Reading Wednesday

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 Just finished: Nothing.

Currently reading: Maej by Dale Stromberg. I'm about a third of the way through. It's very slow-going besides the length, owing to the very clever but very dense use of language and dialect. Large parts read as though they're in Middle English, for example, although that's not entirely what he's doing. I won't go into tons of detail (it's signed, but not in its final form) but it's got some extremely inventive language things that I'm nerding out about, and the magic system is one of the coolest I've seen in a good long time. I can, of course, text the author and ask if it's Dying Earth because it feels a lot like Dying Earth, and as you know, Bob, this is one of my favourite things. But I prefer to be surprised.

Ishmael, where are you? Did you get lost at sea? There hasn't been a missive in awhile.

Comments

[greylock]

Ishmael's missives will have to wait until he gets to shore next.

If it feels like Dying Earth, it probably is (unless you're talking about Vancean magic, which I assume you know the rules of, and it you don't that's what you want to google.