Thanks for the address.

I shall email Overlook and let them know what will happen to their honeyed anuses if they don't release TuC within this year

Lawrence and Abercrombie are fucking awful, and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for recommending them.

Quote from: Hirtius/Pansa on October 26, 2014, 09:36:54 am

This isn't actually my theory.  My mother pitched this one to me.

A mother reading TSA is fascinating speculation. Could it be true?

What do you mean, it's weird? I re-enact the Ikurei Xerius chapters with my mother every weekend.

I tried to get my girlfriend to be Esmi, my son to be an "Inchoroi" (just a black full body onesie that had 1" letters reading "I am Inchoroi" on the front/back), and I was going to dress up as my interpretation of The Nonmen.

She was all for it until I described what the Inchoroi are.  Now she is going to be a farmer, he is going to be a cow, and I am pissed off.

Garet Jax has won the thread. You are a better man than I.

"Wasp Factory" is brilliant, probably my favorite book by Banks.

I don't think the sci-fi stuff was his strongest side. "Wasp Factory" was so good because it was totally demented but somewhat grounded in our reality, it being set in '90s Scotland and all. Just the right mix of batshit insanity and plausible reality.

His best sci-fi books are those with the least sci-fi in them, like "Player of Games" (which is about cultural relativism and interventionism) and "Use of Weapons" (which is about unreliable narration, bizarro chronology, and homemade furniture).

If this was a genuine Bakker text:

"Pragma Wilshire, Where do children come from?"

The sensation of Wilshire's obscene phallus in his rectum sent the young monk reeling. And, yet, the obscene sensation was not entirely painful...

"Repeat the proposition!"

Ever are all men deceived.

He gasped in obscenely obscene joy.

According to Akka, Meori refugees did liberate Eamwans from Cil Aujis though iirc.

Mimara pretty much says right out that the Emwamans being used as human livestock was what made Nostol's guys turn on the Nonmen.

sounds a lot more likely than Akka's bizarro theories about the Meori being butt-buddies of the Ishroi and that Nostol's evil plan was to destroy Cil Aujas with anal herpes, or whatever...he's really been reading too much of that Inchoroi stuff

If the Ketyai are Mediterraneans, the Norsirai are Nordics/Germanics, the Zeumi are Subsaharan blacks, and the Xiuhanni are East-Asians, what race are the Emwama?