Larry of the Lawn Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Might just be the chemicals talking but Koringhus and the crab claw boy at Ishual a are cool take on The Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjako Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 2 hours ago, larrytheimp said: Might just be the chemicals talking but Koringhus and the crab claw boy at Ishual a are cool take on The Road. I'm pretty happy their was a conclusion to Koringhus. I feel a lesser writer may have fallen into a trap of repeating TDTCF plot-line of Kellhus slowly engulfing Achamian, and was very worried Koringhus/Achamian/etc. would have made their way entirely throughout the rest of the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 So glorious, Happy Ent. I recall also someone at another site doing a "T'was the Night Before Christmans," Second Apocalypse-style. "And what did their dream-weary orbs there perceive? but a towering storm shouting WHAT DO YOU SEE!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 This is a quote from Sil-Inchor on Zombie Three-Seas, time ago now: Quote Twas the Night Before the Second Apocalypse. Twas just after the womb-plague And all through the manse Not a Nonman was stirring Not even their prince. The chorae were hung By the chimney with care In hopes that the Carapace Soon would be there. The sranc were all nestled Up snug in their beds Visions of obscenity Dancing in their heads When up on Earwa There arose such a clatter The violent arrival Of Man’s Darkest Hour Away to the windows The Mandate did fly They threw open the shutters Light poured from their eyes And what did their dream-blearied orbs There perceive But a towering storm shouting WHAT DO YOU SEE? With a nimil sarcophagus So shiny and dread They knew that slain Lokung Was no longer Dead. More rapid than eagles The Consult they came And He bellowed and gibbered And screamed out their names ON SKAFRA, ON GLORTMUND, ON HALGYS AND AURAX ON BLODMYR, ON THREKLA, ON LYRNYR AND AURANG TO THE NAIL HIGH IN HEAVEN TO THE GODS THERE OUTSIDE ON WRACU, ON BASHRAG, TO RUIN WE RIDE So up to the skies His legions they flew Man-Traitors and skin-spies The last Inchoroi, too The Mandate, despairing Could not stay aloof They burned in the fires Of the great Mog-Pharau The Men of the Three Seas Were soon overthrown Their hearthstones all cracked And their great kings dethroned The Shriah was headless The Emperor dead. ‘Twas the Second Apocalypse The prophets all said But remember, dear children That though the No-God would fell us If things really turn ugly We can all trust in Kellhus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 What a world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 ǝɟᴉ˥ ˙˙˙ǝɹɐɯʇɥƃᴉu pɐɯ ǝɯos ʎldɯᴉs ǝɹǝʍ ʇᴉ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ ɹǝpuoʍ plnoʍ ǝɥ puɐ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callan S. Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Atrocity lets me remember [I'd actually like to redraft that one - for example, I'd replace the 'But who cares' bit with ' But who care about da twisted emperic? It's all about the feelin', just ask cleric!'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 13 hours ago, larrytheimp said: Might just be the chemicals talking but Koringhus and the crab claw boy at Ishual a are cool take on The Road. slick. the road occurs in the same conceptual apocalyptic space as blood meridian, so the wheel is come full circle there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghjhero Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 16 hours ago, larrytheimp said: Might just be the chemicals talking but Koringhus and the crab claw boy at Ishual a are cool take on The Road. Woah, did not think of that. Very cool observation. Brilliant songs! I cannot stop laughing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsbakker Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 Absolutely awesome. I recall both of these from a while back. I have the Boatman carved so deep in my bean that I see him as Freddy splaining things to Sorweel a la Rocky Horror Picture Show. The fear is that we have all inadvertently revealed our true ages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Sweet jesus, Aurax is just going to be Dr. Frank N. Furter, isn't he? Not much of a man by the light of day/by night one hell of a lover (presumably as the rest of his kin). Making a man with blond hair and a tan (he can after all). He can even descend upon our protagonists Janet/Brad (Akka/Mimara) on the elevator on which Shae had his discussion with Nau-Cauyuti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Alas, my Rocky Horror Picture Show/Anasurimbor Serwa parody (unfinished) also has fallen into oblivion. (We need a circle of half-defunct Westeros and Second Apocalypse boards, each copying posts to the next, in an endless, post-trapping nexus. We’re almost there, I feel.) Here’s an excerpt: Quote A tiny head angled through the narrow opening, no larger than a fist. "Hello". The voice thin and reedy. Moenghus composed himself, took a manly step forward, and stuck out his right hand according to the dicates of jnan. "Hi. I'm Anasurimbor Moenghus, and this is my half-sister, Anasurimbor Serwa, grandmistress of the Swayali compact. I wonder if you could help us. You see, our metagnosis broke down a few miles up the road, and we need to contact the Holy War." Tiny teeth clicking. Beady eyes blinking. A slow puppet nod. "You're wet." For the first time, Moenghus realised that the tiny human head was grafted to the body of a bird. "I think you better both ...” Shadows fluttered around the bird form, as if some greater eye blinked about the world. An intimation of rage and power. "... come inside." The door opened and the Synthese hopped back. Slowly, Serwa and Moenghus entered the chamber behind, followed the fluttering bird through the passages. Gleaming metal, tissue, arcane artefacts of the tekne. Serwa had witnessed the strange torsion of sorcery often enough, but here it was gut-wrenching. Every panorama an obscenity. Moenghus was unfazed. "This is probably some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos." "No," she