2011-03-12

stoutfellow: Joker (Joker)
2011-03-12 08:51 am
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A Question for Weber Readers

If anyone has the Honor series in e-book form, I'd like to know which book contains the first reference to the body of water known as Jason Bay. (I have them up through War of Honor in paper, but the idea of plowing through the series manually is a bit daunting.)

(Weber is a baseball fan, and there happens to be an outfielder by that name....)
stoutfellow: Joker (Joker)
2011-03-12 09:19 am
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Misstep

Oh, come now; this is just plain carelessness.

I'm reading L. Sprague de Camp's The Tritonian Ring, one of those sword-and-sorcery-in-lands-now-lost fantasies. I just came to a passage in which the hero, Prince Vakar, is attempting to ride a difficult horse. As he struggles with the reins, the passage reads: "It seemed to have a mouth of iron."

Only one problem: neither Vakar nor anyone else knows what iron is. That's the whole fracking point of the story, that nobody knows about iron. (It's the common "iron is the death of magic" theme, spiced with some rather frightened gods.)

Pfui.