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Particular fantasy trope reading recommendation?
I'm hoping some FATties can be of assistance, because I don't know where else to ask.
Two prong recommendation attack:
(1) I'm looking for any piece of fiction that includes a character who paints miniatures. Literature is preferred, but I'll take whatever someone suggests.
(2) I'm also looking for any fiction that incorporates the trope "lost/stuck/trapped within the game." Particularly, PnP games (not Tron). Anything in the vein of;
a. Hobgoblin* - John Coyne
b. Mazes and Monsters* - Ronna Jaffe
c. Guardians of the Flames series - Joel Rosenberg
*These titles deal more with schizophrenic characters in the era of BADD, but they're still useful to me.
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2) Two immediately come to mind: Jumanji (either the book or the movie) and the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 80's.
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READY PLAYER ONE is a crappy book in my opinion, but does have a players-in-a-game element. Not "trapped" like TRON, but actually playing it.
THE HUNGER GAMES, obv obv.
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME.
Not a game, but definitely trapped is HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Danielewski. Also ergodic fiction and badass.
SNOW CRASH could be seen this way.
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jeb wrote: LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow talks about a character who paints minis briefly, but just a few pages. The lead is a LARPer though, and that comes up a couple of times. He also plays an ARG.
Also if you have been having problems with rolling your eyes and gagging this book should get you back up to speed in no time.
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jeb wrote: SNOW CRASH could be seen this way.
Tad William's Otherland series is a 4 door-stopper volume take on the same idea. Haven't read it, but he's got a lot of fans.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but you might want to check Peadar O. Guilin's The Inferior or Matthew Woodring Stover's Heroes Die.
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Hey, he's looking for themes, not classics of literature. LITTLE BROTHER is pretty obnoxious, in the same way READY PLAYER ONE is. Both seem to think nerdery is cool, but from an I'm-not-one-of-them-really perspective that grates. LITTLE BROTHER also reads like it's mansplaining every technical/crypto element of the book. But it's for kids, so how much can I complain?Legomancer wrote:
jeb wrote: LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow talks about a character who paints minis briefly, but just a few pages. The lead is a LARPer though, and that comes up a couple of times. He also plays an ARG.
Also if you have been having problems with rolling your eyes and gagging this book should get you back up to speed in no time.
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jeb wrote: SNOW CRASH could be seen this way.
Tad William's Otherland series is a 4 door-stopper volume take on the same idea. Haven't read it, but he's got a lot of fans.
I read that bad boy. I love me some Tad Williams, but man, can he get lost up his own ass. Anyway, Otherland is about virtual reality, and doesn't really have the idea of getting trapped in a game.
I thought of one more -- the Deep Space 9 season 1 episode "Move Along Home."
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drewcula wrote: Has anyone read Quag Keep by Andre Norton? I haven't, and it's seems seminal. I'm most interested in having a description of the mcguffin / magic bracelet.
I read it way back in the day. At the time, I was somewhat disappointed, because it seemed like Norton had only a general idea of the experience of playing D&D. And one adventurer was this really tough-looking lizard man who was useless for most of the book because they were traveling in a desert. There was some funny business about all the adventurers having a wrist bracelet with a spinning d20 bauble attached, and their dice would spin during combat. Still, Norton is an okay writer in general, so I wouldn't say that Quag Keep should be avoided completely. At the time, I was looking for a Greyhawk novel, not this.
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Oh and Max Von Sydow in "Three Days of the Condor"
A pretty good discussion of the subject at
www.fanaticus.org/discussion/archive/index.php?t-242.html
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Question: Has anyone read House of Cards? I'm curious to know if Francis Urquhart is ever referenced as playing wargames. His American counterpart, Francis Underwood, has a civil war game / battle in his basement.
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Neal Stephenson's Reamde has a "WoW x 10" MMO as a key plot element, with several characters having toons of various levels in the game.
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