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Peter Clines (Ex-Heroes series, Threshold series, other stuff)

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Posted 24 November 2015 - 05:39 PM

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...the ship-raft thing is in the pacific suggests it is Asian/Oceanic survivors. Suggests we will have some heavy culture clashes.
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I'm thinking we'll get an Aquaman/Namor type hero.

It seems like the sort of thing Clines would do next.


...anyone remember whether St George needs to breath (other than when he breathes fire)?
Dead Girl and Zzzzap probably don't.
Cerberus and the Driver would be useless on/in the water.
Capn Freedom and Stealth would be their usual selves.
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Posted 21 December 2015 - 07:18 PM

Kindle ed pre-order of EX-ISLE is on sale (at least the price is down from when i last looked)!
(for the Canucks among us, give or take a few cents for the exchange rate, Kobo is matching the price)

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 02:17 PM

View PostAbyss, on 21 December 2015 - 07:18 PM, said:

Kindle ed pre-order of EX-ISLE is on sale (at least the price is down from when i last looked)!
(for the Canucks among us, give or take a few cents for the exchange rate, Kobo is matching the price)

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 05:55 PM

Two chapters into EX-ISLE....

Non-spoilery spoilerses...

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I am so glad to have this series back. I missed it.
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Posted 02 February 2016 - 06:37 PM

I reckon I'll pick this up Friday and try to read through it over the weekend.
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Posted 02 February 2016 - 10:00 PM

The bump to this thread reminds me I never posted my impressions from book one. I finished it a few weeks back and really enjoyed it. I'm already into the second book. He writes sort of like Glen Cook, who is my favorite author. I really the the characters and the setting,
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Posted 02 February 2016 - 11:52 PM

Maybe I haven't read enough Glen Cook because I'm not seeing it lol
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Posted 03 February 2016 - 03:40 PM

The characters, dialogue and the flow of the plot feel a bit Glen Cook like to me.
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Posted 03 February 2016 - 08:49 PM

Eight chapters in....

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Mostly set up so far, good fun.
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Posted 03 February 2016 - 10:46 PM

I finished this and while I liked it as a story, it feels like Cline wanted to do more and didn't quite get there before deciding to push those remnants into the next book.

He's still very good at writing action and the characters are still wonderful.

I do think his habit of staying with now-dead characters for POV is a crutch/dangling remnant. But there will be a next book and we'll see how that resolves.
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Posted 07 February 2016 - 03:32 PM

Finished it yesterday. Pretty underwhelming book. The author even seems to acknowledge this in his afterword.

The book doesn't move the world or the mount forward by much at all. Very little character development of the central cast. The encounter with the Lemurians does not seem to have any future meaning for the series.

All that aside it was just more ex-heroes which in and of itself isn't bad. You had super heroes punching super villains, zombies eating people, funny character interactions. The stuff we like is there. It's just all more of the same.

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Posted 10 February 2016 - 06:28 PM

Won't go so far as to call it underwhelming, but it was certainly more straightforward than previous books. No major twists, no big revelations, fairly predictable two storylines and one un-memorable villain.

It was fine, but the issues Clines mentioned in the afterword are hard to miss and I hope he can plan his time a bit better. I want him to write other stuff... 14 was too good not to, but i want my epic cinematic superhero vs zombpocalypse stories to be epic and cinematic.
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Posted 17 February 2016 - 10:53 AM

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Posted 20 November 2016 - 08:47 PM

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Posted 01 August 2017 - 06:04 PM

Paradox Bound street date in Sept.
No word on earbook yet.
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Posted 01 August 2017 - 07:48 PM

Interesting. Any idea if that takes place in the same world as 14 and The Fold?
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Posted 20 October 2017 - 07:30 PM

View PostAbyss, on 01 August 2017 - 06:04 PM, said:

Paradox Bound street date in Sept.
No word on earbook yet.


Cutpastings from the Reading thread....


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View PostAbyss, on 29 September 2017 - 07:40 PM, said:

PARADOX BOUND, Peter Clines.
3 chapters in... ...y'know... this guy is fast becoming one of my favorite authors., and I'm starting to enjoy his no EX-HEROES stuff more than that series.
He has a great talent for taking the ordinary, working in an element of the extraordinary, and then slowly but steadily building to crazy shit, as he did in 14 and THE FOLD.


Almost done... this book is SO GOOD.


Listening to this on audiobook and second Abyss. I like his non zombie books more than the Ex-heroes series at this point.



Just finished it. Let me state here for the record, PARADOX BOUND by Peter Clines is frikkin awesome.

Very different in tone and setting from his zombie and Lovecrafty books, but the sheer sense of wonder and headlong pace is all there and it utterly works. I have to give him credit... time travel is a difficult thing to write well and the setup he worked with here was far from easy, but he made it work. Even the hand waving of the occasional complexity works in the context of the story. Some may find it a bit MuricaRahRah at times, but I didn't think the book suffered for it at all. Far from it, I don't think many other countries would have worked for the story he wanted to tell here.

Great book, utterly worth your dollars and eyetime, the earbook narrator Ray Porter is brilliant if you go that route.






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Also glad to see Abyss saying good things about Clines' new book. 14 was compelling as fuck, and I look forward to The Fold and Paradox Bound.


Now then...



View PostEnd of Disc One, on 01 August 2017 - 07:48 PM, said:

Interesting. Any idea if that takes place in the same world as 14 and The Fold?



Why yes, i do have an idea. :rolleyes:
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Posted 03 April 2019 - 07:39 PM

I forgot this thread existed and posted elsethread re the glories of last year's PARADOX BOUND and the sheer fun of recent earbook DEAD MOON. Those were both great and if you enjoy this author you should give him your dollars and get them.



Alas, i am posting this to note that in his blog a few months ago, which i missed, and more recently in his twitfeed, which i just started following, Clines states that the EX-HEROES series is dead. Not zombie come back from the dead dead, but actual sales too small on last book not worth the diminishing returns dead dead. Bummer.

From the blog:

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2) Is Ex-Isle the last Ex book?

Not 100% sure, but... yeah, looks that way.
The truth is, every series has a limited life. Very few people decide to start on book three of a series—they go back and start at book one. So book one always sells the best for almost every series. Attrition says not as many people show up for book two, even less show up for book three, etc, etc. It’s always a downward slope heading for that red line where things aren’t profitable. None of the Ex-Heroes books have ever lost money (thank you all for that), but all the numbers say book six... Well, things don't look great for book six where that red line's concerned.
The nails aren’t all in the coffin (do they still nail coffins shut?). Any number of things could make the series surge in popularity and get the publisher interested in putting out another book or two. Depending on how things work out, I might even be able to apply a little leverage. But for now... Ex-Tension is going to stay on that back burner. Sorry.



Doesn't seem to be stopping him from writing at all tho', i'm happy to say. He's already got something else coming out this year, another 'Threshold' book if i recall correctly.
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