Okay, so Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, of which So You Want To Be A Wizard is the first, is COMPLETELY NUTS in the best possible way. It's also really hard to describe: in the first book, two kids, Nita and Kit, find library books telling them how to be wizards, try out a spell to get back the space pen bullies took from Nita, and accidentally wind up transporting the sentient portion of a white hole named Fred to Earth. Fred gets the hiccups and keeps "emitting" random things, like cars. To cure him of his hiccups they hook into a dimensional worldgate in Grand Central Station, which sucks them into an evil parallel New York where the one Evil Power in the universe(s) holds sway and apparently cars and helicopters make up the ecosystem, and then they steal a book to bargain with a dragon, and then the sun briefly goes out, and ... I lose track about there.
Sequels include something about turning into whales to fix plate tectonics, making friends with a silicon planet (yes, the planet), and a dog who can create universes from nothing. The dog fills these universes with squirrels.
The books are ridiculous, but the images are cool, and I get a huge kick out of the jargon the wizards use. And a companion book, set in the same universe, was the first urban fantasy I ever really read and enjoyed, so it's got a special place in my heart. (That one's about a group of CAT wizards. In New York. Fighting dinosaurs. That briefly eat Luciano Pavarotti. He gets better, though. Oh, and there's a bit of conlanging in that one.)
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ANYWAY. I would very much like to have a Wind Waker 3DS, because switching back to that baton all the time is my least favorite part of the game. And I just love Majora's Mask ... in fact, I may go play it again when I'm done with my latest Epic Mickey round.
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Date: 2011-10-20 06:39 am (UTC)Sequels include something about turning into whales to fix plate tectonics, making friends with a silicon planet (yes, the planet), and a dog who can create universes from nothing. The dog fills these universes with squirrels.
The books are ridiculous, but the images are cool, and I get a huge kick out of the jargon the wizards use. And a companion book, set in the same universe, was the first urban fantasy I ever really read and enjoyed, so it's got a special place in my heart. (That one's about a group of CAT wizards. In New York. Fighting dinosaurs. That briefly eat Luciano Pavarotti. He gets better, though. Oh, and there's a bit of conlanging in that one.)
...
ANYWAY. I would very much like to have a Wind Waker 3DS, because switching back to that baton all the time is my least favorite part of the game. And I just love Majora's Mask ... in fact, I may go play it again when I'm done with my latest Epic Mickey round.