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Posts Tagged ‘Sci Fi’

Warning: Readers Have Comfort Zones

October 14, 2012 Mathias 2 comments

Writers sometimes get a little too crazy.  One thing we often do is try to show how smart we are by using what are known as ten dollar words.  I call it the Plethora Rule.  What is the Plethora Rule?  It is best described from the scene that made me realize long ago that fancy words are not always good.  Here is that scene from ¡Three Amigos! that introduced 90% of people who know what plethora means to the word:

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Categories: General Things, Good Stuff, The Writing Process, Writing Style Tags: Authors Writers, Barbican, Bastion, Blade Of Grass, Brain, Comfort Zone, Comfort Zones, Common Names, Courtyards, Curtain Wall, Definition Of Plethora, Dollar Words, El Guapo, Fancy Words, Fantasy Reader, Jefe, Kind Of Prose, Literary Fiction, Merriam Webster, Noun, Parts Of Castles, Profusion, Sad Truth, Sci Fi, Superfluity, Synonym, Target Audience, Three Amigos, Times Readers, To Extremes, Typical Reader, Vocabulary, Voracious Reader

Sci-Fi And Fantasy Suggestions From Audible.com

September 30, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

Today I got my monthly “recommendations” from audible.com in terms of sci-fi and fantasy books. I thought I would present them to everyone else.

NOTE: On a personal basis I disagree with two of these suggestions. First is The Farseer: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. This book is so slow that I still haven’t been able to complete it. Second is The Scar By Sergey & Marina Dyachenko. To read my take on it, click here. Read more…

Categories: Book Reviews, General Things Tags: Allesandro, Audios, Boehmer, Book 6, Distinct Voices, Fantasy Books, First Five Books, Juliani, Lorena, Narration, Personal Basis, Quality Performance, Robin Hobb, Roger Zelazny, Sci Fi, Sergey, Storyteller, True To Life, Trumps Of Doom, Wil Wheaton

Book Review: Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook

September 29, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

Myfanwy (the w is silent) Thomas has no memory of why she is surrounded by dead people wearing rubber gloves. So starts the story told by Daniel O’Malley in The Rook. The Rook is a paranormal sci-fi / fantasy about covert British (and American) operatives who have supernatural abilities and deal with supernatural phenomena.

The story follows Myfanwy as she slowly discovers who she is. Who she is is a member of said paranormal agency, holding a position known as a Rook. She has been attacked and her memories stolen. Fortunately for Myfanwy, her former self had some prewarning that she was going to lose her memory. So the prior Myfanwy Thomas left the new Myfanwy Thomas a series of letters explaining all that she knew. Read more…

Categories: Book Reviews Tags: Experiences, Fantasy, Government Organization, Hurdle, Memories, Memory, O Malley, Operatives, Paper Pusher, Paranormal, Personality, Point Of View, Prose, Rook, Rubber Gloves, Sci Fi, Supernatural Abilities, Supernatural Phenomena, Switches, Third Person Narrative
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