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Cinder Spires Setting discussion [TAW Sample Chapter SPOILERS]
Dina:
Ok, visiting this thread. A few comments
a. Be careful with spoilers, as the title only mentions the Sample Chapters. So kudos to Electric McB for the spoiler tag
b. In my mind, "vattery" translated as "factory" or "plant"
c. I understood that meat was artificially produced but I don't care how.
d (click to show/hide). I think they are in our world, in the future.
e. If habble means habitat level (which sounds logical) I am upset by the extra b.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 14, 2015, 09:34:56 PM ---OK, New question on the Spires, specifically their dimensions.
Spire Albion is "ten thousand feet high, two miles across. There are two-hundred and fifty habbles, of which two-hundred and thirty-six are occupied." -Ch 20
Ill save you the conversion factors and say that it's 10,000 ft tall by 10,560 ft wide. The word "spire" was evocative of, you know, pointy things; something tall and narrow and shrinking down to a point. But Ablion is actually slightly wider than it is tall, making it as squat as any Egyptian pyramid, which in turn makes me wonder if it comes to a point at all, or if it's a more uniform cylinder. Otherwise the differences of available space per habble will be fairly extreme.
Thoughts on this?
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Maybe all the spires were initially one giant space station that was cut into pieces and dropped on the planet? Possibly also not all spires look alike and the name "spire" comes from the older ones?
knnn:
re: "Steampunk", remember that the term "punk" comes originally from Cyberpunk (Neuromancer), where "punk" referred to the dystopian, mercenary world in the setting. This novel doesn't seem to have the steam or the punk in it. Frankly it seems to be quite similar in content to some of Sanderson's stuff (e.g. Alloy of Law et al). Those are categorized as "high fantasy". I suggest that this falls nicely into that category.
Mith:
--- Quote --- If habble means habitat level (which sounds logical) I am upset by the extra b.
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I think that is more or less English being a mess. I know the word didn't exist before this book (that I know of), but I think the logic of the word is more akin to "rabbit" having two "b"s even though only one would do.
Dina:
Probably, My Spanish speaker is slightly annoyed not only by English being the TAW world language (except for a Latin reference) but for the use of not-metric units.
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