• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    16 hours ago

    Wait, if Ole Grim is being detained, then who is going to harvest the souls of dying mortals? Does this mean we won’t be able to die, or that our souls will simply be trapped somewhere between the realms of the living and the dead? Hmm…

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        8 hours ago

        If Piers Anthony is to be believed, this will only affect people with balanced souls, but everyone else should be fine. (Well, dead)

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          6 hours ago

          Holy shit. Forgotten memory accessed.

          Dude is about to shoot himself, Death turns up to collect him but has his hood down or something, the guy freaks out and shoots Death instead and has to take his place, right?

          I read that 30+ years ago burning through my town library’s small sci-fi/fantasy section.

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            5 hours ago

            Yes, that’s the one. “On a Pale Horse” is the first book in the series, and the one about Death. In the books, magic and science coexist and aspects of reality like War, Time, Death, etc are all offices that people hold.

            The whole Incarnations of Immortality series is one of my favorites, but it’s been a bit since I’ve read them.