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Dresden vs everyone in the Genre
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Rook on October 22, 2007, 02:41:50 AM ---I think that's the reason why JB is really the only author of the genre that I'll spend money on without hesitation: i know I'll get something unique.
Who else but Dresden does things like send pizza to the middle of nowhere once a week as a retainer for faerie services? Or references Wile E. Coyote during a street fight?
I tried reading the Anita Blake novels, and just got bogged down feeling that I'd read it/seen it before ala Angel/Buffy. It's all about the same angsty, predictable bada**es doing the same sorts of things. Sexy vampires and detective agencies, yada yada. It's gotten to the point that, unless I get wind of something really original, I just don't bother.
Anybody else in that sort of rut?
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Yup
Ursiel:
--- Quote from: Rook on October 22, 2007, 02:41:50 AM ---I think that's the reason why JB is really the only author of the genre that I'll spend money on without hesitation: i know I'll get something unique.
Who else but Dresden does things like send pizza to the middle of nowhere once a week as a retainer for faerie services? Or references Wile E. Coyote during a street fight?
I tried reading the Anita Blake novels, and just got bogged down feeling that I'd read it/seen it before ala Angel/Buffy. It's all about the same angsty, predictable bada**es doing the same sorts of things. Sexy vampires and detective agencies, yada yada. It's gotten to the point that, unless I get wind of something really original, I just don't bother.
Anybody else in that sort of rut?
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Also the Roadrunner thing when he was fighting Aroura (My spelling sucks).
Rook:
--- Quote from: -A.V on October 22, 2007, 02:51:19 AM ---Also the Roadrunner thing when he was fighting Aroura (My spelling sucks).
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Exactly! Who else can say "Meep Meep" to a faerie queen and get away with it?
Although my favorite line is still "For my next trick, anvils!"
That really needs to be an icon. ;D
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Lightsabre on October 21, 2007, 07:34:52 PM ---Female authors, male or female lead characters, tend to emphasise romantic relationships and such, in their stories.
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That may well be true in the subgenre of dark urban fantasy - and how much of that is a combination of what that genre is perceived as being about by publishers, and what sort of people are drawn to that perception, is a different question - but it's way excessive as a generalisation even in SF/Fantasy as a whole. Or at least, the thought of Sarah Monette or C.J. Cherryh, or even Lois Bujold, being perceived as emphasising romantic relationships and such just makes me laugh.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: seradhe on October 21, 2007, 04:56:47 AM ---In books written in first person it's a real talent to avoid a gender Bias and write more than so many pages, eventually standard grammar or social practices will reveal it.
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I disagree, because to my mind it's trivially easy. I've both read plenty and written a fair bit that has been entirely opaque to other readers - this is not the only location where I'm not out about my gender. Mind you, I do wirte a fair number of angels, AIs, and non-gendered aliens. Standard grammer or social practices in the society you're used to are easy to avoid if you write in a different setting, historical or fictional.
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