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John Joseph Adams is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead (a World Fantasy Award finalist), and many others. Barnes & Noble.com named him "the reigning king of the anthology world," and his books have been named to numerous best of the year lists. John is also the fiction editor of the online science fiction magazine Lightspeed. Prior to taking on that role, he worked for nearly nine years in the editorial department at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He is currently the co-host of The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast on io9.com, and has published hundreds of interviews and other pieces of non-fiction.
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"O Happy Day!" by Geoff Ryman is perhaps too vile of a cautionary tale for me, while "Red Card" by S.L. Gilbow, "Ten with a Flag" by Joseph Paul Haines, "The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm, and "Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn are all wonderful stories by writers that I have never read before. To that point, the recommended further reading lists at the end are an excellent final touch.
I now wish that I had a copy for my bookshelf, because the Kindle edition has a two big problems.:
1. It was not made clear on the Amazon page for the Kindle edition that four stories (by J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut) were omitted from the digital version. The author or publisher inserted a clever dig at the rights holders of these stories on the digital copyright page, which I chuckled at and do appreciate, but had I known these stories were omitted, I would have purchased a paperback copy instead.
2. There is no table of contents, which means that you cannot easily skip stories or read them out of order. A table of contents with links to the starting page of each story is a very important element in electronic versions of long anthologies like this! Want to re-read that one story that really surprised you? You'd better remember the title or the name of the author so you can run a search for it.
4 stars for the collection/3 for the kindle edition.
Brave New Worlds is Adams' best entry into the reprint anthology fold thus far bringing to light many impossibly classic stories as well as some recent gems that will mostly stand the test of time as well. Each and every story grows from the kernel of an idea that society or politics has become gone awry in some way either in its laws or rituals. Adams provides his incisive commentary to introduce each piece as usual, which does tend to drift into some good social commentary as well given the topic at hand. Some stories are about people raging against the machine while others are about those who just fall in line simply because they are instilled with fear of what would happen otherwise.
While at first look Brave New Worlds simply looks like a collection put together for their name value--as it is a who's who of classic and modern authors--I quickly realized that each and every story was picked with care and some even defy normal convention as we are treated to a short graphic story by none other than Neil Gaiman that in no way feels shoehorned in and Ursula K. Leguin's piece "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" from the 70s that feels absolutely timeless, but has no main characters as it sweeps through a town. While there are some I didn't connect with as well as others there isn't a clunker in the bunch. These 33 stories inspire a sense of caution and sometimes outright horror about things that could easily come to pass.
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is one of the best known examples of a dystopian story and immediately sets the right tone for the collection. It is a simple yet very effective use of bringing an ancient ritual into somewhat modern times. This was actually my first time reading the story, but I enjoyed it so much I immediately re-read it.
"Red Card" by S. L. Gilbow is placed in a world where from time-to-time someone gets a free pass at murdering someone. The story comes off feeling very realistic with the tone of the protagonist having an eerie sense of doing the right thing. Would you shoot that guy who cut you off on the way to work if given the chance?
"Ten With a Flag" by Joseph Paul Haines gives us the ultimate choice tale. As technology advances we're able to learn more and more before birth about our children, but do we really want to know more? And should the government know before you do? Haines crafts a very fine story that twists very nicely in the end.
"The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm is definitely, if not a precursor to The Hunger Games, a big influence in many ways. The class system was very similar and the story centers around young girls wanting to escape from their society. It was far too short given all the tidbits thrown in.
"O Happy Day!" by Geoff Ryman is probably the most screwed up story in the bunch condemning most men to death for being too violent while a few gay men are saved only to do the worst jobs possible in their society. Very dark stuff with a hint of hope.
"Billennium" by J. G. Ballard was an amazing take on population growth and getting exactly what you ask for only to ruin it yourself. I felt like I was reading a story right out of the Twilight Zone.
"Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn turns the overpopulation theme a bit on its side with this one. We always get stories about people breaking the laws having children, but rarely do we get to see what happens down the line, which is what Vaughn gives us here. I never thought I'd care this much about a story on a fishing boat, but the struggles of the crew left me rapt.
"Pop Squad" by Paolo Bacigalupi gives us another of his truly darkly inspired stories about a world where aging is frowned upon and children are straight out illegal.
"Dead Space for the Unexpected" by Geoff Ryman is his second in the collection only on the lighter side. Think of Office Space, but with a main character who wants nothing more than to please and be praised for it. Than make him as big a dick as you can think times 2 and you're just about there.
"The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick is another classic that should be read by everyone even if you've seen the movie (which has held up on its own as well). A conspiracy of future events is after the main character as he attempts to proves his innocence against irrefutable proof in a country where you're arrested before you even commit a crime.
"Just Do It" by Heather Lindsley is made of pure awesome. We all know advertising has gotten out of control and invades nearly every aspect of our life, but what if it was literally injected into you? This story made me hate McDonald's all over again.
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. asks us When does making everyone equal become unfair?
Very funny in a twisted sort of way given all the handicaps the characters are under. [There is a new short movie called 2081 based off this story as well.]
"Caught in the Organ Draft" by Robert Silverberg imagines a world where the elder elite have changed the laws to harvest organs from the young. Damn if this doesn't seem all too feasible now.
