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Click for larger imageBibliomancer Comments: Spoiler alert! Looks like we have the Game of Thrones script for the upcoming battle for King’s Landing.
Published 2011
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Bibliomancer Comments: Spoiler alert! Looks like we have the Game of Thrones script for the upcoming battle for King’s Landing.
Published 2011
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May 1st, 2019 at 10:32 am
Yeah, an infestation can be a pest, but they’re easy to catch what with their tails dragging along the ground.
May 1st, 2019 at 11:41 am
Mmm… red liquorice!
May 1st, 2019 at 1:20 pm
“My liege! We completed the castle exactly as you sketched it on your napkin!”
May 1st, 2019 at 1:34 pm
@JuanPaul
— It was supposed to be 100′ wide!
— Look at the napkin. You wrote 100″
May 1st, 2019 at 2:56 pm
Welcome welcome welcome to the Dragonswarm Festival!
Better than Coachella!
Better than Burning Man!
As usual, we’ve hidden a bevy of young damsels, mostly Princesses, among the heavily forested hills. When the signal is given, all you dragons go swarming across the treetops and find the damsels! Bring them to this ruined phallic tower home base and collect points! Remember to be gentle—there are deductions for burning, slashing, biting or tearing their tender young flesh. The dragon who fetches the most damsels is named this year’s “King of the Swarm” and is entitled to a lot of swell prizes. Everybody ready? Ok, then, go swarm!!
May 1st, 2019 at 3:04 pm
Of course dragons warm, but I see no evidence of fire breathing on this cover.
May 1st, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Dragonswarm is ‘Book 2 of the Dragonprince Trilogy’. Is the space-bar on his keyboard broken?
(And, in the obligatory obscure 70s British reference, is the author from Croydon?)
If dragons are a persistent problem, the keep’s lack of a roof is another design problem.
May 1st, 2019 at 5:08 pm
*In best Derek Zoolander voice*
“What IS this? A castle for ANTS???”
May 1st, 2019 at 5:09 pm
@Tat Wood—Given the labor it would take to read these books, I am guessing that Book 3 of the “Dragonprince” trilogy will be titled “Dragonass.”
May 1st, 2019 at 5:36 pm
It’s a masterpiece from the school of ‘Battlements Are Hard to Draw’
May 1st, 2019 at 8:55 pm
This looks more like a birdhouse made by a 5-year-old.
@BC – GSS 🙂 Book 4: Dragontheline
May 1st, 2019 at 9:06 pm
Well, the rendering of the background I kind of like. But that red dragon looks really twisted, I could believe it’s facing the observer head-on and… its tail sprouts from its chest ?? Oh my eyes…
May 1st, 2019 at 11:46 pm
I’ve decided the dragon is from another dimension, b/c like @Outis, my eyes can’t figure out how the hell it would work in this time-space continuum.
This is another strike against self-publishing (CreateSpace is just that). I wonder who got suckered in to actually buying or being gifted the print version, and how long it took them to fob it off to the used book store. And why the store took it.
That’s actually a cheapo plastic award for Salesman of the Year, or Most Improved Whatever, and is thus about a foot tall. Therefore the dragons could be wiped out by a bug zapper or flyswatter.
Quick Henry, the Flit! (a reference too old for any of us)
GSS to everyone above.
May 1st, 2019 at 11:48 pm
@Tat: why is Croydon always a reference, and what does it reference? I’ve been there once and didn’t see anything particularly yuk-worthy.
May 2nd, 2019 at 3:13 am
@GSSxN – Bookstore owner’s are too smart to get this foisted on them. I took the picture at our Friends of the Library local book sale. Two days later it was still on the table.
May 2nd, 2019 at 4:48 am
@GSSxN: Croydon used to be the first bit of genuine suburbia on the way out of London into commuterland but not yet into the stockbroker belt (cf Surbiton, an up-itself version of Croydon a few miles further but three times the house-prices). Like Ilford, Watford or Slough, it’s the start of not-London-but-wants-to-be.Both sides, metropolitan and rural, look down on them.
My specific reference was to ‘Burkiss Way’ character-cum-punchline Eric Pode of Croydon.
May 2nd, 2019 at 6:51 pm
Book 2 or Cringy Triple Gonad
GRAND STRAW HOME / WARM THE DRAGONS
A-Ooga Prune
May 2nd, 2019 at 11:01 pm
@Tat: thank’ee. I’ve seen Croydon as a punchline many a time but didn’t know what it was in reference to. It did strike me as the ur-suburb, so I was able to suss out the reason it was joked about, but not the specific antecedent.
Sounds like that was a very amusing radio show. I like the title of episode 45.
@B’mancer: Aha. That explains it. When the used bookstores won’t take them, you foist them off on the FotL. And then I hope the FoTL did the right thing and put this into a recycling bin so it can become something more useful, like TP or paper towels or something.
I bet Aaron gave this to some relative who either doesn’t like fantasy or has better taste in books, and it went out to the FotL after a discreet interval.
May 3rd, 2019 at 2:37 am
“The dragon’s warm. Will ya crank up the air conditioning?”
May 3rd, 2019 at 3:01 pm
@Outis & GSSxn: Maybe it’s an Anne McCaffrey dragon that’s just about to teleport, so It’s bending spacetime around itself. If it’s just started to fly in a direction outside normal three dimensional space it makes sense that when you look at it you literally don’t know if it’s coming or going…
…Or feet, battlements and dragons are hard to draw.
October 30th, 2019 at 10:21 pm
So that’s where my son’s cardboard castle went! Been looking for it all day.