Recommend to me a sci-fi or fantasy book

[jester47]

Lord Of All That Is Merciful...

DANGIT!

I need to learn to read faster...

Aaron.

 

[Thorntangle]

Wicked is very good. It's written very well and it's also an excellent character study that can aid in developing multi-faceted, complex villains.

I’ve seen this book around and now it is a Broadway Musical. (What next for Boradway musical, ones about the common house cat or the king of Siam?)

Anyway, is this book any good?

 

[CCamfield]

CCamfield: Ah yes, I had forgotten about Ascending; thanks! By my estimate, aren't we about due for a new James Alan Gardner book about now?

Yes, but apparently he's... um... um... writing a Lara Croft novel!? Huh? That's right from his website:

http://www.thinkage.ca/~jim/

But at least there's a short story collection due out in September.

 

[DMScott]

For David Weber if you can find his lattest book 'Honor's War' it might have a CD in the back with several other books on it. Or you can ask around a get a copy of the CD from some one. I think I still have my. (The publisher wants the CD copied and spread around, says so right on the CD.)

The publisher (Baen Books) also makes a lot of books available for free download:

http://www.baen.com/library/

Since they mostly publish series of books, their policy is to make the first 1-3 books in a series available for free, so people will read them to get hooked and then buy the more current books.

Oh, and another book for the thread: The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon. It was published as a trilogy back in the late 80s, now I believe it's available as a single volume. It's clearly inspired by D&D, though it's not a licensed TSR novel, and head and shoulders better than at least 99% of D&D-based fiction.

 

[Welverin]

Timothy Zahn

I've read all his Star Wars stuff, excellent. For some reason it never occurred to me to look for anything else by him.

It's should be a gimme then that you'll like at least some of his other stuff.

A few fantasy suggestions: Dark Lord of Derkholm, not standard fantasy at all but a good read; the Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust (links to a collection of the first three); if you're willing to give humoruous fantasy a try I'd suggest Robert Aspirin's Myth series a try.

 

[Richards]

You know, I'm not a big Lara Croft fan, but I think I'll give it a try. Hey, if it's James Alan Gardner, I owe it to myself to give it a shot.

Johnathan

 

[Victim]

Lord of Light.

 

[CCamfield]

By Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light, that is). A big A-MEN to that, or whatever Sam would say.

 

[knitnerd]

I will recommend a publisher where you can find a lots of good books - free.

Go to www.baen.com and check out their free libary. You can down load or read on line lots of good novels.

Another great link. All my favorites are there.

 

[Hand of Evil]

What is WFRP? When I did a search for any of those terms I don't get anything?

Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing - Black Library produces books set in that game world. Like WotC some are good some not so.