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[bookelfe]

Kage Baker's latest, The Empress of Mars, is basically a classic story of an Irish bar-owner struggling to make good, comfortably settle her three daughters, keep her colorful cast of clientele happy, and stick it to the man

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[ceitfianna]

You've talked about Kage Baker before. Is there a book of hers that you would recommend starting with if I wanted to get into her?

[bookelfe]

Yes! Start with In the Garden of Iden, which is the first book in her Company series (which is what hooked me on her) and is about time-traveling cyborgs in Tudor England, star-crossed romance, the Spanish Inquisition, and the quest to acquire a rare shrubbery.

[blacksheep91]

Astral projection presents? The nerve.

FRIEND! You are learned in the ways of literature. If you were reading a lulzy book set in Victorian England about rich spoiled brats on adventures, which name would be the most interesting for the main character?

1. Edwin
2. Calvin
3. Bertram
4. Garrett
5. Nathaniel

or, which would a rich family of that era be most likely to name their only child?

[bookelfe]

Totally biased survey says: Edwin! Because I have a soft spot for Edwards/Edwins/Edmunds etc. Also it recalls spoiled brat Edmund Pevensie without being a direct callback!

(Also Calvin makes me think Calvinists and would probably have been less likely to be used by Anglican Victorians. The rest are perfectly Victorian but I do not like them so well. :D)

[blacksheep91]

Edwin! That's a good one. (I was struggling between Edwin and Nathaniel to be honest. But Edwin reminds me of Edmund, whom I loved in the second Narnia film, and I suppose you could call him "Eddie" which is.....hilarious to me for some reason. Victorian nicknames are the bee's knees.)

And his no nonsense Autor-like companion would be...Bertram?

[bookelfe]

(Also he could get annoyed when people keep calling him Edward. "It's EdWIN!")

An excellent choice! :D Ehehehe Autor.