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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2021-06-25 03:53 pm

Like The Expanse, but with extra maps

This might be the fastest concept-to-finish generator I've ever done, but the Elevator Pitch / Blurb Generator is done and live!

I was reading a book announcement on tor.com that described a book as being in the vein of two books that were as utterly unlike each other as...as...two unlike things. Naturally, I had to make a generator.

So! If you are a writer who needs inspiration, a publicist who is writing a press release, or an author who's been asked to blurb a book and you're lost for words...here you go! It tends to float between things that sound legitimate and things that take a left turn through WTF.

Do feel free to link away!

This debut work of fiction is best described as a combination of Aliens and Psycho, as written by Beatrix Potter.

A queer, ambitious page-turner, this series is what you'd get if Pamela Dean wrote Ice Planet Barbarians.




If you like The Black Company, Princess Mononoke, and The Left Hand of Darkness, then this romance is for you.

This debut series is best described as a combination of The Expanse and Pirates of the Caribbean, as written by Hayao Miyazaki.

Full of paranoia, rivers, and cats.

Cruel and numinous, this grimdark fantasy bildungsroman will appeal to fans of Glen Cook.

Fans of portal fantasy and science fiction will love this sexy magnum opus about contracts.

An award-winning kaiju fiction, this Seiun-nominated work of fiction is like The Expanse, but with extra maps.

This intimate series, a romantic cyberpunk narrative, is the result of mashing up The Thing and Hamlet.

If you ever thought "The Da Vinci Code, but with more big guns," you should pick up this Nebula-winning magnum opus!

A regal, gritty novel, this searing high fantasy work of fiction examines public transportation in a new light.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant meets The Goblin Emperor in this landmark retrofuturism book. Recommended for readers who want poisons and murder.

A regal series, this brave far-future scifi saga is what you'd get if you mashed up Gone with the Wind with Warhammer 40K.

A lyrical, intellectual novel, this narrative is what you'd get if Nalini Singh wrote The Grapes of Wrath.

What would happen if Aliette de Bodard wrote King Kong? You'd get this Mythopoeic Award-winning, charismatic story. Recommended for fans of alchemy and MMORPGs.

Hellblazer meets Doom in this intimate period drama

Recommended for readers who want pirates and footnotes.

This debut story is best described as a combination of Pride and Prejudice and Harrow the Ninth, as written by Dan Brown.
yhlee: German rapier (mostly the hilt) (rapier)

[personal profile] yhlee 2021-06-25 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking that. XD
larryhammer: drawing of a wildhaired figure dancing, label: "La!" (dancing)

[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-06-25 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
My reaction to that line was "That's a perfect 'X is like X!' statement."
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[personal profile] yhlee 2021-06-25 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms collides with Avatar: The Last Airbender in a marvelous, charismatic read.

GRABBY HANDS
larryhammer: yellow origami butterfly (butterfly)

[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-06-25 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I, um, wait. That sounds too good to be true. I mean, that'd be even better than Journey to the West collides with Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is what I first read.
yhlee: Avatar: The Last Airbender: "fight like a girl" (A:tLA fight like a girl)

[personal profile] yhlee 2021-06-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, Journey to the West + Avatar: the Last Airbender is almost Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever. XD
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-06-28 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh. :squints: I can sorta see that? Maybe?
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2021-06-25 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
If you wished Nora Roberts had written a narrative about orcs, then this Dragon Award-nominated story is for you!

I DO! It IS!


ETA: Spartacus collides with Cinderella in a lyrical, substantial read.

I am Cinderella! No, me, I am Cinderella! ...but this is actually the story, isn't it? Does this mean Spartacus is a version of Cinderella?
Edited 2021-06-25 21:30 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yhlee 2021-06-25 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Linguistics and cryptology abound in this young-at-heart colonial narrative novella.

SCREAMING

I need to write this

Fans of Batman and The Book of the New Sun will resonate with this literary fantasy saga that seriously examines love.

I need to read this

This debut romance is best described as a combination of The Wheel of Time and Dragon Ball, as written by Rumiko Takahashi.

I need to run screaming from this

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[personal profile] movingfinger 2021-06-26 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we're homing in on a truth here: everything is better with kaiju.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-06-28 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
But we knew that.
Edited (I can has typing gud ins morning) 2021-06-28 15:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2021-06-25 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
A compassionate novelette, this compelling neo-libertarian SF book is what you'd get if you mashed up Ancillary Justice with Les Miserables.

... neo-libertarian ... ?

If you mashed up Pride and Prejudice and Rebel Without a Cause, you'd get this exceptional, beloved serial.

Oh would you ...
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[personal profile] ellenmillion 2021-06-25 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
These are amazing:

This contemporary fantasy novelette cooks up a provocative dish salted with disasters and celestial phenomena.

This rare future history book commits to its radiant concept.