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My son wants to get the PPV this weekend. What’s a guy with ATTNow as his streaming service do to get it? Is it just easiest time get the WWE app on my Roku? If I subscribe, does it get me the PPV or do I have to pay an individual fee?

I watched a full Raw for the first time in almost 20 years... Know how I know wrestling is lame now? There’s a huge dude who’s terrifying finishing move is a Full Nelson...

So... like a Scottish Dresden Files?!!?

Maybe that’s who I meant and just got confused because I had also been reading his update. There was also a guy I never heard of who I guess has done a lot of crime fiction and one fantasy who said he gets paid a lot more for crime fiction.

Tchaikovsky’s comments about his deal for the video game rights were amusing as well. Basically, he thought they’d never make money so he demanded his entire pay up front.

Shared Abercrombie’s tweet in that thread. I’ve found it interesting to see the recent PubishingPaidMe posts from some of the authors around we talk about around here.

I agree. I will be surprised if he finishes TWoW, much less what I assume will need to be at least two more books no matter what he says.

Which is funny... because I had the opposite rage when they cancelled the DLC for Mass Effect: Andromeda and released a book.

Sure. All that is true. That said, if I’m Scott, from now on I don’t announce a damn thing about the book until it’s been edited and is on the way to the printer. We can handle silence far more than false hope.

I had kind of forgotten about the messenger. With so much of this story happening underground, I presume that there wouldn’t necessarily be much reason to focus on it. Maybe we will hear more in the next book. Lawrence says it’s scheduled for April... so now we wait a year.

And a fourth in a row!!!! Went digging through my Twitter to find when I asked Mark Lawrence about Taproot in Holy Sister He replied with a “Could be”

Triple post incoming: In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Needed to say, knowing Mark’s family situation with his daughter with severe special needs; I thought this was an incredibly powerful opening line.

I failed to mention that I also want to know what the Hunters are doing with the Broken they are snatching.

I just finished it tonight. I agree with basically all that you say. I love the world of Abeth but couldn’t connect with the characters as well. The love quadrilateral or whatever it was didn’t feel natural to me. I did think Theus had potential (no way he was destroyed btw) and I really liked that they set him up as “evil” but correct. If I had to guess on the time frame, I would say it is happening at the same time as The Book of the Ancestor (isn’t that the ninja nun trilogy’s name?). No real reason to assume that other than the fact that BE and RQW ran parallel. I don’t know if I specifically remember the needle trick or not. Taproot was originally a contemporary Earth human (from our time pre nuclear war) who would freeze himself regularly and then unthaw every so often to poke around and influence events. During RQW, at one point he got trapped in stasis by accident and Jalan had to free him. I’m confused as to the progress of these books. Taproot certainly seems to be a program running with The Missing. It is implied they came here from elsewhere and Erris says they thought they would have hundreds of thousands of years, but they wound up with about 10,000 (he says a hundred centuries). But the four tribes are also said to be “beached” here with their ship hearts. Ship hearts can be tied to each of the four tribes. But the ship hearts are obviously already tied to the missing. Taproot was a live human with Jorge and Jalan, but is now a program. When did humans leave Earth?!!? Does the Broken Empire eventually regain space flight? Or could there have been humans that fled Earth before the nuclear apocalypse and took a digitized Taproot with them??? (If they left post BE... could we see digital Jorge again?) I can’t wait to read the next one and see where all this is going. And I hope now that he has this trilogy finished, he can get back to finishing the Jalan/Snorri in The New World story that he teased with a fantastic snippet in the omnibus first RQW!

Interesting. The fact that the computer was Taproot at the end of Holy Sister was a great nod... but at the time, I wasn't sure if that was just an Easter Egg for loyal readers or if it was a true hint at a shared universe.

I carefully clicked on the topic. I got the book day before yesterday, but I am finishing Arm of the Phoenix by Lawrence favorite Josiah Bancroft. Once I finish that up, I plan to dive in fully to this. I loved the setting as a whole and am really interested to go out on the ice with the tribes.

Welp...

Yeah, but when's he gonna turn in Ministry of Necessity?!!?

Hrmmm... I've been trying to change my avatar for a while and it seems to be very finicky. Also, the original instructions in this message may need to be changed as the format of the website has obviously changed and there is no Direct URL option anymore.

With the heaving nerd-rage over Robert Jordan's widow deciding to delay the ebook of Memory of Light for a few months, this is an interesting quote.