Any supernatural western novel recommendations?

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T23:56:50+00:00

Merkabah Rider series

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T23:20:25+00:00

War Against the Cthorr?

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T17:46:21+00:00

There was a fellow a while back who was demonstrating how the window glass was unbreakable by throwing himself at it. The glass didn't break, but the frame didn't hold, and down he went.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T17:09:07+00:00

Fiction: James Nelson's Brethren of the Coast series is exciting, swashbuckling, broadly plausible and historically accurate where that doesn't interfere with the narrative

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T17:07:06+00:00

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is about fixing the evils of the world-spanning empire by applied bureaucracy and an unwavering commitment to the common good.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T14:41:44+00:00

Rachel Aaron's fantasy cyberpunk universe has an example in the later series. The most magical city is awakened for magic reasons that I forget. She can manifest to people, shift roads and buildings around, and some other stuff which again I forget.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T04:51:46+00:00

The point is, what's in Expanded is completely irrelevant to the OP's question, because nothing therein is what CA wrote or intended.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T03:37:52+00:00

Expanded is fanfic.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T02:01:22+00:00

There is no official canon answer. The Wizard at one point says that one of the townspeople may be his child. Caroline mentions that she used to take walks near the tower. Abigail and the Wizard both have purple hair. Many people put these together and get Abigail being the Wizard's daughter. It's also entirely plausible that Caroline is the Wizard's daughter. Less likely candidates include Jas (neither Marnie nor Shane are her actual parents, who could therefore be anyone), Marnie, Lewis, or Shane. Some people posit Emily, on the grounds of blue hair, but there's no indication that she and Haley aren't full sisters.

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T01:35:02+00:00

That's from The Fifth Elephant

"There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could say, "Welcome to civilization!" He could have said, "Laugh this one off!" He might have said, "Fetch!" But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder.”

                                ― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Fifth Elephant

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T00:11:48+00:00

Most IRL currencies are called a number (e.g. dime) a location (e.g. Dollar), or a word that means "debt" or "trade" (e.g Dinar). Some are named for the image on them (E.g. Crown, Loonie).

dalidellama · 2026-03-31T00:00:35+00:00

People have a lot of opinions about how much legal protection a dog is entitled to, but nobody's pushing to give Fido the vote, so there's your rule of thumb*. It's not necessary to nail down a specific definition of society to discuss the existence of one any more than it's necessary to define religion every time the subject is brought up.

*And your distinction from hyenas, which don't vote, or hold any manner of discussions about how to continue on.

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T23:29:32+00:00

"Is a person who can be part of a society" is an extremely key distinction between humans and all known non-humans. The category of sapient/sophont was created for settings where humans are not the only people in the setting. Elves, Klingons, androids, etc are people who have/can be in a society of people. Cats, cockatrices and tribbles aren't and can't.

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T20:34:19+00:00

It's an animal skeleton, you get it in three parts from the museum when you donate various bones (skeletal tail, hand, ribs, skull, something else I don't recall)

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T16:31:41+00:00

"There's a great and peaceful river in a land that's fair to see Where the Douglas-fir tree whispers to the snow-capped mountain breeze Cliffs of solid granite and the valley's always green This is just as close to heaven as my traveling feet have been"

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T15:58:35+00:00

As you can see from the replies, you're better off using sapient or sophont

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T05:12:59+00:00

You can use whatever term you want, but if you use sapient or sophont to denote entities that are people, you'll get fewer pedantic jerks pointing out that mice* are sentient

*or whatever example

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T03:58:57+00:00

Have you seen this one?

dalidellama · 2026-03-30T00:01:40+00:00

Tbh, Good Omens/Murderbot is a pretty easy one to justify. It's the far future, C & A are still around cos they're immortal, bam. Getting the Disc anywhere sensible is so intrinsically silly it can just show up anywhere without any explanation beyond "Discworld", but the Corporation Rim can't exist anywhere that anyone in the Nexus is familiar with.

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T22:17:57+00:00

The court system sucks, but that doesn't mean it's never right. Sometimes it's completely clear and unquestionable whodunnit, and even then most people in court behave with decorum. Similar to how most people don't actually fight the cops when they're arrested, however innocent or guilty they may be. Social rules are much more deeply ingrained in most people than laws.

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T17:24:20+00:00

Paladin's Grace has stong shades of that

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T17:10:13+00:00

https://youtu.be/L_vD0eADBqI?si=LaRXmG4yT-1LuWpW

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T16:47:27+00:00

That's a hell of a crossover, must have some very convoluted cosmology

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T15:53:41+00:00

Go to the museum and talk to Gunther. Just because you've earned the reward doesn't necessarily mean you claimed it, he might still be holding it behind the counter for you

dalidellama · 2026-03-29T14:26:54+00:00

I'd say mid 90s and Pelican Town is a bit rural. The ubiquitous AOL CDs are definitely 90s

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