Libriomancy is a product of mass belief: That still leaves open the chance of deliberately engineering things. Put something amazing in a children's book, flood the market with it, etc. But then, as if there isn't enough mind-boggling stuff out there already to work with, so that's probably overkill.
(This reminds me a little bit of one of the spin-off titles from the "Fables" series, where the reality of the fable characters is heavily impacted by popular culture ... so the trouble-making trickster "Jack" character -- Jack of the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Everyman Jack, etc., all rolled into one -- acquires great wealth, goes to Hollywood and has a scheme to increase his own power by bankrolling a series of movies that feature "Jack" as a fairy-tale action hero. Although, come to think of it, the story does seem to be rather VAGUE about what real impact this has on things, other than that popular Fables are implied to be much harder to kill.)
You generally can't get sapient beings out of books: Heh. The idea of characters from books going insane in the "real world" makes perfect sense to me. I can think of so many protagonist-heroes whose entire existence probably depends upon a cooperative world; the amazing coincidences that the hero and only the hero can exploit in his own perfect little universe would fail to emerge in the Real World, and the poor hero's worldview might be shattered as a result. Or, certain things just NEVER HAPPEN in the hero's world, so he has no way of dealing with them. (How cruel it would be to drag a happy naive character from a children's happy storybook into a world where /things can go terribly wrong/! Aieee!)
I guess that sort of "fish out of water" thing has been done before (somewhat lamely with "Last Action Hero" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and rather creepily and depressingly in Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo"), but it still interests me.
You can only extract things from books if they'll fit through the pages of the book: All right. Now I'm suddenly wondering where in the world one can find one of those novelty book displays where the book is HUMONGOUS AND OVERSIZED (some sort of prop for a museum, perhaps?). I'm also thinking back to my own childhood and assorted "Jumbo Book of ____" oversized books (though not oversized enough to pull something awesome like a FLYING CAR through, sadly).
Don't open Moby Dick! You'll cause a GREAT DELUGE as the water comes spilling through! D=
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Date: 2012-11-06 05:04 pm (UTC)(This reminds me a little bit of one of the spin-off titles from the "Fables" series, where the reality of the fable characters is heavily impacted by popular culture ... so the trouble-making trickster "Jack" character -- Jack of the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Everyman Jack, etc., all rolled into one -- acquires great wealth, goes to Hollywood and has a scheme to increase his own power by bankrolling a series of movies that feature "Jack" as a fairy-tale action hero. Although, come to think of it, the story does seem to be rather VAGUE about what real impact this has on things, other than that popular Fables are implied to be much harder to kill.)
You generally can't get sapient beings out of books: Heh. The idea of characters from books going insane in the "real world" makes perfect sense to me. I can think of so many protagonist-heroes whose entire existence probably depends upon a cooperative world; the amazing coincidences that the hero and only the hero can exploit in his own perfect little universe would fail to emerge in the Real World, and the poor hero's worldview might be shattered as a result. Or, certain things just NEVER HAPPEN in the hero's world, so he has no way of dealing with them. (How cruel it would be to drag a happy naive character from a children's happy storybook into a world where /things can go terribly wrong/! Aieee!)
I guess that sort of "fish out of water" thing has been done before (somewhat lamely with "Last Action Hero" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and rather creepily and depressingly in Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo"), but it still interests me.
You can only extract things from books if they'll fit through the pages of the book: All right. Now I'm suddenly wondering where in the world one can find one of those novelty book displays where the book is HUMONGOUS AND OVERSIZED (some sort of prop for a museum, perhaps?). I'm also thinking back to my own childhood and assorted "Jumbo Book of ____" oversized books (though not oversized enough to pull something awesome like a FLYING CAR through, sadly).
Don't open Moby Dick! You'll cause a GREAT DELUGE as the water comes spilling through! D=