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| Topic Started: Oct 19 2010, 01:16 PM (584 Views) | |
| Ànraich | Oct 19 2010, 01:16 PM Post #1 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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Has anyone ever read these books? I remember reading them as a kid, and they were pretty interesting. They tell a story about this high school seniors who get sucked into a second universe by Fenrir the wolf, who comes to take one of their friends (or something along those lines). Anyways, the way they tell the story gives a pretty good picture of this "Everworld," created by the gods of old as a place to go when they were no longer worshiped by man. It's an interesting story because the gods brought with them the last of their followers, who by this time have become booming populations with diverse cultures and odd historical backgrounds. For instance when the "heroes" arrive in the world they are taken prisoner by Loki. Later they escape and make it to a nearby Viking town. They see all kinds of things, like Chinese-Vikings and black Vikings, and enormous longboats used like galleons. The Vikings help them because fuck Loki (no, really, that's pretty much why they do it), but unfortunately that means dragging them along into their invasion of the Aztec Empire. I think you see my point. The best part though is that not all of the gods in Everworld are from human mythology. There's also an alien race called the Coo-Hatch, who are great metallurgists. They came with their God of the Flame and Goddess of the Ore, but she brought them against their will so they abandoned her and now seek a way to return to their homeworld (and realm). Then there is the Hetwan, an insectoid species that serves Ka Anor the dread god of terror, living incarnation of fear itself, and help him devour all the gods in Everworld. They also run into other mythological creatures, like a civilization of mercantile fairies (who might actually just be leprechauns), mermish people and Atlanteans, technologically superior Irish druids, an uptight Frenchman who got there in an unfortunate nuclear explosion accident, and even a group of white supremacists who have modern weapons. It's pretty crazy. I recommend it. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| lamna | Oct 19 2010, 04:54 PM Post #2 |
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Sounds interesting, I rather like stories about people out of time. JMSDF destroyers turning up in WW2, Nantucket in the Bronze Age, or a town from West, By God, Virginia appearing in 17th century Holy Roman Empire. Have you heard of Norse Code? |
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| colddigger | Oct 19 2010, 05:55 PM Post #3 |
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Sounds fun, are there any oddities in the alien civilizations or were their descriptions fairly vague? |
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| Yorick | Oct 22 2010, 01:42 PM Post #4 |
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I've only ever read "Animorphs" by K.A. Appalegate. I did read the descriptions for them though. The books could make for a good TV series...by Joss Whedon or somebody. |
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| Ànraich | Oct 22 2010, 03:58 PM Post #5 |
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Well they don't really focus much on the aliens, though there's a Hetwan face on the cover of one of the books. But here's a description from Wikipedia of the Coo-Hatch:
In the books they also describe them as being "C-shaped," whatever that means. They're also very smart; at one point the heroes trade a chemistry book they have for a new blade for a pocket knife made from Coo-Hatch steel (it can cut through just about anything I guess). They're all smug because they're the only ones in all of Everworld who can read English, but later discover that not only did they translate the book, they used it to invent cannons. The Hetwan are left pretty vague, really only described as "insectoid." Though there is one scene in the books when Dionysus, captured by the Hetwan, uses his powers to create illusions of female Hetwan, which are described pretty much as "flying sacks of organs." Apparently they reproduce by devouring the females, then infants begin to grow out of their waists or something along those lines. I assume this makes them somewhat humanoid, but I'm not really sure. EDIT: And no I've never heard of Norse Code, what is it? Edited by Ànraich, Oct 22 2010, 03:59 PM.
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| lamna | Oct 22 2010, 05:26 PM Post #6 |
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Ragnarok happening about now or a little into the future, basically. http://www.amazon.com/Norse-Code-Greg-Van-Eekhout/dp/0553592130 To get a taste of it you can listen to this podcast of Wolves Till The World Goes Down also by Greg van Eekhout. It's a similar story, but Norse Code goes in a different direction. http://podcastle.org/2010/07/20/podcastle-114-wolves-till-the-world-goes-down/ He also wrote The Osteomancer’s Son, a contemporary fantasy piece with limited, internally consistent magic. As you might be able to guess bones are the source of magic. http://podcastle.org/2008/05/19/pc008-the-osteomancers-son/ |
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