Interesting words

[james_davis_nicoll]

Commonwealth is month next Deliver Graydon third Stand book and out

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[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I think I'm asleep and that's The Imparseable Dream.

[ironyoxide.livejournal.com]

I got:

[Commonwealth] [Graydon] {Stand and Deliver] [book] [is out next month]

Arrange those until something makes sense. It's...kinda like reading English machine-translated from Russian?

[radlein.livejournal.com]

From old practice reading Graydon's comments on usenet, that was easily translated, even without the telltale mandatory use of the word "ambit"

:-)

[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

Actually Safely You Deliver. More advanced studies by the central characters in A Succession of Bad Days.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I had to search. Looking for Commonwealth Graydon "Stand and Deliver" brought up Monday's issue of File 770, including a Tuesday comment beginning "Everyone here knows that Graydon’s third Commonwealth book, Stand and Deliver is out next month, right?"

[heron61.livejournal.com]

YES! That was definitely what I hoped James' comment meant. Given that I nominated A Succession of Bad Days for a hugo, I'm very much looking forward to this book.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Right. Except that my memory played me false, and jsburbidge is correct about the title.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

These books seem to me in many ways a throwback to E. E. "Doc" Smith: a fascination with the technical details of immensely powerful magic, followed up by the continuous invention of even more powerful magic as the series goes on, combined with an explicit mechanism for ensuring that the wielders of this power are trustworthy.

[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

So the Shape of Peace is an enormous lenticular structure?

Um, maybe.

More prosaically, Play Books shows it as due out on April 4.

[eub.livejournal.com]

I like that analogy.

In books after the first, do the on-screen opponents escalate their power level to match? Because in Going North the setting was certainly presented as existentially threatening, but the actual plot had little tension over the outcome; the reason the opponent caused any causualties at all was because the good guys were trying to play down just how much firepower on staff.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

The second book doesn't have "opponents", really; there are dangerous situations/hostile lifeforms, but it's more a paean to civil engineering.

[raglegumm.livejournal.com]

... but it does have a threat potentially capable of destroying civilization.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Squeee!