Anastasia
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Post by Anastasia on Dec 29, 2022 10:31:19 GMT
Any further book club should start from the beginning with, "Christmas on a Rational Planet". It's the best way of trying to figure out as much tracking it's development as we can siince Mr Miles is both unwilling and unable to explain his own creation. Well if we start with Christmas we might as well do the whole Milesian Saga VNAChristmas on a Rational Planet Down Dead Romance EDAAlien Bodies Interference Book One Interference Book Two The Adventeress of Henrietta Street Faction ParadoxThe Book of the War This Town will Never Let us Go AudioThe Faction Paradox Protocols the True History of the Faction Paradox Comicsissue 1 issue 2 Othersthe Adolescence of Time Vrs The Judgement of Solomon of course Miles did not start figuring out his plan until he started Interference/ Dead Romance and even then it was not finished of until Book of the War Came out sow perhaps we should start withe Interference and do everything thing which came after plus Dead Romance? not to mention I don’t think the last three have much to do with the war but I think that adolescence might still be worth a look. |
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Post by garyshots on Dec 29, 2022 17:46:09 GMT
See pictured (?), arranged in rough order of amenability from top to bottom.
(I know Erasing Sherlock is missing, it's annoying.)
(It's not that I didn't like The Book of the Enemy, merely that I've read it more recently.)
(I could do Down, but would need to read The Also People first, or The Taking of Planet 5, but would need to watch Image of the Fendahl first. Sorry.)
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GodfatherPixel
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Post by GodfatherPixel on Dec 29, 2022 18:28:26 GMT
See pictured (?), arranged in rough order of amenability from top to bottom.
(I know Erasing Sherlock is missing, it's annoying.)
(It's not that I didn't like The Book of the Enemy, merely that I've read it more recently.)
(I could do Down, but would need to read The Also People first, or The Taking of Planet 5, but would need to watch Image of the Fendahl first. Sorry.)
Even though I already own all these books myself I get weirdly excited whenever I see pictures of anyone else's lined up! |
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Post by garyshots on Dec 29, 2022 18:34:57 GMT
Even though I already own all these books myself I get weirdly excited whenever I see pictures of anyone else's lined up! Would be cool if we get more pictures. Some people will have loads. |
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Post by Bongo50 on Dec 29, 2022 21:40:07 GMT
I'd be more up for an anthology than a book at the moment. No matter what, as I'm quite behind with this book club, it would be nice to have a month or 2 break. A slightly slower pace could also be nice for any future clubs.
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GodfatherPixel
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Post by GodfatherPixel on Dec 29, 2022 22:24:18 GMT
I'd be more up for an anthology than a book at the moment. No matter what, as I'm quite behind with this book club, it would be nice to have a month or 2 break. A slightly slower pace could also be nice for any future clubs. This was the reason for my suggestion. I think the short stories would be far more accessible than the full-length novels for the time being (I'm aware we'd break the novels down but even so). We are still a growing userbase here, I think the larger stories should be left on hold until there's enough engagement. One short story every week or so would be a reasonable request at the moment, and the FP short stories are pretty thought provoking individually. |
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GodfatherPixel
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Post by GodfatherPixel on Dec 29, 2022 23:27:56 GMT
I have taken a little time to plan out a potential schedule for the anthologies.
I think that having a short story discussion twice a week (Mondays & Fridays) is pretty reasonable. Also, this planned schedule takes us all the way up to October so it could be advertised to fans outside of this forum as a way to fill the gap until Doctor Who returns in November. Having a schedule planned so far in advance and with so many different writers and creators could allow us to bag a few to drop in for a chat or Q&A (hopefully!).
As fans we could obviously continue the book club past November, and if we have gained a larger userbase it would be a good time to start on the full-length novels, audios, and beyond!
