tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post7599695887428969979..comments2024-03-20T03:12:56.498-05:00Comments on Lou Anders: Paying it Forward in BloglandLou Andershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-69671615635531182072007-03-02T13:06:00.000-06:002007-03-02T13:06:00.000-06:00I couldn't handle the cross-sections of a real hum...I couldn't handle the cross-sections of a real human body on a school trip to the Smithsonian, so a girl I had an unrequited crush on and I snuck off to a dinosaur exhibit and hung around in a park. This was decades in the past, but don't know how I'd do with fetuses.Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-56369968249758448782007-03-01T23:32:00.000-06:002007-03-01T23:32:00.000-06:00I can see why you didn't. That story touches a ver...I can see why you didn't. That story touches a very primal place. Think any mother might find it difficult to read.<BR/><BR/>Reminds me -- I recently viewed the Body Worlds 3 exhibition here in Phoenix. Part of the exhibition included a display showing the develpment of a baby...from fertilized egg to just prior to birth -- using real fetuses in varying stages. I went with a friend who's a mother, and that was her favorite part of Body Worlds. My sister-in-law, though, couldn't bear to view that part.<BR/><BR/>RobertRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418150320095119488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-88747183986472666982007-03-01T23:03:00.000-06:002007-03-01T23:03:00.000-06:00I had already (over)filled the antho when I made h...I had already (over)filled the antho when I made his acquaintance and realized I had to have him in it. So told him it couldn't be longer than 3k, a constraint that gave him fits but ultimately let him shine. My wife was pregnant with our child when that came in, so I didn't even discuss it with her.Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-32151621863169215282007-03-01T22:46:00.000-06:002007-03-01T22:46:00.000-06:00To jump to a non-troll conversational track, I fou...To jump to a non-troll conversational track, I found Paolo's story for FF1 -- "Small Offerings" to be almost unbearably powerful. Think it was just as long as it needed to be; any longer and it would have been unbearable. And that's praise, not criticism...<BR/><BR/>RobertRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418150320095119488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-54700012199474354842007-03-01T22:35:00.000-06:002007-03-01T22:35:00.000-06:00Trogers?Trogers?Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-37521821045063266362007-03-01T22:25:00.000-06:002007-03-01T22:25:00.000-06:00Lou,Perhaps it's only my own personal category...o...Lou,<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's only my own personal category...or perhaps overexposure a number of years ago to a certain pun-drenched fantasy series that begins with an "X" and ends with an "h." Or maybe I'm mixing up trolls with ogres --- god knows what *that* would produce... <BR/><BR/>RobertRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418150320095119488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-25542271269460654862007-03-01T22:01:00.000-06:002007-03-01T22:01:00.000-06:00Hey Robert - very glad you appreciate both of thei...Hey Robert - very glad you appreciate both of their works, and your summation of what they each do is so elegant I have naught to add but this - there's such a category as "anti-troll-fantsy"? Really?Lou Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00694362734492222851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11303103.post-55131422101336226222007-03-01T20:55:00.000-06:002007-03-01T20:55:00.000-06:00Lou,Thanks for paying it forward for these two guy...Lou,<BR/>Thanks for paying it forward for these two guys. Brian's art first really caught my eye on the cover to Prodigal Troll, and caused me to put aside my anti-troll-fantasy-novel bias long enough to read a few pages and get hooked on the book. The painting itself -- colors, style and placement of figures -- has a somewhat pre-Raphaelite feel to me. Except for the troll-wrestling, of course.<BR/><BR/>Paolo's "The Calorie Man" really whacked me upside the head...felt like an alien world that turns out to this world...it's an example of "If this goes on..." going on in all directions. You're droppped into the story in media res -- no convenient infodumps to orient the reader. I had to pay attention -- and *wanted* to. Not to mention that I'm a sucker for any story set on the Big River.<BR/><BR/>RobertRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418150320095119488noreply@blogger.com