2010-01-14 [member181737]: Let me know how the Stephen King Series turns out ^^

2010-01-14 [hanhepi]: it's an awesome series! you should totally read it if you haven't already. i've been through it a couple times.

2010-01-14 [member181737]: I thought about picking it up, but I'm, generally, skeptical of modern horror ect...

If you recommend it, I suppose I should head to the library on the way home :)

2010-01-14 [hanhepi]: well, the dark tower is more fantasy than horror. it's set after "the world moved on". i get the impression it was a nuclear war or something. but it's not necessarily this world that moved on.

2010-01-14 [windowframe]: I don't think it's a nuclear war - Roland's world isn't technologically advanced enough for that, but you're right in saying that it's not horror, at all. <_< I think Stephen King is one of the biggest modern miscats. So much of his work isn't actually horror, but because his most famous works are horor everyone assumes that all of his books are (even the critics reviewing them -_-).

2010-01-15 [hanhepi]: well, i dunno. there is a robot/android thing in the wolves of the calla, mutated monsters in the waste lands and a whole little military installation kind of computer lab in one of them. (i wanna say it's in the one with Andy the Android.) and of course the self-aware monorails, that surpasses technology even we have today, and we could surely destroy everything with nukes at this point. 

2010-01-15 [windowframe]: Nothing says why the monsters are mutated, though. They have mutated monsters in Greek myths too, but I've not seen anyone claim that that's obviously because the Greeks had nuclear technology. :P

2010-01-17 [hanhepi]: i dunno.. it was just always the impression i got as to why the world had moved on, why the technology was there but abandoned and shit.

2010-01-18 [Linderel]: Dark Tower is steampunk? :P

2010-01-18 [hanhepi]: is it? could be in parts i guess... but it's not really victorian-y... more of a western meets medieval feudal system meets robots... with elements of other things too, like parallel universes. 

2010-01-18 [Linderel]: Let's just call it fantasy and be done with it. <_<

2010-01-18 [hanhepi]: works for me. is it steampunk though, i mean with all that other stuff thrown in? (not familiar with what constitutes steampunk.)

2010-01-19 [windowframe]: Not really, for it to be steampunk the technology would have to be steam based rather than electricity based. :P But it has the same sort of clash between technology and setting as steampunk does.

2010-01-19 [hanhepi]: ah! that makes sense.