What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

[Fist and Faith]

I highly recommend them if you can find them. (Might be easy nowadays.)

It's on Kindle and Nook, so yes, easy. But $9.49. That seems odd.

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Is that expensive? (Or are they expensive considering they're old?)

Have you read R A Salvatore's Drizzt Do'Urden novels Av? I reckon those were amongst the best Forgotten Realms novels (Dragonlance was Forgotten Realms wasn't it?)

It wasn't, but yes I've read a few. Never really got into them for some reason, not sure why.

Nearing the end of book 2 now, which contains a very Vain-like character, "Orhung The Created" and given it was written a few years after TWL, I wonder if Vain was an inspiration.

Anyway, book 3 next, The King of Light & Shadows.

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Is that expensive? (Or are they expensive considering they're old?)

They're old, and who but you ever heard of them?

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Is that expensive? (Or are they expensive considering they're old?)

They're old, and who but you ever heard of them?

According to the cover of Bk3 which I'm busy with, Roger Zelazny called them "Remarkable" and said the author had a "magic touch."

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Fair enough.

I happen to have a good B&N gift card balance at three moment, so I got the first one. But I have so many tbr, and reading hasn't been happening lately. We'll see.

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Fair enough.

I happen to have a good B&N gift card balance at three moment, so I got the first one. But I have so many tbr, and reading hasn't been happening lately. We'll see.

Ha, awesome. I have never known anybody else who has read even one of them.

They're not hard reads...the first book particularly is almost stand-alone, and I've found they veritably race along compared to the pace of stuff like Malazan or even other modern series.

I look forward to hearing what you think.

--A

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On the last book now, The Gods In Anger which I only managed to find by complete accident, after physically bumping into the guy running a second-hand book stall at a flea market.

Amidst apologies, he asked me if I had found anything, whereupon I asked if what was displayed was the only fantasy / sci-fi he had. Looking around the tables, he dove beneath one of them to pull out a hitherto unseen crate, in which was the last volume of a series I had been trying to complete for nearly 20 years.

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[Fist and Faith]

Good story! Literally bumping into the guy, who is probably the only person on the continent who happens to have the book.

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To this day I shake my head whenever I think of the pure, random serendipity of it.

(I would claim this is also why I can never pass a 2nd hand book shop without going in, but I was that way long before this occurrence. )

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Morpheus:

All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance. When I see three objectives, three captains, three ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence. I see purpose. I believe it our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.

Nah, i don't believe it. But cool quote.

[Cord Hurn]

I am now doing a second read of Stephen R. Donaldson's The Killing God.

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Sheesh, I haven't even read it once.

I'm re-reading the Illuminatus! trilogy by R.A Wilson and Robert Shea.

It's @JemCheeta2's fault.

--A