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The Knight and Knave of Swords
- The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- By: Fritz Leiber
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's journeys have taken them from one side of Nehwon to the other, facing life-risking peril at every turn. Now, in a set of stories that feature the adventurers on their own and together, they will face some of their most challenging obstacles. Against assassins, angry gods, and even Death himself, the duo must battle for their very lives.
A fitting end to a great series.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-18
- The Knight and Knave of Swords
- The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- By: Fritz Leiber
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)
Goodbye, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser!
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
The Knight and Knave of Swords is the last collection of Fritz Leiber's LANKHMAR stories about those two loveable rogues, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. I had read all of the LANKHMAR stories up to this point but it took me a while to open this book because I just wasn't ready for it to be over. Neil Gaiman says something similar in his introduction to The Knight and Knave of Swords and I'm sure that most of Leiber's fans feel the same way. I know I can re-read these stories at any time, but it's just not the same thing. It's sad to know that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's adventures are over.
The Knight and Knave of Swords, which has also been titled Farewell to Lankhmar (sniff!), contains these previously published novellas and stories: "Sea Magic" (1977), "The Mer She" (1978), "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" (1983), "The Mouser Goes Below" (1987) "Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet" (1988). The stories take place at the end of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's careers and, fittingly, are among Leiber's final works. The Knight and Knave of Swords was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Last time we saw the duo, they were on Rime Isle with their current (and last?) lady loves and the men they now command. They had left their beloved and decadent capitol city of Lankhmar and traveled to Rime Isle when their help was requested by two "nubile" girls who asked them to come to Rime Isle to fight off the invading Sea Mingols. The boys and their crews were successful, but Fafhrd lost his left hand in the battle. During his convalescence, they just kind of stayed on and settled down with the two women they met there. Not only is this homey sedentary life surprising to F & GM, who are starting to feel a little restless and bound, but it's very nearly scandalous! All of Lankhmar is talking about it:
"It is an old saw in the world of Nehwon that the fate of heroes who seek to retire, or of adventurers who decide to settle down, so cheating their audience of honest admirers — that the fate of such can be far more excruciatingly doleful than that of a Lankhmar princess royal shanghaied as a cabin girl aboard an Ilthmar trader embarked on the carkingly long voyage to tropic Klesh or frosty No-Ombrulsk. And let such heroes merely whisper a hint about a "last adventure" and their noisiest partisans and most ardent adherents alike will be demanding that it end at the very least in spectacular death and doom, endured while battling insurmountable odds and enjoying the enmity of the evilest arch-gods. So when those two humorous dark-side heroes the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd not only left Lankhmar City (where it's said more than half the action of Nehwon world is) to serve the obscure freewomen Cif and Afreyt of lonely Rime Isle on the northern rim of things, but also protracted their stay there for two years and then three, wiseacres and trusty gossips alike began to say that the Twain were flirting with just such a fate."
But it's not just people who are scandalized; the gods are, too. All sorts of deities, including Loki and Odin (I don't like the way Leiber tied Nehwon to our world that way), still have plans for the world's greatest adventurers and F & GM's retirement is not convenient for these selfish godlings. And so they send various trials and temptations that they hope will tear the guys away from their ladies. Thus, F & GM have to dodge beautiful (nubile) girls, assassins, stowaway princesses, and curses. They get tricked, captured, tied up, shaved, beribboned, and rescued. They even find out that they have children they didn't know of.
It's all quite fun for the first half of the book, but it starts to drag later as F & GM spend less time adventuring and more time reminiscing (again) about all the adventures they've had (even the "erotic" ones) and all the (nubile) girls they've known. One story ("The Mouser Goes Below"), in which Mouser gets buried under ice, goes on way too long and, regrettably, displays the kind of icky lechery I mentioned in my review of the previous collection, Swords and Ice Magic. It seems that the older Leiber got, the younger and more "nubile" became the girls in his stories. There are numerous mentions (mostly by Mouser) of budding breasts and girls playing erotically with each other while he watches. Just yuck.
Despite this, Fafhrd is one of my favorite fantasy heroes. He's a big barbarian with an open mind, an appreciation of beauty, a sense of wonder about the universe, a bent toward philosophy and a pretty way of saying things. We often see him wondering what's over the horizon, across the sea, or up in the sky. He's not formally educated, but he's observant like a scientist. In one scene he's on a ship and a companion mentions the stars disappearing in the daytime. But Fafhrd, who watches, knows the truth:
"The stars march west across the sky each night in the same formations which we recognize year after year, dozen years after dozen, and I would guess gross after gross. They do not skitter for the horizon when day breaks or seek out lairs and earth holes, but go on marching with the sun's glare, hiding their lights under cover of day."
As you can see, not only are Leiber's stories usually fun, but they're also a delight to the mind and ear.
"Legends travel on rainbow wings and sport gaudy colors… while truth plods on in sober garb."
I listened to the audio version of all of the LANKHMAR stories. These were produced by Audible Studios and narrated by one of my favorite readers, Jonathan Davis. He is at his very best in these productions and I highly recommend them in audio format. They are simply excellent. Each audiobook is introduced by Neil Gaiman (who also narrates his introductions).
Goodbye, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser. I'll miss you.
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River Secrets
- Books of Bayern, Book 3
- By: Shannon Hale
- Narrated by: Mark Allen Holt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
Bayern has triumphed in its war with Tira. But though the war is over, simmering anger remains among the Tirans and new hostilities could erupt at any moment. In a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, King Geric sends an ambassador to the Tiran capitol. Of course, an ambassador needs a military guard. Razo - short, impish, and not at all skilled at combat - longs to be among those selected to go, but thinks he has no chance. So he is astounded when Captain Talone taps him to join the group. He's even more astounded when he discovers the secret reason for Talone's decision.
Great detective story
- By Charity on 01-02-13
- River Secrets
- Books of Bayern, Book 3
- By: Shannon Hale
- Narrated by: Mark Allen Holt
Razo gets center stage
Reviewed: 03-20-15
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Shannon Hale writes excellent children's fantasy. River Secrets is the third book in her BAYERN series. It follows The Goose Girl and Enna Burning and focuses on one of readers' (and the author's) favorite characters from these books, Razo of the forest.
In the previous books, Razo's friend Isi, who has wind magic, became queen of Bayern and his friend Enna, who has fire magic, helped Bayern win a battle with Tira. Now Bayern and Tira are swapping ambassadors and opening diplomatic relations. The people of Bayern are not popular in Tira because of what Enna, the fire mage, did to their army. Enna isn't happy about her role in the battle, either, so she asks to go to Tira with the ambassador, hoping to redeem herself by doing something constructive instead of destructive with her magic.
For some unknown reason Razo has been chosen by the captain of the Bayern guard to accompany the Bayern ambassador to Tira. This is surprising because Razo feels like he's only at court with Isi and Enna because he's their friend. He doesn't feel like he has any sort of skills or smarts that make him worthy on his own. Razo is kind of short, he has no magic, and he's not a great fighter, so his self-esteem is a little low when he compares himself to his accomplished friends. He has no idea what he can do to help his country.
