Not talking about not knowing how to pronounce it, but missed letter or letters or added some that werent there?
I finished reading stardust and listened to the Legendarium’s podcast on it and they mentioned how in the book the main character’s name is Tristran. I had to go back to the book and see it was true. Having already seen the movie and being used to the name Tristan I completely ignored the second r in it
We’re not talking “New York times Best Seller” or “My series is nice, let’s not finish writing it ever.” We’re talking about a series of seven books that was published between 1990 and 1994 and gathers together the must of Heroic & Fantasy.
Dragons ? Of course. Elves, Dwarves, Necromancers ? They’re here. Moreover you will encounter an intelligent maze, multiple interconnected worlds, runes, magic tattoos, unbelievable beasts, apocalypse, vengeance, murder, invisibility, flying boats, intrigues, deep characters and mythology.
I don’t want to spoil anything so I won’t give you the plot. If any scenarist have had the intelligence to adapt it, we would already be flooded by movies, series, derived products and so on.
This post is not a suggestion to read, it is an injonction to read. I’d be really happy to answer any question / discuss about this series of books.
P.S. : My goal is to testify of my enthusiasm, I hope it doesn’t break any rule. Regards.
Edit : Spelling
So one trend I’ve noticed over the past few years is novel titles like “a court of rose and thorns,” “a forest of vanity and valor” “a ship of smoke and steel” “a song of wraith and ruin.”
Why is this style of naming so popular? I get that Maas’ series is so popular that people might want to emulate it and “A Song of Ice and Fire” is also super popular.
But it’s gotten so out of hand that everytime I see a book titled “a blank of blank and blank,” it immediately makes me not want to pick it up.
Edit: thanks for all the input guys, it didn’t really cross my mind the publishers would have changed titles to sell to a demographic.
Black Library and Games Workshop have announced the actual, *final* novel in The Horus Heresy, their absolutely massive prequel series to their Warhammer 40,000 science fantasy setting. The series began in 2006 with Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, so it is only fitting that Abnett is bringing the saga to an end with The End and the Death. However, the story proved too titanic to fit into one volume, so will be published as (at least!) two books (readers nod in Tad Williams).
The Horus Heresy is the story that provides the mythic underpinning to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Set ten thousand years before the “present” in the setting, the saga tells of the rebellion of the Warmaster Horus against his father, the immortal Emperor of Mankind. Horus believes his father has become a despot and a tyrant, wanting to be worshipped as a god. However, Horus has also been manipulated by the insidious forces of Chaos. Almost half the forces of the Imperium of Man join Horus in his …
Hi, I’m Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space, House of Suns, Revenger, Eversion and quite a few other things. I’m a machine for turning coffee into science fiction, here to support The Pixel Project’s work to End Violence Against Women. AMA!
Hello! I’m Alastair, Al to my friends, author of around twenty novels and a hundred short stories. I’ve been doing this a long time. I started writing in the Seventies, wrote two novels while still in my teens, then had a long detour into a proper career as a space scientist. Somewhere along the way the writing gradually took over again and I started selling to magazines and publishers. I quit space science nearly twenty years ago, although I still have nightmares about overdue papers and troublesome research projects. If I’m known for anything, it’s the sequence of books and stories set in the universe of my debut novel, REVELATION SPACE. It’s a dark, gothic-tinged vision of humanity’s future in space, chock-full of plagues, vanished …
I feel like I haven’t watched a fantasy movie that wasn’t one of the usual suspects (LOTR, Harry Potter, major franchises) in a while. Anyone have recommendations for standalone fantasy movies that have gone overlooked or forgotten about?
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I’m reading Game of Thrones for the first time after many years of my wife begging me to. I was really enjoying it until the description of the horn that blares at the Wall.
GRRM will spend almost an entire page describing literally everything. A new character will be provided an entirely family tree, a new location you’ll feel like you could walk through the streets blindfolded, any other noise will be described along the lines of “a noise so jarring it filled him with a longing to be a babe again safely nuzzled at his mother’s breast. The low tones shook the earth around him that had been paved by the free folk three hundred years ago on a sunny Tuesday in spring…” Etc.
But the horn at the wall? It’s described as, and I’m quoting;
“UUUUUUoooooooooooooooooooooooo”
And that’s it. It’s been a week and I’m still laughing about this and I thought to ask, has anyone else come across something so unexpectedly …
There were many things to like about the writing. It steals - knowingly - from the tonal rhythms and stylings of ancient texts, from fables to bibles. This much I liked. It intends (and succeeds) to convey the tone of ancient wisdom, of eternal truths.
Shame then, that there aren’t any. It’s a half assed, malformed, pathetically indulgent book that lazily gathers up a rancid mixture of dusty religious crumbs, badly taped-together aphorisms and unearned mystic reverence.
This is the book that people say changed their lives, that gave them purpose and direction?
All I can say is, I’ve received more spiritual enlightenment from Real Housewives.
And I’ve only ever seen a trailer.
Link below (yes I use oldreddit)!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/x28o8r/hi_im_alastair_reynolds_author_of_revelation/
I once saw someone in this sub describe Greg Egan’s “Axiomatic” collection as having the “most mindblows per page” of any book. Having enjoyed some of this man’s novels, I was excited to test this claim.
Here are my findings, from least mindblowable to most mindblowable:
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18. Blood Sisters – Identical twins are diagnosed a rare blood disease. Likeable protagonists, but dull plot and 0 mindblows.
17. The Moat – Horrifying speculative medicine premise, though sparse on story and 0 mindblows.
16. Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies – The premise is creative enough to earn a mindblow, but unfortunately an unrelatable protagonist and a weak plot fail to take advantage of it. 1 mindblow.
15. Appropriate Love – Major body horror vibes, but as far as weird pregnancies go, I liked The Cutie over this one. 1 mindblow.
14. Axiomatic – For the collection’s namesake story, it did not impress as much as I thought it would, as it was overshadowed by the much more …
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Hi everyone. I’m looking for books that deal with alien invasions and first contact kind of books, except where the ‘invasion’ or contact occurs inside the human body. So: books with alien/strange viruses, microbes, parasites, and all kinds of weird creatures and all the weird things they do psychologically, anatomically, and biologically when they come in contact with the human body.