...there are reasons I'm full of trivia and irrationalities...
Never mind The Baroque Cycle's alchemical gold, does not the idea of this build an adventure story? ♥
I'm still on the lookout for the pre-Christian historical novel (other than Temeraire) that spans the Eurasian continent and featuring the sea (because there's no proper adventure story without the sea) and a self-thwarting love/vengeance-story (still the most captivating thread).
Meanwhile, Turtledove's Hellenic Traders series seem to really lack...nuance. I'm stil reading Over the Wine Dark Sea. The slow didacticism and inconsistent spelling is rather maddening. proskynesis, have you finished it?
I've mentioned it before, but I truly think The Mongoliad 's format is the forerunner of the next wave of commercial fiction. In fact, it's actually rather "fanfiction-al" in nature. Aside, the beginning of story has promises Excitement going for it....
ETA: The pricing plan on that book's ridiculous. Sure it has hyperlinks 8D (I've dreamt about this for most of the books I read) but that Chapter 1's simply not captivating enough for me to pay. A swordfight between a member of combat-monk order descended-from-Viking and a sort of samurai(either boy or female) under the watchful eye of the Mongol khan? Geekery has never been so contrived for An Audience. And I, apparently, will not be one of them.
I'm still on the lookout for the pre-Christian historical novel (other than Temeraire) that spans the Eurasian continent and featuring the sea (because there's no proper adventure story without the sea) and a self-thwarting love/vengeance-story (still the most captivating thread).
Meanwhile, Turtledove's Hellenic Traders series seem to really lack...nuance. I'm stil reading Over the Wine Dark Sea. The slow didacticism and inconsistent spelling is rather maddening. proskynesis, have you finished it?
I've mentioned it before, but I truly think The Mongoliad 's format is the forerunner of the next wave of commercial fiction. In fact, it's actually rather "fanfiction-al" in nature. Aside, the beginning of story has promises Excitement going for it....
ETA: The pricing plan on that book's ridiculous. Sure it has hyperlinks 8D (I've dreamt about this for most of the books I read) but that Chapter 1's simply not captivating enough for me to pay. A swordfight between a member of combat-monk order descended-from-Viking and a sort of samurai(either boy or female) under the watchful eye of the Mongol khan? Geekery has never been so contrived for An Audience. And I, apparently, will not be one of them.