Winds of Fate by Mercedes Lackey
Winds of Fate (1991) is the first book in Mercedes Lackey’s MAGE WINDS trilogy which is, in terms of internal chronology, an early trilogy in her VALDEMAR series. The VALDEMAR universe currently contains dozens of novels and short stories. So far I have read only six of them, but I own several more which I’m planning to review for our readers here at FanLit.
The VALDEMAR books are best suited for readers who enjoy classic high fantasy.
September 20th, 2017. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2.5 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Garrett for Hire is an omnibus edition of three books in Glen Cook’s popular GARRETT, P.I. series. These books are Deadly Quicksilver Lies, Petty Pewter Gods and Faded Steel Heat, books seven, eight and nine in the series, respectively. However, because each book fairly stands alone, I never felt that I was missing out on any important details by joining the series at the halfway point.
September 25th, 2014. Sarah Chorn´s rating: 4 | Glen Cook | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Matter is the seventh book in Iain M. Bank’s popular CULTURE series about a utopian society run by a beneficent artificial intelligence organization called The Culture. I haven’t read any of the previous CULTURE novels which, I think, gives me a unique take on Matter. Reading through some of the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, I see that many CULTURE fans felt like the 620-page Matter was a drastic change in pace and tone.
March 27th, 2014. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Iain M. Banks | Audio | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Look to Windward by Iain Banks
This is the first book I have read by Iain Banks — and it won’t be the last. His post-human vision of the very distant future, with its closer-to-perfect, but all-too-human AI, is not only plausible but a thought-provoker. And if you read science fiction, don’t you want something thought provoking? The alien cultures, the societal implications, and the use of technology were exactly that. Bucking the trend of throwing everything into a thousand-page tome, literary science fiction gets better in the hands of only a handful of other writers.
June 11th, 2012. Jesse Hudson´s rating: 4 | Iain M. Banks | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
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