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[etrangere]

Spent a lot of the two days before reading those books I found. Not so much childhood books in fact. That's The amulet of Samarkand and The eye of the golem by Jonathan Stroud. Nice little story, pretty grim humour and dark outlook. Modern world with magic twist, but every magicians are able to do magic only because of the spirits they summon and

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[halcyon_libra]

What is "zelazny"? :3

And ooh, I'll have to scan that conversation later. Randomly, I really like that girl's fics too.

[etrangere]

Zelazny is a SF and fantasy writer. Not a very recent one, but not extremely old either.
One of his main work is the Cycle of Amber (ten books that starts with "9 princes of Amber") which says that every many worlds of the multiverse are all shadow of the one true world, the city of Amber. The princes of Amber are a very dysfunctionnal and machiavelic family that spends a lot of its time waggling intrigues against one each other. I read it a long time ago, and that universe made a very striking impression on me.
Zelazny got many other great books for which he often take inspiration from mythology. Such as "Lord of Light" (Hindouism and Buddhism), "Creatures of Light and Darkness" (Egyptian) for exemple. All are not so good, but it's often fun ("October Night Dream" was especially extremely funny), sometimes delirious and with good adventure. And cool trickster like heros.

[elihice]

Even if I think I'll going to have rocks trown at me for not knowing this... explain what is Rocky Horror Picture Show

[etrangere]

You really don't know ? whoaw

[rainmage]

"The hanged man", is it a reference to the Tarot card, to Subaru, or both?

[etrangere]

To the tarot. I'm a big tarot geek, and the hanged man was always my favourite tarot card, the one I identify with most (and that a long time before I read X ^^)
For me it symbolizes the ultimate type of freedom. The one that comes from who you are. It's also goes with my Odin fangirling ^^

[ariseishirou]

What or who is 'tyranael'?

[etrangere]

Tyrannael is a serie of 5 books written by your compatriote the wonderful Elizabeth Vornarburg, which I consider as the best SF writer in the french language. (I think she also wrote some books in english, but I have no idea if the Tyrannael ones were ever translated)
It's about a colony of humans settling on a new planet which used to be inhabited by aliens but isn't anymore. There's a strange phenomenon happening on this planet called the Sea which will kill many people, and then slowly awake psychic gifts in the human population.
The serie encompasses a long time of the history of the planet. Think Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover serie, except much more well written and with a constant level of quality.

[su_chan]

What is 'left hand of darness'?¿ XD

[etrangere]

One of my all time favourite SF book. Left Hand of Darkness was written by Ursula K. Leguin, and is about one single envoy sent on a cold planet to make contact between the population and a federation of planets (but faster than light travel is impossible, only instant communication is possible thanks to the ansible (the word now widespread in sf was invented in this book, and as an anagram of lesbian)) called the Ekumen. One main particularity of this planet is that the people who live there have no gender. they are effectively "neutral" most of the time, until once a month, when they enter "kemmer" and take the role of one sex and are basically hormonaly "in heat

[su_chan]

Sounds very interesting, I would like to read it, the poem _suits_ SeixSub too perfectly O_O;;