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Absolutely. And I worked hard to not make this into war porn/gun porn/Navy SEAL Ooh Rah BS. It's much more about the personalities and... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread LAUNCH DAY.Probably the earliest examples of fantasy authors putting their real life military experiences into their world building are JRR Tolkien...
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Rereading this, I realize this sounds big-headed. Stick with me for a minute, though. As a lot of you Old Guard here know, I did all my...
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Okay, fine; I'm relenting. The Kindle version of STONELANDS will be available on 12 May. Preorder now for $4.99. After launch, it'll...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Victorian England.Start with the various UK Census, especially those from 1851 onwards. Look at the local trade guides and the local newspapers, and also...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....C S Lewis did not dislike Lady Chatterley's Lover. Far from it, he saw it's literary qualities. He seems to have felt that it could have...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.The trouble is, things like supposition and inclusivism are not tidbits in C S Lewis writings. So many people get blinded by the fact...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.We are talking about Western literature so the idea of love, that life is immensely valuable and that this world is an extraordinarily...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread AI, assistance, how much is too much.You don't need an AI tool to do any of this. The specialised spelling and grammar checkers that I as a dyslexic author use do all of...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....Which is said to be why the late Kenneth Tynan suggested C S Lewis be interviewed for the program. (It should be noted that C S Lewis...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....My own view on this is that too often four-letter words become lazy writing, in that many people use those four-letter words when with a...
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We've been discussing C S Lewis in another thread, and there is a quote from an interview with him (in a TV program discussing eroticism...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.No, it is nothing like that simple. What Philip Pullman is ciritising is dogmatism, blind obedience to leaders (not just priests) and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.That may be so, but what LittleOwlbear was objecting to was the supposed Christian morals in The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.I take it then that you don't like David Gemmell's fantasy books? He admitted himself that he was deliberately putting Christian...
