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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7586488" data-attributes="member: 20564">Reading Passage of Arms by Glen Cook and Medusa's Web by Tim Powers.Medusa's Web is starting out pretty quickly into the fantastic-du-jure that Tim Powers is known for, with a fresh take on the supernatural-behind-the-real-world in every book.&nbsp; I've been a fan of his sicne I first read Anubis Gates, though the Fault Lines series and Declare are my favorites.&nbsp; I put this to the side because I just finished reading a very magic-behind-the-world SF book (Ninefox Gambit) and I wanted a bit of a &quot;palette freshener&quot; before jumping into it.Which leads to Passage of Arms.&nbsp; I enjoy Glen Cook in his different incarnations, but he's not one of my top favorite authors.&nbsp; But I had just reread for the Nth time The Dragon Never Sleeps as a random pick-up.&nbsp; o far it's almost a travelogue of a particular type of SF military service.&nbsp; It's not quite action, definitely not drama.&nbsp; At this point it's more that we're along for the ride of a journalist who is along for the ride as well -- I can't point at anything in particular and call out &quot;plot!&quot;.&nbsp; For all that the travelogue is good enough that I'm still reading.After those two the top of my TBR pile is two of Charles Stross' Laundry files.&nbsp; May the the most recent two, or there may be one even more recent that that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7586488, member: 20564"] Reading [I]Passage of Arms[/I] by Glen Cook and [I]Medusa's Web[/I] by Tim Powers. [I]Medusa's Web[/I] is starting out pretty quickly into the fantastic-du-jure that Tim Powers is known for, with a fresh take on the supernatural-behind-the-real-world in every book. I've been a fan of his sicne I first read Anubis Gates, though the Fault Lines series and [I]Declare[/I] are my favorites. I put this to the side because I just finished reading a very magic-behind-the-world SF book ([I]Ninefox Gambit[/I]) and I wanted a bit of a "palette freshener" before jumping into it. Which leads to Passage of Arms. I enjoy Glen Cook in his different incarnations, but he's not one of my top favorite authors. But I had just reread for the Nth time [I]The Dragon Never Sleeps[/I] as a random pick-up. o far it's almost a travelogue of a particular type of SF military service. It's not quite action, definitely not drama. At this point it's more that we're along for the ride of a journalist who is along for the ride as well -- I can't point at anything in particular and call out "plot!". For all that the travelogue is good enough that I'm still reading. After those two the top of my TBR pile is two of Charles Stross' Laundry files. May the the most recent two, or there may be one even more recent that that. [/QUOTE]

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