It flabbergasts me that [Marcone] can not only visualize worst-case scenarios but set up, not just the solutions for bad possibilities, but solutions for when the solutions themselves fail. There are times that I'm convinced that John Marcone is the Roundworld parallel to Havelock Vetinari. (And if you don't know who he is, why are you sitting here listening to me when you could be reading Terry Pratchett?)
And this from my novel, Besieging Omelas:
A memory stirred then of one of the early Discworld books, in which Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh Morpork, had been overthrown by a dragon and the dragon's summoner and flung into a dungeon with a really strong door...or so it seemed. Then the captain of the watch had realized that Vetinari might be in a dungeon cell, but he wasn't a prisoner.
All the bolts and bars and chains had been on the inside of the cell.
No. Not a cell. A fortress.
What kind of mind, the author had asked, would carefully consider its own downfall and turn
( ... )
Good. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. One of these days, I'll have to sit down and hash out the parallels. Given that Butcher is a Pratchett fan, I can't help but think they're deliberate.
Oooh! I just read the first one (Dresden, that is), and now I can't wait to read the rest! (Well, I couldn't wait before, but now I'll be looking for these parallels as well.)
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It flabbergasts me that [Marcone] can not only visualize worst-case scenarios but set up, not just the solutions for bad possibilities, but solutions for when the solutions themselves fail. There are times that I'm convinced that John Marcone is the Roundworld parallel to Havelock Vetinari. (And if you don't know who he is, why are you sitting here listening to me when you could be reading Terry Pratchett?)
And this from my novel, Besieging Omelas:
A memory stirred then of one of the early Discworld books, in which Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh Morpork, had been overthrown by a dragon and the dragon's summoner and flung into a dungeon with a really strong door...or so it seemed. Then the captain of the watch had realized that Vetinari might be in a dungeon cell, but he wasn't a prisoner.
All the bolts and bars and chains had been on the inside of the cell.
No. Not a cell. A fortress.
What kind of mind, the author had asked, would carefully consider its own downfall and turn ( ... )
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TOO PERFECT.
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