"Arties Aren't Stupid" by Jeremiah Tolbert gives his characters their own version of a techie Patois which lend this tale a huge amount of originality, which is beautifully told. Art is integral to a groups essence and when society forbids them their creative powers start a shift that will change the world.
As immensely readable as Brave New Worlds is I had to put it down intermittently just because I couldn't stand the idea of finishing the collection. This is one of the best collections of this or any year and showcases Adams's immensely keen editorial eye. If you are a fan of classic authors George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and modern scribes Suzanne Collins, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Lauren Beukes you should add this to you collection and savor it.
Less well known but equally deserving of our attention are the many excellent short stories written in the sub-genre. To rectify this situation, we now have Brave New Worlds, a brand new anthology of dystopian SF short stories edited by John Joseph Adams. And, while "definitive" is not a word to be thrown around lightly, in this case it's more than appropriate: Brave New Worlds is as perfect an anthology as you could hope for, and if there's ever a college-level class about dystopian SF, this book is almost guaranteed to be assigned reading.
One of the great things about a broad anthology like this one, collecting 33 different stories that still all fall under the umbrella of dystopian SF, is that you get the chance to sample a large variety of styles and approaches. Classics and brand new stories, short vignettes and longer tales, and almost every variety of what could constitute a dystopia: age discrimination -- against the old AND the young; sexual discrimination -- against women, men, or based on sexual orientation (both hetero- and homosexual); environmentally damaged worlds; societies with too many babies, not enough babies, or even no babies at all; people living too long; people dying too soon. Almost anything that could conceivably go wrong with our world goes wrong in one or more of these stories.
Another result of reading so many different stories that still broadly fall in the same category is that it will inevitably lead you to notice the common threads that run through all of them, e.g. the common story dynamic of conflict between two or more characters is often replaced by the conflict between character and society. More interestingly, John Joseph Adams points out in his introduction to the anthology: "Whether or not a society is perceived as a dystopia is usually determined by one's point of view; what one person may consider to be a horrible dystopia, another may find completely acceptable or even nigh-utopian". The inhabitants of these broken, damaged societies have often become used to whatever miserable set of circumstances they are living in. In some cases, they are no longer even aware that things used to be different and have started considering their current lives as acceptable by default. This leads to some stories that generate a sense of discomfort so acute that it borders on the claustrophobic. The strongest stories in this collection verge on horror, although of the psychological or even existential kind rather than blood and gore. There are a few stories in Brave New Worlds that will simply stay with you forever -- and whenever literature can do that to you, you know you've got a winner in your hands.
Brave New Worlds contains a whopping 33 stories, delivering great value for your money but making it hard to write something meaningful about every single one without ending up with an extremely long review. So instead, here are my personal favorites in the order in which they appear in the anthology:
"The Funeral" by Kate Wilhelm is one of those stories that feels as if you're seeing a five minute glimpse of a brilliant movie that has an elaborate plot you can only guess at. You know there's a lot going on, even if you don't really grasp all of it. It's also over much too soon.
"O Happy Day!" by Geoff Ryman is another stunning, claustrophobic story that focuses on a very small -- and very dark -- part of a much larger conflict. (Geoff Ryman actually has two stories in the anthology, which struck me as a great, confident decision on the part of the editor: both stories are excellent, so why choose one over the other?)
"Pop Squad" by Paolo Bacigalupi was (for me at least) the standout story in the author's brilliant collection Pump Six and Other Stories, so I'm glad to see it included in this anthology. There's a lot going on here, some of it brutally evident and some of it much more subtle, but as with all of these stories I'd rather let you discover it for yourself than describe it here in too much detail.
While these three stories all get an unqualified five stars from me, Matt Williamson's "Sacrament" somehow outdid them all with its outrageous juxtaposition of cold-eyed, rational horror and spine-tingling beauty. There are two distinct parts to the story, and the way they combine at the end is so powerful that reading it for the first time was a stunning experience. Not for the first time when finishing a story in Brave New Worlds, I had to close the book and walk away for a second to let it all sink in. According to John Joseph Adams' typically insightful and thoughtful introduction to the story, Matt Williamson is currently working on his first novel, and I for one am very excited to read it.
And then, towards the end, there's "Jordan's Waterhammer" by Joe Mastroiani, another gem with such a chilling and gorgeous conclusion that I still get chills thinking about it. In between these five superb examples of short form SF, you'll find a collection of excellent stories, including some established classics as well as many great entries by newer authors. Even though everyone will have their favorites and their least favorites, Brave New Worlds doesn't contain any story that's less than excellent, which is quite rare for such a large anthology.
If you're not convinced yet, please check out the anthology's great companion website (just do a web-search for the name of the anthology and its editor), where you'll find some free sample stories (some also available in audio format) as well as fascinating short interviews with some of the stories' authors, my favorite being Joe Mastroiani's because it puts the story's world in more detail and heightened my appreciation even more.