A Romance in Twelve Parts
Week one:
Mon 9th Jan - Storyteller by Matt Kimpton | Fri 13th Jan - Gramps by Jonathan Dennis
Week two:
Mon 16th Jan - Mightier Than the Sword by Jay Eales | Fri 20th Jan - Now or Thereabouts by Blair Bidmead
Week three:
Mon 23rd Jan - Nothing Lasts Forever by David N Smith & Violet Addison | Fri 27th Jan - Library Pictures by Stuart Douglas
Week four:
Mon 30th Jan - Holding Pattern by Scott Harrison | Fri 3rd Feb - A Story of the Peace by Ian Potter
Week five:
Mon 6th Feb - Print the Legend by Daniel O'Mahony | Fri 10th Feb - Tonton Macoute by Dave Hoskin
Week six:
Mon 13th Feb - Alchemy by James Milton | Fri 18th Feb - A Hundred Words from a Civil War by Philip Purser-Hallard (and others)
*** Short break ***
Burning with Optimism's Flames
Week seven:
Mon 6th Mar - Raleigh Dreaming by Elizabeth Evershed | Fri 10th Mar - Office Politics by Alan Taylor
Week eight:
Mon 13th Mar - ...and from the Tower She Did Fall by Cate Gardner | Fri 17th Mar - La Santa Muerte by Daniel Ribot
Week nine:
Mon 20th Mar - Dos Hombres - A Fable by Kelly Hale | Fri 24th Mar - All the Fun of the Fear by Stephen Marley
Week ten:
Mon 27th Mar - Wing Finger by Helen Angove | Fri 31st Mar - The Strings by Jason Worrad
Week eleven:
Mon 3rd Apr - Squatters Rights by Juliet Kemp | Fri 7th Apr - After the Velvet Eon by Simon Bucher-Jones
Week twelve:
Mon 10th Apr - Remake/Remodel by Jonathan Dennis | Fri 14th Apr - Dharmayuddha by Aditya Bidikar
Week thirteen:
Mon 17th Apr - A Star’s View of Caroline by Sarah Hadley | Fri 21st Apr - De Umbris Idearum by Philip Purser-Hallard
*** Short break ***
Liberating Earth
Week fourteen:
Mon 8th May - Playing for Time by Kate Orman | Fri 12th May - Dreamer in the Dark by EH Timms
Week fifteen
Mon 15th May - Annie's Arms by Xanna Chown | Fri 19th May - The Mountains are Higher at Home by Juliet Kemp
Week sixteen:
Mon 22nd May - Judy's War by Rachel Redhead | Fri 26th May - Red Rover Red Rover by Q
Week nineteen:
Mon 29th May - The Víkingr Mystique by Dorothy Ail | Fri 2nd Jun - Life of Julia by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Week twenty:
Mon 5th Jun - Project Thunderbird by Kelly Hale
*** Short break ***
The Book of the Enemy
Week twenty-one:
Mon 19th Jun - Subjective Interlock by Simon Bucher-Jones | Fri 23rd Jun - The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A by Simon Bucher-Jones
Week twenty-two:
Mon 26th Jun - Cobweb and Ivory by Nate Bumber | Fri 30th Jun - The Book of the Enemy by Andrew Hickey
Week twenty-three:
Mon 3rd Jul - T. memeticus: A Morphology by Philip Purser-Hallard | Fri 7th Jul - The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale by Simon Bucher-Jones
Week twenty-four:
Mon 10th Jul - A Bloody (And Public) Domaine by Jacob Black | Fri 14th Jul - Life-Cycle by Grant Springford
Week twenty-five:
Mon 17th Jul First Draft by Nick Wallace | Fri 21st Jul - Eyes by Christian Read
Week twenty-six:
Mon 24th Jul - We Are the Enemy by Lawrence Burton | Fri 28th Jul - Timeshare by Helen Angove
Week twenty-seven:
Mon 31st Jul - A Choice of Houses by Simon Bucher-Jones | Fri 4th Aug - Houses of Cards by Lisa Sarah Good
Week twenty-eight:
Mon 7th Aug - The Enemy - The Hole in Everything by Simon Bucher-Jones | Fri 11th Aug - The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy by Jay Eales
Week twenty-nine:
Mon 14th Aug - No Enemy But Despair by Simon Bucher-Jones | Fri 18th Aug - The Map and the Spiders by Wilhelm Liebknecht
*** Short break ***
The Book of the Peace
Week thirty:
Mon 11th Sept - The Ugly Spirit by Philip Marsh | Fri 15th Sept - What Keeps Their Lines Alive by Niki Haringsma
Week thirty-two:
Mon 18th Sept - Going Once, Going Twice by Jacob Black | Fri 22nd Sept - Jukebox by Aditya Bidikar
Week thirty-three:
Mon 25th Sept - A Farewell to Arms by Nate Bumber | Fri 29th Sept - And To Dust We Shall Return by Alexandra Marchon
Week thirty-four:
Mon 2nd Oct - War During Peacetime by Greg Maughan | Fri 6th Oct - The End of the Beginning by George Mann & Philip Marsh
Week thirty-five:
Mon 9th Oct - A Man Lays Dying by Philip Marsh
*** Short break ***
NOVEMBER: DOCTOR WHO RETURNS!
