#Gentlemen Bastards

[scottlynch78]

On the Cover of a Grimdark Magazine

Hey, Tumblr. Long time, no tumbl.

Just wanted to mention that the first-ever Gentlemen Bastards short story, "Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent," will be appearing as a two-part extravaganza in Grimdark Magazine's issues 40 and 41. Issue 40, GDM's tenth anniversary celebration, is available for you to grab right now:

bit.ly/GdM_Issue40

"Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent" returns us to Camorr some months after Locke's 13th birthday, which was described in the "Orphan's Moon" chapter of The Republic of Thieves. Locke, working as a bar-back in a rough-and-tumble Right People tavern, deals with some issues, including the fact that his only real friend on the premises is an aging mercenary named Mazoc Szaba who has an addiction to drinking poisonous wine for contests of chance. Since there are no flashbacks in Thorn, this story was the first time in quite a while I'd "gone back" to Camorr, and I found the experience pretty emotional. The good folks at GDM were lovely enough to give me this chance to play in their pages, so if you harbor any affection for Locke, give 'em a shot. The individual issue should be about $4, and also comes with a load of fiction and non-fiction from people including Anna Smith Spark, Mark Lawrence, Christopher Buehlman, Cat Rambo, and many others!

If you missed my August updates on novellas, signed bookplates, and other matters, check it all out at: http://www.scottlynch.us/updates.html

And hey, if you didn't see my short story "Selected Scenes From the Ecologies of the Labyrinth," published in the Sunday Morning Transport in July, give it a read! No charge.

[yevrosima-the-third]

tagged by @unmitigated-garbage-fire to make a poll of my favuorite fictional women, which I'll gladly do

Tagging: @parlerenfleurs @mayfriend @metacarpus @gwenllian-in-the-abbey and whoever else wants to do it, feel free to say I tagged you

[thethornofcamorr]

they make me so emotional

[uponthemistymoors]

Locke Lamora is the most successful fail girl of all time and no one can change my mind otherwise

[toastandturnip]

local orphan boy learns that there are consequences to his actions

[storyt3ller]

just finished the first book and this is my coping mechanism

[milieumarch]

Mental Illness in Fantasy

Cosmere: This ex-soldier has PTSD after fighting in the war.

The Wheel of Time: This boy has PTSD after being kidnapped and shoved into a box.

Gentlemen Bastards: This man has PTSD/survivor's guilt after losing most of his friends.

The Realm of the Elderlings: What if this boat had an identity crisis?

[thelibrarywaltz]

Finally finished The Republic of Thieves and now I’m joining everyone else in wandering the wasteland of the Gentlemen Bastards drought 😭😭😭

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

some average guy who steals too much

[lovequotesandcoffee]

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora.

[random-jot]

We have achieved a wall of shelves!!

[obligatedart]

Damiano meets Calo and Galdo Sanza, the chaotic twins from Scott Lynch’s novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, my favorite book of all time

[large8]

[thethornofcamorr]

exciting!

[janesmitish]

Reading fantasy humor is just repeatedly trying to find jokes that can surpass "nice bird, asshole" and failing over and over again

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

As a Dungeon Master, one of my favorite things to do is name my NPCs bastardized versions of character names from sci-fi and fantasy novels, just to see what I can get away with before my players call me on it.

Last session, they met a bard named Thom M. who had a dead wife named Morey (Thom Merrillin and Moiraine from Wheel of Time), a young wizard named Suzy who had shocking white hair (Susan Sto Helit from Discworld) and a scrawny hacker named Robb Q. (Bobby Quine from Burning Chrome in a side sidequest where they burned a bounty hunter named Steel).

Soon they're gonna meet a pair of thieves named Lucky and John (Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen from The Gentleman Bastards, which I've already referenced pretty explicitly), a wizard detective and his paladin best friend (Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter from The Dresden Files) and a young female monk named Shey (Shae from The Greenbone Saga).

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be more than happy to hear them. Maybe something from the Cosmere or The Locked Tomb.