It doesn't happen very often that you find an anthology that's perfectly executed from start to finish, but Brave New Worlds is exactly that. The stories in this collection are science fiction in the truest sense of the word, starting from an often painful sociological premise and extrapolating it to the most private and emotional aspects of our lives. The only reasons I can think of for not liking this book would be if you have an aversion to either dystopian SF or short fiction. If you don't fall in either of those categories, you simply won't find a finer anthology than Brave New Worlds.
My version had eight stories:
AMARYLLIS by Carrie Vaughn
THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME WEAK AND STRANGE GET ENGINEERED AWAY by Cory Doctorow
IS THIS YOUR DAY TO JOIN THE REVOLUTION? by Genevieve Valentine
JUST DO IT by Heather Lindsley
ARTIES AREN'T STUPID by Jeremiah Tolbert
OF A SWEET SLOW DANCE IN THE WAKE OF TEMPORARY DOGS by Adam-Troy Castro
RESISTANCE by Tobias S. Buckell
CIVILIZATION by Vylar Kaftan
One benefit of anthologies is to introduce readers to new authors. Some of the above were unknown to me, but I'm afraid none of the stories converted me. I did like Tobias Buckell's story - the best of the group. The rest were competently written, but I didn't find them particularly compelling. One, "Of a Slow Sweet Dance..." seemed to me so clearly a re-casting of Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", that I'm surprised that both stories are included in the full version of the book.
Although this was only a sampler, and the stories are different in many ways, I found the styles and themes similar enough that a steady diet of serious dystopia grew wearing. This especially since Vylar Kaftan's story is essentially an outline for dystopian plots - choose one element from column A...
It may be that the full book is more balanced, but I ended up glad I didn't have more to read - surely the opposite of what this taster was intended for.
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Steady Focus
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Lock and Load
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Patient Sniper
Gain the patience of a veteran sniper, increasing your maximum focus by 30 and causing Vulnerable to increase your Marked Shot and Aimed Shot damage by 150%, but only last 6 sec and no longer stack.
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20 sec cooldown Channeled
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Trick Shot
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Way of the Mok'Nathal
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Mortal Wounds
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Improved Traps
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1 min cooldown Instant
You and your pet blend into the surroundings and gain stealth for 1 min. While camouflaged, you will heal for 2% every 1 secs.
Serpent Sting
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#103 Apr 9, 2011
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#104 Apr 17, 2011
Improve Wayne County for WHOM.
I believe the most important thing today is helping people find work that pays a living wage. So the most important thing for couty government to do is to help with regional transportation and relocation of families. Im saying help those wanting work to find it and then help with temporary daily transportation and or relocation to a more favorable area.
so Im saying a partially public funded bus service to and from Nashville or Huntsville done in a business like manner. Not like the local transprtation service that drives miles to take one person to the store thats great but horribly inefficient and wasteful.
Step ONE
Help connect willing locals with recruiters.
Step TWO
Find a Bus company already providing a service.
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#105 Apr 17, 2011
Good luck with that !!!
#106 Apr 18, 2011
I like your thinking. Well said.
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#107 Apr 19, 2011
The only draw back to tourism is you can see it or do it several times in the 100 mile trip from the big city to here. That is unless you have the states first Indian casino complete with tax free gas, smokes, and beverages.
So a great view is just that and I have one only 20 minutes from downtown Nashville, on the river in downtown Memphis all around me in Chattanooga.
Yes we want rich outsiders money but be realistic.
Rmember the thinking that caused the poor ole state of TN to spend multiple millions on a golf course and buy a big chunk of land only to sell it for 20 cent on the dollar. Remember who bought the bargain the rich guys that tricked the now poor state of TN into the silly scheme. It worked other places but that dont mean it will work here. Were 100 miles too far with nothing but the same hungry people around us.
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#108 Apr 20, 2011
Stop worrying about tourism, and bringing in outsiders, they wont stay here, worry about our own people that are here, and I dont mean the retirees that have their living made and their homes paid for, worry about the young people that have to make a living here, they are our next generation, have someone that can recruit business here, when they see a company wanting to start a factory jump on it and start selling what Wayne County has to offer, get that business, or when they wanted to put a Walmart here they should have jumped on the chance to do that, now grant you I know some people dont like the word Walmart, but go to Savannah, Lawrenceburg, Florence, see how many people from Wayne County you see there, we are spending our money out of town, and giving them our tax dollars, this town is drying up fast.
#109 Apr 20, 2011
That's been our problem all along. We don't have anything here to keep tax dollars in the county or bring any new in. We have always had a small group here who wants to protect their "little" business from any competition because they could not survive any kind of challenge. That's one reason people were driven to other towns to spend their money in the past,no selection and high prices. Back when we actually had places to shop,the local merchants believed we were obligated to spend our money here no matter the price .
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#110 Apr 20, 2011
I ll stick with helping people find work in other areas and then maby help move. Industrial recruitment is a long term process it may take 10 years to actually land a plant that stays and employees anyone. Remember weve been at it hit n miss for 30 years and all weve got is scammed (and empty buildings but still being paid for by the public).
#111 Apr 20, 2011
I will have to say if any: There has been a whole lot more missing than their has been hittin.
