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cass:
*sigh*
I guess we're just not good enough, Serack. ;D
I'll do the TC re-read tonight, happy?
Praeceps:
--- Quote from: Serack on June 22, 2011, 06:54:10 PM ---Now if only this kind of sluthing could determine who was on Demonreach with Peabody.
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Did you see my post in the new WOJ/transcription thread?
Serack:
--- Quote from: Bastian on June 22, 2011, 08:18:06 PM ---Did you see my post in the new WOJ/transcription thread?
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yezzer
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: lovejoy69 on June 22, 2011, 06:25:24 AM ---In terms of being easier to calculate chronologies, yes, setting Storm Front as if it were 2000 would be way more convenient. In terms of when they were actually written, and unless Jim was for some reason intentionally setting the early books future-dated,
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I think a number of people do that just to have lead time in case of, oh, your series being set in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina happening, or something of equivalent scale that would turn your series into explicit alternate history if you did not have lead time.
Katarn:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on June 23, 2011, 06:47:08 PM ---I think a number of people do that just to have lead time in case of, oh, your series being set in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina happening, or something of equivalent scale that would turn your series into explicit alternate history if you did not have lead time.
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right, or New York before September 2001. While I think BAT will eventually cause this, I suspect it's why Jim is intentionally vague- in politics or any historical reference- he waited a LONG time to mention Zambrano or Jack Sparrow, both of who are technically "knowable" since c. 2000, giving a long time for any story to take place.
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