CROSSING THE STREAMS
Feb. 1st, 2012 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's finally here! The big, ginormous, multi-author Crossing the Streams contest! Enter to win a free, signed copy of one of my books, and enter these other awesome authors' contests to win one of their books, too:
*Keith Baker
*Elaine Cunningham
*Erik Scott de Bie
*Matt Forbeck
*Eugie Foster
*Kevin Hearne
*Howard Andrew Jones
*Paul S. Kemp
*Katharine Kerr
*Nathan Long
*Ari Marmell
*Scott Oden
*Joshua Palmatier/Benjamin Tate
*Aaron Rosenberg
*Steven Savile
*Jon Sprunk
*Jason Bradley Thompson
And one lucky "SUPER WINNER" will win a free, signed book from EACH of us!!!!! That's right - over a dozen free books! Woohoo!
The contest runs throughout February and you can keep up with it on Twitter at #crossingthestreams. Just follow the link in the first paragraph for details. Don't miss out - this one's gonna be HUGE!
ETA: Yes, I'm aware that some of the other authors' links aren't working yet/correctly. We're writers - we stay up late! I'm sure they'll fix them when they, you know, eventually roll out of bed this morning/afternoon. ;) (Just kidding! Be patient - the contest runs all month. Plenty of time for you to enter once everyone gets all the kinks worked out.)
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Crossing The Streams
Date: 2012-02-01 03:52 pm (UTC)Truly, of all my books, I have to say Neuromancer is one I constantly find myself recommending to almost anyone who asks for a great book to read. And more than a few close friends have had to remind me I'm raving it's praises again.
And if that isn't enough, then just consider it's opening line on it's merit alone. A legend in it's own right: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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Date: 2012-02-01 05:21 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-01 04:21 pm (UTC)The Shard Axe rules, too.
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Date: 2012-02-01 05:22 pm (UTC)Crossing the streams
Date: 2012-02-01 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Crossing the streams
Date: 2012-02-01 06:23 pm (UTC)Re: Crossing the streams
Date: 2012-02-02 02:28 pm (UTC)It's a great one!
Crossing The Streams
Date: 2012-02-01 07:02 pm (UTC)Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Thanks for the contest!
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Date: 2012-02-01 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 07:20 am (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(Sorry, don't know which title would be good to use!)
Thanks for the contest!
I'm hoping to find some new authors through this.
My favorte book is still 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
It's a classic for a reason.
Re: Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-03 05:01 pm (UTC)Verne is always a good choice! Thanks for the entry, and good luck! :)
Crossing the Stream
Date: 2012-02-02 09:47 pm (UTC)Re: Crossing the Stream
Date: 2012-02-03 05:18 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-03 04:21 am (UTC)Throughout my time as an avid reader, I have not known (with the exception of Salvatore's characters) a more morally distraught—although very unique and strong—character. From the very beginning Erevis seems to have some heavy weight on his shoulders, and it only gets heavier as the story progresses. The good and bad inside a man, and the decisions he makes concerning them can really can sometimes send a reader's thoughts into places they weren't expecting—reflecting this man's dilemmas on their own, as is easy to do while reading this enthralling tale.
There were new races and creatures that I never knew existed in the Realms, mainly the Shades, who are AWESOME! I won't go into details because I would be writing all day, but it was quite exciting and refreshing to read about them.
I admire Mr. Kemp's ability to capture my mind and send me to places that only he could dream of.
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Date: 2012-02-03 05:19 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-03 06:43 am (UTC)Favourite novel/story/poem.... Going to be hard because there has been so many good pieces of fiction this last year.. At the moment Saladin Ahmad's short story Mr.Hadj's last ride. I recall listening to the podcast of this great magical eastern influenced western... It was a great tale that kept me entertained at a job I particularly did not enjoy. I'm really looking forward to his first novel later this month....
Re: Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-03 05:21 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-03 10:56 am (UTC)At the outset, I would like to manifest how difficult it is to comment on my favorite piece of literature in a language that is not the one I learned to speak as a native tongue, being Spanish my first language. Notwithstanding, and curiously enough, literature overcomes boundaries and links people across them (perhaps someday Thranes and Brelanders will agree on somethings as well :)).
As I wrote on Twitter, If I had to choose one book as my favorite, it would be Dostoievski's 'The Brothers Karamazov" for multiple reasons: in the midst of a story surrounding a crime, human passions, dilemmas and existential problems are analyzed in a very humane way through three main characters, the brothers, that work as archetypes of three components of human beings: body, soul and mind. For a reason, the book has been praised by very different intellectuals and persons, and the reader not only wonders what happened but feels and sees through the eyes of the characters, all of whom are compelling and interesting, while thinking on his/her own questions and experiences in a book that is hard to put down in spite of its length, as happens with most classics of the 19th Century.
This reminds me how it is somehow arbitrary to pick a single book as one's favorite, being there a myriad of books, all of them different, that have impacted me somehow: from Anna Karenina and García-Marquez's love in times of cholera, both of which according to their authors were largely misunderstood as they wanted to show how idealistic notions of love can make people ignore misdeeds committed in its name (and Romeo and Juliet is interpreted in this way by some analysts, by the way), to "to kill a Mockingbird", Ovid's metamorphoses, sci-fi books with existential analyses (e.g. do androids dream of electric sheep), books from Herman Hesse such as Steppenwolf, Chesterton's manalive and the man who was thursday, and even those stories one read as a child that made one wonder and think and imagine in a way that only literature can. After all, as Tolstoy said in what is art, art must inspire feelings and transmit emotions, and certainly all of them and many other do. Which comes to why I also enjoy D&D novels so much, especially those placed in Eberron -a world I love as an international law scholar due to espionage, diplomacy and other issues- that make one feel "live and visit" Khorvaire and its other continents, just as I am enjoying the shard axe, and hopefully will be able to read legacy of wolves as well (perhaps if I win ;)), especially because being constantly between Spain and Colombia it is not easy for me to find a new copy.
Nicolás Carrillo.
@NicolasCS
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Date: 2012-02-03 05:23 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
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Date: 2012-02-07 06:07 am (UTC)RE: Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-11 04:30 am (UTC)I read it the summer of 7th grade and fell in love instantly with the poem and all its characters. It is the original drama, predating ER by at least a couple years. There is romance, manipulation, murder, gods, revenge, magic... Everything.
Beyond that, it will forever hold a special place in my heart as being the work that introduced me to Greek mythology. A passion of mine that has been growing ever since.
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Date: 2012-02-11 11:17 pm (UTC)Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-23 04:38 am (UTC)Re: Crossing the Streams
Date: 2012-02-23 05:07 am (UTC)Thanks for entering, and good luck! :)
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Date: 2012-03-01 01:16 am (UTC)Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" had stuck with me since I first read it in 6th grade because it's an ordinary kid who loves his family but gets pulled into a hidden world, it's full of unexpected magic, has a prophecy poem that I can still recite to this day, turns out to be a beautiful retelling of the King Arthur mythos (over the whole series), and the ongoing battle between light and dark.
Time to reread again now. :)
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Date: 2012-03-01 01:26 am (UTC)Thanks for the entry, and good luck! :)