[Mentalist]

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

[Andorion]

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

[acesn8s]

Finished William's The War of Flowers. I was hoping for a more proactive protagonist, but a solid read and an interesting take on urban faerie tales.

I started Libriomancer by Jim Hines.

[Andorion]

Abyss, on 09 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

Yeah, but unless I am much mistaken, there was exploration in it as well, right? Thats something else I like to see in fantasy.

At the moment though I was looking fo rsome series featuring Space marines or infantry..... Has anybody read Ian Douglas?

[Mentalist]

Busy time. In order not to have a mental meltdown, I've been finshing books.

For commute reading, finished, another one of Moorcocks' Eternal champion novels--this one is "Kane of Old Mars" omnibus. Fairly typical heroic fiction, lots of obvious nods to the classic "Cities on Mars" fiction. Last book tries to get a bit more philosophical, but I didn't really buy it. Full review in ded thread.

Next up in commute reading will be "Zero Point", Asher's second Owners novel

At home, fifnished "Dragon's Path', the first Dagger + Coin book. Liked it, will get sequels. here's my goodreads review:

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Daniel Abraham's take on SFF is always an interesting and novel one--be it a rendition of Asian-fantasy in "The Long Price Quartet", a sci-fi meets detective story of "Leviathan Wakes", or, now--medieval banking and political intrigue, and a Goddess of Truth who wants to "eat the word"

Like previous works by Abraham, this is a charactr-driven work. Personally, I found most of his PoVs to be fairly archetypal, and there were several points where I could clearly see where the story was going (such as Cinthrin's grand attempt at subterfuge). While I can't say I loved any of the characters (I thought Geder to be quite likable, until he did a sudden 180 degree turnaround), they served, and the situations were interesting enough to keep me reading. There were a few tings that caught me by surprise, which is a pint in favour of the book.

And the setting itself--piecing together the history of the 11 races, from mere scraps, without cheating and going to a wiki--it's enjoyable, and likely to keep me reading.

Re: the aforementioned banking: this is nowhere as detailed (or tedious: take your pick), as Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, which did HUGE infodumps on the origins of modern financial system. Those parts are much more technical, and serve to drive the story around. This certainly isn't a run of the mill fantasy--it tries to go deeper than that, and this, inevitably, makes it messier, a la real life. Enjoyable nonetheless.

moving on, at home, gonna try Sapkowski's Hussite trilo, with Vol 1- "Narrenturm", or "Tower of Fools" in its Russian translation.

[Mentalist]

Andorion, on 10 March 2015 - 02:25 AM, said:

Abyss, on 09 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

Yeah, but unless I am much mistaken, there was exploration in it as well, right? Thats something else I like to see in fantasy.

At the moment though I was looking fo rsome series featuring Space marines or infantry..... Has anybody read Ian Douglas?

There's a "pseudo-expedition to the New World" plotline. but mostly its about pseudo Wars of Religion + a pseudo-Ottoman invasion, with twists.

[JPK]

I just finished 1Q84. I liked the book (pretty much a given for me where Murakami is concerned) but I think it could have made the same points with half the sex.

As for my next read, I've decided to go for Sanderson's Firefight. I'm pretty sure that it is just the popcorn read that i need right now.

[QuickTidal]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 10 March 2015 - 09:07 AM, said:

I just finished 1Q84. I liked the book (pretty much a given for me where Murakami is concerned) but I think it could have made the same points with half the sex.

Those were my EXACT feelings about 1Q84...great book, that didn't need half the sex. I actually started to feel in the latter half that the sex was getting in the way of the more interesting paerts of the story. It finishes strongly though.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 10 March 2015 - 02:25 AM, said:

Abyss, on 09 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

Yeah, but unless I am much mistaken, there was exploration in it as well, right? Thats something else I like to see in fantasy.

At the moment though I was looking fo rsome series featuring Space marines or infantry..... ...

There is an exploration storyline... It's not bad, it's just less well handled than the other major storyline and the two only come together in the meh last book in meh fashion with a extra helping of meh.

It's funny, i can't think of a series that does fantasy-world infantry-in-the-trenches-stabbing-things as well as MBF/ME...