#112 Apr 20, 2011
I will have to say this and I hate to be negative: If the big cities like Detroit are fallin on their arses from big manufacturing like GM. Then tell me what big shot is going to give a rat's behind about wayne co growth till the rest of the u.s. has recovered? "none" If the big cities can't do it, then by george the little forgot about cities don't hava snowballs chance where job growth is concerned.
#113 Feb 1, 2013
Does anyone know what is going on with the Grace Industries Property?
#114 Feb 3, 2013
If you want to build up this county, spend you money in wayne county, buy in wayne county , build up the ecomney by supporting it not going out of town to buy your groceries ,clothes and ect!! When you start to do this, we will start getting new businesses and can grow, but taking you money out of the county don't help a thing!!
#116 Feb 3, 2013
Start with the little things and the big things will come with them, but as long as you are taking your money out of the county, you have no place to complain!! I can buy a new car here in town 2013 no miles you just have to look, I can buy appliances, again you just have to look! It does take some time and effort, you just want a quick fix!!
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#118 Feb 5, 2013
Get rid of all the meth heads!!!
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#120 Feb 5, 2013
Some local connected folk r using it a bit, but dont worry theyre no paying
God Bless Wayne County
#121 Feb 6, 2013
While it is true that Wayne County offers a potential work force, it still lacks certain components that would be needed to be attractive for an industry. How many Design Engineers, industrial engineers, certified industrial maintenance personnel, Non TVA Certified Electricians or industrial machinists have our schools produced in the lady 10-15 years?
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#122 Feb 6, 2013
I can answer that one. None.
Our schools don't offer degrees or program certificates of that nature.
Plus a freshman has to know at that early age which career track he wants to pursue, college or vocational.
I was almost 40 when I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up.
#123 Feb 6, 2013
While "none" would support my point better, there are a few. They, of course, have had to pursue their fields elsewhere. It would be amazing to see what a difference focusing more on math and the non medical sciences such as physics might make in the schools.
#125 Feb 7, 2013
Oh I agree completely about there not being many still in own, but if an industry were to try to come in it would be easier to get people to come home to fill those roles than to bring people in from larger places. Even if it doesn't work at least our schools would not be producing more kids that go nowhere.
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#126 Feb 7, 2013
ASME Engineer here. I don't work in the county and never have. But I like living here so the commute is just one of the things to put up with.
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A joint mission of the African Union (AU) and the West African regional bloc ECOWAS are in negotiations with the rebel soldiers, Paul Lolo, the chairman of the AU's Peace and Security Council, said on Saturday.
"[The mission] is in negotiations with the rebels and it is our hope that they will listen to reason and return Mali to constitutional order without delay," he said.
"This [coup] has been an insurgency, a seizure of power by force. There was a legitimate government in Mali. That government is still legitimate in our view because that is the government we know according to our instruments."
Mutinous soldiers seized the presidential palace and Mali's state television on Thursday, saying they were dissatisfied with President Amadou Toumani Toure's handling of a rebellion by Tuaregs in the north of the country.
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Sylvain Touati, an associate fellow at the French Institute for International Relations, said that it was uncertain how much support the coup leaders had inside Mali, and that a countercoup could not be ruled out.
"It seems they have connections within the army all over the territory but it's not sure that all the sections, all the regiments and all the soldiers in different garrisons support the coup.
"Among the population, it's clear that there is support for claims from the soldiers that they don't have enough support from the state to fight against the [Tuareg] rebellion. There is a strong nationalist movement. But most of the population was not expecting a coup."
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#65 May 4, 2011
i admitt there are some good people down there but there is alot of drama starters and fighting going on. the place does look lilke its going down hill. but the good people make it worth a visit
#66 May 4, 2011
thats right and there are more than a few
#67 May 4, 2011
hmm you sount like ou like to start some drama
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#68 May 4, 2011
good u moved out see yeah woundn't want to be you so now why are u blasting them they love it, oh your blasting because you where the problem thats why ur still posting to create more problems ok post some more lamo crap since u couldn't handle it if you left you must have not been liked down there thats all bye bye don't come back please because ur even starting a fight here an stealing our good time posting hmmmmmmmmmmm back at you
#69 May 4, 2011
too much drama and back stabbing
#70 May 4, 2011
hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm.......your an idiot...yeah lol you still make no sense. but anyway yeah i was the roblem funny how that tuff was going on before i started camping there and is still going on when i left. funny that your so stupid you dont know shi*. i had plenty of friends down there and still do. i left cause i was tired of seeing all the drama with other people and the fighting and stealing. my kids dot need to be around that. so hhhhhhmmmmmmmm. back at you loser yur prob one of them down there stealing off people your pathetic
#71 May 4, 2011
dont think my family and i will be camping there
#72 May 4, 2011
where is this plac at
#73 May 4, 2011
god bless everybody down there
#74 May 4, 2011
you sound like you got some prblems in that tiny brain
#75 May 4, 2011
there are still a few nice people left down there not alot but a few
#76 May 6, 2011
we just need to drop all of this and just try getting along with each other kids the place isn't bad just a few rotten eggs thats all may be they will leave and the rest will be fine well it should its a nice place if you like the river tubeing and fishing and boating the campground is run down a little but they say their going to fix it back up this summer they have been working on the road down there, there are more things to come that will be good so just try to have fun and stay out of trouble its not the campground it the rotten eggs and they will leave they always do after everybody gets tried of them causing trouble
#77 Jul 21, 2011
i have been to this place before and it is very trashy all that is there are pill heads and drunks i have heard of people riding around on their golfcarts til 3 or 4 in the morning i would not take my kids to this place cause from what i have heard they are not allowed away from your campsite when it gets dark my family camped there not to long ago and my kids could not even swim in the pool unless they had an older person with them and they are 12 and 14 and can swim like fish i have also heard that the owners do pills themselves from what i have heard about this place i would not take my kids of any age we only stayed 1 night and left because there was to much drinking there for us and i am not putting anyone down for drinking cause i do drink occasionally but from what i seen it is rediculously bad there i have also heard that if you want anything to do wiath drugs you can go to almost any camper there and find whatever you need i am just recommending that if you are looking for a good time with your family dont take them to this campground unless you want them to be around drunks and pill heads
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#78 Jul 21, 2011
I use to go there and camp when I was younger and now that I am in my late 20s well i went a few weeks ago and I have to say now that Fred and Ruth arent running it I have no need in going back. The staff there were so rude to us and it was nothing but drama drama and more drama so we will take our business elsewhere!