When Razo, Enna, and the ambassador get to Tira, they encounter an entirely new culture. While Razo is trying to find his place in Tira, bad things start happening. Burned bodies are showing up around the capitol city, making it look like the Bayern fire mage is terrorizing Tiran citizens again. (They don't know that Enna is the fire mage.) The daughter of the Tiran ambassador is obviously keeping secrets. Razo is worried about both of these things because he's not sure that his friend Enna isn't the one burning bodies and he has a bit of a crush on the Tiran ambassador's daughter. Razo will try to solve the mysteries and solidify the peace before the Tiran people kill the Bayern ambassador and her entourage. In doing so, Razo may discover that he has his own particular talents and skills.
Anyone who liked the previous BAYERN books will almost certainly enjoy this one, too. Razo's a likeable boy with a nice personality, a good heart, and a pleasing sense of humor. He cares for friends and strangers alike. It's hard to imagine that young readers won't be drawn to him. He's also easier to relate to than Isi and Enna because he has no magical powers. In River Secrets we see him start a new clothing trend, become friends with a prince, navigate a royal court, confront terrorists, and deal with his own personal grief and doubts. Razo develops both physically and personally in this novel.
I liked River Secrets a lot better than I liked Enna Burning but not quite as much as I liked The Goose Girl. I thought Enna Burning was too dark and disturbing for a children's story. Some of that same darkness is in River Secrets, but it works better here because Enna is not the main character, and because she's trying to control her desire to burn by channeling it in appropriate directions. You could read River Secrets without reading The Goose Girl and Enna Burning first, but you would be missing some of the history.
The audio version of River Secrets is 7.5 hours long and narrated by a full cast. One or two of the narrators feel stilted at times, but most of them do a great job. I recommend this Full Cast Audio production.
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Falling Free
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
Don't read this one first
- By Carol on 02-20-13
- Falling Free
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
An early stand-alone Vorkosigan book
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Falling Free is an early stand-alone story in Lois McMaster Bujold's VORKOSIGAN SAGA. It takes place before the events we read about in the other books and tells the story of the Quaddies, those genetically engineered "mutants" who have four arms and no legs and who, therefore, make good workers for zero-gravity situations. They were created in secret by a corporation who is using them as free labor.
The story starts when Leo Graf, an engineer, is hired to train students on a distant planet. Leo doesn't know, and isn't told, that his new students are Quaddies, so he's quite surprised and repulsed when he first meets them. Despite their strange anatomy, though, the Quaddies are just as smart as other humans and their four arms makes them better at some mechanical tasks. Soon it becomes apparent that the Quaddies are really just children and teenagers who want to be as normal as they can and don't even realize that other humans would find them hideous. The corporation gives them no privacy and tries to keep them ignorant of other cultures, but the Quaddies have found ways to smuggle in trashy romance novels and videos. Leo struggles with the ethics of what the corporation is doing, but he initially decides not to rock the boat…. until a new technological advancement makes the Quaddies suddenly obsolete. Now Leo has to decide whether or not to help the Quaddies escape the fate that their owners have decided for them. If he does, he'll ruin his illustrious career.
All of Lois McMaster Bujold's VORKOSIGAN stories are fast paced, fun, and amusing, and Falling Free is no exception. On the surface it's an entertaining adventure that's often funny, such as when a Quaddie couple is trying to escape with their baby and worried about the trail of dirty diapers they're leaving behind like breadcrumbs. It's hard not to adore the Quaddies — they're clever and sweet — and it's easy to be outraged at their circumstances. The stakes are certainly high.
Falling Free is a story about revolution, and who doesn't love a good revolution story? It's also about the seduction of power, the difference between free time and freedom, what makes us human, how doing nothing can be morally wrong, and how just one person really can change the world.
Falling Free is not as wonderful as the other VORKOSIGAN books. The characters aren't nearly as well developed. Leo, the hero, has little personality and the villains are obvious and one-faceted. Bujold fans know that characterization is what the author does best and that is missing here. Also, the humor isn't quite as clever, which is disappointing because I love Bujold's sense of humor. But Falling Free is still a fun story that's worth your time, especially if you're interested in the history of the Quaddies.
Falling Free won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1989. I listened to Bernard Setaro narrate the excellent audio version produced by Blackstone Audio. It's 8.75 hours long.
8 of 19 people found this review helpful
- Vlad Taltos, Book 4
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
Lord Vlad Taltos returns in the prequel to Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla. In this fantastic adventure, listeners learn what really happened when Vlad found himself walking the Paths of the Dead.
Vlad's begining in the Organization
- By Ron on 08-22-12
- Taltos
- Vlad Taltos, Book 4
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
Lots of backstory about Vlad
Reviewed: 03-20-15
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Taltos is the fourth novel in Steven Brust's series about Vlad Taltos, a human crime boss in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where humans are short of stature and lifespan compared to the species that rule the world. Taltos is actually a prequel to the previous novels (Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla) in which Vlad tells us about an incident that happened years ago while he was solidifying his reputation as a new crime lord. One of his lackeys tried to cheat him, so Vlad went after him instead of letting the guy get away because he didn't want to seem weak to his rivals. The man fled to Castle Black, an elusive floating castle owned by the Dragonlord Morrolan. Vlad followed. This is how he met some of the main characters who we already know from the previous novels, including Morrolan, the powerful sorceress Sethra Lavode, and the Dragon Heir Aliera. Together they have a grand adventure which involves stealing magical artifacts, walking the Paths of the Dead, and performing a dangerous bit of witchcraft.
While Vlad is telling us about this adventure, he also provides flashbacks which describe his childhood with his family, how he eventually left home to begin a career as another crime lord's minion, and how he rose in the organization by being clever and daring. We learn a lot about Vlad's father and grandfather, and the fact that Vlad doesn't know who his mother is (which is bound to be important later). In this timeline we also witness when Vlad met, for the first time, Kiera, the thief who is Vlad's friend, and Kragar, his current partner in crime.
Brust does a great job of interweaving these separate plot lines and giving us a lot of backstory about Vlad as well as much of the information about Dragaera that I felt like I had been missing so far. Also, the story gives us further hints about why Vlad, who's merely an Easterner human, may be important to the Dragaeran society.
Vlad Taltos has a great voice and he's a fun character, as is his familiar Loiosh, the jhereg. They make a great team and it's fun to listen to them banter with each other. Brust's prose is easily readable and each book I've read so far (the first four) are quick action-packed reads. I'm listening to the audio versions produced by Audible Studios. I love Bernard Setaro Clark in this role. He's got just the right voice and pace. The audiobook is 6.25 hours long.
You could easily read Taltos before reading the other novels. If you're the type of reader who would rather go in internal chronological order, I'd suggest picking this up first. Taltos is a must-read for fans of the VLAD TALTOS series because it gives us a lot of backstory while being just as much fun as the previous books.
