Lord Dunsany towers over the field. To my taste, waiting on reading him is like postponing Shakespeare for a bunch of generic Jacobean revenge tragedies. I mean, there’s good bits in MacDonald, but nothing to compare to one of my favorite Dunsany lines:
Italics in the original.
Meanwhile, as of midnight, the audio version of Christopher Ruocchio’s Shadows Upon Time, is here in my hot little hands. Okay, Audible app on my phone, same diff. This is the concluding volume of his Sun Eater Saga, and it is an ox-stunner: 884 pages, 44h 26m at 1.0 speed. But I’ve really, really enjoyed the series so far, and so far this volume iOS holding up just great.
