Michael. A. Stackpole.

#1 polishgenius

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Posted 08 November 2006 - 11:07 PM

Anyone a fan/not a fan of him? I just got the first book of his latest trilogy (the Age of Discovery). About 100 pages in so far, it's nothing hugely complex but is so far a very fun, nicely paced little fantasy.
I seem to recall reading and enjoying his New Jedi Order books (can't be entirely sure, there was a lot I skipped out in that series). He's pretty prolific, but I haven't read anything else by him.

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Posted 10 November 2006 - 04:43 PM

Am just in the process of completing his DRAGONCROWN CYCLE. Enjoying it muchly. Will post review once done, but recommend it. Fun epic fantasy. Fairly classic style (elves, dragons, evil invading force) but enough original twists and innovations to keep even a fairly widely-read/jaded fantasy reader interested.

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Posted 10 November 2006 - 06:00 PM

i am a massive Stackpole fan. Not the SW Stuff, could care less. But his Fantasy I find excellent and to my taste.

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 02:57 AM

I can give the Age of Discovery trilogy (or at least the two novels released so far, "A Secret Atlas" and "Cartomancy") a hearty recommendation - there he goes with a definitely non-classic (

) setting (maybe aside from the evil invaders) which is heavily influenced by Japanese / Chinese culture as well as Southern America, for all you know (no ripoff of the Kelewan saga by Feist & Wuurtsm either).

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 05:54 AM

Did Stackpole write any of the X-Wing Squadron books? I remember really enjoying those.

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 09:50 AM

I really enjoyed his novels written in the Battletech universe.

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 11:10 PM

i've read his dragoncrown series - i liked it.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 06:28 AM

Talion: Revenant, A Hero Born, The Dragoncrown Series, and the books of his Age of Discovery I have utterly enjoyed. Tailon was just... unique, very unique (I wish he'd go back to that universe: I loved it). A Hero Born (haven't read the other books) was pretty interesting, especially in some of the twists he took. I rather liked the Dragoncrown series, mainly because of the new ways he took the stereotypical archetypes and twisted them around to make them interesting. The Age of Discovery, while the first book is WAY too info-dump (enough that I noticed it) works out to be a pretty interesting book, promising a good series, with an atmosphere you don't usually get in fantasy (orient based).

I haven't read his other stuff, but those books above were above average.

Although, I preferred the Darkglory War the most of his 4 part Dragoncrown series...

I need to get around to Cartomancy...

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