2 of 10 people found this review helpful
Phoenix and Ashes
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
In this dark and atmospheric rendition of the Cinderella fairy tale, an intelligent young Englishwoman is made into a virtual slave by her evil stepmother. Her only hope of rescue comes in the shape of a scarred World War I pilot of noble blood, whose own powers over the elements are about to be needed more than ever.
One of the Best books offered on Audible
- By R. Jones on 10-14-13
- Phoenix and Ashes
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
A Cinderella story about PTSD
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. Life's too short to read bad books!
Each of Mercedes Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS novels is a stand-alone fairytale retelling. Some of the novels have overlapping characters, but you can read these books in any order. The fourth book, Phoenix and Ashes, is a mostly pleasant Cinderella story set in England during The Great War. Maya, the Indian doctor from The Serpent's Shadow, is a minor character. I listened to Michelle Ford narrate the audio version of Phoenix and Ashes (Audible Studios). She is perfect for this tale.
Unlike some of the other ELEMENTAL MASTERS stories, Phoenix and Ashes stays pretty close to the source material; you can tell this is a Cinderella story. Eleanor Robinson's father is killed during WW1 and Eleanor is left living in the house she grew up in with her socially-climbing evil stepmother and two stepsisters. They cast a spell on Eleanor and make her their slave while they attend teas and balls. Eleanor's "fairy godmother" is a local witch who helps Eleanor develop her own magical skills. Her helpful woodland creatures are the salamanders that usually accompany fire mages in Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS books. Most interesting is Prince Charming — a young soldier who was sent home with "shellshock."
Lackey does a nice job of portraying the horrors, the deprivations, and the massive amount of death that The Great War caused. We see an England that is nearly devoid of healthy adult men within a certain age range. Women were running the farms and businesses. German submarine blockades of merchant ships meant that people were hungry. So many of the English soldiers never came home, and those who did were maimed and/or afflicted with PTSD, a brain disorder that people didn't believe in until recently. Lackey shows us the scorn that the military held for those who suffered from "shellshock" and also the way they were slow to adapt to the Germans' technological advances. A few times Lackey attempts to bring in some socialist opposition to the war, which could have been really interesting and informative, but this is dealt with so quickly and superficially that it was of no value.
As in the other ELEMENTAL MASTERS books, the evil villains are totally over-the-top sadists, making them seem like caricatures rather than real people. Eleanor's stepmother is so hilariously bad that it's hard to take her seriously. In contrast, the protagonists always display surprisingly modern ideas for their time. They're always progressive feminists who despise the class structure they were born into. A little more diversity and nuance to Lackey's characters would be nice.
Still, for a fluffy fantasy read, Phoenix and Ashes is mostly entertaining. It's easy to sympathize with Eleanor's plight, cheer when she manages to win little victories over her evil stepmother, and feel excited knowing that she'll triumph in the end. Unfortunately there is a long odd section in which Eleanor learns about passion, balance and responsibility from the creatures on Tarot cards in some sort of dreamland. This was bizarre and boring and didn't feel like it fit in an ELEMENTAL MASTERS novel since, I think, Tarot has not been mentioned as related to this magic system before. The ending of the story, when Eleanor gets revenge, was also abrupt and not especially satisfying. Sort of like my ending to this review.
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The Wizard of London
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
Isabelle Benson has learned that an Elemental Master is behind the attempts on her students' lives-and the would-be murderer is someone very close to her former flame, the "Wizard of London".
- By Joshua McDonald on 12-26-14
- The Wizard of London
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
Strangely jumbled
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. Life's too short to read bad books!
The Wizard of London is the fifth of Mercedes Lackey's stand-alone novels in her ELEMENTAL MASTERS series of fairytale retellings. It's so loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" that you probably won't even notice the few similarities. There's an ice queen, but the theme of The Wizard of London (if there is one, which I doubt), has nothing to do with the theme of "The Snow Queen."
The story starts when a little girl named Sarah arrives from Africa (where her parents are missionaries) at a London boarding school that is known to educate and train the children of Elemental mages. There she finds an ethically and religiously diverse cast of excellent teachers and attendants. She also befriends a young street urchin named Nan whose mother is a neglectful drug addict. Together Sarah and Nan have various girlish adventures such as acting in plays, doing chores and school projects, visiting the country, solving little mysteries, acquiring avian familiars, practicing some magic, and producing a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (a big nod to Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill here). Their headmistress, Isabelle, often has special tasks for them such as attending a séance to help debunk the local medium.
Eventually the story gets on with it and we meet the "Ice Queen." She is Cordelia, an Elemental mage who mentors David, the man who suddenly dumped Isabelle (the headmistress) without explanation years ago. Gradually we learn that Cordelia made a deal with an ice elemental and has certain disturbing magical skills that she uses to try to gain power over others, especially David. When she's not doing evil stuff, she is lamenting the fact that she's a woman and, therefore, forced to gain her power in such an unethical way.
The Wizard of London is marketed to adults, but a lot of the time it feels like a children's story since it frequently focuses on the two girls and is often simple and told in short cute episodes that end with the girls being praised for being nice, smart or brave. These parts of the story are quite sweet and childish. But then, as she does in every ELEMENTAL MASTERS book that I've read so far, Lackey throws in that super evil villain that reminds you that you're not reading a children's book. The story flip-flops between these two tones — sickly sweet and pathologically violent — and also can't seem to settle on a particular main character or story line. It jumps around all over the place. The disparate plot elements are also strangely jumbled. They don't feel like they go together organically or fit into the story of "The Snow Queen." I think I would have left out Robin Goodfellow, the Morrigan, the Wild Hunt, and Aleister Crowley completely, and I won't even mention the weird part where the headmistress (quite the proper lady) shows up garbed in merely a scrap of chemise and wielding a spear. That was really odd. It also seems to me that Lackey keeps changing the rules to her elemental magic system. It's never consistent.
As usual, all the protagonists are unfailingly wonderful all the time. They're smart, they're nice, they're brave, and all of their ideas are correctly 21st century American even though they live in Victorian England (all of Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS protagonists are like this). The villains, or course, are all on par with Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy.
Michelle Ford does the narration for Audible Studio's version of The Wizard of London. Her voices are wonderful, but she has a few mispronunciations, including twice mispronouncing the word "sidhe" which she pronounces as "seed-hay" even after Nan misunderstands it as "she" and has to be told that how it's spelled.
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Reserved for the Cat
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Mirabai Galashan
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she's been dreaming of.
A good one for Lackey's "Elemental Masters" series
- By Bonnie on 08-23-12
- Reserved for the Cat
- Elemental Masters
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Mirabai Galashan
A Puss in Boots story
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Reserved for the Cat is the sixth stand-alone novel in Mercedes Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS series of fairytale retellings. As the title might suggest, Reserved for the Cat is a "Puss in Boots" story and it's actually recognizable as such (unlike some of Lackey's other retellings that go too far afield from their sources).