#79 Apr 29, 2012
I've not heard anything really good about Banks Farm campground. I do hear a lot of nice things about Pebble Mountain though. Privately owned, quite, and nice people that run it. Safe place to bring your kids.
#80 Sep 12, 2012
that place is really nice and the people are very friendly. they are eliminating those who cause trouble. they do allow drinking however it has to be on the site and in a cup or koozie. they are not that expensive its only $15 a night for tents and $20 for full hook up. my family and i have been to several other campgrounds and they were expensive costing around 25 and 30 dollars a night. thats ridculous. the shows that they have are nice and they don't happen very often. they have cabins now 4 of them and those are really nice. I love being able for my children to laugh and play and have fun, and make new friends. most campgrounds now days don't even like if you have children and prefer that you not bring your kids to those campgrounds. Its a wonderful place banks campground is. the daughter of the original owners is really nice. but have people ever thought that maybe if you are having problems to notify the owners because nothing can be done unless you let them know. They are always there if you just contact them they dont live that far away and can be there quick.
#81 Mar 3, 2013
It really use to be a nice place to stay. Now they are letting people hiding from the law live there. They also have allowed sex offender live there. Those people don't cap an leave they live there. I seen it first hand if you have a wife or daughter I'm telling you to please be aware....The pill selling is very big down there again we seen it first hand....If you go please just be safe.
#82 Mar 20, 2013
Really??? Who is the sex offender??? As far as the pills those folks have been ask to leave. As far as I know. I maybe wrong but I'm pretty sure I know who you are. A women scorned and broken hearted and ask to leave because you were causing problems. The sad thing is I have never met you. But your reputation proceeds you. My family is there almost every weekend and we love it.
#83 Mar 29, 2013
sounds LIKES they do not want anybody down there to camp or to have fun to me u are the promble i have been down there and i have not seen anything like u ppl are saying there is no fighting and the pills dont know were u get that at, are u someone that is mad at some one and u want them out, the bad rain that we had yes they had to move the campers and fix the road but hey u have to say this is a good place to be ppl have told things on m family that goes down there and no they have to move out wish ppl like u could come to there face and tell them this i have not seen any cops down there,i like the lcae but i want go back caus my family want be down there
#84 Mar 29, 2013
It really has become a trashy place. Traffic all hours of the night to, just not a very secure place to camp.
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|Reviews for Sluagh
| Jerden chapter 4 . 3/31/2013
Another interesting chapter, in which Neville goes deeper into the mess he's already plunging into. The tension just keeps building!
| Jerden chapter 2 . 3/31/2013
Chapter 2: in which the mystery deepens and a team is formed. This is going to be interesting.
| Jerden chapter 1 . 3/31/2013
This story has intrigued me already, and I've only read the first chapter. It seems like it's going to be very interesting.
| Susan M. M chapter 1 . 3/5/2013
Believable and painful.
| CarolanneFernandez chapter 1 . 1/20/2013
This story and its predecessor are the best Harry Potter stories I've ever read. Thank you so much.
| FashionablyHospitable chapter 28 . 1/1/2013
A HAPPY ENDING. Yay. But also a sequel. Nobody die please.
| FashionablyHospitable chapter 1 . 12/31/2012
People are going to die in this, aren't they.
| Emily chapter 9 . 11/22/2012
Ya feckin' hypocrite, Auror! Life ain't more value to ya than to me, ya don't bother that they're dead, ya know they're scum same's I, but just because I'm gettin' a thrill by it and ain't weepin' into me breakfast the next mornin, I'm a monster. How's it a better thing when a man who deserves to die gets what he's got comin' but manages to hurt the one what took him down? Better, ain't it, that the one dolin' out the justice ain't the last victim."
The thing thy scares me about Seamus saying that is, that's how maniacs rationalize what they're doing. Nazis, Death Eaters, whatever. They see the people that they're killing as evil and doing bad and think that murdering or torturing and that like As the proper right Thing to do. Death Eaters saw muggles and muggle borns as a threat to their ideal, as poisoning the well, hurting the wizard populace. They vilified them And saw murdering as taking care of a problem. Substitute death eater for Nazi or any of the awful groups you hear on the telly and look what you've got.
