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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9359949" data-attributes="member: 99786">Finished book 2 of Max Gladstone's Craft Wars trilogy, Wicked Problems. This is the volume that brings all the players together - everyone who we've come to know and love (or hate!) over the first Craft Cycle and v1 of the Craft Wars. Basically it's bringing everyone together, and sharpening the impending doom, making it real throughout the novel.Ironically/Coincidentally/Strangely/Amazingly (not sure which adverb fits best) while reading Wicked Problems, I started a job as a contracts analyst. And it's amazing to me how law and contracts shapes our modern day reality. Gladstone wields a deft and subtle pen in portraying a world that's only a bit (ok, a LOT) like our own, with a nice fantasy twist. But behind it all he's very much impishly pointing out all the ways in which our modern world is like a soul sucking vampire. Just in the case of the world of the Craft, it literally is soul...If you haven't read them, highly recommend.Next up the most recent Ann Leckie Imperial Radch novel: Translation State</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9359949, member: 99786"] Finished book 2 of Max Gladstone's Craft Wars trilogy, [I]Wicked Problems[/I]. This is the volume that brings all the players together - everyone who we've come to know and love (or hate!) over the first Craft Cycle and v1 of the Craft Wars. Basically it's bringing everyone together, and sharpening the impending doom, making it real throughout the novel. Ironically/Coincidentally/Strangely/Amazingly (not sure which adverb fits best) while reading Wicked Problems, I started a job as a contracts analyst. And it's amazing to me how law and contracts shapes our modern day reality. Gladstone wields a deft and subtle pen in portraying a world that's only a bit (ok, a LOT) like our own, with a nice fantasy twist. But behind it all he's very much impishly pointing out all the ways in which our modern world is like a soul sucking vampire. Just in the case of the world of the Craft, it literally is soul... If you haven't read them, highly recommend. Next up the most recent Ann Leckie Imperial Radch novel: [I]Translation State[/I] [/QUOTE]

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