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Dec 16, 2013 02:41PM
Somethinh like that.
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In a desperate attempt to raise the tone and give the thread a nice rustic feelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y07at1...
Premature interjection Jim.
That's what they all say.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Cannibals and pirates, eh?I think I've been there before."
Jim,
This Tsarina facebook thing reminds me so much of Christopher Priest's The Islanders, have you read it?
No, I'd never even heard of Christopher Priest until this point :-(It strikes me that we might both have been influenced by writers like Jack Vance when it comes to settings, and looking at the review, even Lord Dunsany
The Islanders starts out as a sort of travel guide to the Dream Archipelago, which is what reminds me of your Tsarina pieces.Priest's stuff can be... er... imaginatively convoluted at times, but I've liked his stuff a lot since I fist came across it back in the 80s, probably.
Can't think of much Vance I've read. Must've read some at some point.
Lord Dunsany is a pretty new one to me. Sounds interesting. I've heard of the King of Elfland's Daughter, but that's about it.
I'd recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthology-Fea... as a good place to start :-)With Jack Vance, it depends whether you like SF or Fantasy. His best fantasy is probably Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth/The Eyes of the Overworld/Cugel's Saga/Rhialto the Marvellous or The Complete Lyonesse
Mind you, to be fair, on the https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto... I'm sort of playing and exploring the background. Some of the places covered are there because they're fun, they might get mentioned in passing in the book, or stirring deeds might be done there :-)And no one will have to do this https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...
Jim wrote: "I'd recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthology-Fea... as a good place to start :-)"Looks interesting, thanks.
Tales of a Dying Earth sounds very familiar. I may have read that one.
Just found Gutenberg have a heap of Lord Dunsany books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
Jim wrote: "And no one will have to do this https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto... "I can't do that, the wife hasn't got a microscope.
Jim wrote: "https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto... might help"Not only that, I'd give them a hand getting the loofah into those awkward nooks and crannies.
You've noticed I've not commented on the bathing, eh?
I assumed a Canadian would wonder what all the fuss was about :-)
Smart Canadians wait til summer to swim.
I thought that WAS the Canadian summer!
Yes Jim. And we all live in igloos.
Actually I've a friend who went out to live in Vancouver :-)I think she reckons it's just about far enough away from me
Wow I'm really being sarky at you today.Sign of true friendship, right? ;)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Wow I'm really being sarky at you today.Sign of true friendship, right? ;)"
You ought to hear what we've been saying about you behind your back :-)
But yes, you might be right ;-)
If you check you'll see that this is equal opportunities mortification of the flesh https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...:-)
Jim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Wow I'm really being sarky at you today.Sign of true friendship, right? ;)"
You ought to hear what we've been saying about you behind your back :-)
But yes, you might ..."
We? You mean other people talk to you?
I suppose it might just be the voices :-(
Jim wrote: "I suppose it might just be the voices :-("The voices...?
They lie.
They said there would be bacon... and cake.
Erm.Actually there WAS bacon. And cake.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Erm.Actually there WAS bacon. And cake."
I see.
Right.
So were the voices right about the... er... other thing too?
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "http://gabrielchapman.com/wp-content/...http://pixelatedcrumb.com/wp-content/..."
Er.... Excuse me, I just have to be on my own for a while.
BaconChocolate Peanut
I could be some time
I'm sorry, I just feel slightly ill :-(
Throwing up cake...
He ate too much Chocolate Peanut Butter Bacon Pie
Not out shearing the cows and milking the sheep?
Been inadvertently working for a living
I'm glad that's over with for the day.Did you stay dry?
I managed today. This afternoon I sat down to write a bit more of the next Tsarina sector novel and discovered that whilst I've got the book mentally mapped out in two chunks, I've never really thought about how to join the two chunks together.I'm now at the end of one chunk. If tomorrow is fine I've got some stuff to do in town so I'll walk in and that will give me time to think, plot and put things together.
And also with you.
Christmas dinner cooked for us by two daughters, brilliant :-)
If my daughters cooked, I'd be in hospital
Roof creeping, pub crawling and now a duel.This bodes well.
Which of those intrigues you the most. It's the roof creeper isn't it? Reminds you of the old milk tray adverts!
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