Werthead Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Note: Scott Lynch is a member of the forum and occasionally posts here. That puts the situation into the context of 'people taking the mickey out of a fellow board member with health issues', not 'distant author who will never in a million years hear what people say about him here'. Please bear that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lies And Perfidy Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Well, that's sad and crummy. How about some good news?!A friend of mine attended Viable Paradise last month and got a chance to meet Scott. She said he was, of course, a most radical gentleman, but not much in evidence, as he was busy...writing. Which is wonderful to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Alliete de Bodard tweeted this today. Nice little verbal smack-down from Lynch responding to someone who called his inclusion of a black, female pirate as political correct wish fulfillment.Personally, i thought it was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubies & Jade Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Alliete de Bodard tweeted thistoday. ...Personally, i thought it was awesome.unbelievably awesome. thanks for passing this along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Alliete de Bodard tweeted thistoday. Nice little verbal smack-down from Lynch responding to someone who called his inclusion of a black, female pirate as political correct wish fulfillment.Personally, i thought it was awesome.wow, that was cool, though I am a little shocked that a writer would respond in this manner. And that last statement from the critic had me laughing: I have been reading science fiction and fantasy for years and i know that I speak for a great many people. I hope you might stop to think about the sales you will lose because you want to bring your political corectness and foul language into fantasy. if we wanted those things we could go to the movies. "A great many people" HA! If these are his reasons for not liking the Gentlemen's Bastards, then he must also not like GRRM, Abercrombie etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungtotte Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Yeah, because there's absolutely no historical precedence of powerful female pirates... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Rhinos Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Liked the response. Just wish Lynch would have pointed out there is a long history of female pirates in the real world, especially in the south china sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Yeah, because there's absolutely no historical precedence of powerful female pirates...I kept waiting for that too! But had forgotten it by the time I got to the end of the verbal beat down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samalander Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 So... Scott is razor sharp as ever.Does this mean we'll be seeing The Republic of Thieves in print soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastimancer Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 So... Scott is razor sharp as ever.Does this mean we'll be seeing The Republic of Thieves in print soon?These quotes are seven years old. It just takes that long to extract things from the crumbling remains of livejournal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The hairy bear Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 With no book from Martin or Abercrombie foreseen in a near future, the Republic of Thieves remains my best hope for having a superb read in 2013.I hope he recovers, and can continue writing his great works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 According to this Orion/Gollancz catalogue, TRoT will be published in July 2013 if Lynch deliveres manuscript in January 2013.The Republic of Thieves (July 2013)Ms due January 2013http://www.anthearights.com/uploads/catalog/1349272336_2.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Scull Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'm not sure if seven-year-old quotes being dredged up is exactly what Scott wants or needs right now. Weird timing.I really hope we see Republic of Thieves next year. The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably the finest fantasy debut I've read. I guess we'll find out next month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 According to this Orion/Gollancz catalogue, TRoT will be published in July 2013 if Lynch deliveres manuscript in January 2013.http://www.anthearig...349272336_2.pdfReminds me of a blog entry Patrick Rothfuss wrote a couple of weeks ago about one of his worldbuilder auctions:A critique of the first 100 pages or 3 chapters of your novel by author Scott Lynch.[...]This critique cannot begin before January, 2013 and will probably require six weeks from receipt of manuscript.I'm optimistic that January really will be the deadline for his MS for TRoT. Our years of waiting will come to an end. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I'm not sure if seven-year-old quotes being dredged up is exactly what Scott wants or needs right now. Weird timing.As far as I can tell, he either dredged it up himself or certainly helped - he was talking about it on his twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Interesting. According to the Gollancz catalogue, The Lies of Locke Lamora has been optioned as a TV series. I can find absolutely no mentioned of that on the interwebs at all. AFAIK, the previous movie option had lapsed some time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I can not in my head figure out how anyone could make a good movie from Lies. They would chicken out of the back and forth timelines, be afraid to drop us in the story without explaining the fantasy world, and the movie would have to be very long to keep half the plot. Outside of LotR, are there any really successful fantasy movies that would give them the courage to take good risks on this movie? (asking because I honestly don't know, I just know the ones I can think of didn't do all that well, ie Stardust). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 But, there's not *that* much fantastic content, nor is there the fantasy-landscape/massive tigerlizard armies/etc problem that makes these films expensive risks. With a city setting, you can have much smaller sets, it's basically just a steampunky heist at heart with a few bits of magic, shouldn't be much more expensive than, say, Boardwalk Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The hairy bear Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 shouldn't be much more expensive than, say, Boardwalk Empire.According to the information I've found on the matter, the budget of Boardwalk Empire is on par with GoT. This website (http://uk.eonline.com/news/318306/holy-flaming-warships-how-expensive-is-game-of-thrones-anyway) says that GoT costs an average of $6 million per episode and BE costs $5 million but episode, but the pilot (when they built the sets had a cost of $18 million). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieM Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I think Scott has said that Lies is heavily influenced by the (excellent) French film, Le Pact des Lupes - which was very effective on a non-Hollywood level budget. More city setting than countryside, with a little Eldgerglass cgi and they'd be set. The core of the origin stuff could be done in an opening flashback, and the rest could be a fantasy heist movie. With a charismatic lead like, say, a David Tennant, I think it'd make a great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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