August
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Commented on What are you reading this summer?
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, because the first one was chosen by my book club and, as a huge Patrick O'Brian fan, I found it hit enough of the right Napoleonic war/historical adventure/sea story culture/procedural spots to be entertaining enough to...
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Commented on Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
"you can, at a pinch, apply it to that stereotypical MFA lit-fic novel of lecherous middle-aged academics without too much trouble" More than just at a pinch. Dan Harmon (and a slew of others) have broken the hero's journey down...
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Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
The way my brain works, it's an author using stupid numbers that annoys me. I'm fine with a huge horde, but tell me it's an army of 50,000 and I start worrying about logistics and tons of food required per...
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Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
Sorry for the late reply. Just getting to this yesterday and it took two days to read through. then clothing is decoupled from routine status displays, and a lifetime later some people start doing dress-up as a subculture thing because...