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--- Quote from: Zioneer on December 16, 2013, 08:35:09 AM ---Yeah, that was another one of my inspirations, besides Dresden. I've only read the first book, though. I've heard the others vary a bit in quality.

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Ive read all thats out and did it all recently in a single push, and enjoyed I them thoroughly.  It's not so much that they vary in quality as it's that they are not all that self-contained (as compared to TDF where there is always a new casefile to be resolved even if there are overarching plot elements at work).  One book flows into the next in what to me is a much more serial way than the more episodic form of Dresden for example.  They also have the benefit of coming out almost twice a year, which makes me a lot more able to ignore the lack of a contained plot/climax/resolution form.  Give me too long to get my jones up and I start getting irate and over-critical. 

meg_evonne:
I heard Tim Powers once at a conference. He starts his writing with research. He keeps reading and exploring stuff until he's got twenty too-cool-things not to use and then he starts to write. Not a bad process.

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