I just visited SRD's page and was surprised to read about the editorial trouble he is having. My question is how do Brandon Sanderson and Terry Brooks keep getting published and SRD's book sales are dropping? I don't get it. Terry Brooks can retread an Elfstone or Ellcrys storyline and it gets publi...

What about the consideration that we are swiftly approaching the limit of silicon fabrication technologies and, thus, there's only so much improvement that can be made?

Almost everyone assumes that a fully functioning ideal quantum computer will eventually be produced. Not everyone is agreeing with that. Let's supposed for a minute that the naysayers are correct and that a practicable quantum computer is not possible. What then? What is that the signal of?

I am perfectly fine with that, if desired.

Read it!

Pretty good. Begins some nice story framework. The ending was the best part since it seems to reveal that there is something or someone above the guns and sorcery.

Looking forward to the rest of it.

I had this sinking feeling that I have read this plot suggestion on the back of some prevailing so-called fantasy books in recent months and years. Do you think that they went out of their way to make this book sound like everything else that is out there? Then I got this thought: Can you imagine wh...

Does anyone know when we will get a first chapter of Seventh Decimate?

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If by SM you mean me (is there someone else here with possible SM initials?), I have been busy settling in to new environs. PA.

Good to be back and waiting for SRD's next work.

For the record, I do not so much support Trump as I find completely needful the upset that he has rendered to the establishments of both parties, especially the Republican party. I don't care too much about the left as they seem almost beyond redemption at this point. I hope that he will call out th...

I hope that SRD will revisit Reave in further stories. With some backstory as well. He is very much an avenging angel, but there is no clue as to how he is called or who send him. Does he have his own private absolute moral code?

Wayfriend, Thanks for the info, although it increases the pain of not having any new SRD to read. :-x Meltman??? Strange. THE SEVENTH DECIMATE seems too big and ominous next to the name Meltman. Doesn't fit. On purpose? Also, does this represent a trend for SRD? I.e., emphasis on shorter works? Is S...

I have finished the new novellas and really enjoyed them both. The Augur's Gambit was the better of the two, I think. Now my SRD hunger has kicked in again.

Anyone have any hint of what the Master Wordsmith may be working on now?

Hungry... so very hungry.

I can barely put this thing down! Yes, lighter writing, but very effective. I think that this could have been developed into a larger story. Maybe Donaldson will expand this world and this character. Reminds me of the other short stories with Reave the Just. Is that accurate, or just my poor memory?...

Orlion, I respect your thoughts and insight on my comments. I think that they are a good start. But, I think that they indirectly prove, or at least support, my points. As one poster (Cail) pointed out, assuming that you can't deploy the military to deport illegals (not even the National Guard??), i...

Hashi, I did not say, in any form, that it would be easy. It would be one of the hardest and most expensive things that our government has undertaken, but this is what happens when the government, and the people, refuse to take care of a problem because they have competing interests. The government ...

Yes we CAN and should deport all illegal aliens and their children they had while living here under the radar, or that they brought with them. It would take some time, but it could be done. We would not have to 'round them all up.' Anyone who says, and I mean anyone, including anyone in the mainstre...

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I believe that was a very apt comparison. Good one.

Skurjy

I am sure that this kind of discussion belongs in another forum, but since there was a reply to my somewhat off the cuff comparison, I thought that I would reply as well. How are they different precisely? World-building? Characters? I bet, though, that Staveley will prove to be more like Jordan (or ...

I've got one that I have been looking for. Read it when I was a kid. Late 70s early 80s. It concerns a guy who is 'waking' up in different realities or lives, but later comes to to find out that copies of him are being made by some entity or machine.

Anyone have a clue on this one?

That's okay, Watchers. My exuberance got the better of me!!!! I was just excited to see something else coming from the man. As I have stated before, he has ruined me for other authors. NOBODY writes like SRD. Although, I recently discovered Brian Stavely, but I am not sure if he is more like SRD or ...