I live Seamus, and whether he was baiting Neville or not, he's got some scary thought processes going on.
| Guest chapter 9 . 11/22/2012
"Ya feckin' hypocrite, Auror! Life ain't more value to ya than to me, ya don't bother that they're dead, ya know they're scum same's I, but just because I'm gettin' a thrill by it and ain't weepin' into me breakfast the next mornin, I'm a monster. How's it a better thing when a man who deserves to die gets what he's got comin' but manages to hurt the one what took him down? Better, ain't it, that the one dolin' out the justice ain't the last victim."
The scary thing for me
| RumbleRoar811 chapter 26 . 10/30/2012
You're not soulessly evil after all! Yayyyy! Sorry but I've been dying the last couple of chapters... Who am I kidding I've been dying since Neville and Ernie were almost whipped to death in DAYD. You have woven an incredibly intricate tale of love, loss and friendship, all surrounded by death and pain. I love it.
| Rebakah chapter 22 . 9/23/2012
Oh and forgot to mention, the scene with Snape is my favorite. Well really Neville going back and having to act again as he once was. It was a spectacular eyeopener
| Rebakah chapter 28 . 9/23/2012
Wow. Unbelievable.
Your portrayal of Seamus is just out of this world. You make a man teetering on the brink of insanity (with some pitfalls) who murders brutally with little empathy likable. Lovable. I found myself routing for him throughout the story. And the friendship with Neville that develops at the end is what we've all been routing for. Putting them back on the same team.
I must admit I appreciate the happier ending. I read DAYD ages ago and loved it, but couldn't bring myself to read the sequel for ages because you make your characters so real that their deaths were heartbreaking. I think we all still mourn Ernie! If Neville had really lost Hannah? Ginny (one of my favorites in your stories though usually not) dead? etc.
On a side note, could you please explain the ending to me? Does that mean Dumbledore chose? Huh?
Amazing story.
| khaleesea chapter 7 . 7/29/2012
"They were so different; the plump, bookish youngster who had only survived the battle because he was almost instantly stunned and the tough, high-spirited officer who had according to Ginny at one point held off five Death Eaters at once."
That's another thing: war changes people, and people are unpredictable when put into a corner. I mean, look at Pettigrew. No one expected him to betray his friends, but see how that turned out.
"'Don't say that!' Neville snapped, shuddering. 'Makes it sound like I forced him the way Ulster did me or something. Or like he was my house-elf! Ernie never –'
'I'm sorry!' Hermione flushed, looking a little startled by the vehemence of his outburst. 'I didn't mean it that way at all. I know you'd never do something like that, and even if I didn't know Macmillan particularly well, I do know that he had just as much stubbornness as loyalty. I don't think there was anyone who could have forced him to do anything at all against his will.'
'So what you're saying, Hermione,' Ron cut across the argument as he stepped carefully around the spreading pool of blood to join them beside Utterson, 'is that you don't think it could be him because it's not his wand, Macmillan having nothing to do with anything.'"
I like that it's Ron who's the levelheaded one here, though I suppose it helps that he doesn't have any particular emotional attachment to anyone they're discussing.
"'Brilliant question,' Ron smiled at him, 'actually about to ask that myself. Auror Weasley, Ministry of Magic.' He gestured at the other two, 'Auror Granger, Auror Longbottom – though him you might remember, if you haven't gone completely off your wand since the D.A., Mr. Utterson.'"
Aren't they all in disguise? How does Ron expect Icarus to recognize Neville? For that matter, the Polyjuice only makes you look like someone else. Would someone have to keep redoing the Transfigurations they did to Neville? Or would they stay until someone removed them?
"'Hate that permanent death part,' Ron interjected lightly, 'lots more inconvenient than the temporary kind.'"
This is kind of weird, but I think I unconsciously quoted this once at a kayak rental place.
"He had delivered the same litany himself dozens of times, but Neville remained impressed as always by Hermione's ability to do it in what always seemed to be a single breath and letter-perfect, even the commas audible in her flawless recitation."
Of course, it's Hermione. How could I have ever expected anything less?
"'Tragic how people will just drift apart,' Ron said sarcastically. 'But the thing is, we're pretty sure he's got something to do with this Sluagh business too, and Longbottom and I are really eager to catch up with him. We were all roomies for so long, we've been feeling nostalgic.'"
I love Ron. A lot. I love his sarcasm and wit (though at times he can be cruel and resentful), and I like how you've kept that while still letting him grow as a character.
"Ron looked down at the few remaining bites of the hearty breakfast she had insisted on preparing for all of them and nodded sheepishly, blushing. His mouth was still too full to answer, but Hermione sighed deeply, rolling her eyes. 'His mother feeds him plenty, Mrs. Finnigan, and so do I, I promise…no one's really been able to ever figure out where he puts it. Ron's just a particularly corporeal Vanishing Spell, I think. By all rights, he should be the size of an elephant. I'm so sorry….'"
