I totally agree with Cj here - I had to reach for the dictionary far less whilst reading The Gap than when reading any of Donaldson Covenant works. As for big guns being cooler, that's definitely a personal judgement, and one that I don't agree with. I find authors who throw lots of big guns into t...

I have tried to like this series but have been struggling to maintain interest. For me Donaldson is just way out of his depth on sci-fi concepts. With writers like Banks, Simmons, Reynolds it just seems more convincing and the gadgets and big guns are cooler :roll: . Also Donaldson's writing style i...

As a sci-fi fan who ranks Simmons, Banks, Reynolds amongst the space opera guys, what is one to make of Donaldson. Well the science ideas are well lame. Character and plotting and people you hate are right up there. This is barely science fiction but simply a thriller with a bare bones sci-fi concep...

Well the wispy black stuff and the eldritch manner suggests a strangeness.

I think not however. Elohim perhaps. Or even a new race of watchers.

talk about spoiler material , you surpass yourself.

But hey thats cool its still a mystery....

Well its all about the staff and TC's a Jeremiahs reaction to it.
We don't get much else.

I do fear some intervention from the time paradox board which got Dan Simmons out of a brief hole in Hyperion.
The time travel things are fundamental to the story if you ask me.

Is Donaldson now that he has got the whole time machine thing going, about to bring back Vain. Or a new urvile incantation. I can't help but think that the urviles will be significant in this new incantation of the land. They play such significant part in the book. Their duty is profound. They exhau...

Vain is the best character ever created in a fantasy novel. So he gets a bit of kudos for being mysterious and elusive.

But in hindsight it does seem rather bleeding obvious...

I have read the book three times over various intervals. Donaldson purposely pisses you off. Its a trademark. Anele and Esmer are frustrating characters. Lets not forget our beloved hero who we all wanted to kill in the first chronicles and still remains the stumbling block for the "others"...

Vain escaping the Elohim is another fantastic scene where he is seen as vulnerable to their attacks for perhaps the only time in the chronicles.

By the way good to be back after an absence of many months.

Immanuel Kant wrote: But should any reader find this plan, which I publish as the Prolegomena to any future Metaphysics, still obscure, let him consider that not every one is bound to study Metaphysics, that many minds will succeed very well, in the exact and even in deep sciences, more closely alli...

The Hyperion Cantos for me is the best thing in sci-fi ever written. I have read everything else Donaldson has written but still have not gotten around to the Gap. I will take that journey soon.
For me Simmons is sci-fi including the latest Illium.

Vain. As I originally said the best non-protaganist enigma ever in fanatsy literature. Powerful, incredibly powerful yet with a grin displays a personality and kinship with TC. I miss the roynish scaplukar and insectoid grimace of our now converted f(r)iend. If Donaldson brings him back in some time...

I will take any of the later ones. Sign me up. Give me a chance to re-reread again. Regards Roynish.

Vain comes back saves the land and has some quippy dialogue with TC.

Great plot line.

Bump.

We have been analysing these books for too long. But well was the bra invented. Were tampons available. We don't want saggy titted women inhabiting the land. Or problems with that time of the month. Sometimes fantasy is just fantasy and the real world trivialties of life are maybe necessarily overlo...

I had read the first chronicles and i was jetting back from my honeymoon when I thought I needed something for the flight. On that flight i re-read Lord Fouls Bane again and was hooked into this very ambiguous fantasy world again. Its so much more real to me than Tolkien. It hurts and bleeds so much...

A cynic would say ... everything becomes less than what is was .. and that eveything dies! [I'm NOT one, but one could certainly say that this is part of SRD's message!!] Well, only if you take it out of the context, of course; you might instead say that, even though everything eventually comes to ...

And can some one fill me in on what is the latest up to date site for Donaldson definitions. I guess its not the first page of this post. Help please. Roynish, go here: naples.net/~dsaddison/srdamd/ As related in one of my posts above, even this awesome resource could use updating, if the originato...

Bump this one, surely