I am excited about this new series. I love the idea of steam punk but, like many here, I have not found any that I thought was excellent. Most that I have read gets too heavy handed (for me) with their social commentary rather than concentrating on telling a good story first. I am really looking forward to seeing what Jim does. I would second Ulfgeir's recommendations as two of the better steam punk stories that I have read.

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There's a guy who lives near me with two (so far), I think self published, steam punk novels. His name is Chris Braak, check out his web site (I'll link later) they're pretty good.

http://chrisbraak.com/novels/
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I haven't seen these. I will check them out. Thanks for the recommendation.

You wouldn't have.  I only know of him because our mothers were in a knitting group together.

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle author!

As long as Mark Hamil and Billy Dee Williams don't Become literary critics.

The only down side I see to this is that means it will be that much longer before DF #15 comes out!

That, and now I have two JB books to look forward too!

Well, thats really 13 when you add up the rest of the DF books as well as the 3 Cinder Spires books!

It might not be an issue, it wasn't back when Codex Alera was still going. But even if it is I'm still psyched for this series!

Bob a reflection of Harry's personality? I know that's mentioned multiple times but it just doesn't seem true to me.  Where Bob is all sex fiend...interested in "boobs" and porn. Harry seems much too gentlemanly for that.

It's because he's a reflection of Harry at age 16.

This is in the DF spoilers thread, but should probably be in the Bar or Story of Us, or something.
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,26334.0.html

Something about live action seems to make it the pinnacle of adaptation.

Most things seem to get adapted to live action and rarely vice versa.

For example anime usually comes first then a live action, not an anime based off a live action film.

Video games are sometimes adapted to film. In reverse games based off movies usually suck.

Animation also appeals to a much narrower crowd.

Video games that get made into movies tend to suck, and movie-based video games usually suck as well.  So far the crossing over rarely works in either direction (with some exceptions).

I think Highlander was adapted to an anime.  And I heard recently that Supernatural is getting an anime adaptation as well.
Plus there are tons of movies that have been adapted into American Cartoons (though not always clearly related to the original film):
Ghost Busters
Clerks
Godzilla
The Mummy
The Mighty Ducks
Robocop
Star Wars (a couple of 'em)
Teen Wolf
Police Academy
Beetlejuice
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
The Wizard of Oz
Back to the Future
Dumb and Dumber
The Mask
Men in Black
King Kong

among others.

(sorry, once I got onto Wikipedia I got a little carried away.     )

Not sure this needs to be in the DF Spoilers section...

http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,20384.0.html

This one just got started while....
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,17441.0.html

This one is still on the first page
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,11816.90.html