Timewaster's Guide Archive

Someone I used to work with told me about these 2 years ago and I can't remember their names. I think it is a shared world, but not sure. Here is what he told me.

Alternate reality armies attack our reality. This reality has muskets and flying ships because that is how they naturally evolved. In one story they fight it out with the SWAT of some city.

That is all I remember. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Quote from: guessingo on January 27, 2010, 06:30:37 PM

George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire have alot of female characters.

Quote from: Six More Weeks of Kaz on January 27, 2010, 11:07:05 PM

I second Song of Ice and Fire series

I feel obligated to give a little warning about A Song of Ice and Fire. Are the books awesome? YES!

BUT, don't expect the series to get finished. He's been working on the latest book for over 4 years. (More like 7 years because book 4 was split in publication.) Even after all that time there is still no clue when the next book will get finished. The last official update on his site is over 2 years old.

The existing books are great to read, but don't expect any closure to the story any time soon, if at all.

Those who like Robert Jordan understand that. He has written other stuff in the last few years. I think he has published 2 novels. He runs a shared world of short stories called Wild Cards. I heard they were good. He also has a 3rd book of short stories with alot of big named authors (called Warriors) out soon.

HBO filmed a pilot for his song of ice and fire books last fall. I think GRRM actually wrote the screenplay. He hinted at it on his website. If he is writing the screenplays for the hbo series, his books will take a long time to get done... that is really time consuming.

I like GRRMs blog. www.georgerrmartin.com

Gotta follow a fellow Giants and Jets fan! BTW, GRRM was friends with Robert Jordan.

George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire have alot of female characters. Not all are good and alot get killed. He kills off alot of characters. HBO filmed the pilot for this for a series based on these books.

His books are adult fiction. They have alot of sex and violence. They are very good, but meant for adults.

his books have been turned into a B grade TV series called Legend of the Seeker. Anyone else think this series is loaded with S&M references?

The confessor is called "mistress"
The Amazon Woman warriors (mord sith? or something like that) dress like dominatrix and do you see what their weapons really look like? (this appears to be a fairly conservative forum and there may be kids so i won't say it explicitly)

I have a question for Peter: Brandon either wrote or said in an interivew that I saw that he learned alot from how Robert Jordan laid out a long series. How is Brandon plotting his Way of Kings series? Does he know the ending? Does he have rough outlines of each of the books? I have seen some good series get lost from not doing this. Stephen Kings Dark Tower series was great for the first 3 books, then got lost. It was obvious he had no idea where he wanted to go and then couldn't find his direction.

Has anyone read the Jim Butcher fantasy books? It looks like he set his in a roman empire like world. He is well known for the Dresden files. I never read those. I am not into mysteries. I am wondering if these are any good.

can someone post a link to the article that goodkind wrote where he said he doesnt like fantasy?

Why doesn't Brandon like Terry Goodkind. Something about what goodkind wrote about fantasy readers right?

how many books has brandon sold? I see bestseller lists, but I have no idea how many sales it takes to geton there. If you are 20th on the New York Times bestseller list for a week. Is that 20,000 sales?

also, when brandon goes on book signings, is that something that the publisher pays? Or does it get taken out of his commission?

Peter...

You missed these... I am the question man on these forums.

1. Why does Brandon use EUOL for his name? Most authors with sites use their own names. What does it stand for?

2. I am most of the way through the first mistborn book. I hope to finish it tonight (as I said, I don't have alot of time for reading right now so it takes me 2 weeks to finish a book). I don't recall seeing anything about the shard world info. I saw a post on the forum about how elantris, warbreaker, and mistborn are related as shardworld.

is that the atium? Does that appear in all the books? don't give away too much. I am at the beginning of the 5th part (I think).

3. when you publish a book. I am guessing that the commission on sales comes after it covers the advance right? So if you get an advance of $10,000 and you have a 10% commission (I have no idea what it is) on a hardcover. I would guess the publisher sells the hardcover to the bookstore for say $12/book?(how much do publishers sell books to bookstores for?) I am not sure. so you get $1.20/book, but you don't get any of the commission money until the first $10,000 is covered. Then 15% of that goes to the Agent.

4. I often see alot of bestsellers on mark down at bookstores. So they bought too many books. Do bookstores only pay full price for books they actually sell at full price? They always seem to buy too m any books so after a few months you can get a $20 book for $6.
I am also willing to bet that most authors don't sell enough to write full time.


5. Who are some of Brandons other favorite authors? I saw a presentation he did at Jordancon(it is on google video) where he mentioned the Thomas Covenant books. I have had those on a shelf for 10 years. He also liked the Dragonbone chair(I think I read part of this and didn't like it a long tiem ago_). For some reason he doesn't like Terry Goodkind personally (I read part of his first book and didn't like it). Who else does he like?

5. Is the Lord Ruler in part based on the Tyrant from Dune? This is the son of Paul Muadib. He is not in the movie and is only a child at the end of the Sci-Fi series. He is the tyrant in the 4th book. They are very similiar. Tyrants who don't raelly want to be tyrants, live along time, and are basically depressed about it all.