Interesting words

[james_davis_nicoll]

Commonwealth is month next Deliver Graydon third Stand book and out

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[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.