I just really love Ron, okay. (I'm sorry, you probably expected some intelligent comments, but...) I suppose this is really just another one of my "wow look how well you write these characters" comments.
"'That he is,' Kate's smile was a tight mixture of pride and pain. 'Sent him to a Muggle primary school, ya know, and he'd be fair furious to hear me tell ya, but I kept the note from the first lass whose teeny heart he broke, I did. All in crayons and letters big's your fist, and she spelt his name s-h-a-y-m-i-s but t'point's clear enough: 'ya kiss me and ya kiss Molly and Sharon too and so ya stink lots.''"
Awwww! Just the thought of baby Seamus going around kissing girls is adorable. I can imagine it perfectly. Seamus was so charismatic and likable and I suppose that's one of the reasons I have trouble reading this one, because I love his character so much and I just want him to... get better? To be friends with his friends again? To stop brutally murdering people? Maybe it's that I want him to be a character I won't feel ashamed of loving, and I kind of hate myself for saying that, because I do love his character regardless (or perhaps because) of what he's done and what he's been through.
"'There are only two witches left in the Auror Department,' Hermione replied, 'so Ginny and I always wind up getting sent when the boys have chickened out about an upset witch. Rapes, murdered and missing husbands and children, having to tell witches that their loved ones are Death Eaters or informants…I've seen more of other women's pain and how they handle it than I ever wanted to by twenty-three.'"
Oh, those poor girls. Not only have they been through a ton on their own (far more than they should have by twenty-three), they have to deal with other people's pain as well?
"Merlin, but he'd been young. Young enough that he had mistaken pain for complexity, things that hurt for things that were truly vague in morality."
This is an interesting thought. I suppose the difference is that most complex decisions do hurt, but not all things that hurt are complex.
"Indeed, it was because magic – real magic, deep magic, the kind he'd only felt a few times in his life, not just simple little spells – was so awesome, so humbling, that he did not believe in a religion. It just seemed presumptuous to try and put words or rules or names on it, though he understood why others would want to."
I love all the tolerance that's in your fics. I also like that Neville doesn't believe in a religion: it suits his character.
"Seamus's hands slid down the sides of his head, running frantically over his cheeks, his neck, his shoulders and chest; pressing, stroking, seeking and petting him as his face shone with a manically rapturous light. 'Oh, mercy,' he murmured, 'I thought – I saw – but no, oh, no, 'cause here ya are and ah, what a fool I was, what a bloody feckin' fool, that's what they musta been tryin' to tell me, and I wouldn't listen, I thought – sweet Jesus, Dean.…'
Neville shook his head, trying desperately to regain his bearings. It had backfired, backfired completely. He had no idea, had never guessed that there was anything more than friendship between his two former roommates."
Okay, maybe I'm just saying this because I've read this before and know how it all plays out (and let me tell you that this is one of the most awkward scenes I've ever read, with the whole "let's have sex while one of us is wearing the face of your dead best friend" thing), but... in what alternate universe could this situation have ended well? At the very best they would have captured Seamus, but he would still be extremely angry at them and feel (rightfully) betrayed, so I can't really see him "snapping out of" his crazy murderous state. I suppose it would stop the killing, but it wouldn't help them save their friend.
"It was breathtaking, speaking of hundreds of hours of pain endured to form the ornate patterns that framed dozens of Celtic crosses, each inscribed with a name. Creevey. Patil. Brown. Macmillan. Thomas. Corner. Whitby. Boot. They were all there, every single one of the D.A. they had lost, and the living graveyard was the most beautiful and terrible thing he had ever seen."
Oh, no. I just... Seamus, love, it'll all work out, you're going to be all right, everything's going to be okay.
There's a reason I've reread DAYD multiple times, but haven't been able to bring myself to reread Sluagh before now. This just breaks my heart, it really does.
| bookworm42x chapter 20 . 7/24/2012
I am so confused.
Are Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Harry dead? Is Luna dead? Bloody hell, this isn't canon. I swear I'm not flaming-it's just surprising, because DAYD was all canon and now this is like being dunked in a bucket of cold water. Guess I just have to keep reading. Gee whiz. I wonder how this is going to end.
You're a great writer, though, so kudos to you!
| Guest chapter 6 . 7/24/2012
"Nothing was wrong with the memories themselves, they were even quite pleasant, but they also came with Harry sprawled on his bed, itching absently at his scar and pushing his glasses up on his nose every few lines as he worked at his own homework, Dean with his sketchpad, trying for the thousandth time to catch the sense of motion of the Whomping Willow in Muggle charcoal, and Seamus. Seamus, rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed, leaning over one shoulder and blowing ever so faintly in his best friend's ear until the other boy whirled and threw the charcoal at him, sending him to the floor in a ball of riotous laughter with a black smudge across his freckled nose."
Dean and Seamus are so cute. They were definitely one of my brotps from the books, and I like the way you've written them here.
"Too bad that you would need a Time Turner to undo the accidental smashing of the Time Turners. Really almost funny in a sick kind of irony."
