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About me and the site | Twenty-something male who likes text. Obsessed with things such as books, reality, communication, and one or two tv-shows.

Archives | Things written here since... well, 2001. Some of it is good, some is utter shait.

Books | Books read, not books written. So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.

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e-mail | J. Nicklas Andersson

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2003-02-04

While I have yet to read Steven Brust’s Path of the Dead — bad, horrible me — or even acquire it for that matter, I still jump up and down when I read that Lord of Castle Black is due in August. Wonderful news.

When I found some new authors that popped up onto the buy in hardcover, I contemplated about removing someone. Brust was one of the few whom I never even considered. While the cost/paper count-ratio isn’t the best, that served as a important part of why. People who write short books should be encouraged as much as possible — even more so when they write fantasy. (I would buy and read laminated restaurant menus if Brust had written them.)

It turned out I didn’t need to revise the list. Most authors on it take their time writing, they don’t throw out a book every year. Sometimes it takes even longer than that. (Question: would the books of Tim Powers be just as good if he spent less time with them? Probably not.)

I am under orders to update my web log so that I can talk about my toe fungus. Unfortunately, I lack toe fungus, and thus have little to say.”
-- From Steven Brust’s web log.