I found this amusing:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-01-24-mistborn-author-jokes-from-software-should-have-come-to-him-for-elden-ring

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From the article:

In a segment discussing the events leading up to Mistborn character Kelsier’s rather unexpected appearance in Fortnite, Sanderson segued onto the topic of Elden Ring.

“Let me be salty,” Sanderson began his mock tirade. “From Software decides to make a fantasy game and partner with a fantasy novelist, and they choose someone who spends his days blogging about the NFL, rather than the person who has played their games since King’s Field and has listed their games as his top favourite games…consistently over time.”

“What are you thinking people?,” Sanderson concluded in faux fury. “George doesn’t play games! George has no idea!”.

What a remarkable book with a unique take on first contact! One of the rare books that won both the Hugo and Nebula awards (in 1974), and you can very much see why. Remarkable book - and not too long either!

Earth’s meteor warning system detects a new object in the deep solar system, on an orbit that will take it in, past Earth and close to the sun. As it gets closer, it becomes clear it is a massive cylinder and it’s far too perfect to be natural object. There is only one ship that can intercept the object before it leaves the solar system, and we follow that crew as they arrive at the object and open its airlock.

Rendezvous with Rama creates a feeling of reality and believability that it makes it feel more like a history book or nonfiction than a piece of science fiction. That though is at once its greatest triumph and its biggest shortfall.

On the one hand, it’s incredibly interesting to explore along with the crew. On the other, the members of the crew aren’t fleshed out at all …

Don’t get me wrong I love the occasional lengthy multi-book fantasy epic like wheel of time. But, it seems now nearly every series I’m interested in is book ¹⁄₁₀ or more. I love to read and I love these worlds but dedicating myself to so many lengthy series feels limiting.

I’m not saying that you don’t gain alot from a multibook epic. When executed well its fantastic. Although, I find these often feeling padded out and fluffed up for the sake of being a long series. Do you ever feel this way? Or am I not patient enough?

Edit- I’m relatively new to fantasy and its come to my attention fantasy series arent getting long. They’ve been long.

Just finished Shards of honor and I’m starting the next one. Her prose and pacing is perfect. Already a big fan!

Here’s a list of books, stories, and essays involving linguistics, language, and communication, taken from the comments for 5 reddit posts asking of books involving linguistics (including one post from r/linguistics), a Goodreads list, this list from a linguistic (includes lots of great nonfiction resources as well), and from the sf-encyclopedia on linguistics. Here are links to Wikipedia’s articles for linguistic relativity (the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, although this is considered a basically disproven hypothesis) and conceptual metaphor (largely championed by George Lakoff; see Metaphors We Live By). Both are pretty relevant for fiction that explores how language might shape our thinking.

The list is organized by how frequently an author or work was mentioned from my 8 sources. I proceed each with how many they were mentioned in, so that number should roughly reflect how relevant an author or work is to the linguistics theme and how popular the work is. I’ve …

It’s a murder mystery set in a bizarre alien society where music governs every interaction, and social status is represented by the mask one wears, which cannot be removed in public under penalty of death. The ending is especially brilliant

Pohl’s Gateway is an obvious example but more than the ships, I’m interested in the piezoelectric “blood diamonds” that ended up incorporated into Human communications tech.

I’d just like to read about “black boxes” that were found in large numbers and pressed into service.

Movies like Bruce Allmighty, 17 Again, Groundhogs Day, Bedtime Stories,and Big never justified the scenario they threw their characters into they just did it and that was fine and it was fun and gave us really created movies that just wouldn’t work if the movie had to spend time info dumping how this was all possible

I just feel like studios don’t make those kinds of weird and fun concept movies anymore because they seem scared to have a movie that doesn’t answer the “well how did it happen”