Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
I would definitely recommend Odd Thomas (first in the series). After 8 books though, it left me with a lot of unanswered questions...
What are you reading this year 2020?
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
I remember she also had forerunners in The Zero Stone / Uncharted Stars. Do you know if they were connected? I really liked Zero Stone when I was a kid. (And it's such an Ioun Stone IIRC.)
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
So, I keep saying that modern Superhero fiction isn't my bag, and then coming up with some exceptions I like. So I figured I'd give the genre a chance. Cheapest way was there was a 3-montsh for $5 total Kindle Unlimited offer.
I started reading the Arsenal series (okay, "Full Metal Superhero" is the name of the series) by Jeffery Haskell. Started with a "oh look, a Tony Stark expy who knows far too many types of sciences with a really powerful AI", but the main character (a paralyzed from-the-waste-down young woman) grew on me. It had none of the deconstruction I call out enjoying in the books I liked, but I found myself reading all of them. Light and enjoyable.
I had intended to skip between different authors and series, but I was still going at book 9, which ended up with a corssover to book 4 of another series in the same world with a dark vigilante. So I read that series. I didn't like it as much,but it wasn't bad and it was quick. And now I'm back on book 10 of the orignal series, which is also a crossover with those two, but back to the original POV.
After this, don't know. There's a LOT of modern superhero fiction on kindle unlimited. Feel free to make suggestions.
I started reading the Arsenal series (okay, "Full Metal Superhero" is the name of the series) by Jeffery Haskell. Started with a "oh look, a Tony Stark expy who knows far too many types of sciences with a really powerful AI", but the main character (a paralyzed from-the-waste-down young woman) grew on me. It had none of the deconstruction I call out enjoying in the books I liked, but I found myself reading all of them. Light and enjoyable.
I had intended to skip between different authors and series, but I was still going at book 9, which ended up with a corssover to book 4 of another series in the same world with a dark vigilante. So I read that series. I didn't like it as much,but it wasn't bad and it was quick. And now I'm back on book 10 of the orignal series, which is also a crossover with those two, but back to the original POV.
After this, don't know. There's a LOT of modern superhero fiction on kindle unlimited. Feel free to make suggestions.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
I recommend this superhero story.
Gestation 1.1
Next Chapter Brief note from the author: This story isn’t intended for young or sensitive readers. Readers who are on the lookout for trigger warnings are advised to give Worm a pass. ■ Cla…
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It's about 2 million words long, but it's a fast read. Only available afaik in the web browser interface.
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
I recommend this superhero story.
Gestation 1.1
Next Chapter Brief note from the author: This story isn’t intended for young or sensitive readers. Readers who are on the lookout for trigger warnings are advised to give Worm a pass. ■ Cla…
It's about 2 million words long, but it's a fast read. Only available afaik in the web browser interface.
I've started reading that as well. So far good, but I'm not too deep. But yeah, quality recommendation.
Talking about web series, in the past I also read Legion of Nothing. It was good until the seeming inevitable "Iron Man Gets Nanites/Reconfigurable Metal" that always seems to hit armored heroes. (Heck, it happened to me running an armored hero in Champions!)
dragoner
KosmicRPG.com
Probably not exactly the same, she uses the term "forerunners" for any earlier group of aliens fairly often. Her output of books was enormous, she touched upon a lot of tropes, either original work or expanding on other ideas, like the Ioun Stones.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
I really like that title.
trappedslider
Legend
The whole series is called "Please Don't Tell My Parents " lol
Continuing on
I finally read the Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer (originally published 1961-1964) - using the 2008 Del Ray edition. It looks like it has the original magazine versions.
Moorcock mentions in a 1963 essay later that he cleaned some of it up for when it appeared in the early editions of the books. and says "I'm not heavy with any of the magazine stories as they stand and have made, in places, quite heavy revision." It makes me wish I had purchased a different edition with that editing in it. The writing itself in the early stories was not good. Not surprisingly though, for someone in there very early 20s, it got better quickly, although it still isn't always solid.
If Law and Chaos has one wondering if Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" was a big influence, Chapter 3 of Doom Lord's Passing seals it I think. He credits both 3H&3L and Zoroastrianism for the Elric cosmology. In regards to Anderson, as of 1963 he thought "The Broken Sword" was the high point and the later stuff wasn't as good. In regards to Moonglum, Moorcock mentions being a big fan of the Mouser.
Moorcock's introduction at the beginning and his acknowledgements at the end give me a different (more positive) impression of him than some of the earlier snippets I've read of his. Alan Moore's foreword was bizarre (but not unexpected).
I'm not sure, based on these two if I'd call it Sword and Sorcery. Maybe I'd have to read the other volumes to get that? And I'm not sure I'm interested enough based on what's here. Anyone have a recommendation for jumping in for more to get that flavor of it? I might follow Moorcock's suggestions and get The Broken Sword or check out Mervyn Peake's works for the time being.
I finally read the Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer (originally published 1961-1964) - using the 2008 Del Ray edition. It looks like it has the original magazine versions.
Moorcock mentions in a 1963 essay later that he cleaned some of it up for when it appeared in the early editions of the books. and says "I'm not heavy with any of the magazine stories as they stand and have made, in places, quite heavy revision." It makes me wish I had purchased a different edition with that editing in it. The writing itself in the early stories was not good. Not surprisingly though, for someone in there very early 20s, it got better quickly, although it still isn't always solid.
If Law and Chaos has one wondering if Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" was a big influence, Chapter 3 of Doom Lord's Passing seals it I think. He credits both 3H&3L and Zoroastrianism for the Elric cosmology. In regards to Anderson, as of 1963 he thought "The Broken Sword" was the high point and the later stuff wasn't as good. In regards to Moonglum, Moorcock mentions being a big fan of the Mouser.
Moorcock's introduction at the beginning and his acknowledgements at the end give me a different (more positive) impression of him than some of the earlier snippets I've read of his. Alan Moore's foreword was bizarre (but not unexpected).
I'm not sure, based on these two if I'd call it Sword and Sorcery. Maybe I'd have to read the other volumes to get that? And I'm not sure I'm interested enough based on what's here. Anyone have a recommendation for jumping in for more to get that flavor of it? I might follow Moorcock's suggestions and get The Broken Sword or check out Mervyn Peake's works for the time being.
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