of the protagonist, and a light romantic element. I have read 3 of the series already!
Amy - Aug 01, 2012 7:03:34 am PDT #19469 of 28343
Because books.
Who's the author, Sophia? Never mind! Apparently, I already bought it weeks ago ...
Sophia Brooks - Aug 01, 2012 7:09:51 am PDT #19470 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I thought it was excellent- especially for $0.00! The other books are only $3.99 each, or there are used paperbacks in the "very cheap" range.
The author is P.B. Ryan.
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2012 7:43:49 am PDT #19471 of 28343
brillig
Is it Kindle format only?
erin_obscure - Aug 01, 2012 3:57:58 pm PDT #19472 of 28343
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Consuela- I think so. The TV show seems to be a family never mentioned in any of the books with no discernable accent, still wearing current fashions (really? 15 years later?) and near Chicago which was written off in the books as a destroyed wasteland (like pretty much the entire East Coast). So the basic concept of the books, but mainlined for TV audience.
meara - Aug 01, 2012 5:27:53 pm PDT #19473 of 28343
Erin, you were not the only one who saw those commercials and wondered if it was just a "post-apocalypse stuff is awesome right now!" or if it had some relation. Can't decide if I'm glad or not that it doesn't. I'm sure it'll have it's own fun.