Cook's BLACK COMPANY sort of does it...
Turtledove's DARKNESS absolutely does it and that's actually one of the things that shines in that series for the first few books (it's about two books too long and suffers accordingly but if you skim the less interesting storylines you don't miss much)...
Morgan's LAND FIT FOR HEROES touches on it and it's awesome when he does but it's peripheral to the story...
Abercrombie does it and does it well in LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS and THE HEROES, but those are books 3 and (sort of ) 5 of a series.

...and after that i'm blank. I can think of lots of fantasy involving soldiers, but not much where them being at war is an active storyline.

[Andorion]

Abyss, on 10 March 2015 - 03:21 PM, said:

Andorion, on 10 March 2015 - 02:25 AM, said:

Abyss, on 09 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

Yeah, but unless I am much mistaken, there was exploration in it as well, right? Thats something else I like to see in fantasy.

At the moment though I was looking fo rsome series featuring Space marines or infantry..... ...

There is an exploration storyline... It's not bad, it's just less well handled than the other major storyline and the two only come together in the meh last book in meh fashion with a extra helping of meh.

It's funny, i can't think of a series that does fantasy-world infantry-in-the-trenches-stabbing-things as well as MBF/ME...

Cook's BLACK COMPANY sort of does it...
Turtledove's DARKNESS absolutely does it and that's actually one of the things that shines in that series for the first few books (it's about two books too long and suffers accordingly but if you skim the less interesting storylines you don't miss much)...
Morgan's LAND FIT FOR HEROES touches on it and it's awesome when he does but it's peripheral to the story...
Abercrombie does it and does it well in LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS and THE HEROES, but those are books 3 and (sort of ) 5 of a series.

...and after that i'm blank. I can think of lots of fantasy involving soldiers, but not much where them being at war is an active storyline.

I think this is because most authors are more comfortable dealing with individual characters, but if you have to describe an ongoing war in detail you have to deal with military institutions. Se does this with the Malazans. Sanderson does institutions very well. I have high hopes for the Stormlight Archive.

[firvulag]

Andorion, on 10 March 2015 - 02:25 AM, said:

Abyss, on 09 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

Andorion, on 09 March 2015 - 05:03 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 09 March 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Andorion, on 04 March 2015 - 05:29 PM, said:

So, sudden impulse today while looking at my TBR list, and as usual I go to my place of first resort for help regarding books
Can anybody here recommend science fiction/fantasy heavily or entirely centred on a group of soldiers in combat? And before everybody starts shouting about Black Company I am looking for books with a tech level of gunpowder age or later. Basically I am looking for combat centric books featuring regiment/battalion/company/platoon/squad level narratives. In sci-fi the type of combat narrative we got in say Warhammer Horus heresy would be a good example. It would be fantastic if anybody could recommend a series that involves regimental level combat like say Django Wexler in his Thousand Names set in a fantasy backdrop. But no medieval sword and knight books please. I want to change and spice up my TBR list, which contains way to many new releases by authors I already know.

If I do get a good series or two, I can start on them after I am done with my Sanderson read.

Oh, can't believe I forgot this one:
Paul Kearney's "Monarchies of God" series. This is like late Middle Ages (so gunpowder cannons, but not a ton of muskets-arquebuses, really), but the battles are phenomenal

I think I read book 1 of this. Library find. You would recommend? Then got to get this.

Doesn't meet your 'soldiers in combat' criteria really. There is some combat, it's well written and the series is worth reading for other reasons (minus the last book), but not that.

Yeah, but unless I am much mistaken, there was exploration in it as well, right? Thats something else I like to see in fantasy.

At the moment though I was looking fo rsome series featuring Space marines or infantry..... Has anybody read Ian Douglas?

If you're talking about Ian Douglas' Heritage, Legacy and Inheritance trilogies, then yes, I have read them. Overall, while they weren't great books I did find them quite entertaining. I've read the first three star carrier books as well (different universe to the previous 3 trilogies) and they weren't nearly as good, so not bothering with books 4 and 5.

