Interesting piece on the role of the novel: [link]
I liked this bit a lot:
Since Tristram Shandy was seven years in the publishing, other writers chipped in, offering unauthorized alternative versions, sequels, and prequels. There was a snowballing effect. Enthusiasts invented Tristram Shandy recipes, set up graveyards with the tombs of the novel’s characters, and named racehorses after them. The book had become part of a national—and on occasion international—conversation. People understood their relations to each other by gauging how they related to the book.
Early fandom!
So excited:
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This is going to be ridiculously awesome.
That does sound pretty sweet.
If you like weaponized math, also look into S.L. Huang's Russell's Attic series, which I need to get around to reading. She describes it as "contemporary science fiction thrillers about a mercenary heroine whose superpower is doing math really, really fast." The first book is Zero Sum Game.
Crap, now I have to buy
Zero Sum Game.
OK, then!
Dammit, why do I have to do this work stuff instead of lying around reading all day? I need a better lifestyle.
So, has anyone read Grace of Kings? I wanted to like it so much, and I didn't. Did we already talk about this?
Damn, I just bought it -- it was on sale. So I can't read your review, P-C.
In other news, Kate Elliott's new YA Court of Fives dropped today, and it's supposed to be excellent, so I grabbed it. Can't wait. Also can't wait for Updraft, which will drop just in time for me to read it while hiking the hills of northern England. And I'm on the library hold list for Nora Jemisin's new book, which everyone appears to be squeeing about.
