Yes, Betsy. RLC changed her fic pseud to JF within the last few years.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Consuela - Sep 15, 2004 10:59:43 am PDT #5867 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Betsy HP - Sep 15, 2004 11:00:07 am PDT #5868 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yup. She's all three women.
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2004 11:00:43 am PDT #5869 of 10002
brillig
I think that there was entirely too much time in between Swordspoint and it's sequel.
You mean, in story time? I agree. It barely counted as a sequel, more like a book in the same world. Very few of the events of the first book made an impact on the second book.
sumi - Sep 15, 2004 11:03:37 am PDT #5870 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
In real time and in story time.
It's not as if she'd been writing many many stories/books in that world (I mean, she hadn't had she?)
Jessica - Sep 15, 2004 11:06:45 am PDT #5871 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have a Vorkosigan question, actually -- are the compilations the full original books strung together, or are they re-edited into new books?
I ask because Miles Errant seems to have replaced Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance, and it would be a shame to mess with those, because they're two of my favorites.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2004 11:08:31 am PDT #5872 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As far as I can tell, they are the full original books just in a row. Not that I've read the originals. And the short stories/novellas are speparated, so they go in where they fit chonologically.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2004 11:10:45 am PDT #5873 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What characterises fanfic with all original characters and settings? Is it to do with the language, the tropes, the what?
sumi - Sep 16, 2004 10:29:48 am PDT #5874 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I didn't think that the DaVinci Code was that great:
This is a phenomenon, a spiritual healing that is bringing Americans back to France and is telling the world the truth about the most dramatic cover-up in history," said Olivia Hsu Decker, a high-end California real estate agent who buys into the book's plot line. She also happens to own the 17th-century Château de Villette outside of Paris where the book's eccentric British art historian and evil manservant live and where, she said, the director-producer Ron Howard will film part of the movie for Columbia Pictures.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2004 10:30:49 am PDT #5875 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::barf::
I have contempt for that book.
Anne W. - Sep 16, 2004 10:36:10 am PDT #5876 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Reading The DaVinci Code was like unto reading a crossword puzzle, IMO.
The Rule of Four tread similar ground in much better fashion. It had actual character development, reasonably well-crafted prose, and a sought-after prize (spoiler: a treasure trove of art and literature that had been squirreled away to save them from Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities ) was far more intriguing than something that has already been bandied about in various books for decades.