For myself I finished the Ark Royal trilogy by Christpher Nuttal and while it was just about good enough to continue reading I didn't really enjoy it all that much.

Today I started the fifth book of the Nightside series. Am enjoying it so far but there's just something missing. While I love the weird descriptions for the most part, they occasionally get a little too silly which takes me out of the story. Now that there have been some big revelations I'm hoping that the books are going to get better. Also, it helps that the books are really quite short

This post has been edited by firvulag: 10 March 2015 - 07:52 PM

[Abyss]

firvulag, on 10 March 2015 - 07:45 PM, said:

...y I started the fifth book of the Nightside series. Am enjoying it so far but there's just something missing. While I love the weird descriptions for the most part, they occasionally get a little too silly which takes me out of the story. Now that there have been some big revelations I'm hoping that the books are going to get better. Also, it helps that the books are really quite short

I had a similar problem with NIGHTSIDE and found they didn't get better, in fact the opposite, i found they became formulaic/repetitious. Green has an amazing imagination for new stuff and making old stuff seem new, but as a storyteller he never quite blows me away.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 10 March 2015 - 05:47 PM, said:

You should find Into the Darkness and put it down quickly since you read fast.

This is Harry Turtledove. right? Yeah I have been meaning to read more of him. I loved his Guns of the South. Another good alternate history write is Robert Conroy

[Andorion]

Abyss, on 10 March 2015 - 08:22 PM, said:

firvulag, on 10 March 2015 - 07:45 PM, said:

...y I started the fifth book of the Nightside series. Am enjoying it so far but there's just something missing. While I love the weird descriptions for the most part, they occasionally get a little too silly which takes me out of the story. Now that there have been some big revelations I'm hoping that the books are going to get better. Also, it helps that the books are really quite short

I had a similar problem with NIGHTSIDE and found they didn't get better, in fact the opposite, i found they became formulaic/repetitious. Green has an amazing imagination for new stuff and making old stuff seem new, but as a storyteller he never quite blows me away.

I read the first 3-4 books of Simon Greens Secret Histories. I had the same problem. The narrative lacked edge. It got repetitive after some time. The same stock phrases, paras and descriptions kept on cropping up.

[QuickTidal]

So I'm only about 40 pages from the end of TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PART 1 by Tad Williams, and I'm fairly blown away. This series (MS&T) is easily better (to me) than a number of other popular Fantasy series out there written in and around the same time period (WHEEL OF TIME, SHANNARA, ect.). Beside Tad's penchant for immersing the reader in his world, which I love, the characters are all so well crafted that I am completely engrossed in their lives...Simon's unsureness, Deornoth's dedication, Miriamele's strength, Tiamak's faith, and even Maegwin's madness or Eolair's subsequent consternation. Grounding the varied cultures of Osten Ard in existing ones from ours (Rimmersmen = Norsemen, Hernistyri = Welsh/Celts, Erkynlanders = Anglo-Saxons ect.)...simply modified and then allowed to organically be there own thing is GREAT! The Sithi and the Norns are compelling and alien...and though they are obviously Elf allegories, there is enough about them that touches on other things to keep them special from say Tolkien or Brooks "elves".

Some spoilers for book 3 to speak on one scene.

Spoiler

Since Camaris was revealed to be alive in the end of THE STONE OF FAREWELL and working as a seemingly simple workman in Kwanitipul at Pelippa's Bowl, I knew this scene was coming....but once Miriamele, Tiamak, Isgrimmnur, and Camaris arrive at Sesuad'ra and the scrollbearers connect the Nisses poem page that Tiamak has is revelatory to these events and specifically Camaris...the scene where Josua gives him the Horn and his sword Thorn and then takes him out to Deornoth's cairn to plead with him to come back to himself and help them...and then the normally simple/unspeaking Camaris falls to his knees and speak with his god about his service not being done...I mean the emotion poured out of me for that scene. I felt horrible for him. Camaris, who seemingly was living out his twilight years in peace...has been forced to come back and fight again...even though he never wanted to to begin with. And to realize that the end of the poem "comes to his right hand" and Binabik tells Simon that during the siege of Naglimund people called Deornoth that...man...that was some heavy stuff.

