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Originally Posted by taosaur
I finally started the Codex Alera last month, and it sucked me right in. A lot of sword-and-sorcery bores me, but Butcher's characters are compelling as ever and the worldbuilding draws more on the Robert E. Howard/Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy lineage, with a touch of Lovecraft, rather than leaning too heavily on Tolkien and the Arthurian mythos....
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.....Do you know that writing that series was the result of an on-line discussion and an associated wager? It seems that there was a challenge issued claiming that if a writer based a book on a highly worn and poor premise then a poor novel would inevitably be the result. So Jim Butcher accepted the challenge (taking the opposite viewpoint that the story was much more important and telling a 'good' story could result in a 'good' book) and even said give me TWO poor premises. They were 'a lost Roman Legion' and 'pokemon'! The result was the six book
Codex Alera series!
