Hello World Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 nvm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I haven't read the Carathayan or EiaMoP, but for those interested here is what the only reivew on amazon says about the story: Quote "The Carathayan" by R. Scott Bakker I'm going to grimdark hell for this but I actually had no idea what the hell was going on in this story from beginning to end. There's a lot of murder, mayhem, shouting, and accusations but I felt like I was going "Whose on First" the entire time. Still the reviewer gives the book 4.5/5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unJon Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 34 minutes ago, Hello World said: I haven't read the Carathayan or EiaMoP, but for those interested here is what the only reivew on amazon says about the story: Still the reviewer gives the book 4.5/5. I just finished it and that's a pretty fair review. But I do think with some thought and teasing out that it contains some revelations about Earwa. It's a very short story and I recommend you read Bakker's forward to the anthology first as the story I think is Bakker's attempt to exemplify the philosophical points he makes in the forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callan S. Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Bakker always seems to write like a jigsaw puzzle - what you get is a bunch of pieces all scattered around to rebuild the original structure from. Though I suspect he leaves out some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle - not to agitate, but for thematic reasons (in part he might be writing about worlds he doesn't even fully understand, and yet are plausible) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Wait, what number is XLVIV? Alright, but seems like a more common way to type it is XLIX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 7 minutes ago, Hello World said: Wait, what number is XLVIV? Alright, but seems like a more common way to type it is XLIX. More common is a very charitable way of saying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Hello World said: Wait, what number is XLVIV? Alright, but seems like a more common way to type it is XLIX. I looked up 49 and XLIX, I thought the previous one as 48 for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Hello World said: Wait, what number is XLVIV? Alright, but seems like a more common way to type it is XLIX. I looked up 49 and XLIX, I thought the previous one as 48 for some reason. EYA: so XLIX is 49, I should have used L for 50, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 There is a new one for sale on ebay now, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damelon Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 9 hours ago, Hello World said: There is a new one for sale on ebay now, by the way. It's pricy alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Random links for visual inspiration: Arkfall, seen from Viri by hairless Nonmen and -women in the foreground. 40 seconds into the Valerian trailer: https://www.cnet.com/videos/valerian-trailer-is-a-feast-for-the-eyes/ . (Number of horns and colour is wrong, otherwise v. good.) Boris the Animal in MiB III makes for a pretty good skin spy. See 13 seconds in and even better in the final scene: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.H. Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 On 5/26/2017 at 4:22 PM, Kalbear said: More common is a very charitable way of saying it. Alright, you guys figured me out, I'm not even pretend smart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 SpiralHorizon has updated his spectacular map of Earwa to be even more spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akh Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 5 hours ago, Werthead said: SpiralHorizon has updated his spectacular map of Earwa to be even more spectacular. Do we have an explanation what that suspicious looking ring of islands NW of Golgotterath is? Looks like another crash site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 46 minutes ago, akh said: Do we have an explanation what that suspicious looking ring of islands NW of Golgotterath is? Looks like another crash site. I think it's just ancient asteroid impact craters. Not Scaldings: a nuke fireball big enough to create that size of crater would irradiate the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callan S. Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Or not so ancient - some other space fairers lassoed an asteroid and sent it down. Cast the first stone... Dat map, tho. Scroll in on them mountains and it's like entering SNES Earwa! (that's a good thing! ). Bonus, scroll in and pretend your on the Inchoroi ship as it goes in to crash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt b Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 19 hours ago, akh said: Do we have an explanation what that suspicious looking ring of islands NW of Golgotterath is? Looks like another crash site. As does Cirionj and there's a few more around the southern Kayarsus, probably some others I've missed. Asteroid impacts? Other sections of the Ark that split off? Other "Arks"? Your guess is as good as mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drorian Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 hi guys I've just read the false sun, I don't know if it's been discussed before but do you think kellhus could've seen the "nuke" and understood its effect cause of the place being a topos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 A more interesting take on the Sarcophagus of the No-God 2 hours ago, Drorian said: hi guys I've just read the false sun, I don't know if it's been discussed before but do you think kellhus could've seen the "nuke" and understood its effect cause of the place being a topos? I don't know why being a Topos would lend understanding of a Tekne artifact. I think that it's basically what it says on the text. Kellhus recognized it as one of the things that caused a Scalding in the past, recognized the countdown, and quickly determined that it was a nuke. He just happened to pull it out because he was excavating the entire thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 7 minutes ago, Let's Get Kraken said: Does that comic actually have anything to do with Bakker, or is it just a series of plot/tone similarities? Coming from someone who has not read a single page not linked in this forum. Similar themes, explorations of morality and kickass fight sequences, gods and devils and the Outside. But nothing specifically to do with Bakker as far as I know. I just thought it amusing that they actually have a sarcophagus that ends up being the ruler of all devils - and it's sitting down for a conversation like you would with a school's principal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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