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9_9

 

=DD

so un-predorder it

 

Indeed, Willful Child is his sci-fi entry. The preview that came out a while back was humorous, so I'll certainly give it a look when it hits. How far are you in Malazan? Andarist gets about as much screen time in Forge of Darkness as Anomander Rake.

Christopher Lee, huh? Fancasting Malazan is fun. Giancarlo Esposito was born to play Quick Ben, and Henry Ian Cusick would make a fantastic Tehol Beddict. Meanwhile, Morgan Freeman needs to be Duiker.

 

ah. bummer

 

Willful Child you mean ID? Yeah, that's due Sept.

 

Not as far as I'd like. I've finished the first four books of the series, and am about to finish the novella series. Doesn't help at all that I've developed the habit of reading a million things at once. And yeah, for all Erikson's reputation of being endlessly ponderous and longwinded, the guy is really funny. Probably the most humorous fantasy series I've read, save for Terry Pratchett (but I've only read his first).

And yes, I can't help but fancast the Malazan series. I'm generally not the fancasting type, but I've got a clear image of pretty much every major character in the series (death not being an obstacle; the Crippled God is Marlon Brando and Alec Guiness is Gamet. Hopefully Hood will cut me some slack. Speaking of which, I picture Hood as a clean shaven Ian McKellen). Christopher Lee is Andarist to a tee (whatever that means); even his elegant fencing style conjured images of Dooku for me. I also love the frequent fancast of Christopher Walken as Kallor (tell me that isn't perfect), and Sean Bean as Whiskeyjack for one obvious reason. I could go on.

 

Excellent. And then we can get started on the rest of the series, the prequel series, and the other three or four series I've recommended to you, plus several that I haven't even begun to discuss yet. And then television.

 

You won't have to wait until you're 90 if you'd just quit your job already.

 

Idk, shouldn't Kallor be a bit more menacing? This is literally the dude who was so bad his civilization called down the Crippled God to stop him, and it didn't work. Then, three Elder Gods came to curse him, and he cursed them right the hell back. For whatever reason, I imagine Fiddler as HBO's version of Thoros of Myr, and Antsy as Tormund Giantsbane.

I sometimes come up with weird voice-casting for it, too. I'm rereading Deadhouse Gates at the moment, and for whatever reason Coltaine is voiced by Ulfric Stormcloak, Bult by Galmar, and Leoman by Jeremy Irons. And Dassem Ultor is pretty much Ulysses from Fallout: New Vegas in my mind.

 

Novellas? You mean the Korbal Broach and Bauchelain tales ID? The Healthy Dead is a particular favourite!

 

Oh god I preordered it too! What have I done?!

Maybe I'll play both.

 

I just realized that Point Given ruined the triple Ramis.

 

*facepalm* myself... did i honestly say Bulbasaur? I was obsessed with pokemon from 1st to 3rd gen. I have brought dishoner to my family :'(

*edit* I just realized i will have to live with the shame of that post for the rest of my existence. or until skynet becomes self aware and destroys the internet.

 

Fox's X-Files promos were so misleading.

 

Anybody remember this?
https://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine

 

So a few people on Twitter are saying that Aaron Allston collapsed at a con this evening and was taken to the hospital.

 

Oh hell.