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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justinian" data-source="post: 1249152" data-attributes="member: 6358">It's true, cheap books are an entirely different story. Given a sale or a used book store, many authors I wouldn't normally buy show up in my take-home list. It's probably worth $2.99, and if you're forewarned going into it, it won't be that bad. It's just...offputting at times, I guess. Legends is the collection you're thinking of, and I believe they're publishing a Legends II soon, although I may have the title wrong. It was an excellent collection. I was not impressed with PSS either. "Revolutionary" isn't an automatic selling point for me, and I felt that it could have been more than it was. It felt like Mieville shot dozens of ideas at the reader, and developed a few into the plot. His deep background felt to me like chaos. To contrast, there are two authors whose backgrounds, while equally deep and intricate, feel like history rather than chaos. Those authors are Steven Erikson, as I mentioned upthread, and Michelle West in her Sun Sword series, due to be completed in January of next year. While these authors may be just as hard to casually comprehend as Mieville, it doesn't seem as random in their writing. I recommend both series.</blockquote>