Ninette, our heroine, is an orphaned ballet dancer who has lots of talent but is fired from her gig with a famous Parisian ballet company after inadvertently evoking the jealousy of the company's reigning diva. Unable to get more work in Paris, she is about to prostitute herself when a talking cat appears and promises to make her a superstar. The cat leads her to a seaside town in England where she impersonates a famous Russian dancer and joins a local troupe of entertainers. Things go well until she attracts the attention of the real Russian dancer whose body has been absorbed by a shape-shifting troll. Her new friends, including the cat, must defeat the troll.
Lackey's best fairytale retellings are the ones that stay close to the source material. It's fun to recognize elements from the original fairytales and admire how Lackey re-works them into a new, more modern, story. Reserved for the Cat is fun that way, but the characterization in this novel is weak. Ninette, while she is likable and easy to feel for, doesn't exhibit much of her own agency. This is, of course, mostly due to the Puss in Boots premise, but it doesn't make for an engaging heroine. Her personality is as small and delicate as her body. Unfortunately, the people in her supporting cast seem even paler and are nearly interchangeable.
The story includes a couple of Lackey's over-the-top sadist villains, her usual man-hating cynical commentary about women's roles in 19th century European societies and the deplorable state of orphanages, some sloppy plotting, and a quick and unsatisfying ending. I have no idea why all of the characters except Ninette are told who the cat actually is. And why, if the villain is such an awesome mage, is it so hard for her to kill Ninette? She's like a James Bond villain; she keeps constructing these elaborate traps for Ninette instead of just finding and killing her. It wouldn't be that hard — Ninette is on a public stage every day and the villain is a shapeshifter. Duh. And why are Ninette's own powers inconsistent, random, and convenient? And why is the magic system never consistent among the ELEMENTAL MASTERS books? Oh well. I did like the cat.
The audio version of Reserved for the Cat is 11 hours long and nicely narrated by Mirabai Galashan.
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King of the Dead
- Lens of the World, Book 2
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
An attack by paid assassins sets diminutive philosopher Nazhuret and his lady, Arlin, on the road to Rezhmia, a fearsome neighboring kingdom to which Nazhuret is tied by ancient blood.
It's more about the journey than the destination.
- By Katherine on 03-20-15
- King of the Dead
- Lens of the World, Book 2
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
It's more about the journey than the destination.
Reviewed: 03-20-15
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
This review will contain a few spoilers for R.A. MacAvoy's previous book, Lens of the World. You'll want to read that book before beginning King of the Dead.
King of the Dead is the second story in R.A. MacAvoy's LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy about Nazhuret, a man who is writing his life story for his friend, the king. When we met Nazhuret at the beginning of Lens of the World, he was an ugly orphan who had been raised in a government military academy. Upon reaching his majority, he left and became an apprentice to Powl, a man who is much more than the lens grinder he pretends to be. Powl thoroughly educated Nazhuret in a multitude of subjects and disciplines. Only toward the end of that first book do we realize why Powl took an interest in an ugly orphan — he recognized Nazhuret's unknown bloodline and realized that the orphan has an important destiny. At the end of the book, Nazhuret and Arlin (the girl he loved as a child who ran away from home and has been masquerading as a man) perform a noble deed that earns them the love and trust of their king forever.
King of the Dead begins a few years later when Nazhuret and Arlin are living in obscurity because Nazhuret is the rightful heir to a duchy that was conquered when his parents were killed. Nazhuret has no wish to rule, but he needs to stay out of the way of the current duke. When someone sends an assassin to kill Nazhuret, Arlin, and their unborn baby, they are uprooted and thrown into the midst of political turmoil. Can they, once again, use their special skills, wits, education, and family ties to save their kingdom from invasion?
Readers who enjoyed the slow leisurely pace and the beautiful prose of Lens of the World will enjoy King of the Dead for the same reason. Readers who are in the mood for lots of fast-paced action should look elsewhere. This is a slow moving story in which not a lot actually happens. It's more about the journey than the destination. We spend a lot of time in Nazhuret's head — he's introspective, curious, and thoughtful. He has interesting observations about the world and the people who inhabit it. We might spend a week with Nazhuret as he's riding a horse across a barren wasteland, but somehow he manages to keep us entertained just with his thoughts. A lot of this has to do with R.A. MacAvoy's writing style. It's so lovely and absorbing that I hardly notice that nothing is happening. This is a story for readers who like to linger over a sentence and admire its construction, for every single sentence in King of the Dead is lovingly crafted.
It's hard to compare this series to anything else you may be familiar with because it's unique, but the best comparison I can make is to Robin Hobb's FARSEER series. There's a lot less plot here, and the characters aren't as endearing (and there are few of them, especially women), but its protagonist is similar (an introspective coming-of-age young man who isn't what he seems and is completely misunderstood) and there's a similar sense of tragedy and cosmic injustice. Also, the writing styles are comparable — first person POV with elegant but succinct sentences. I'd recommend the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy to Hobb fans who love her style and wouldn't mind a fairly slow plot.
The audio versions are produced by Audible Studios and narrated by Jeremy Arthur. I thought he was the perfect narrator for this story. King of the Dead is 9.5 hours long.
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The Belly of the Wolf
- Lens of the World, Book 3
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
Living in exile with his daughter, a now aged Nazhuret learns of King Rudof's death and journeys back to his homeland to intercede in a rebellion led by an old rival.
A slow, deliberate, contemplative work
- By Katherine on 03-20-15
- The Belly of the Wolf
- Lens of the World, Book 3
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
A slow, deliberate, contemplative work
Reviewed: 03-20-15
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
The Belly of the Wolf is the third book in R.A. MacAvoy's LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy. My review will spoil some of the events from the first two novels, Lens of the World and King of the Dead, so you might not want to read it before reading those books. If you have already read and enjoyed those two previous novels, I feel certain that you'll like The Belly of the Wolf, too. It's similar in style and tone and there's a little bit more action in this one.
It's been many years since the events of King of the Dead, in which Nazhuret and Arlin (again) saved their country from tragedy. Now Nazhuret is 55 years old, Arlin is dead, and their daughter Nahvah is a grown woman with a fascination for pistols. Father and daughter are living a quiet life in a university town where Nazhuret practices as an optician and a teacher and Nahvah studies medicine. But world events just can't leave them alone, especially after someone has published Nazhuret's philosophies without his permission, and the author wasn't even accurate about Nazhuret's ideas. Now everyone knows about Nazhuret the philosopher.
When Nazhuret learns that his friend King Rudof has died, he is once again forced to engage in the political drama and turmoil of their country. This involves assassination attempts, a duel, a voyage on a ship, an elusive sea monster, Nazhuret having his portrait painted, several extremely surly servants, lots of dreams and visions in which Nazhuret gets advice from his dead wife, an igloo, a rebelling duchy, a man who attempts to seduce him (Nazhuret is still a little confused about his sexuality), a horse that's more like a ghost, and a wolf that's more like a ghost. A few of these events feel a bit vague and random and the story is a little dreamy at times, but eventually they work out to a satisfying conclusion.
