Marc Ozin

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• Nix commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  Having just read the first 75% of The March North (fabulous: Graydon, if you want some typospotting I have found a few), what it reminds me most of is Glen Cook's Black Company novels. James Nicoll also made this comparison, but for different reasons: he thought it was similar because of the gritty "not ignoring the aftermath" stuff. I think it's similar because of almost everything else: the writing style, ultra-spare and eschewing pronouns almost completely; the extensive use of nicknames (quite probably for the same reason); the deep, deep history in which all you've had for longer than even...
• Graydon commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  Typeaux identities are always welcome! (append "ish" to my name at gmail.com and it ought to work.) Halt certainly isn't the Lady as a venerable terror, but I'm glad the impression is there. (And I would never dare try to write One-Eye; Cook is a remarkable stylist and I haven't got his particular ear for dialog.) The first book I wrote, the goal was to start off like a generic fantasy and slowly have it get stranger and stranger, because if it started off as strange as it ended up that would never work. Various persons kindly informed me that...
• Nix commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  Tyop report coming up. In A Succession of Bad Days it becomes clear that Halt is... really quite different from the Lady, yes. But in The March North this is less clear: I can imagine the Lady terrifying a [censored for obvious reasons] in just the same way. :) It's definitely getting much stranger! Although, good grief, Blossom already gave the world something about as powerful as middling-big nukes in The March North!...
• Graydon commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  Tyop report coming up. Thank you! And yay! getting stranger. The March North really is meant to be the easy on-ramp to a bunch of stories about militant egalitarians who aren't setting out to conquer hell (where they happen to live) because conquest is antithetical to the ideals of peace. And then I ran into "what does a consciously rationalist sex-positive atheist egalitarian culture use for swears?" and the narrator turned out to be a bit odder than I had expected. And then Halt wandered in out of the dark, looking quite pleased with themselves. So I do wonder if...
• CatinaDiamond commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  Small note since ruining host posts is kinda a sin I'm culpable of. Smart OP, much love....