Wow...

To put it in another way, it's about 2KB to a (double-spaced) typewritten page, which means that SoS is about 1,250 pages long.

Anyone else here think that this will be the largest arc in UF, Core included?

--Chris
Robert Jordan, eat your heart out.

"What is the difference between a fighter and a warrior?"
"The warrior is (easily) defeated, especially at higher levels."

Hmm, Exile has more stories (after 10 years, it should).

That said, I should mention that I planned on binding SOS at Kinkos (quietly of course) so that it could sit at home with my other books, and then I could pull it down and read it whenever. I figured the page editting alone to fit 8.5 x 11 paper in a ring binder set was going to take me most of my weekend computer time (I'm sharing a laptop with the SO at the moment). Then I realized I should really have the images to along with the book, and am hunting for a good, private printer among friends and family so that I can bind those into the book as well. I was planning on tossing in the EOJ pictures from Phil's site as well, just to round out the collection.

Mind you, while I've printed out Eyrie work before and hauled it around with me on trips, IMHO, SOS is the first set of stories to actually merit publication in book form, and an additon to my private library.

I suppose I'll eventually do this for all the stories since eventually the website will fade away or the intellectual property right goons will try something, and while I'm prepared against that day (already burned most of Eyrie to CDROM), I think papercopies might be more secure way to keeping the stories intact. Biased, I know.

t.

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The way the writers are going, and the fact that they are ,at most
only half done, I must say, Yes.

Brad

(Blinks, then checks hard drive.) Hey, you're right. I didn't notice that.

>Wow...
>
>To put it in another way, it's about 2KB to a (double-spaced)
>typewritten page, which means that SoS is about 1,250 pages
>long.
>
>Anyone else here think that this will be the largest arc in UF, Core
>included?

I've got all of UF on my hard drive in folders for each arc. If I remember right, Core only takes up about 1MB, and somewhere around 300 pages (I printed it out, I know)

As for the Symphony, I've got the First through Third Movements, Azalynn's Holiday, Fanfare for an Exiled Prince, Sixth and Seventh Movements and Panvare here with me. They're taking up two A4 folders near my feet.

>--Chris
>Robert Jordan, eat your heart out.

There's a difference. Jordan may have the quantity, but he's forgotten quality lately. EPU hasn't.

Matrix Dragon
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." --J.R.R. Tolkien
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for obvious reasons." -Matrix Dragon

>It didn't really sink in until I downloaded all the parts onto my
>harddrive. Symphony of the sword is now almost 2.5 MB.
>
That's big. Not quite the biggest fic I've ever read, but in the top 5. (Insertion {Kai Carrot}, Starblade Battalion {Kai Shawn Hagen}, Trial by Tenderness {Kai Cevn} are 3 Megs plus - roughly the size of Symphony in the format I store it - and The Saotome Gambit {Kai J. Austin Wilde} clocks in at just over 4 Megs.

Undocumented Features as a whole, occupies just shy of 14 megabytes, bigger than all but one other 'collection' of fanfics on my harddrive - BEFORE the other Eyrie works are added.

You done good, guys.

drakensisthered

SHE'S the 'Pirate Killer,' 'Klingon Spooker,' 'Big Trouble in a Little Package,' 'She Who Must be Avoided,' and 'Go Around the Other Side of the Nebula.' I'm the dumb blonde comic relief.

To put this in yet another perspective, doing some ballpark figuring puts SotS so far at about 425,000 - 430,000 words, conservatively speaking. (I could get an exact wordcount, and probably will at some point, but at the moment I'll settle for some rough figures instead.) Rule of thumb says that 50,000 words, typeset and printed, comes to 200 pages in normal publishing formats.

So this is over 1700 pages so far if it were printed like conventional fiction... and that's not counting the bonus materials, like the images and the technical readouts.

And there's much more to come, it would seem.

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