Once again R.A. MacAvoy give us a pensive reluctant hero on a quest to make things right in his world not with a sword (though sometimes he must wield one), but through negotiation and reason. Though Nazhuret is on the move and must attempt to beat back a rebel army in this last installment, he spends more time philosophizing than fighting. I expect this ratio of philosophy to fighting is why these books have received little attention in the fantasy community. They're slow, deliberate, contemplative works. In a couple of years I'm probably not going to remember much of the plot of the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy, but I will remember that R.A. MacAvoy's prose is a joy to read and makes up for the lack of riveting action. As I keep mentioning, the prose is lovely yet economical, a style that very much appeals to me and makes me put MacAvoy on my must-read author list. I look forward to reading more of her work soon.
Audible Studio's versions of the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy are excellent. Jeremy Arthur, the narrator, does a wonderful job with Nazhuret. The Belly of the Wolf is 6.75 hours long.
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Legion: Skin Deep
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
As the new story begins, Leeds and his "aspects" are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. But there's a catch. The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body. And that something might be dangerous.
Multiple personalities detective agency
- By Silicon Valley Geek on 02-08-15
- Legion: Skin Deep
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Another cool SF novella from Sanderson
Reviewed: 03-20-15
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
"I'm not crazy. I'm compartmentalized."
Legion: Skin Deep is the second novella in Brandon Sanderson's series about Stephen Leeds, a man whose psyche has spawned a "legion" of extra personalities that he thinks of as "aspects." Stephen is the only person who can see his aspects — each is a separate personality who lives with him and can follow him around and help him solve problems. Everyone else thinks Stephen has schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder, but it's not the same thing. Stephen doesn't know why he has all these aspects or why he creates new ones when he learns something new. There's one woman (Sandra) who can help him understand, but she has disappeared.
When we met Stephen in the first LEGION story (simply called Legion), he was helping a client find a camera that can take pictures of past events. This had interesting ramifications for politics and religion. In Skin Deep, Stephen and his aspects have been hired to find a missing corpse that contains some innovative biotechnology — part of the body might have been used to store some deadly data. If the body is not recovered and cremated soon, that information might get into the wrong hands and could cause a worldwide epidemic.
Like the first LEGION story, Skin Deep is creative and exciting. In this case, it's cool to think about the capabilities (and security risks) of biotechnology as scientists work to find more efficient and flexible ways to store large amounts of data. What would happen if we started using the body's DNA, which naturally holds a vast amount of information, as basically a really big flash drive? Sanderson uses the opportunity to briefly discuss topics such as Open Source and Wetware.
Skin Deep is also partly a mystery — who stole the corpse, and how did they do it? Where is the keycode? I was in the dark until the last pages, though Sanderson gave me a few clues that I missed (I love it when that happens).
I mentioned in my review of Legion that the shortness of these stories means that we don't get to know Stephen's aspects very well, but in Skin Deep we get to spend a lot of time with three of them — Tobias is a historian, Ivy is a psychologist, and J.C. is an ex-Navy Seal. Ivy and J.C. have an on-again-off-again romance which adds some humor and some extra weirdness. J.C. doesn't want to admit he's not real, so he thinks of himself as an inter-dimensional time traveler who comes to help people in need. (Each of the aspects has their own personality quirks and maybe even mental illnesses.) The aspects can eat, go to the bathroom, and talk to each other on imaginary cell phones. I'm not really sure it always works, but it's entertaining and it does solve the problem for Sanderson of how to make his hero have so much knowledge and skill without making him seem like a god.
There's so much more that Sanderson can do with Stephen and his "friends" and it seems clear that more LEGION stories are planned. I'm glad. The print versions are being published by Subterranean Press and the audio versions are produced by Audible Studios. I have and can recommend both. As I write this, the audio version of Skin Deep is free. Oliver Wyman does a great job with the narration.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Celebrating Our 60th Anniversary in 2009
2009 marks our 60th year in business! 60 years of providing high quality food and service at a wonderful price! 60 years of making new friends, and 60 years of building smiles in our communities! We thank you for helping to make this all possible.
It seems like just yesterday when my Dad would load our family into the station wagon to head over to our Bridgeville restaurant for a Superburger. He would always buy at least one Tin Roof Sundae for us all to share. 25 years later, I am still enjoying Superburgers on a weekly basis…they just never get old. And the Tin Roof Sundae… it's still a favorite, although now we each order our own!
There are so many memories to go around…I know you have a bunch as well. We hope that you will take time to celebrate with us this year over the summer as we look back over our great history, while at the same time never resting on our laurels. This year in particular, we will work harder than ever to provide you with a wonderful experience at an even better value.
Thank you, again, for allowing us to serve you, your family and your friends for 60 years. Cheers!
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Since I seem to have caught his cold and am now the one stuck on the couch, I will just copy the guidelines I wrote for Jamie this week. I just summarized the talking points that we have always used in past 504 meeting for Jamie and his brother. These are specific to Jamie's situation but could be easily revised for any child with ME/CFS or similar illnesses at any level of schooling. Ideally, Jamie would have met with all of his professors before now to cover all of these points; he did talk briefly with each of them at the start of the year, but when he is feeling better, he will meet each of them during their office hours for a more thorough discussion, something along the lines of:
- I have had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) since I was 10 years old. It is a serious immune system disorder with genetic roots (both my mother and brother have CFS also).
- I was also recently diagnosed with Lyme disease and 2 other tick infections that I have probably had for about 6 years. I am being treated for these infections, but the treatment can make you feel worse, especially when the infections have been present for a long time.
What To Expect/How My Illnesses Affects Me
- CFS is unpredictable – sometimes I feel pretty good and can manage like other students; other times I am completely incapacitated and can't get up off the couch.
- My CFS symptoms include: low energy, low stamina, needing a lot of rest, flu-like symptoms including achiness and sore throat, cognitive dysfunction aka brain fog/difficulty learning and thinking.
- Lyme disease and the other tick infections make all of my CFS symptoms much worse. They also cause joint pain and other symptoms.
- I always have some symptoms, but most days, I can manage OK as long as I get a lot of sleep and rest whenever I need to.
- However, once in a while, I experience a severe flare-up of symptoms (or "crash") that completely incapacitates me. These can be triggered by too much exercise or exertion, stress, or being exposed to a virus (like a cold or flu). When that happens, there is nothing I can do about it except rest and wait for it to pass. During these times, my cognitive dysfunction becomes very severe, and I am unable to do any schoolwork. These crashes can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks but usually last about a week.
- For math and classes requiring any kind of computation: Part of my cognitive dysfunction includes dyscalculia, a defined learning disability for mathematical computation (similar to dyslexia for reading). This causes me to have difficulty with simple computation. For instance, I might set up a complicated problem correctly but then transpose digits or add 2 + 3 and get 6. The worse my other symptoms get, the worse the dyscalculia gets. When I am crashed or flared-up, it becomes severe, making math-related work impossible.
