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TV Tropes: Crown of Stars
Feb. 23rd, 2010 07:39 pmI'm still back, and still processing our fabulous trip to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Paris. But as it happens I unexpectedly have to make another quick trip, so my brave attempts to start posting regularly again will fade into the necessity of Family Obligations. For the time being.
March 2 marks the publication of the Tor Books paperback version of Traitors' Gate. I just got copies today in the mail, and the physical book looks very nice. I particularly like the way the typeface pops, especially on the spine for some reason. (The Orbit UK paperback of TG comes out in August.)
But that's not why I'm posting.
I'm posting because Twin A reminded me about TV Tropes, the excellent site (which never takes itself too seriously, and yet does take itself seriously, if you see what I mean) about . . .
well, here's what they say about what they're about:
Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.
I knew that the Jaran books have been mentioned with reference to tropes "Benevolent Alien Invasion" and "The Moorcock Effect."
But what Twin A pointed out to me was much better than that.
Crown of Stars (the series) has its very own page..
And it is so funny, and so wonderful in the choices highlighted, that it has the salutary effect of reminding me why I loved writing that series and that I had so much fun with it, besides the serious parts, and even with the serious parts. Although I'm sorry about the Depraved Bisexual. It just worked out that way, given the character involved, but it did make me cringe as I was writing it.
Anyway, if you've read Crown of Stars and enjoy the whole TV Tropes thing, check it out. I particularly enjoy the Bulkezu love going on.
March 2 marks the publication of the Tor Books paperback version of Traitors' Gate. I just got copies today in the mail, and the physical book looks very nice. I particularly like the way the typeface pops, especially on the spine for some reason. (The Orbit UK paperback of TG comes out in August.)
But that's not why I'm posting.
I'm posting because Twin A reminded me about TV Tropes, the excellent site (which never takes itself too seriously, and yet does take itself seriously, if you see what I mean) about . . .
well, here's what they say about what they're about:
Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.
I knew that the Jaran books have been mentioned with reference to tropes "Benevolent Alien Invasion" and "The Moorcock Effect."
But what Twin A pointed out to me was much better than that.
Crown of Stars (the series) has its very own page..
And it is so funny, and so wonderful in the choices highlighted, that it has the salutary effect of reminding me why I loved writing that series and that I had so much fun with it, besides the serious parts, and even with the serious parts. Although I'm sorry about the Depraved Bisexual. It just worked out that way, given the character involved, but it did make me cringe as I was writing it.
Anyway, if you've read Crown of Stars and enjoy the whole TV Tropes thing, check it out. I particularly enjoy the Bulkezu love going on.