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News/Announcements / Posting/PM/Registration Issues
« on: April 29, 2016, 03:01:57 pm »
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General Earwa / Pat and Wert - R. Scott Bakker Interview Questions
« on: April 23, 2016, 07:02:03 pm »
Pat and Wert are sourcing questions for a new (!!!) R. Scott Bakker interview.
I encourage everyone to ask many, many questions.
You can post them here and I will quote them over at Westeros or those with Westeros accounts can post them in the thread themselves.
Yay
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I encourage everyone to ask many, many questions.
You can post them here and I will quote them over at Westeros or those with Westeros accounts can post them in the thread themselves.
Yay
!
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The Forum of Interesting Things / NASA Seeks Proposals for Deep Space Habitation Prototypes
« on: April 21, 2016, 04:49:24 pm »
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General Earwa / The Great Bakker Review Ordeal
« on: April 17, 2016, 06:09:16 pm »
Hello, fine people of the Second Apocalypse 
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One of the more interesting and conducive threads at Westeros has been going on over the past week, which Wert and Pat, from The Wertzone and Pat's Fantasy Hotlist respectively, have made a great deal more interesting by offering their insight and support.
As per the thread, some Westerosi and I have prompted a discussion with Wert and Pat, regarding what we can do to help Bakker succeed, especially in this the crucial lead-up to a new release after such a long publication gap.
And the answer, it seems, is very little.
But that very little - our own limited agency - turns out to be remarkable easy.
Pat and Wert have both recommended that the fandom get its collective asses out there and start reviewing the previous books in the series. Do so on Goodreads, on Amazon, find SFF reviewers who might be willing to review TDTCB, who might be willing to repost their original reviews (good or bad), as they have done below, comment on those reviews...
Outreach, outreach, outreach.
As Pat said at Westeros:
- The Prince of Nothing & The Aspect-Emperor by R. Scott Bakker: The Reviews That Come Before
- The Maps of R. Scott Bakker’s Second Apocalypse
- The Darkness That Comes Before: Review
Let's do this and safeguard our future readings!
.One of the more interesting and conducive threads at Westeros has been going on over the past week, which Wert and Pat, from The Wertzone and Pat's Fantasy Hotlist respectively, have made a great deal more interesting by offering their insight and support.
As per the thread, some Westerosi and I have prompted a discussion with Wert and Pat, regarding what we can do to help Bakker succeed, especially in this the crucial lead-up to a new release after such a long publication gap.
And the answer, it seems, is very little.
But that very little - our own limited agency - turns out to be remarkable easy.
Pat and Wert have both recommended that the fandom get its collective asses out there and start reviewing the previous books in the series. Do so on Goodreads, on Amazon, find SFF reviewers who might be willing to review TDTCB, who might be willing to repost their original reviews (good or bad), as they have done below, comment on those reviews...
Outreach, outreach, outreach.
As Pat said at Westeros:
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Bakker needs new asses in the seats. Not just our sorry asses!
- The Prince of Nothing & The Aspect-Emperor by R. Scott Bakker: The Reviews That Come Before
- The Maps of R. Scott Bakker’s Second Apocalypse
- The Darkness That Comes Before: Review
Let's do this and safeguard our future readings
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Philosophy & Science / Is The Death of Meaning Inevitable?
« on: April 11, 2016, 01:42:14 am »
Bakker must have been bored one day last year because he joined Philosophy Forum, on which I'm sure I have a dead account from years ago, and began a thread featuring a very abbreviated version of his ongoing pieces at TPB.
Is The Death of Meaning Inevitable?
Is The Death of Meaning Inevitable?
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Writing / FutureScapes Contest - Empowerment Cities
« on: April 11, 2016, 01:38:26 am »
FutureScapes Contest - $2000 First Prize, Deadline: July 15/16
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General Misc. / Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas
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General Earwa / The Second Apocalypse Book Trailer
« on: April 11, 2016, 01:11:33 am »Full trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIciOLD3iO0&nohtml5=False
I thought this needed its own thread.
I still don't like the tagline. Anything but "Read - Think - Believe," specifically, and, as Wilshire asked, no, I don't have any idea how I would tagline The Second Apocalypse saga.
But, of course, as far as book trailers go, this pretty much rocks the other examples out there (bonus points for the combo-sorcery by Bakker the Brother and Somnambulist for fucking animated images (!!) - amazing).
Any thoughts on that paragraph of voiceover and what it all means? And the pairing themes of images to certain words?
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Writing / Brandon Sanderson Creative Writing Lectures
« on: April 02, 2016, 02:24:56 pm »
This link has been in my tabs list for too many days: Brandon Sanderson Creative Writing Lectures
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Literature / The Black Company - Glen Cook
« on: March 16, 2016, 03:09:42 am »
So things keep coming up and I need to post this.