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Anastasia
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Post by Anastasia on Dec 30, 2022 8:59:08 GMT
But the Anthologies come after the Milesian era and so what would be the grand aim of the study?
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Post by garyshots on Dec 30, 2022 13:59:15 GMT
But the Anthologies come after the Milesian era and so what would be the grand aim of the study? I think you've cut through to the heart of the matter. What is this hypothetical continuing book club for?
Is it a Lawrence Miles book club? Is it a Worlds of the Spiral Politic book club, encompassing the Boulevard and City of the Saved anthologies? Is it an esoteric Doctor Who book club, taking in 4D War and Lungbarrow? Is it all of the above, or definitely only some of them? |
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GodfatherPixel
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Post by GodfatherPixel on Dec 30, 2022 15:56:11 GMT
But the Anthologies come after the Milesian era and so what would be the grand aim of the study? I had no idea this was supposed to be a Milesian study. I thought it was just Faction Paradox fans coming together to discuss FP related work. |
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Post by garyshots on Dec 30, 2022 17:19:20 GMT
I have taken a little time to plan out a potential schedule for the anthologies. NOVEMBER: DOCTOR WHO RETURNS!Thanks for all the effort you've put into this. I really appreciate the enthusiasm for the anthologies that shines through, and that you've planned it around the return of the Evil Renegade on telly, which I'm very excited about.
I think we might be well-advised to be mindful of the Delphic maxims, especially the second (nothing to excess, conversely everything in moderation), but maybe the third as well. We all want to support Obverse and their authors, so their books should surely be an important strand of any continuing book club.
Going back to the first Delphic maxim though, and knowing myself as I do, I'm not entirely confident that I can commit to buying/reading four new Obverse books in nine months. When would I find time to read this sexy new book about Mesopotamian ghosts my sister got me for Yulemas? What's more, some of the Obverse books I'm keenest to catch up with eventually are novels.
So I suppose my tentative counter-proposal, subject of course to input from all the others, would be: what about one Obverse anthology and one Obverse novel for the first year, and we read something older as well? I was hoping that 2023 would be the year I finally read Newton's Sleep (that's why it's at the top in the photo), but it seems clear that there's a Grandfather Loz contingent, so perhaps one of his would be better?
Needless to say, my proposals wouldn't preclude cramming in a comic/audio somewhere.
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Anastasia
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Post by Anastasia on Dec 30, 2022 18:36:03 GMT
But the Anthologies come after the Milesian era and so what would be the grand aim of the study? I had no idea this was supposed to be a Milesian study. I thought it was just Faction Paradox fans coming together to discuss FP related work. The reason I was going down this root was that when Book Club of the War was stated one of its mission was to find out the identity of the enemy. And Miles is one of the individuals who we know knows definitely Who or what the enemy are. Which is also why I suggest cutting some of the earlier books as they may muddy the water. |
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Post by Ettolrahc Dvora on Jan 4, 2023 14:52:23 GMT
Would it be okay for me to comment on the Week's threads as I read the Book now, months late?
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Anastasia
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Post by Anastasia on Jan 4, 2023 14:54:25 GMT
Would it be okay for me to comment on the Week's threads as I read the Book now, months late? Yes that’s why they have been left unlocked, in fact it was one of the first ideas laid down when this was still in the discussion era, so go for it, I would love to hear your views. |
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Post by Ettolrahc Dvora on Jan 4, 2023 16:12:07 GMT
Would it be okay for me to comment on the Week's threads as I read the Book now, months late? Yes that’s why they have been left unlocked, in fact it was one of the first ideas laid down when this was still in the discussion era, so go for it, I would love to hear your views. Cool,thank you! I've just started rereading the Book "in order", so I'll comment when I finish each Week |
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