I've got the last volume awaiting me at home, and I might pause long enough to read FIREFIGHT by Sanderson first...but otherwise I look forward to finishing the first series...and then begin the wait for the release of the next Osten Ard book THE WITCHWOOD THRONE (Which Tad has apparently turned in to the publisher).

[Andorion]

Finished Way of Kings. This was an experience. Detailed comments in the dedthread.

[Salt-Man Z]

Pirate Freedom is fantastic. I've got about 50 pages left, and it's hard to put down. (The daylight savings changeover hasn't been helping, either.) It's about a 21st century priest recounting his days as a pirate in the 1700s: he walked out of his Cuban monastery in the present day, and somehow found himself back in the 18th century. Obviously he gets back to the present (?) where he writes down his story. (The question mark in the preceding sentence is because something else is going on (this is Wolfe) and I only have my suspicions at the moment.) Anyway, it's super good. I love the narration, which is very informal ("If you read this far, you might be wondering about _______", etc.) and the pirate story itself is riveting.

[acesn8s]

QuickTidal, on 11 March 2015 - 06:10 PM, said:

So I'm only about 40 pages from the end of TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PART 1 by Tad Williams, and I'm fairly blown away. This series (MS&T) is easily better (to me) than a number of other popular Fantasy series out there written in and around the same time period (WHEEL OF TIME, SHANNARA, ect.). Beside Tad's penchant for immersing the reader in his world, which I love, the characters are all so well crafted that I am completely engrossed in their lives...Simon's unsureness, Deornoth's dedication, Miriamele's strength, Tiamak's faith, and even Maegwin's madness or Eolair's subsequent consternation. Grounding the varied cultures of Osten Ard in existing ones from ours (Rimmersmen = Norsemen, Hernistyri = Welsh/Celts, Erkynlanders = Anglo-Saxons ect.)...simply modified and then allowed to organically be there own thing is GREAT! The Sithi and the Norns are compelling and alien...and though they are obviously Elf allegories, there is enough about them that touches on other things to keep them special from say Tolkien or Brooks "elves".

Some spoilers for book 3 to speak on one scene.

Spoiler

Since Camaris was revealed to be alive in the end of THE STONE OF FAREWELL and working as a seemingly simple workman in Kwanitipul at Pelippa's Bowl, I knew this scene was coming....but once Miriamele, Tiamak, Isgrimmnur, and Camaris arrive at Sesuad'ra and the scrollbearers connect the Nisses poem page that Tiamak has is revelatory to these events and specifically Camaris...the scene where Josua gives him the Horn and his sword Thorn and then takes him out to Deornoth's cairn to plead with him to come back to himself and help them...and then the normally simple/unspeaking Camaris falls to his knees and speak with his god about his service not being done...I mean the emotion poured out of me for that scene. I felt horrible for him. Camaris, who seemingly was living out his twilight years in peace...has been forced to come back and fight again...even though he never wanted to to begin with. And to realize that the end of the poem "comes to his right hand" and Binabik tells Simon that during the siege of Naglimund people called Deornoth that...man...that was some heavy stuff.

I've got the last volume awaiting me at home, and I might pause long enough to read FIREFIGHT by Sanderson first...but otherwise I look forward to finishing the first series...and then begin the wait for the release of the next Osten Ard book THE WITCHWOOD THRONE (Which Tad has apparently turned in to the publisher).

Now you are making me want to reread the series. I'll probably do it closer to the release of Witchwood Throne. I also want to read his Otherland series.

[QuickTidal]

acesn8s, on 11 March 2015 - 07:49 PM, said:

Now you are making me want to reread the series. I'll probably do it closer to the release of Witchwood Throne. I also want to read his Otherland series.

Indeed. I hear a bunch of fans who read the books years ago have begun re-reading the series in anticipation...but it probably won't come out till ealry next year so you've got time.

Once I'm done MS&T I'll be checking out the Shadowmarch series, and then Otherland as well. Since MS&T was my first real Tad experience, I've got lots of his stuff to read.