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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-03-15 11:39 pm

Interesting words

Commonwealth is month next Deliver Graydon third Stand book and out

[identity profile] eub.livejournal.com 2016-03-17 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] stevendj.livejournal.com 2016-03-17 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
The second book doesn't have "opponents", really; there are dangerous situations/hostile lifeforms, but it's more a paean to civil engineering.

[identity profile] raglegumm.livejournal.com 2016-03-17 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
... but it does have a threat potentially capable of destroying civilization.