- For classes requiring writing: When I am crashed or flared-up, it is almost impossible for me to write because my cognitive dysfunction becomes severe. Translating thoughts into written words is a complex task that I just can't manage when my symptoms are severe.
- If I am absent due to illness, it means I am severely ill and unable to do any work, even from home. I will e-mail to let you know of my condition and any outstanding assignments and will let you know when I am well enough to return.
- If I have been absent for more than 1 class, I will need extended deadlines for assignments and extra time to catch up on missed work. Once I am well enough to return to class, I may still have reduced stamina and be unable to do as much work as I normally do.
- I need extended time for some tests, especially math or writing. It is even better if I can split longer tests into shorter increments. My dyscalculia gets worse over time as I work. It is also helpful if I can use a calculator to help prevent simple computational errors due to dyscalculia.
- If I have been absent due to illness for an extended time (more than a week), I may need to shorten and/or skip certain assignments (with your agreement) in order to catch up, decreasing the volume of work while still ensuring mastery of the subject matter.
- Medical absences should not affect grading.
- If I have been ill near the end of a semester, I may need to take an Incomplete in the class temporarily, to allow me some extra time to finish the work.
So, next week, Jamie will talk to his professors about these points, and we will (finally) have a 504 meeting with Craig's high school teachers to discuss these same things.
We usually also print and bring hand-outs for the teachers: The CFS Fact Sheet or the Pediatric CFS sheet on this page; the School Nurses article, written by Dr. David Bell, linked on this page; and this excellent article for teachers on how to help kids with CFS.
How about you? Do you have any tips or suggestions for talking to teachers about CFS?


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This is a list of pages on the ALSA website that need migration to this wiki. The link on the left is to the original page, the link on the right is to a wiki page. If the wiki link is RED it means the page doesn't exist. If it is blue, it means the migration has been done.
The other place to look for pages that need to be created is Special:WantedPages
Pages linked from the front page
- Download Download This page already migrated
- Soundcards Matrix:Main Many module pages need to be created
- Documentation Documentation
- Mailing lists Mailing-lists
- Links Links
- Bug tracker link Where is it in this wiki?
- Getting support for your hardware Vendor_Information
- Background info - dead link to agnula
- Recommended - LAD link dead. DJCJ linux-sound.org LinuxAudio (new)
- Main page News on main page News Information about ALSA releases and other events - needs to be migrated
- List of current releases with FTP links on main page
Pages containing html tags (should be replaced with mediawiki format)
- Applications Page migrated; Links/Programs need to be checked though;
Now, someone who has a map of the ALSA website please fill in the real list of what needs migration.
--EliotBlennerhassett 22:49, 2 August 2007 (CEST)
I think that nobody has full ALSA website map. We need a volunteer which compare the two webs and create a list of missing pages.
--Jaroslav Kysela 11:19, 3 August 2007 (CEST)
Oh well. I ran a webcrawler over the site, got this list after trimming out the stats etc. alsa-doc stuff is related to the old soundcard matrix?
http://www.alsa-project.org http://www.alsa-project.org/index.html http://www.alsa-project.org/download.php http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.html http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/bugs-full.php http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/notes-full.php http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/README.php http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php http://www.alsa-project.org/applications.php http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php http://www.alsa-project.org/links.php http://www.alsa-project.org/mailing-lists.php http://www.alsa-project.org/call.php http://www.alsa-project.org/changes http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13rc3--v1-0-13.txt http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc4--v1-0-14.txt http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc3--v1-0-14rc4.txt http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-12--v1-0-13rc1.txt http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13rc1--v1-0-13rc2.txt http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa/ftp http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa/ftp/index.html http://www.alsa-project.org/applications-contact.php


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Instant charging
Instant charging
That probably also means 30 to 120 times more power output. instead of getting 300kW you get 36MW out of the 85kWh battery. Outpower top fuel dragsters by factor of six.
Whats about the idea to extend the input voltage from the current maximum of 250 V to 750 V. In this way the 400 V phases or the 700 V phases in Europe could be used. While it does not increase the chargers power it would however load the power grid much more evenly there. Currently the Europeans do not allow a single-phase load, this is L to N with 230V, of more than 32 A. With 400 V or 700 V the single-phase load would turn into a two-phase load. Still not evenly, but much better for the Grid.
Another subject.
I recently heard about trouble of an owner of a Tesla Roadster in Japan. He stated that the voltages are incompatible there. I have been in the United States and Japan many times. Both countries use the single phase three conducter feeder for residental and small business areas. The only difference is in Japan 100/200 V and not as in the US of 115/230 V. The frequency is, oddly, 50 Hz in the North and 60 Hz south. But this should not pose any problems.
Model S will have three-phase charging for European models. That's what has been promised. Probably just common 400V though.
Quadruple Charging Speed
If you redesign and divide the tesla battery into four separate sections, is it not possible to charge four times faster with four plugs going into four different batteries ? That's 15 seconds for Korean charger, and 7 & 1/2 minutes for the current supercharger station.
No it is not possible. In fact you can't charge even single cell in that battery pack any faster than SC already does. No much faster, maybe a little if you push it. You need different battery chemistry to gain faster charging rate. Once you do have different battery chemistry that accepts higher charging currents, then it is only question of volts and amps and how to do it safely (plug used, cables etc.)
I don't think either Tesluthian or Timo have this quite right.
As I think Timo was trying to get at, the charging rate is limited by the individual cell, so baring the availability of new battery cell technology that can tolerate higher charging rates, it is not possible to charge the cells faster than Tesla is currently doing it.
However, Tesluthian is correct that pack design can affect the maximum battery pack charging current, which is the current that the Super Charger provides. A battery pack is built with groups of cells connected in parallel (modules) that are connected to each other in series to achieve the desired voltage. The pack charging current from the Super Charger is equal to the current passing though all of the battery modules. However, the current passing through each module is evenly distributed to each parallel connected cell within the module.
So technically, Tesluthian is correct that the pack charging speed could theoretically be quadrupled (by cutting the number of modules by a factor of four and quadrupling the number of cells in each module). However, this would result in a pack voltage that is only 1/4 of what Tesla currently uses and would be very undesirable. Higher bus voltage substantially reduces i2r power loss throughout the vehicle power lines...
I have no doubt that Tesla optimized the voltage and current of their battery packs to maximize efficiency, while still providing plenty of current for fast acceleration and reasonably fast charging...
Actually, I think Timo was saying the super charger won't charge 4 1/4 sized batteries any fast than it will charge 1 full sized battery owing to the fact that the charger is not being bottle necked by the size of the battery, but by how fast the cells will accept power.
Vawlkus, you might be right about Timo's post. He didn't make this point very clearly.
What you say is true. To charge faster, you need both of the following:
1. Different cells with higher charging capacity or a reconfigured pack with more cells per module.
2. A charger that can provide more power for charging.
Vawlkus, you might be right about Timo's post. He didn't make this point very clearly.
