seems the only things read around here these days is fic
... or technical guides and white papers, but I have no interest talking about those at the moment.
Finished The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel last night and really enjoyed it. I'd probably like just about any excuse to go back and visit Midworld again, and this would have worked well even as a standalone story (or, three, technically). However it also felt very much like King wrote fanfic to his own 'verse, taking bits and pieces of canon that had been set up along the way, while using the characters to spin an entirely new set of stories from the original source and shows us a slightly different side to Roland. Categorize this as part of the 'Dark Tower High School AU' along with Wizard and Glass. My only complaint is that I would have liked more of Susannah, Eddie, Jake, and Oy in the telling.
The jacket from the book I just started reads as:
"More than an anthology, METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder and project editor John Scalzi who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before. "
Collectively-constructed world. Shared vision unlike any I've had before and a reading experience unlike any I've had before? Um... dear copy writer, meet the internet - not just a collection of barking cats. *g*
Also posted at DW, where
people have commented. Comments welcome here or there.
Finished The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel last night and really enjoyed it. I'd probably like just about any excuse to go back and visit Midworld again, and this would have worked well even as a standalone story (or, three, technically). However it also felt very much like King wrote fanfic to his own 'verse, taking bits and pieces of canon that had been set up along the way, while using the characters to spin an entirely new set of stories from the original source and shows us a slightly different side to Roland. Categorize this as part of the 'Dark Tower High School AU' along with Wizard and Glass. My only complaint is that I would have liked more of Susannah, Eddie, Jake, and Oy in the telling.
The jacket from the book I just started reads as:
"More than an anthology, METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder and project editor John Scalzi who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before. "
Collectively-constructed world. Shared vision unlike any I've had before and a reading experience unlike any I've had before? Um... dear copy writer, meet the internet - not just a collection of barking cats. *g*
Also posted at DW, where
people have commented. Comments welcome here or there.