trappedslider
Legend
so this came out a couple of days ago and it makes me giddy
What are you reading this year 2020?
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Just finished 2020 Hugo Award winner A Memory Called Empire. Would recommend.
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Nellisir
Hero
I think that's on my list to get. I'll prioritize it.
I just finished Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde. Good, enjoyable, but not as...(dynamic?) as some others. I don't think alternative worlds is really what he dabbles in, more like...nonsense worlds. In Early Riser people hibernate. The world is largely glaciated. Wales is a vacation destination on the Albion Penninsula. You can take a day excursion to a mammoth farm and milk a mammoth. Tom Jones exists, and Rawhide, and Canada.
It's a little hard to pigeonhole, actually. Not a comedy. Mostly mystery?
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
The trailer for Dune is out.
Nellisir
Hero
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine?
Inspired by
I ordered and finished Three Hearts and Three Lions. I thought it was better executed (or maybe just more serious) than De Camp and Pratt's Harold Shea, and I can see where it influenced D&D. In spite of my love of 6/7ths of Narnia, and one-time really liking Thomas Covenant, I apparently have more trouble getting in to Crossworlds Fantasy than the just in that one world kind.
I ordered and finished Three Hearts and Three Lions. I thought it was better executed (or maybe just more serious) than De Camp and Pratt's Harold Shea, and I can see where it influenced D&D. In spite of my love of 6/7ths of Narnia, and one-time really liking Thomas Covenant, I apparently have more trouble getting in to Crossworlds Fantasy than the just in that one world kind.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Yes, will update my post, thanks. I was literally looking at the Goodreads page too. Ah brain-meat, always so squishy.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
I like the breezy tone of Harold Shea, but Three Hearts and Three Lions is absolutely one of the key texts of Appendix N. And I don't think anyone would disagree with the statement that Anderson was the better author than De Camp and Pratt.
I finished reading One Who Walked Alone. An absolute must for any fans of R.E. Howard. It's a fascinating view into who he was, but Novalyne Price is also pretty interesting. Driven, opinionated, with strong views on equality.
Next up, what else could I read but some R.E. Howard. It's Conan the Usurper. With the aforementioned De Camp.
I finished reading One Who Walked Alone. An absolute must for any fans of R.E. Howard. It's a fascinating view into who he was, but Novalyne Price is also pretty interesting. Driven, opinionated, with strong views on equality.
Next up, what else could I read but some R.E. Howard. It's Conan the Usurper. With the aforementioned De Camp.
Nellisir
Hero
Try The Broken Sword too, also by Anderson. I read both earlier this year.
What are you reading this year 2020?
I read Triton probably in early 80's as a teenager. Didn't really grok it. Maybe time for a re-read. Was it as disjointed as I remember? Yeah, kinda. It's fairly couched in the 70's, and he has a calculus of metalogic thing going on, which I'm good with calculus, the metalogic thing sort of...
www.enworld.org
What are you reading this year 2020?
I read Triton probably in early 80's as a teenager. Didn't really grok it. Maybe time for a re-read. Was it as disjointed as I remember? Yeah, kinda. It's fairly couched in the 70's, and he has a calculus of metalogic thing going on, which I'm good with calculus, the metalogic thing sort of...
www.enworld.org
Finished rereading Glen Cook's Dread Empire prequels, The Fire in HIs Hands and WIth Mercy Towards None. Reading the three books in the main sequence and the prequls back to back shows how much his writing imporved from 79 to 85. The Fire in His Hands is particularly well done.
Storm Bringer/Stealer of Souls hasn't arrived yet, so I'm starting the next Dread Empire book instead.
Storm Bringer/Stealer of Souls hasn't arrived yet, so I'm starting the next Dread Empire book instead.
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