"Really almost funny" is one of my favorite phrases from this chapter. I like that the oxymoron sort of highlights the irony in that sentence, if that makes any sense at all (it probably doesn't). But the smashing of the Time Turners always struck me as kind of weird. The Ministry stored ALL the Time Turners in that spot? I'm sure it wasn't just Hermione that got a Time Turner, so wouldn't some students have had some at the time of the smashing? In fact, what happened to Hermione's Time Turner after Prisoner of Azkaban? It's never mentioned again, and I don't remember her having to turn it in or anything (though I don't have the book with me, so I could be wrong).
"Hermione's saying we still need to nurse this a little more, but I'm going to marry the girl, I've been in love with her since I was somewhere in third or fourth year, I know better than anybody when she actually needs to keep working on something and when she's just going over and over the same stuff because she gets obsessive and scared when things really matter. We're crossing towards obsessive and scared."
I know I've said this before, but I really like the way you've written the relationship between these characters. DAYD had a lot of OCs and minor characters who didn't show up much in canon, and it's nice to see that you preserve the personalities of the trio.
"'I never thought I could want anyone at the end of my wand this badly since your mother got Bellatrix, and I never, never imagined it could be Seamus.'"
Neither did I, Neville, neither did I. The phrasing of this sentence strikes me as a little weird, though. He's never wanted to kill anyone this badly since Bellatrix died? Would it not be more concise (and a bit less less confusing) to cut the phrase "your mother got"? The sentence would then read "I never thought I could want anyone at the end of my wand this badly since Bellatrix, and I never, never imagined it could be Seamus".
"'We're all survivors. Hermione never goes anywhere without a little bag in her pocket that's packed with enough supplies to house an army for six months…even showers with it right by the edge of the tub where she could grab it, not that you ever heard it from me. I don't think I've had a night yet where I've not had at least one good gasping nightmare, and I've only been able to bring myself to go back to Hogwarts the once when they unveiled the memorial.'"
All these kids are now suffering from PTSD, and it hurts because they shouldn't have to. Like Neville said in one of the earlier chapters, being in your twenties is very young indeed, and the fact that they had to go through so much when they were in their late teens... The saddest part is that I wouldn't be surprised if Ron wasn't exaggerating when he says "enough supplies to house an army".
"'…and sometimes, I still want to kill him, but I feel like I should do it as a friend. As a mercy. If he's never actually gotten out of that night, he's still in hell, and there's nothing that the Ministry or anyone else could do to him that would be more punishment than that.'"
Here, Neville goes from wanting to save Seamus to hating him to wanting to kill him "as a mercy". I think this says a lot about his character: that even when he hates his friend, he still loves him enough to try to save him.
"It made the resentment writhe in Neville's chest that the Irishman hadn't even bothered to leave himself easy access to the weapons. He didn't need to…his weapon was the oak and dragon heartstring in his pet wizard's pocket, and the light whistle that skimmed through his lips knew that."
You know when someone starts to annoy you, and then you start noticing all the little annoying things that they do? The stupid way they hold their pencil, the stupid noises they make every few seconds, the way they start all their sentences with "So like I was saying"? I imagine Neville's feeling much the same in this scene, and I love the way you portrayed that aggravation and resentment.
"There, now that he was looking for it he could hear it clearly: the indeterminate buzz of a Muffliato Charm."
I'm not entirely sure why I like this sentence so much, but I really do. I suppose I like the idea of "if you know what you're looking for, magic's all around you".
"His mouth worked for a moment in wordless shock, then he forced out the name of the young man still so recognizable as the fifth-year Ravenclaw from Dublin he had known all those years ago."
Nothing more dangerous than an angry Ravenclaw... In fact, I think I wrote an essay about that once, but unfortunately I can no longer find it. Well, I suppose you sum it all up quite nicely in that quote I'm so fond of: "There is nothing more dangerous than a little too much knowledge and a conscience that is open to debate".


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- Victim's boyfriend among 2 ex-cops charged in fatal beating
- 2 ex-Temple University officers accused of killing woman
- Pottstown man arrested in shooting; stemmed from argument over crack
- Multiple cars and homes burglarized in Skippack Township
- School van driver admits to sex assault of students
- Cosby drops litigation against accuser in sex assault case
- Court won't reinstate church official's conviction


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The promise that some oil traders and brokers saw for an expanded Panama Canal to become a new route for large tankers will take longer to realize than expected
The International Windship Association (IWSA) will host its annual Wind Propulsion Innovation Forum at SMM2016 in Hamburg, including an extensive agenda with expert
Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited (GBSL), a Caribbean shipyard providing retrofit, refurbishment and revitalization to cruise and commercial vessels, has added four
Thordon Bearings has called on the marine industry to investigate the characteristics of both conventional seawater-lubricated propeller shaft systems and podded
Following a technical update, the SCHOTTEL LEACON system has now been certified by classification society DNV-GL as a leak-free sealing system for the oil-to-sea interface.
Coast Guard Research and Development Center evaluates state-of-the-art communications equipment and Next Generation Incident Command System in Alaska
At nearly 663,
Canada based naval architect and marine engineering firm Robert Allan Ltd. is a leading designer of high-performance response vessels of many types and in particular,
Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the 19th Fast Response Cutter (FRC), USCGC Rollin Fritch, to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The 154-foot patrol craft USCGC Rollin