[ SECRET POST #6045 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6045 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, these were always weak on plot. Xanth is full of puns, but there are similar issues with his other series that I read: Apprentice Adept and the Incarnations of Immortality.

Each had a handful of world-building concepts with promise. But the characters are bland, the plot is weak, and there’s a thorough sprinkling of gross sexism and sexualizing women and young girls throughout.

I wish someone could do more interesting things with the underlying ideas. But it doesn’t even look like there’s much in the way of fanfiction.

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I remember reading the first Apprentice Adept book and thinking it was such a cool idea, having a parallel sci-fi and fantasy world!

And then I read it as an adult and wow Stile really has no fewer than three women falling over him, but only the human one actually matters. That's. That's something. Never bothered looking at the rest of the series.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn’t get very far in the series, I think, and I remember very little of the actual plot.

It might be kind of banal, but the main thing that stuck with me was the tournament set-up in the sci-fi world. I really liked that whole strategy of how you and your opponent get to negotiate the activity that you’ll be competing in: each taking turns to specify the type of competition, the environment, the equipment, etc.