Can I just copy the wikipedia article and put it here? It's been expanded lately and is really good. Is that allowed? Is it something we want to be doing on our wiki? Hmmm........... Baiter
Hum maybe you should contact the one who recently modified the article and ask for there permission -redem
By editing wikipedia, you relinquish creative control of your work... does that allow other wikis to use it to? Non-profit ones? I don't know.
Is that something we even want to do on our site?
btw, I think Household Gods might be my favourite of Turtledove's books. Baiter 17:04, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
First of all, finding these notes Baiter and Redem wrote to each other is always reminiscent of conducting archaeological digs at a Homo erectus settlement--It feels like we're peering into the goings-on of a cruder, less capable version of ourselves that history wiped out long ago. Cruel, yes. Accurate? Yes. Turtle Fan 13:55, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
Anyway, Blaise, are you familiar with this book? If so, you can do us a great service by creating articles and categories that fully cover it. (I know I've thought about reading it from time to time over the years but have never gotten around to it.) Turtle Fan 13:55, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
All this time later[]
Just read it. Great atmosphere and historical recreation, uneven and slightly all-over-the-map plot, most irritatingly idiotic POV ever.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 09:18, February 21, 2017 (UTC)
- Have any of the admins read this novel?JonathanMarkoff (talk) 20:28, February 25, 2017 (UTC)
- I never did. Having just finally read ADF (speaking of Homo erectus) maybe I should read more of HT's early work. Turtle Fan (talk) 16:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Stirling crossover[]
Stirling obtained permission for gratuitous cameos from HG in his new novel To Turn the Tide. TTtT is a fairly mediocre self-referential ripoff of LDF, which retreads on thematic ground he has already covered in Nantucket, Emberverse, etc. With his usual style of needing to describe everything. Supposedly this is the start of another bloated multivolume series, but it feels like a standalone. Sequelizing it would be like sequelizing GotS.Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 06:35, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'm surprised that such an obscure novel would be worth gratuitous cameos. Turtle Fan (talk) 16:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- I believe HG has a small but devoted fanbase. More importantly, SMS is friends with both Turtledove and Tarr, and SMS really loves his crossovers with friends.
- I remember seeing it on a B&N shelf in 2001. I was visiting relatives and we'd gone to a mall for reasons I cannot recall. I was trying to travel fairly light and had enough reading material for the remainder of the trip and flight home and so opted not to buy a book. This was ages before the Kindle liberated me from such trade-offs.
- Speaking of which, HG is not available on the Kindle store even now (I checked after posting the above) which makes it less likely I'll be picking it up now. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:13, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- I may still read TTtT when the price goes down or it appears at the library. I remain lukewarm to his works, but do find the premise interesting enough. I probably will pay for the final Lords of Creation book at some point, as I did enjoy the previous two volumes. Not sure whether it will hold up nearly 20 years later, but I'll give it a shot. TR (talk) 17:33, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- This is the first I'm hearing of a third LoC book (though there was a short story set in the LoC verse that Stirling contributed to an anthology called Old Mars that GRRM edited quite some years ago; it did nothing to advance the story overall). I'd long since made peace with the fact that the trilogy was never going to be completed, so the Amazon page talking about "the eagerly anticipated finale" kind of has me rolling me eyes. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:13, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- So in one day I've learned that continuations to both Stirling's Lords of Creation and John Birmingham's Axis of Time either have been published recently or will be in the very near future. Throw in the Yankees being in the World Series and it feels suspiciously like my early 20s are making a comeback. Turtle Fan (talk) 05:34, 22 October 2024 (UTC)