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On the subject of transition periods being somehow gradual... that's not how real life works. So, homework. Search 536 AD. Geographics... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Petrarch first used the term "dark ages" in the 1330s, criticising what he percieved to be the poor standards of literature in Italy at...
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There's a whole thing in the book I'm writing now about how the Pegasi (yes, I know that's not the proper conjugation but I've been...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Ask, you may be surprised.Pegasi is the correct plural form of the common noun pegasus, at least in British English, as the word pegasus originates in Latin...
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Also, never underestimate what you can learn from an expert in their field over a couple of baskets of wings and a pitcher of beer. I...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread A quote from the late Sir Terry Pratchett....We might also see Pratchett's comment as a reply to the criticism some people make of fantasy stories, that they somehow frighten...
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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...
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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Mad Swede replied to the thread Embarassing situations.As a published author, being asked to read other people's unpublished stories is something I get asked sometimes and I always refuse.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...
