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By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 06-09-2008
AlvinFox Wrote:Gauntlet comes out with a signed and numbered (or lettered depending on your preference) edition of the forthcoming RJ book around May/June. Many of us just can't wait until November.
And why should we? You're either a Paulcat or Paulkitty or you ain't.
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Dave F - 06-14-2008
Great book (as if it would be otherwise)
We now know how old Glaeken is, this places the first age after the last glacial maximum & just before the final melt of the ice. So the I guess the cataclysm caused the end of the last ice - and the resultant floods & changes caused the end of the first age
Two questions re Nightworld prompted by the book
1) The necklaces were used to reform the hilt, but I was always uncomfortable that a few shards from the shattered blade in Romania could reforge the blade.
Do we now have a source for a full new blade to be recast and used in a momentous event?
2) Question for FPW - the afterward mentions an extensive revision of nightworld, does this refer to a mass market publication of the Borderlands version or are you planning a second revision?
Loved all the things Webby mentioned, especially Kenji!
A few other random thoughts:
Is (was) there a link between the Order Septinarius & Kakureta Kao. The tattoo Jack describes to Naka in the ear sounds suspiciously like the order's sigil (or is just a general otherness related emblem)
Great to see Glaeken back and taking such an active part in a book, he has always been one of my favorite characters.
No one has mentioned, Mr Drexler - he appears very sprightly for a many who was playing the money markets in 1923 - wonder if a healthy dose of oDNA has affected the speed at which he ages? (or are there more than 2 immortals in the secret history of the world)
Re Gia's paintings I think they are simply a premonition of Night world. The corruption of the moon, and strange flying creatures in the night sky.
Finally for now I loved the line about not Mother Earth - if that doesn't spark a lot of debate on here eventually i don't know what will.
Could she be mitrochondrical eve, that would make her everyones mother! I was a bit surprised when she appeared as someone young - I must admit I thought she was aging as the Otherness gained power (Revised Nightworld spoiler) [SPOILER] especially given the ending of the revised nightworld, when she appears as small girl when Rasalom is defeated[/SPOILER]
Anyway a great book, finished in less than a day
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Kenji - 06-28-2008
Just now I finished reading BY THE SWORD.
Actually, I was reading it all night from 282 page to end. :Yawn:
[SIZE="3"]***Spoilers***[/SIZE]
What a great book! Now I can say THIS is the best RJ novel! Black Wind and RJ's world, what a perfect connection way! :thumbsup:
Oh, and too many characters in this book!...sometimes I got confused. Even Rafe appeared and he explained how he killed Jonah!
And fact that Glaeken met Masamune! Now finally I can connect it into Black Wind. "Masamune had fashioned this particular blade from another sword given him centuries ago by a wandering gaijin." Now I realized that gaijin is Glaeken! Cool.
Poor Dawn. She got many times kidnapped! Osala, Hank, Kakureta Kao, Hank, and Osala....Gosh! Can't she get a place for peacefully living?
What about Kenji? He died? He lost his hand! If he survived, I hope he appear for revenge, and next time, he will die!!!
milewinkgrin:Anyway, I really enjoyed it! I hope Kenton Brothers appear in next novel again.
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Kenji - 06-28-2008
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
BE AWARE!
MONSTROUS SPOILERS!
DID I MENTION...
SPOILERS!
I'm sending Kenji the book tomorrow, Webby--let's let him find out for himself!:hand: I bet he'll do a supersonic Limbo!
Yep. Thanks for the book, Mike! I found out one sneaky yakuza: Kenji (Thank you Paul!).
When I found that name, they danced in my head!
![[Image: jumping0045.gif]](http://www.smileyvillage.com/smilies/jumping0045.gif)
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - fpw - 06-28-2008
Kenji Wrote:I found out one sneaky yakuza: Kenji (Thank you Paul!).[SIZE="3"]I thought you'd like that. Sorry about the hand.[/SIZE]
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Kenji - 06-28-2008
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]I thought you'd like that. Sorry about the hand.[/SIZE]
He he he.... No problem! Well, he already lost his little finger anyway....by Yubitsume! :eek6:
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Kenji - 06-28-2008
By the way, in "BY THE SWORD" some Japanese people appeared. Where did you get their name from?
I guess Hideo Takita was taken from Hideo Kojima. And, Toru Akechi was taken from his?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogoro_Akechi
How about Goro, Ryo, Sasaki, Tadasu, and Shiro...?
Just curiosity
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - fpw - 06-29-2008
Kenji Wrote:By the way, in "BY THE SWORD" some Japanese people appeared. Where did you get their name from?
I guess Hideo Takita was taken from Hideo Kojima. And, Toru Akechi was taken from his?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogoro_Akechi
How about Goro, Ryo, Sasaki, Tadasu, and Shiro...?
Just curiosity
[SIZE="3"]You and Kojima-san were sources for two names, the rest were picked at random.[/SIZE]
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - webby - 07-09-2008
So I just started rereading By the Sword, much more slowly this time and I discovered a link to The Touch.
Very early in BTS, Jack and Gia go to an opening at an art gallery. Jack is smitten with the wood sculptures of Bonsai trees by a woman named Sylvia.
![[Image: ton_of_bricks-smiley.gif]](http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/smilies/ton_of_bricks-smiley.gif)
Sylvia ... Sylvia Nash ... Bonsai sculptures carved from wood ... so obvious! I feel so stoopid for missing it the first time!
![[Image: doh.gif]](http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/smilies/doh.gif)
Doh!
By The Sword **SPOILERS** - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 07-09-2008
webby Wrote:So I just started rereading By the Sword, much more slowly this time and I discovered a link to The Touch.
Very early in BTS, Jack and Gia go to an opening at an art gallery. Jack is smitten with the wood sculptures of Bonsai trees by a woman named Sylvia.
Sylvia ... Sylvia Nash ... Bonsai sculptures carved from wood ... so obvious! I feel so stoopid for missing it the first time!
Don't feel bad, Webby. I missed that completely. Thanks for the tip!