Who has/hasn't read Glen Cook's The Black Company? Both Erikson and Bakker have cited him as an antecedent. Deadhouse Gates's Chain of Dogs is straight out of a couple paragraphs paragraphs in the first book and a number of Bakker homages have come up, including explicit reference to "thaumaturgical" magic a la Duskweaver speculation.
I had tried to read it a long time ago, and even more recently at Camlost's, but it's really gotten me this time 'round.
Who has/hasn't read Glen Cook's The Black Company? Both Erikson and Bakker have cited him as an antecedent. Deadhouse Gates's Chain of Dogs is straight out of a couple paragraphs paragraphs in the first book and a number of Bakker homages have come up, including explicit reference to "thaumaturgical" magic a la Duskweaver speculation.
I had tried to read it a long time ago, and even more recently at Camlost's, but it's really gotten me this time 'round.
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Author Q&A / Writing & Gap Between Releases
« on: March 09, 2016, 06:17:42 pm »
I had asked a version of this question in one my offerings that made it into the Grimdark Magazine interview but, due to the specific bent of that interview, I thought I'd ask again here.
Between '04 and '11, you released almost a book a year. As opposed to the previous 15+ years tinkering with The Darkness That Comes Before and the various Encyclopedic Glossary entries, this marked an intense period of output for you. Since '11, you've been working on a variety of projects, most notably anticipated being The Unholy Consult, now become The Great Ordeal and The Unholy Consult-proper.
The gap between The White-Luck Warrior's '11 release and this years The Great Ordeal's July release marks the longest in your professional writerly career to date. How, if at all, do you think your writing has changed in the interim? Has the craft been sharpened?
Between '04 and '11, you released almost a book a year. As opposed to the previous 15+ years tinkering with The Darkness That Comes Before and the various Encyclopedic Glossary entries, this marked an intense period of output for you. Since '11, you've been working on a variety of projects, most notably anticipated being The Unholy Consult, now become The Great Ordeal and The Unholy Consult-proper.
The gap between The White-Luck Warrior's '11 release and this years The Great Ordeal's July release marks the longest in your professional writerly career to date. How, if at all, do you think your writing has changed in the interim? Has the craft been sharpened?
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The Forum of Interesting Things / Scientists of Reddit Rate Their Favorite SF
« on: March 08, 2016, 05:34:01 pm »
Interesting read, via io9, via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/49c2qa/scientists_of_printsf_what_sciencefiction_books/
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Author Q&A / The Author Q&A
« on: March 07, 2016, 02:23:30 pm »
During the First Rise, when Zombie Three Seas was at the height of its popularity, SovinNai - by himself or in collusion with the great Cû'jara-Cinmoi - created the Author Q&A subforum. The fandom, in their wide-eyed and righteous fervour, found that with the original texts alone - The Prince of Nothing trilogy - provided only whispered hints of the revelations to come. And so they found themselves turning to the creator, The Author Himself, to seek his wisdom and insight into the written code he had unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.
Now, during the Second Rise, we await the next impending volume of this masterwork epic, our return to that world which haunts us. Of a sudden, the Author Q&A has appeared once again, for those who have driven themselves to the edge in their ceaseless and insane speculations, to help salve and heal their fractured souls.
Ask your questions. Seek your revelation. But beware the seduction of answers...
For they are like opium. The sober find solace in mystery.
Now, during the Second Rise, we await the next impending volume of this masterwork epic, our return to that world which haunts us. Of a sudden, the Author Q&A has appeared once again, for those who have driven themselves to the edge in their ceaseless and insane speculations, to help salve and heal their fractured souls.
Ask your questions. Seek your revelation. But beware the seduction of answers...
For they are like opium. The sober find solace in mystery.
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Philosophy & Science / Sci-Hub (Freedom of Information)
« on: February 12, 2016, 02:59:45 pm »
Yeah, so I can't believe that Sci-Hub exists and the story behind it is a critical engagement that will help decide what our future looks like, win or lose.
Sci-Hub is an academic research platform self-described as "the pirate bay of academic papers." The ingenious part - to me - is that every paper that the system accesses on behalf of a researcher is also duplicated into network storage outside of the control of the big three to six journal publishers. It's for real as Elsevier has already filed legal action that would settle for thousands of dollars on the paper, resulting in damages up to hundreds of millions of dollars (ironically, well beyond the cumulative cost of each paywall paper).
Anyhow - for the moment - peruse the planet's published academic knowledge at your leisure.
Sci-Hub is an academic research platform self-described as "the pirate bay of academic papers." The ingenious part - to me - is that every paper that the system accesses on behalf of a researcher is also duplicated into network storage outside of the control of the big three to six journal publishers. It's for real as Elsevier has already filed legal action that would settle for thousands of dollars on the paper, resulting in damages up to hundreds of millions of dollars (ironically, well beyond the cumulative cost of each paywall paper).
Anyhow - for the moment - peruse the planet's published academic knowledge at your leisure.
