+1 bat-Aleran!

[aleran]

Al here!

First I want to give everyone a head's up that Clark Kent / Superman ( andaway ) will be going on hiatus for two weeks during August. I will still be backtagging things with him though.

And I'm bringing a new character! Tavi, from the Codex Alera books. If you don't know his canon he's basically a young Batman living in a Roman society where everyone has powers EXCEPT HIM. He's smart, and even f he comes from a world where people rely on powers rather than technology he's very skilled and a tech kind of guy. You totally needed someone else to blow up the consoles right? He'll be living in EA-4B.

As for me you can still catch me on crotalus, or PM either of my character's accounts.

Comments

[survival_isnt_living]

Yeah. Cinder Spires is the series name, the first book is called The Aeronaut's Windlass. I admit that a part of me is looking at that title and remembering he once said that steampunk is Alera's future... but I don't actually expect it to be a sequel series.

Yeah, some of the lack of sharing readership is that; I know for a fact a lot of people who love Dresden are not fans of Alera, and then again a lot of people I know who loved Alera got disenchanted with Dresden. The number of people I like who enjoy both is surprisingly small, just because of the very different stories and also the very, very different styles of writing he uses for them both.

A part of me would love to see it, too! And a part of me is afraid of it, mostly because I'm not sure how I'd do it... TV series more likely than movies, given the large scope of it and how spread out action is. I'd love to see how they'd do furycrafting on screen. On the other hand, look what happened to The Last Airbender.

[notaheroascientist]

Awesome, I'll have to keep an eye out for it!

They are certainly different, but hey that's half the fun as far as I'm concerned :P But I can definitely see why some might not like one still. And I probably do have a preference myself for the Dresden Files, largely because I've just been leaning more towards a lot of urban fantasy for the last few years.

Yeah, it can definitely be a bit hit and miss. You really do need someone who actually appreciates the source material - it doesn't mean they have to go an recreate it exactly as is (and really good adaptions do need to change things to suit the medium), but if you don't respect it at all then you won't make anything good. But movies can also be a great way to introduce people to the books and build a bit of a fandom.