This seems to happen to me quite often. I wonder why? ;-)
FOLLOWUP: Quadruple Charging Speed
Let's try a thought experiment, imagine four Tesla cars with imaginary 75 mile battery packs, (each battery pack 1/4 the size of a 300 mile battery pack), Each Tesla parked side by side in four separate super charger stations, each car plugged in and charging on one cord each.
For this example, let's keep the charging time constant. In 15 minutes all four cars are fully charged to run 75 miles, which is the current rate of today's supercharges. Each Tesla can go 75 miles; but all four cars together can go 300 miles total after 15 minutes of charging.
Now let's say a Teslar engineer comes along and takes out the 75 mile battery packs out of three of the cars and puts them all into the 4th Tesla keeping each battery pack separate and say one battery dedicated to supplying power to each wheel, with it's own separate charging cord plug. This modified Tesla car now has four batteries and four charging plug ports. This modified Quad-battery now has a range of 300 miles.
Next the Tesla Engineer gets some extension cords and connects four charger cords to the single Quad-battery Tesla car. This car, (when low on energy), with four charger cords plugged in will now charge in 15 minutes and go 300 miles, exactly the same as four separate 75 mile cars, would it not?
And in 10 years, if battery/supercharger efficiency doubles, could you not charge 600 miles in 15 minutes with a Quad-battery system ?
Another quick example, if you had 4 rechargeable C batteries, would you charge one at a time or all four at once? Isn't each battery is separate and charging at the same rate and receiving its own current?
@Tesluthian, that four times 75mile battery pack would be 1200mile battery pack (4*300miles).
Charging rate is limited by battery chemistry. Not battery layout.
Once there is battery chemistry that allows higher charging rate (and allows as high or higher energy density with as low price as current system) I bet there will be faster supercharging stations too. If not immediately, then soon after.
another problem is any time you read these very nice papers using nanomaterials look in the experimental sections and see the scales of materials they can generate and use. typically most of the nano stuff is NOT scalable and cannot (yet) even dream of going into any sort of large scale production.
Thanks for the help Brian. I especially like your description in the second paragraph. As for complex, I think someone who builds rocket ships could handle it, especially if it quadruples the charge time, it would be worth the effort. It would increase the appeal of Tesla and set it apart from other EV's by helping to reduce range anxiety and increase traveling convenience.
And remember, Tesla sells battery packs to other manufacturers, so if this is a desired, improvement, it could help those sales as well. But your right to consider complexity and design manufacturing simplicity into a quad-battery for the most efficient production. Maybe even consult an Industrial Ecologist about how much it may improve the ecology footprint compared to Ice cars and have them write a peer reviewed paper on it.
@Brian H, you can't "temporarily isolate" one quarter of the battery for that charging. It just plain takes full hour to charge 1C battery full no matter how small units you use. Even if you split it 8000 times (number of individual cells in the pack).
@evanstumpges | OCTOBER 18, 2012: As I think Timo was trying to get at, the charging rate is limited by the individual cell, so baring the availability of new battery cell technology that can tolerate higher charging rates, it is not possible to charge the cells faster than Tesla is currently doing it.
@Brian H & @Tesluthian Please reread and think about the above citation (with bold emphasis mine). It explains why you can't charge the batteries any faster by rearranging the battery configuration.
I have read several articles that suggest Lithium Titanate batteries could allow for this type of fast charging. Unfortunately they don't have the same specific energy as other battery types:
With four different batteries with four feeds you have four times the battery size. 1200mile battery instead of 300 miles. Four iPad batteries take four iPad battery size. Can't say it more clearly than that.
@Brian H | OCTOBER 22, 2012: I do understand that lower cap batteries don't take charge at the same quantitative rate as higher. But one 18650 cell doesn't take an hour to charge at max current. So perhaps there's a saw-off there.
I'm not sure which exact Panasonic 18650 battery Tesla uses, but take a look at the spec sheet for the Panasonic UR18650F, which is the highest capacity 18650 on their website. (http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/includes/pdf/ACA4000CE289-UR18650F.pdf)
You can see that the charge time at 40ºC is about 2.5 hours. Also the charging protocol for Li-Ion batteries is Constant Current/Constant Voltage. For the UR18650F, constant current is applied for about an hour and then the current tapers off as constant voltage is applied. Charging is much slower at lower temperatures.
In all the above parallel charging scenarios that have been postulated, the assumption is that the charge rate for 18650 batteries is very fast - in the order of 15 minutes, this is not true. The charge rate is more in the order of hours - the spec sheet actually lists 3 hrs.
Follow up #2: Quadruple Charging Speed
"Timo ...four times the battery size." Ok that hypothesis needs some research, is the 85 kWh battery twice as big in volume, weight and material as the 40 kWh battery ? Anyone know?
To avoid confusion and simplify, let's keep to the original equation. Four separate 75 mile batteries in one Tesla car charging 15 minutes with four separate supercharger leadins will give 300 miles of charge in that 15 minute charging time. That is the original hypothesis using today's state of super charging.
Now how many kWh's would each of these batteries be in the car with four batteries? Each imaginary battery would be about 20 kWh or about 1/4 the amount of the real 85 kWh battery. So it seems to charge faster to 300 miles in 15 minutes, you only need about 80 kWh of battery divided into four 20 kWh batteries. What I believe Timo is saying is that a 4 battery system, needs to be four times bigger by weight, volume and
material to charge in 15 minutes. Now let's set up a comparison for the thesis question:
"If one of Elon's super chargers can put in 75 miles of charge to a single 85 kWh car battery in 15 minutes with a single supercharger lead in, then is it possible that 4 separate 20 kWh batteries in one Tesla car with four separate supercharger leadins will charge each battery 75 miles of charge in 15 minutes and will thus give the four battery car a total charge of 4 X 75 miles of charge = 300 miles of total charge in that 15 minutes without the four batteries together being any heavier or bigger by volume and material than one single 85 kWh battery?
Analogy: Does a AA battery charge faster than a C battery at the same charge rate ? If yes then do four AA batteries, each battery recharging in four separate rechargers and four different wall outlets, charge faster than a single C battery in a single charger using a single wall outlet ? Are the four AA batteries together about the same weight, volume and material as the C battery?
It's just the battery tech used, nothing more. Those cheap, high energy density batteries Tesla is using don't allow high charge currents. That is the (main) reason SC is not even offered to 40kWh version.
There are batteries that allow much higher currents to be used, but they tend to be either a lot more expensive or have weaker energy density (or both), which means you would need bigger battery to get same range.
Battery tech will continue to develop. Soon the limit is no longer the battery itself like it is now, but the method of charging that high current safely. Four feeds in one is just matter of "what kind of plug should we use".
Something like 60C RC batteries already exist, those could be recharged in about one minute. Too expensive and a bit too weak energy density to be used in long range BEV, but we are getting there.
