This time for sure, Brain!

[truepenny]

A round of applause, please, for mirrorthaw, who has bent the technology to his will. The file is now about half the size, and all of it is on the server.

Right-click here to download.

Comments

[cheloya.livejournal.com]

DFJSDJKFHKSDAJFH CANNOT BREATHE

I mean, I'm sure I'll have something more coherent to say later. Once I've found a paper bag. >_>

[cheloya.livejournal.com]

I think my favourite part of this whole chapter is the discussion that springs out of Rosamund's name. It's always so wonderful to see them interacting. And I want to know what the deal with the Beast is. *goes to reread the bits about Titan Clocks*

[shadeofdusk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! It was great being able to hear their voices, Mildmay especially.

Yay battle robots!

[ejmam.livejournal.com]

So that is Kay on the cover? Very nice.

Are we going to get text chapters? I'm greedy.

Thanks very much! I can't wait for April.
Beth

[ravelqueen.livejournal.com]

oh god I loved it! wonderful, I remember again why I so love your style!
My favourite part was defenitevly when Felix talked about his dream and helping the dead and Mildmay was like "Oh, please! Not again!" It was hilarious, I laughed out loud. Now I really can't wait for Corambis to come out. I'm going to buy it the second I get my hand on it, even if I have to buy it in Japan where the hardback costs around 2900 Yen (which is around 33$, and I mean really I love being here, but couldn't I have been in Germany when all these books come out where it would be cheaper and way easier to get. I now actually have to explain a Japanese person in a store that I would like to order a book he can't pronounce the name of in a language he doesn't speak -~-)

I also really liked the way you read it. I'm normally don't really like audio books as I'm a audio oriented person, not a visual one and I get confused by the characters not sounding like I would imagine and also basically having the same voice. But I could get really into the story the way you narrated it(I nearly cried two times, poor, poor kei..) and I found it interesting how you would interpret their actions/thoughts in the way their voices sounded

all in all I really, really can't wait till I finally have the book in my hand!

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

*dances a jig around the room*

Yayyy! Chapter 1! ^-^

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

You know, you could make a fortune renting Mildmay out to other books. "Gasbags punctured, portentousness undercut, grandiose tendencies kicked into the canal. All genres considered. Reasonable rates."

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! *runs off to listen*

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Oh man, thank you so much for this, it completely made my evening. I'm always afraid I'm not going to like new characters introduced at this point in a series, but Kay and his world are very compelling, and now I can't wait to find out more about him.

Corambis ch. 1

[razziecat.livejournal.com]

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU I can (maybe) last until April now! Maybe. You have such a wonderful gift for making your characters come to life immediately. I held my breath each time the POV changed and couldn't wait to get back to each one. And for the record, I adore Felix. I want him to move next door to me (life would be interesting, wouldn't it?)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Hmm, April seems very far away now. Thanks very much indeed for sharing this with us.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Yay! they're back! I've missed them so...

Thank you so much for posting this!

[(Anonymous)]

Kay's way of speaking made my evening, and as soon as I saw you had posted this I was grinning from ear to ear. New Mildmay snark, and I'm looking forward to the fireworks when Kay and Felix meet.

Can't wait for the book. Can not wait.

- Chief

[violet-raincrow.livejournal.com]

Absolutely delightful. I can't wait to get back to the States at the end of semester to pick up a copy of the book. This recording will be accompanying me on my iPod on busses and trains all across England.

By the by, I noticed you having a little trouble with hangups on page turns and the microphone recording the paper rustling. Just as a suggestion, when I was dabbling in podcasting this past summer my techie friend and I hooked up two laptops, one with the text cued up in a word document and the microphone attached to the screen, and another a little ways away where the microphone's cord hooked up to record. Said techie friend also actively marked spots on the track where we'd need to edit in a little sparkle (read: Cut out hangups, stammering, and said techie cracking his knuckles). Also, to avoid the microphone picking up weird clicking noises as a scrolled, we hooked up a wireless mouse so I could hold it however I wanted (even in mid-air) and scroll using the roller in the middle. This arrangement worked really well at cutting out background noise, though we also made a makeshift sound studio in the old boiler room in the basement so we wouldn't have to deal with other household noises.

Oh, you have no idea how much I was hoping you'd post this. No idea whatsoever. I was a little surprised, but Mildmay sounds like a couple of my American professors (except, of course, they swear less). I think now I might be able to survive until the semester's end--unless my classmates get sick of my fangirling and decide to string me up on the front gate.

[kate_nepveu]

Listened on the way in to work this morning. Very nicely read, and I'm quite eager for more.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Just got to this today. I really enjoyed it - which, given that I'm sick, is both a wonder and a blessing. I think it took me about five minutes to stop hearing the reading and start hearing the book, which is pretty good for me.

It's odd. I'm a passionate audiobook fan; a few years ago broke the barrier to getting a story via recording before I'd ever seen it in print and now do so quite often. That was very odd for me when I first did it, but hasn't been for a while. But with this, I found I wanted the print page in front of me. (It sort of resonated, in a trivial kind of way, with Kay's acclimation to blindness.) Your writing is so enjoyably dense and interwoven that I feel things slipping through my fingers if I'm only listening, and can't flick my eyes back to the previous page or even the previous sentence (or the previous book - must finish rereading Mirador).

So now I'm itching for the print copy, and hoping - very much - that I'll be able to read it in print and then turn around and "reread" it by listening.

Thanks. Your post - not this one, the preceding one - sounds a bit grim, and I don't know if you actually liked doing this, but I certainly appreciate it. And I told some people online last night that I was downloading it, and they all said, "Ooooooh."

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm incredibly curious about any number of things, but I think the first among them is what's going to happen to Felix's usually-effective response of charming people when he wants to, when he's in a place where the flirtation that's an inextricable part of the charm is repugnant. I wonder if it will throw him back on himself, make him find he has to be more present in his interactions with people - and, if he does lose this powerful tool, what effect it will have on Mildmay to witness the failure of the "cult of Felix."

Of course, we've already been told that Felix could flirt effectively with people who didn't want to be flirted with, winning bets with a callous and glittering aplomb. So maybe he'll just seduce all of Corambis in one grand sweep. But that was when he was on his own turf, insofar as Felix has had a turf since he was four, and not at such a complete disadvantage.

I'm trying not to speculate too much, and mostly succeeding, but I am very curious.

Corambis

[razziecat.livejournal.com]

I found the preceding post very intriguing! I hadn't thougt of that...Kay won't be able to SEE Felix, which destroys his reliance on his looks to get his way (that "five alarm smile" won't work with Kay, will it?) I'm going to listen again, because I always find new things to awe and dazzle when I reread your stuff, so I probably will when listening.

I'm dying to know what's going to happen when Felix and Kay meet (and how it happens, exactly...) because they already have something in common: They have each lost someone they loved, recently, to death. And, I recall when Gideon was explaining architectural thaumaturgy to Felix, he mentioned the wizards of Caloxa using magic to power an engine. Felix thought he was making that up! Surprise, Felix...!