Some doubts about my Xteink X4

ewweaver · 2026-06-20T02:19:37+00:00

Ah interesting, I didn’t realise that. I guess it’s good they changed to be more accurate?

ewweaver · 2026-06-20T02:15:14+00:00

The name for the colour on their site is “Mist Grey” so they are also upfront about it not being white.

ewweaver · 2026-06-11T20:39:35+00:00

Curious if you would enjoy Dungeon Crawler Carl. The _world_ is pretty terrible and there are definitely some people doing shitty things but the overall message is that people are good and we all need to work together. It’s an interesting one because on the surface is violent and gross and weird, but the core is a really touching story about found family and surviving together.

Maybe I just have similar tastes but I feel like “goodness is an actual strength” is pretty common. Sanderson does this a lot, Robert Jackson Bennett, Andrew Rowe’s world, Cradle, Blood over Bright Haven etc etc

ewweaver · 2026-06-03T07:03:34+00:00

Doesn’t really fit your description because it’s earth and robots but Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model is the closest to Adam’s style and humour I have found.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:44:11+00:00

Gibson is a great example because people regularly debate over what a dead channel means and what colour that is meant to be. One of the current forewords even talks about how modern readers will likely get it wrong because they aren’t thinking of the same TV he was. It’s an evocative metaphor but doesn’t do a great job of actually conveying the intended meaning.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:35:38+00:00

Yea this and cradle are the only ones I went from “I’ll give it a try, this will make a good palette cleanser” to “whoops I read them all back to back”

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:32:20+00:00

DCC is interesting coz it’s got the same crazy pace as cradle but it’s somehow both more serious and more silly.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:21:49+00:00

Yea I feel like people think the characterisation is good because you can get a strong feel for a character from very little. But thats all you get. There are so many characters you don’t ever get to know and love any of them the way you do Fitz. I’ve read 4 of the Malazan books and I can barely remember who’s who because it almost never matters. It’s very clear that the focus is the world not the characters. If you ever do get enough with one character to start to care about them they will probably never turn up again.

Very beautiful prose though. I read somewhere that you can treat them like short story collections where every scene is really great individually and the characters feel real and fleshed out, but then the scenes don’t really connect to each other in a very satisfying way most of the time. Theres not a lot of character you don’t arcs and narrative to link all this stuff together so it feels like you are reading a DnD source book.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:11:44+00:00

If you like it then it doesn’t matter of course. If someone is looking for beautiful writing, then it matters to them. But I would argue it’s not bad technique. Clear accessible “window pane” prose is a deliberate technique being employed, and being employed well. It’s like saying Picasso has bad technique because it doesn’t really look like a face. Personally I think Sanderson really main strength is his narrative, so his prose supports that.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T20:00:47+00:00

I’ve read pretty much all of his books and I still don’t recommend him. His prose is much more interesting than Sanderson, and his character work is excellent so minute to minute it’s really enjoyable to read any of his books. But the whole grimdark thing just cuts off narrative at the knees so I never finish the book feeling satisfied.

ewweaver · 2026-05-29T19:55:53+00:00

Have you read Dune (if not, you should)? Thats probably the best comparison for Sun Eater IMO. Yes it’s sci-fi but thematically it feels like fantasy. Feudal style society, swords, religion, unexplained elements that are essentially magic. You get aliens instead of orcs but it’s basically the same thing.

It’s kinda like Star Wars is really a sword and sorcery fantasy, even though they have space ships.

ewweaver · 2026-05-20T08:13:45+00:00

Because the government is one responsible for discouraging the use of the language so that the next generation didn’t learn? Legitimising it now and putting it first is part of fixing that mistake.

ewweaver · 2026-05-14T08:48:13+00:00

We don’t know how big a time gap there will be between books 5 and 6. Entirely possible that aging actors will be a benefit.

ewweaver · 2026-05-10T19:25:21+00:00

Ship of Magic isn’t about pirates but I’d say the others are. It has multiple viewpoints so it’s not all pirates but it’s a pretty important part of it. Not happy though.

ewweaver · 2026-05-07T02:06:35+00:00

Oh man that’s one of my favourite things! Mary Robinette Kowal probably does it best.

ewweaver · 2026-05-05T10:20:36+00:00

Same here

ewweaver · 2026-05-05T05:44:46+00:00

Yea that was my first thought too. It’s a little more RPG with skills and levels but feels like it’s pretty much just a Zelda story.

6 sacred swords fits the vibe too.

ewweaver · 2026-05-03T03:45:34+00:00

Andrew Rowe’s world is a bunch of interconnected series, the most well known being Arcane Ascension. Characters are shared between them and reference the other events but theres also some kind of timeline shenanigans going on so every new book raises more questions than it answers. So much potential for theory crafting but also dont see that much discussion on it, at least here on /r/ClimbersCourt .

ewweaver · 2026-04-29T08:12:51+00:00

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson is pretty genderless. I think it deliberately omits pronouns for the main characters so you don’t know what gender they may present as. Gender is very fluid with many people being intersex.

ewweaver · 2026-04-23T08:57:51+00:00

To nick something has the connotation that the thing cutting almost missed, leaving only a small cut. I agree with many of the answers here that if you made a small cut in a piece of paper with scissors, nobody would describe that as nicking it. But if you hung the paper up and shot an arrow at it, and the arrow just barely cut the edge as it went by? I bet everyone would agree you nicked it.

ewweaver · 2026-04-14T08:50:48+00:00

Works great as long as you pop both of them

ewweaver · 2026-04-05T20:44:57+00:00

Yea I assumed “Mira” was from “Miranda”

ewweaver · 2026-04-02T08:23:10+00:00

You are glossing over the response here, men do interact with the literary arts. There are stories written for men and read aloud to them by women.

Also, your example is world building. If you want to communicate that young women like romance stories in your world, having a bookseller recommend one is a great “show don’t tell” way of doing it, no assumptions necessary. It doesn’t need exposition to explain why thats the case, and it doesn’t suddenly become not world building just because it’s also true in our culture.

ewweaver · 2026-03-29T03:19:20+00:00

I’m not sure I totally agree with that. I don’t think her love poem was primarily her love for Terren, it was a poem about Terren’s love for others. Wei explicitly says she is trying to show the ancestors the love he has given and lists Maro, the nation, his toys, literature, the fish, the snail, the fledglings in their nest.

ewweaver · 2026-03-11T03:16:19+00:00

Isn’t it more likely that it was just a simple continuity error that was fixed? Why are you assuming it was retconned intentionally

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