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[bookelfe]

Well, I spent so long accidentally ranting about Kage Baker in the comments of yesterday's post that I may as well continue that trend today!

So the thing is, my feelings about Kage Baker are very strong. I pretty much grew up with the Company series; I think I read In the Garden of Iden the year it came out, and jumped on each new book as it was

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[rymenhild]

There's a moment of treif in the dinner the rabbi's wife serves. That killed my suspension of disbelief, so there went the best scene in Not Less Than Gods and there wasn't anything left to enjoy. Except the Nell Gwynnes pwning Edward and friends. Although really, I didn't need to know so much about Edward's sex life. Or anything at all about it.

[bookelfe]

Yeah, all the detail I didn't need to know about Edward & Friends' sex lives killed the scene with the Nell Gwynnes for me! So I was left only with the rabbi and his hilarious sons and his hilarious car to cling to, moment of treif or not.

(You know what would have been awesome, on the other hand, is if she'd just written and published Lewis' fanfic. Like, it would have been terrible, but in the most hilarious way. WHAT IS A CHEROOT EVEN.)

[kindness_says]

It involves a rabbi who is building cars in nineteenth-century Prague and is VERY SMUG about it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that sounds awesome.

[bookelfe]

Kage Baker is really, really excellent at hilarious bits of awesome! My personal favorite is the dorky LIBRARIAN CYBORG who develops an enormous, starry-eyed crush on a dead Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax and then proceeds to spend the next three hundred centuries writing really really bad RPF. Some of it is AU RPF. IN SPACE.

I am also a big fan of the fact that the cyborgs get embarrassingly high on chocolate and go to Ghirardelli's to drown their sorrows.

[kindness_says]

...hahahahahaha.