Sentences the copy-editor should have caught, a series: From "The Wild Ways", by Tanya Huff.

Before I get to the sentence, I will repeat an establishing sentence from page one: "Nothing in the room screamed money, but everything said it quietly, well aware -- given the quality of the furnishings -- that shouting wasn't necessary to make the point."

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 There are three mountains that reach for the sky around us. One, the largest, is to the south. It is from this direction that the barbarians come, and so the mountain is called Wintergate. Once every century or two, they come and kill us all. One or a few manage to survive. They go to the outside world and do great deeds, returning to the city ( Read more... )

 If I were doing a Game of Thrones-type series:

King dies (of testicular cancer) leaving no heir of the body. Under the succession law, the next king must be a male heir of the body of (Q, ruler several generations ago)* and king was the last one; the only remaining heir of the body is a second cousin girl child. Dynastic crisis. "Regency council" ( Read more... )

 Four Howling Curmudgeons posts in three days. It's like, weird.

 So driving to the game last week, I started putting together an Oz story in my head, in which the story main characters get zapped back into Oz's far distant past, before it was a fairyland. Probably Dorothy and the Glass Cat, because the one is a great heroine and the other is my favorite Oz character ( Read more... )

I am reading Tiassa, the new Steven Brust book. And it illustrates quite thoroughly a dominant theme of his books, which I have only slowly and lately become aware. [There are, I believe, no more than trivial spoilers for Tiassa herein.]

I can put it two ways, one of which sounds tautologically trivial: Everything looks different from everyone else' ( Read more... )

Konrath and his cohorts are claiming Kindle gold with their back catalog and new work at low price points ( Read more... )

Frazz and 9 Chickweed Lane are right next to each other on my comics.com comics page. Today, both feature tyrannosaurs. It's a little added amusing coincidence.

Heh. Knowing only the tiniest amounts of information about Semitic morphology still opens huge portals for comprehension.

Semitic languages have (canonically) roots made up of three consonants, fleshed out into words by the application of a template. Islam, muslim, and salaam all have the same triconsonantal root s-l-m (approximately "peace"), ( Read more... )

I have a twitter account at gpmorrow.

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