Well, Rosemary and Rue has been on bookstore shelves for a month, and that means it's time for me to split off the Toby Daye FAQ into its own page. What questions would you like to see answered? I'm dividing them roughly, for now, into "series" (IE, publication dates, number of books, typos), "world" (Toby's world), and per-book, but this could change.
Please expect mild spoilers in the comments on this thread, with the stress being on mild. I won't answer FAQ questions that read like "on page 189 you say, but on page 317...," since that's way too much of a spoiler for a publicly-accessible website.
I'm trying to get a feel for the internal chronology - Toby was born in 1957, and made her choice at 7..okay. That's roughly 1964.
I have to assume Summerlands was the primary residence until around 1991 or so? (Of this, I am almost certain I'm wrong. Correct me.)
I also assume that residence underhill kind of removes you from this world completely for the duration. One of the things that kind of made my brain happy was working around the time gaps inherent in the story - it was nice. Time travel - bah! Lemme tell you about time travel....
So - from about 1964 to the early nineties in one go.
Technology-wise, you realize you skip 8-tracks entirely and go almost immediately to CD-Rom for what provides you music, neh? (That's only one way to look at this issue, BTW, if you have my brain.)
Computer technology also hops entirely from UNIVAC to microprocesssors so fast they're radio stations sitting on your desk. (For example.)
(Providing a soundtrack out of established works with these kinds of parameters would provide quite the challenge. You go from pre-Beatles to post-Zepplin and 'New Wave' is what was the old one again?)
So what I want is internal chronology clarification.
(And I'm too used to being called an idiot to take it very seriously - first response, and it's a total kneejerk - is 'takes one to know one.' Certainly, I'm an idiot - may I wish you sex?)
I really don't understand what you mean by "internal chronology clarification." Your timeline is pretty accurate, but Toby really didn't notice any of the jumps until the last one.
*nods* Your fans would notice if a reference to 1974 wasn't explained - can you hear the hue and cry now?
(I wonder if she notices CD players in cars, come to think of it. Not a big iPod/iTunes user, neh?)
That's a whole 'nother layer. Me, I'm always looking at all my tools. (And looking for new ones, and turning old ones to new purposes.) I'd notice my music wasn't on vinyl anymore and needed a significantly higher amount of tech to get to. But, geek ever onward!
tired
October 1 2009, 19:24:16 UTC 7 years ago
I have to assume Summerlands was the primary residence until around 1991 or so? (Of this, I am almost certain I'm wrong. Correct me.)
I also assume that residence underhill kind of removes you from this world completely for the duration. One of the things that kind of made my brain happy was working around the time gaps inherent in the story - it was nice. Time travel - bah! Lemme tell you about time travel....
So - from about 1964 to the early nineties in one go.
Technology-wise, you realize you skip 8-tracks entirely and go almost immediately to CD-Rom for what provides you music, neh? (That's only one way to look at this issue, BTW, if you have my brain.)
Computer technology also hops entirely from UNIVAC to microprocesssors so fast they're radio stations sitting on your desk. (For example.)
(Providing a soundtrack out of established works with these kinds of parameters would provide quite the challenge. You go from pre-Beatles to post-Zepplin and 'New Wave' is what was the old one again?)
So what I want is internal chronology clarification.
(And I'm too used to being called an idiot to take it very seriously - first response, and it's a total kneejerk - is 'takes one to know one.' Certainly, I'm an idiot - may I wish you sex?)
October 4 2009, 18:12:30 UTC 7 years ago
October 5 2009, 16:35:26 UTC 7 years ago
(I wonder if she notices CD players in cars, come to think of it. Not a big iPod/iTunes user, neh?)
That's a whole 'nother layer. Me, I'm always looking at all my tools. (And looking for new ones, and turning old ones to new purposes.) I'd notice my music wasn't on vinyl anymore and needed a significantly higher amount of tech to get to. But, geek ever onward!