| Cacique Caribe | 18 Jan 2009 9:33 p.m. PST |
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PS. Would he be the kind of person to say "The name is Argyros. Basil Argyros"? |
Wyatt the Odd  | 18 Jan 2009 10:58 p.m. PST |
I've read the "Agent for Byzantium" anthology. I'm not sure that it would be pulp-like, but closer to a typical fantasy role-playing game. Wyatt |
| hurcheon | 19 Jan 2009 4:39 a.m. PST |
No he wouldn't, Basil Argyros is quite self-effacing. It is closer to hard fantasy than pulp. It's real tech, but in an alternate reality. Harry Turtledove when he was still readable |
 John the OFM  | 19 Jan 2009 6:33 a.m. PST |
I would jump at that, were it not for Turtledove's total inability to write interesting characters. His plots are ingenious, his people boring as hell. |
| Aurelian | 19 Jan 2009 2:13 p.m. PST |
I don't know, John. How ingenious is, "Ok, we're going to re-do WW2 AGAIN, but this time…" Or, "How can we set it up so that the South wins the Civil War in this series?" That seems to be the basic formula for all of his books/series lately. But I may be biased. I read "The Guns of the South" first and thought it was -terrible-. Maybe I should have started with something else. I think Harry -did- have something in the early days, but his abilities as a writer have never caught pace with his concepts, and now it seems like his concepts are kind of falling flat, too.
-A.
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| hurcheon | 19 Jan 2009 5:18 p.m. PST |
He rewrote a couple of early fantasy stories he did and in so doinmg lost some of the charm, his early stuff has something |
| John the OFM | 20 Jan 2009 7:51 a.m. PST |
Geez, Aurlian!
I can't even give him a back-handed compliment!
Tough crowd… |
| Tezdal | 15 Apr 2009 8:57 a.m. PST |
I never really thought Guns of the South was that great of a book…but I do enjoy his standalone novels and American Empire series (not sure on the actualy name but I've read like 6 of them lol) |
| Lerchey | 15 Apr 2009 12:13 p.m. PST |
Yes, well, isn't that a sad and sorry state of affairs… Sorry. Couldn't resist. For as much I love Turtledoves concepts, I do get rather tired of his using phrases like that in EVERY book in EVERY setting. It's like he takes a good idea and then runs it through his bore-o-matic 6000. Still, Guns of the South was the first book of his I read, and I did like it. :) |
| wballard | 17 Apr 2009 10:13 p.m. PST |
I think for Byzantine pulp fiction style gaming you might try Drake's "Vettius" books. |
