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Mad Swede replied to the thread A quote from the late Sir Terry Pratchett....Some of you have felt that Pratchett was generalising too much in that quote. I suggest that perhaps he was guilty of oversimplifying... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Yes, that is a very good historical account of the Third Reich. William Shirer was a US journalist working in Germany between 1934 and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Embarassing situations.As a published author, being asked to read other people's unpublished stories is something I get asked sometimes and I always refuse. In...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Might I be awkward and challenge your suggestion that most fantasy settings are medieval in style. There are quite a few novels and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Anyone else on here into vintage computing?.You realise, don't you, that some of us learnt to program in PL/1 on IBM mainframes running OS/360 and MVS with CICS. Later I used PDP...
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Back before the internet, you would call a research librarian and ask them stuff. They'd get back to you, usually within a few hours...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread A quote from the late Sir Terry Pratchett....Or worse still, bitch about books they haven't read and don't intend to read because they think they're a "middlebrow cult of the...
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." Discuss!
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In another thread skip.knox wrote the following: The thread here reiterates for me the dialectic between discovery and planning. Plot...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread 'real' names in Fantasy Settings..What you seem to want to do is make a joke about the so-called Aerith and Bob trope. It's been done before, in various parodies. Readers...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Discovery mapping.I've never thought about my writing in terms of something like "discovery writing". I think the story through then write, and the...
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Writing historical fiction requires never-ending research - so easy to slip up with anachronistic details. While editing my novel set in...
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We often think that stress and stress related illnesses are somehow unique to modern times, but there is research which suggests that...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.Cafeteria is Mexican Spanish in origin, and it means the same thing as the British English expression coffee house (or coffee-house or...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.The fantasy and SF genres were moving on and expanding within 15 years of the Lord of the Rings being published. Authors like Michael...
