Awesome stuff
Apr. 17th, 2008 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerI HAVE THE STONE KEY. OH MY GOD, I HAVE THE STONE KEY.
The Stone Key, for those of you who are uninitiated, is the fifth book in Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles. The fifth book was supposed to be the last, but it’s not, evidently because its nine hundred or so pages weren’t long enough to wrap up the story.
I have mixed feelings about whether or not that's true. I'll post an actual book review later.
In other news: the island of Sark just abolished its feudal system.There was still a country in Europe that had a feudal system? I am SO GEEKED.
Also, I'm totally making up an almost-Sark and adding it to my list of "stories set in places that could almost exist but don't," which also includes a lost colony set up by Alexander the Great and a Central American city state that gets taken over by a coffee company with coffee-derived mind-control gas.
On the topic of fascinating invented places, haikujaguar has some really lovely stories with a very alien setting. (Read past the first couple entries, because they're both kind of creepy and the stories as a whole really aren't.)
The Stone Key, for those of you who are uninitiated, is the fifth book in Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles. The fifth book was supposed to be the last, but it’s not, evidently because its nine hundred or so pages weren’t long enough to wrap up the story.
I have mixed feelings about whether or not that's true. I'll post an actual book review later.
In other news: the island of Sark just abolished its feudal system.There was still a country in Europe that had a feudal system? I am SO GEEKED.
Also, I'm totally making up an almost-Sark and adding it to my list of "stories set in places that could almost exist but don't," which also includes a lost colony set up by Alexander the Great and a Central American city state that gets taken over by a coffee company with coffee-derived mind-control gas.
On the topic of fascinating invented places, haikujaguar has some really lovely stories with a very alien setting. (Read past the first couple entries, because they're both kind of creepy and the stories as a whole really aren't.)