You don't seem to understand that the limit is not the charging current but the battery itself in Tesla cars. All batteries in the pack are charged at the same time giving you maximum charge current. SC is pretty close to max of what the battery pack can handle. Dividing that battery means that you also divide the maximum charge current IE, smaller battery allows less current giving you exactly same allowed charge time. Trying to charge smaller battery with same current as original battery would result in explosion from overcharging.
This comes back to my original post in this thread. Your proposed battery pack would indeed allow the car to charge 4 times as fast. However, the pack voltage would be reduced by a factor of 4. Due to greatly increased I2R current losses, running at this low a voltage would be rather inefficient (undesirable). Tesla's motor controller might not even turn on at 1/4 of the input voltage it expects.
When designing a battery pack, one of the first constraints that must be met is the overall voltage. Knowing the voltage requirement allows you to determine how many modules must be connected in series to satisfy this specification. From there, the pack capacity is set by determining how many cells will be connected in parallel for each battery module.
If you were to split Telsa's battery pack into four separate sections, there are two options. Both provide the same total energy storage (kWh) and don't affect size or weight.
1. All four batteries can be connected in parallel. This is the selection you made and it means the total voltage is now just 1/4 of the original pack, but you can charge at four times the rate (assuming your charger(s) can provide that much power)
2. All four batteries can be connected in series. This is essentially, no different from the original pack. The voltage and charging rate remain unchanged.
For any pack design, there is a tradeoff between voltage and Ah capacity. You can trade one for the other by modifying the pack (module) design but you can't increase both at the same time without fundamentally improved battery cell technology.
This is basic electrical engineering. Sorry, but you can't beat the laws of physics...
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Hadn't thought of that. It's an interesting idea and theoretically it should work. However, it would undoubtedly increase cost, design complexity, and efficiency would be lower due to additional relays and higher I2R losses when charging. These technical challenges are significant, but the idea could be worth exploring for future Superchargers as a way to further accelerate EV charging.
the bottleneck with charging batteries (as opposed to capacitors) is the solid state diffusion of the mobile species (Li+ cation) into the anode and especially the cathode. if the Li+ cations are jammed in the channels of the CoO2 crystal structure cathode at a rate faster than it can organize itself inside that space it just wont go in, and that results in reduced capacity. furthermore, if jammed in fast enough there will be irreversible strain on the crystal structure which will affect further cycles.
so the limit for this technology is at the chemistry level, not at the engineering level.


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Like flies smelling a carcass, they come with their signs "God Hates Fags", "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" (or dead children).
They have their right to freedom of religion and of expression and of assembly, but I think it's time for some kind of populist strategy against WBC. This is gonna invite the rage of the people against their lil death and hate cult. What to do?!
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WBC has done more to turn people away from christianity than all the atheist combined. I wish for most people's sake that they wouldn't.
Well, Westboro often says they are going to picket something and then does not show up, causing their opposition to spend time, resources, and money to counter them. Actually, that is a rather effective protest strategy on the part of WBC, as they can expend their resources on certain protests they feel important, whilst garnering press whether they show up or not.
In addition, just about every tragedy nowadays seems to invite the call that WBC is going to picket: it has become an Internet meme.
On the other hand, the Patriot Guard Riders were formed specifically to oppose the Westboro Baptist Church's protests. While they only come if asked (they circle WBC protestors on very loud motorcycles to drown out their protests and block them from view, plus provide an honour guard), and normally only will come to the funerals of active-duty and veterans, I suspect if even one parent or relative of the fallen in Newtown is a veteran, they will come if asked.
I do have to hand it to WBC, though, they have the courage of their convictions. They do stand up for what they believe, even though most of us find what they believe is odious (though scripturally-correct, as God as depicted in both the NT and OT is a real jerk, just like them).
Many atheists do not have said courage. (The religious get a reward for martyrdom, and it fills their desire to be persecuted.)
If enough people could turn up between the WBC protestors and the funerals or memorial services, that would help. That is what the Patriot Guard does (albeit with motorcycles, plus one of their protestors gets in front of a motorcycle and gets hit it is not the PGC's fault).
But I would never curtail WBC's free speech. Only in the light of day where such odious commentary can be seen can WBC's odious religion be shown to all.
Considering all the other absurd events they have protested at, this is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east. The thing is, too, if the Patriot Guard Riders are as consistent as I hear they are in acting to counter the WBC nuts, one can hope that Phelps and Co. might finally cop a clue and QUIT.
Though I expect that to happen about the same time that ... well:
Rev Fred Phelps and company aren't interested in quitting. The mere idea that people might even think they are doing something odious is what gets them press. Press all out of proportion to Westboro Baptist Church's size is what they want.
Phelps gets more coverage than Pope Benedict XVI in the USA, and the Catholic Church numbers in the tens of millions.
The way to defeat Phelps is to give his less-than-fifty congregation exactly the press it deserves, that is, none.
But Westboro plays right into Fox News's own political agenda, in this case the anti-gay one. ABC News ran an article about the anti-gay climate in the USA, using a Westboro picket to illustrate the issue, and Fox News used the issue to bash ABC, the allegedly liberally-biased but corporate-owned media conglomerates (which happens to include Fox), and gay rights campaigners all in the same segment, arguing that ABC did not let Westboro have their side of the story (found here). Fox accuses ABC of being biased (something Fox would never be guilty of, of course).
Apparently Westboro at least has a temporary friend in Faux News.
I knew this would happen. These people are so disgusting.
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I can't say I put an awful lot of stock into this study, though. I've known some incredibly intelligent people who just made a lot of bad decisions in life. I had a friend in high school who was in the gifted program and a prodigy at mathematics and computer science. He got into drugs and last I saw him, he was working as a cashier at a grocery store. So even if morning sickness does point to brain development, there's no guarantee those kids are actually going to use their brains.
It also has a direct correlation to hormonal levels. So the sicker you are, the higher the likelihood that your hormone levels are good. And from my experience the old wives tales about being sicker with one sex than another or that you are ALWAYS sicker with twins are complete bunk. I have been pregnant with twins before and I have been pregnant with boys and girls before. All pregnancies are different so expecting to feel the same way each time is unrealistic. I have bow been (and am) pregnant with three girls and with each one I felt different. And with my son I was sick as a dog, but that is likely due to being on progesterone since he was conceived less than two weeks after a 7 week miscarriage due to low progesterone.
Now now Cleveland, no gloating...
Maybe if you have a higher starting level of hormones you won't be as sick when the mother lode of pregnancy hormones floods your body. I was definitely lucky to avoid the morning sickness, having instead gotten mood swings, depression, heartburn, acid reflux, multiple sinus infections, etc. Oh, well! We'll try for a smart one next time.
It's because of the horrible morning sickness that I haven't enjoyed pregnancy. Feeling exhausted wasn't fun but it was bearable and the mood swings aren't too bad but being sick all day, not being able to eat when I'm starving, only being able to eat things that are out of season or grown in Madagascar, throwing up at the smell or thought of various foods... ugh. I'll take labor over that any day.
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