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#241 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 04:49 PM

SE's comment with answers is here. Some brilliant stuff, including finally revealing his idea for how to bring the series to the big screen.

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#242 amphibian

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 05:47 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 02 July 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:

SE's comment with answers is here. Some brilliant stuff, including finally revealing his idea for how to bring the series to the big screen.

Yeah, his idea is basically "HBO on a bigger screen". Unworkable for the next 10 years at least.

It should be "Keep buying Game of Thrones DVDs and HBO subscriptions like hotcakes. Then buy the heck out of American Gods. Then send in a bunch of letters to HBO/Showtime/Warner Bros to adapt my series either on TV or on the big screen."

Anyways, good catch, SMZ.

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#243 Steve Halter

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:28 PM

SE has added another post to the answer comment thread here, on character.

#244 Shadow of Shadowthrone

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 08:45 PM

Which was in answer to my question, I didn't really expect an answer and definitely not what amounts to a short essay, but there you go, Erikson is such a nice guy. And, after "Crack'd Pot Trail" I am finally convinced the man is a genius. Pre-ordered "The Forge of Darkness" today, can't wait for more Malazan stuff now. Note also how he kind of reveals that he'll be starting on the next Kharkanas-novel already while on vacation. I hope GRRM reads the Malazan re-read and especially Erikson's interaction with his fans.

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#245 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 09:17 PM

Shadow of Shadowthrone, on 11 July 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

I hope GRRM reads the Malazan re-read and especially Erikson's interaction with his fans.

Instead of writing?!?!

#246 Kanese S's

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 07:10 AM

Anyone know when this is supposed to continue?

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 12:49 PM

It was supposed to continue last Friday, so my guess is this Wednesday.

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 05:20 PM

Reaper's Gale: Prologue

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 04:03 PM

Reaper's Gale: Chapter 1

#250 Kanese S's

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 09:48 PM

Well, that was fast.

Should be interesting, RG is one of my favorites in the series.

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:36 PM

Mine too!

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 01:55 PM

Kudos to Bill and Amanda for plowing through the books so quickly. Someone hire poor Leigh an assistant so she can get through ASoIaF before I grow old and die. Or maybe they're just modeling the rereads after the respective authors' writing speeds.

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#253 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 04:17 PM

Kruppe, on 28 July 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

Maybe she's just afraid to run out of material before the next book fails to appear.

Last year I projected how long the Malazan reread would take. I got up to 2016 before we ran out of stuff to read:

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All right, here's my projected reread timeline. Assuming ICE doesn't write any more books, it looks like we catch up by the end of the Kharkanas trilogy in early 2016.

(Assumptions made: 13 months between ICE's books, 18 months between Kharkanas books, with TFoD published early 2013, and 17 weeks to read each book, which is what HoC ran us.)

Jul 2010 - GotM - Started
Oct 2010 - NoK - Started
Nov 2010 + SW + Published
Nov 2010 - DG - Started
Feb 2011 + TCG + Published
Mar 2011 - MoI - Started
Jul 2011 - HoC - Started
Nov 2011 - MT - Started
*Feb 2012 + OST + Published
*Feb 2012 - TB - Started
*Jun 2012 - RG - Started
*Oct 2012 - RotCG - Started
*Jan 2013 + TFoD + Published
*Feb 2013 - TtH - Started
*Mar 2013 + CitJ + Published
*Jun 2013 - SW - Started
*Oct 2013 - DoD - Started
*Feb 2014 - TCG - Started
*Apr 2014 + Assail + Published
*Jun 2014 - OST - Started
*Jul 2014 + KT#2 + Published
*Oct 2014 - CitJ - Started
*Feb 2015 - Assail - Started
*Jun 2015 - TFoD - Started
*Sep 2015 - KT#2 - Started
*Jan 2016 + KT#3 + Published
*Jan 2016 - KT#3 - Started

Here's the revised (current) projection:

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Jul 2010 - GotM - Started
Oct 2010 - NoK - Started
Nov 2010 + SW + Published
Nov 2010 - DG - Started
Feb 2011 + TCG + Published
Mar 2011 - MoI - Started
Jul 2011 - HoC - Started
Nov 2011 - MT - Started
Jan 2012 + OST + Published
Mar 2012 - TB - Started
Jul 2012 - RG - Started
Jul 2012 + FoD + Published
*Nov 2012 + B&B + Published
*Dec 2012 - RotCG - Started
*Apr 2013 - TtH - Started
*Aug 2013 - SW - Started
*Dec 2013 - DoD - Started
*Dec 2013 + Assail + Published
*Jan 2014 + FoL + Published
*Apr 2014 - TCG - Started
*Aug 2014 - OST - Started
*Dec 2014 - B&B - Started
*Apr 2015 - Assail - Started
*Jul 2015 + WiS + Published
*Aug 2015 - FoD - Started
*Dec 2015 - FoL - Started
*Mar 2016 - WiS - Started

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 10 August 2012 - 09:08 PM