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Agreed, MUSH character stuff needs to go. We are not going to confirm which characters or events are from GRRM in general. The wiki is for fully canon material, i.e. written, co-written, or otherwise directly overseen by George where he confirms that he has overseen things. He did not give approvals for individual props (like that lineage book from GoT) and we know explicitly he did not have any direct involvement in the Telltale game. @Vaith Please remove the entries, or help others do it, when you've a chance.

Love his anecdote about Dunnett.

Guilty as charged! I suspect this book may work better on a second read now that I got that out of my system. Although even better would probably be a re-read of A Brightness Long Ago and then going straight into this one... ETA: Although, actually, there was another factor as to why that didn't quite work for me:

Glad you enjoyed it! What aspects do you prefer to Children of Earth and Sky? Admitting, as I have previously, that there's a a real structural problem with that book regarding the portion in Asharias, it does have some things that I felt this book didn't have. For example, one of the major things I love with Kay is how he writes... well, heroic sacrifice. It's a thing he writes very well. But there wasn't, really, any in AtSotW. Of course, good that he looks at different things, but... this was the first novel in a bit from GGK that didn't quite find a way to bring me to tears. @SeanF It's interesting how Kay handles Gurcu, both here and in Children of Earth and Sky. He definitely depicts him as very shrewd, and I agree that his handling of affairs in this book made sense.

Ursula Vernon's comics work is excellent, from what I recall of it. And she's just a really nice person, from my experience (she also had a terrific acceptance speech at the Helsinki Worldcon in 2017). Not shocking that Digger went out of print, but nice that Rothfuss is trying to bring more attention to it as he gets it back in print.

Iron Eagle was written in the summer of 1984 and went into pre-production shortly after, and principal photography began in early May of 1985, whereas Top Gun wasn't even announced until the end of 1984 (when it was titled Top Guns) and principal photography began in late June 1985. Which is part of the reason why Iron Eagle came out first. The film has commonly been said to be a clone or rip-off, but it feels like it's just one of those zeitgeisty things -- neither film influenced the other, it was just "that time" for patriotic military airforce films. (The F-16s flown in Iron Eagle were American-made, of course, but were actually rented from the Israeli Air Force.) I have seen Iron Eagle 2, but the first Iron Eagle is much superior because of the teenage misfits side of things adding a (exaggerated) glimpse into military base life for military brats (which, being one at the time the film was made, made it especially appealing to me). [I say exaggerated because no, we did not have handy abandoned bunkers to commandeer for our clubs... we just broke into empty base housing and hung out in them :P] And despite its obviously-lower budget and craft, if Louis Gosset Jr. had had Tom Skerrit's role in Top Gun, I wouldn't have complained, he had fantastic presence as Chappy and Chappy was a great character.

Hell. In his sleep according to Deadline. Just 67 years old. RIP, Ray. Henry Hill and Shoeless Joe Jackson were his most iconic performances, but he had a lot of good turns over the years. He was great in Many Saints of Newark, IMO.

Looking at the Kay AMA for All the Seas of the World, he was asked about lines from his books that particularly resonated with him still, which got us to thinking. Linda remembered a line from Fionavar, but she wasn't sure if it was from the character's introduction or from their final scene, so I went and checked The Darkest Road... and almost instantly, just skimming a page, my eyes started watering because of all the remembered feelings that brief encounter with the book had. It is laden almost to the point of emotional torture with genuine pathos.

Interesting. I distinctly recall early marketing and buzz around it as YA, but perhsps in the decade since the publishers have recalibrated. Or maybe I’m misrecalling.

His only YA book is Ysabel.

For my part, yes, The Lions of Al-Rassan. But Kay himself says he tries to learn a bit more about what people are interested in before recommending, and that makes sense now that his settings are increasingly diverse. Fan of Vikings or The Northman? Try The Last Light of the Sun. Enjoy Chinese wuxia films? Try Under Heaven. Want more magic? Tigana. But that said, Lions and maybe Under Heaven are the two standalones that perhaps provide the most concise sampling of Kay's writing style and themes.

Soooo many references across the entirety of the "Two Moons" setting, right? And even to the prior two books. Did you catch the retcon? Or at least the one we noticed:

Sarnica, not Sardica. It's mentioned a few times in The Sarantine Mosaic, as a city with a small hippodrome from which Scortius was recruited, and a riot there led to half the Kindath quarter being burned by the rioters as they spilled out into the streets. There's also a reference to very fine wine from Sarnica. I think you're right it's sort of Antioch, although the history is changing a bit more because Antioch fell decades after Constantinople. But that he's compressing things, definitely. Having these great events happening within a single lifetime -- and even just a couple of decades -- appears to give him the right sort of scope for his stories. He did it with The Lions of Al-Rassan, where the Reconquista took all of three decades instead of hundreds of years.

Good call on these. What's the new site for the Italian wiki? We'll have to figure out how to test if the others are gone or just moved.

Just an update, a direct quote from (current) CW CEO Mark Pedowitz confirming the B5 reimagining/reboot is still in active development for the 2023 slate, and he cites his love of B5 and his friendship with JMS. My concerns from February remain, that it's unclear how long Pedowitz will be in charge of CW and right now it seems he's the person keeping it alive.

There are those who would say that any book that's comfortable to read is probably not worth reading.

There are 12 moons/months in the ASoIaF year.

Another good review. Will be interesting to see what others here have to say about it!

To my knowledge, it has never been changed and is not a mistake. I too suppose that some are skulls from Valyria. It absolutely should not be added as errata on the wiki unless the text changes or GRRM confirms it's erroneous.

https://m.facebook.com/TheGeorgePerez/posts/153257710535437 George Pérez passed away peacefully at home on May 6th. Two titans of comics art gone in just over a week. Perez cited Neal Adams and his more realistic approach to human anatomy as a big influence when he was starting out.

Very strange. Have you added any recent extensions to Firefox? Could you try Firefox's safe mode and see if it's still an issue then?

I assume you've tested with other browsers and they work?