Books Queen's Peril (New Padmé book by EK Johnston)

Stories can and do go off into irrelevant little tangents, they're not essays. I suspect few stories will have what you're wanting.

 

I've read stories were the tangents are more fun then the main part ;p

 

Some of the best Discworld material is to be found in the footnotes.

 

Never read Discworld but I'll take your word for it.

 

You might enjoy it, it's one of the few fantasy worlds that develops over time.

Where it would have gone if Pratchett hadn't died is one of the great 'what if's.

 

So... anyone in the UK have a copy of this yet? Still showing up as unavailable for me on Amazon.

 

Have a copy on order with BD, hopefully get it next week.

Serious Q: What does this term mean? I suspect I can work it out, probably nothing good but prefer to get a definition. Haven't come across it previously.

 

edit - oops, double post

 

Thanks so much for the clarification. I was not aware that such wider talk of a malevolent conspiracy did even exist.

 

Thanks, more or less what I suspected - just hadn't seen it phrased that particular way.

 

Thing is, a lot of people tend to think this way -- that they don't mind the idea of homosexual relationship in media, but for every instance they see they jump to the conclusion that the creator couldn't have simply put it there like the rest of the work, it had to be by coercion or by desire to conform. It's hard to get someone out of this mindset. I think looking at non-mainstream media (which is often more queer) tends to help, especially when one had a direct contact to the creator (like in web novels or fanfic), because then it's harder to assume malevolence.

 

Paul S Kemp literally took a break from writing because he was so disillusioned by the Trump administration. I don’t think anyone had to coerce him into including socially progressive elements into Lords of the Sith.

 

If anything isn't it more the opposite problem....I like to believe creators would LOVE to add more varieties of relationship into there stories but the execs and censors tend to say no and creators have to really fight to put that stuff in.

 

In film and television moreso, yeah I figure that’s probably very much the case. I recall hearing that to extent where there was hesitancy about a 2 second kiss between two female resistance members at the end of TROS because of concern it would outrage the Russian and Chinese audiences.

With comics and books I get the impression that there’s more freedom. Probably because they’re not trying to appeal to the widest possible market.

 

Then they cut that scene from those releases anyway.

About LGBTQ+ characters in Star Wars, can't say I care in and of it self. As long as they are a good character and the author doesn't carry on about how great they are for putting it in (Look at a you traviss, who biowear beat by years anyway), it's not a factor in and of it self, not everyone enjoys it (or relationships in general) but I don't see them as a big deal.

Times change culture does as well.

 

My copy has shipped - I should get it Friday, according to the tracker. The book is now showing as 'temporarily out of stock' on Amazon UK. Note that I pre-ordered the book back in January. I imagine all the stock must have gone to fulfilling the pre-orders.

 

My copy is in the post

 

So I guess either a lot of people pre ordered it or they hardly got any copies in to begin with? Even if I can't get it straight away though, I've noticed quite a few of the YA books have ended up in The Works a bit later for like £2-£3 so I'm sure I'll get it eventually.

 

I'd imagine that a lot of UK folks pre-ordered the HC of this because the UK PB of Queen's Shadow had a pretty crappy cover (mostly red and black). I actually ordered Queen's Shadow from the US site for that reason (and a few other books I couldn't find on the UK site).

 

Yep, the US hardbacks are far better than Egmont's UK paperbacks.

 

Are they deep insights? Do you see much from Valorum?

What do we learn about the Queen before Padame?

So it covers TPM in under 100 pages?

 

Amazon UK shipped today! Looking forward to it.