Paksworld

I’ll be spending a lot of time on a train in the next week, and the rest will be tied up in meetings and stuff I have to do as a SFWA officer.    Though I’ll have the laptop along, I won’t have much time to post to any of the blogs or reply to comments.   (Right now I should be washing my hair and packing …)

For your entertainment while I’m gone…one of the new PBS subchannels that popped up in our area has a program called AfricaTrek, where two French-speakers walked Africa from end to end, the long way.  I think the woman, Sonja, looks like Paks, at least in the face.   Your opinions?  She’s not as muscular in the upper body, and yet there she is, walking the length of Africa with a pack on her back.

Does the man of this couple look like any character in the books, to you?

For that matter, should miracles happen and someone good want to make a film of this thing (they won’t–it’s too long)  tell me who (that’s alive now) should play Kieri, Dorrin, Arcolin, and the Marshal-General.

When you hear “Dwarfmounts,” what mountain range do you think of?  Do they look like the Alps, the US Rockies, the Canadian Rockies, the Southern Alps in NZ…something else?