muttered under her breath. She had visited these halls often enough as Seswatha. "This is Min-Uroikas." In this version, Frank N. Furter is Shauri. (The important thing is that in the end, Aurang can dethrone Frank/Shauri and take the ship home, just like Riff-Raff. So the Aliens need to be Frank and his sister.) Here’s my Frank: Quote The man standing before them was not so much old as he was decrepit. Sagging skin, a tangled beard, scars of the tekne. His Mark was deep, almost purple. So was his lipstick. He wore a green silk gown crisscrossed by a form-hugging sash of blue. Like an old boy whore playing the coquette. "How do you do. See you've met my," an imperceptible pause, "faithful," another pause, "Inchoroi." In a way curiously obscene for one so old, he sashayed past them. Serwa convulsed with pleasure. The old man seated himself in the throne, spreading his withered legs. The confusion of his shriveled genitalia stood in stark contrast to the gleaming phalli of the two Inchoroi who now flanked the throne. Heavy, black, and pendolous. "Don't get strung out by the way I look. As the Nilmameshi say, don't judge a book by its cover." A lascivious grin spread across the scabrous ruin of his face, as he enunciated every glottoral consonant, penetrating a barrier of murky phlegm. "I'm just a gnostic grandmaster from gorgeous Golgotterath." I have only bits and pieces for the rest. But when Frank summons the No-God in the laboratory, here’s part of the lyrics: Quote WOE IS ME, MY LIFE IS A MYSTERY: WHAT AM I? WHAT DO YOU SEE? (I find it scare how well the entire story fits the Rocky Horror show. Something about shared memetic spaces, delving into a vast area of themes and situations that have been established through two generations of speculative fiction, now well past the point of parody.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damelon Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danylmc Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Quote Erratica, more like. I need to stick with mannish publishers Wow! It's really him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 "His mark was deep, almost purple. So was his lipstick" HE, love the whole premise, but that right there is as absolutely perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsbakker Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 I just noticed you tag-line, HE. No. Shame. You really should start referring to yourself as HE-HE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuenjato Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Questions: I assume the expanded glossary will contain much more of the Nonmen history. Do you plan on writing an extensive summary and/or series of tales about the 'old days' of Nonmen glory, before the coming of the Vile? Atrocity Tales: a few years back you mentioned your goal was to produce around 100k or so words of AT before submitting for publication. Is this still the current plan? How many AT do you plan on writing? Looking back on The Aspect Emperor, are there any structural changes you would consider making, if you could do it over again? I ask this last question primarily do to my own opinion of the series: I feel it might have made TJE (and Sorweel's character) more epic and satisfying if the initial battle sequences from WLW had been juxtaposed against the Cil-Aujas chapters. This would have made Sorweel seem more prominent and given some palpable tension to the Ordeal arc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 @Happy Ent, id love to see you work a Lil Moe meeting Cnaüir and SS Serwe into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 On 03/10/2016 at 2:23 AM, rsbakker said: There's only one Ark, but many cataclysms appear to have wracked the Promised World. After TUC is out, I intend to do that very thing. It's one of the events I have been aiming for all these years. To be so close is some crazy shit, let me tell you. Hi Scott. Will the title of the Series That Shall Not Be Named be self-evident by the end of TUC based on how the book ends? Quote I didn't think TDTCB was any harder to get into than Gardens of the Moon. Both series seem to have similar levels of critical acclaim and reader divisiveness. I'm not sure why Malazan has turned out to be more successful...maybe just more books taking up more shelf space to attract more eyes. Or just different publishers. Malazan is published by Bantam UK in the, er, UK, which is not a massive SFF publisher. The few SFF works they do release they focus on a lot and put a lot of faith and work into them. However, much more to the point is that Malazan's US publisher is Tor, the biggest SFF publisher in the business. That makes a lot of difference. That said, the last sales figures we had for Malazan (Erikson only) are between 2 and 3 million, which is great but it's also spread out over 12 books. The number of actual readers Erikson has is therefore only in the very low hundreds of thousands. It's the sheer number of books that he's put out plus the better-known US publisher which has helped him be more successful. Quote I have, but the problem with different era's is that they work against the point of such a prequel, which is to level the steep learning curve in TDTCB. I'm feeling good about Uster Scraul, but the problem here is that his story largely takes place after the First Holy War. Hmm. For a more prosaic prequel story, something involving Achamian's younger days and his tutoring of Nersei Proyas would more directly lead into TDTCB, but that depends if there's a good enough story there to justify the exercise. What might be helpful - although probably not for a first read-through - is assembling the "What Comes Before" sections into their own self-contained ebook you could either sell or give away for free via Amazon (or the vendor of your choice), which would then help reboot longer-standing readers who perhaps don't have time for full rereads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 big daddy moe as prequel protagonist. duh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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