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10 Jun 19 - 05:39 PM (#3995872) Subject: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Remember author Terry Brooks and his world-building fantasy series, Shannara? Bookstores both brick-and-mortar and virtual have been graced with Book 3 in the current series-within-a-series, The Fall of Shannara. This penultimate title is The Stiehl Assassin. I have lost count of how many Shannara books there are; most of them I have read at least once. Brooks, who has books on other topics, says that with Book 4, the last, he will no longer write about Shannara. Those of us who read these authors and their series: it's a unique experience, isn't it? Brooks' latest release is nicely timed, with the television adaptation of George R R Martin's Game of Thrones just ending in front of untold quantities of viewers. Is this like going down a rabbit hole? Or is it more than that? Is it merely entertaining, and is it pretentious to presume anything more than entertainment? Think of other series that were a long time finishing. Isaac Asimov with his Foundation, Empire, Robot braiding of three strands into one enormous series. Stephen R. Donaldson taking decades to finish the Thomas Covenant series. Robert Jordan dying, and having to leave it to Brandon Sanderson to finish The Wheel of Time series. The Malazan Empire series, ... others? |
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10 Jun 19 - 08:20 PM (#3995884) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Stilly River Sage My father was a great fan of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Full of puns. He sent me a number of those volumes, then he and a fellow fan went to a public event where Anthony was reading and they were underimpressed by the man himself. Quite a boor. The books stopped coming. :-/ |
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10 Jun 19 - 09:04 PM (#3995886) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Rapparee The Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett. The Vidosus series by Harry Turtledove. To name but two. |
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10 Jun 19 - 09:20 PM (#3995890) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Heinlein's Future History |
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10 Jun 19 - 09:52 PM (#3995892) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Mrrzy Game of Thrones! |
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10 Jun 19 - 10:15 PM (#3995893) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce C J Cherryh has several series, some tied together, some standalone. |
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10 Jun 19 - 10:17 PM (#3995894) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Niven |
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10 Jun 19 - 10:27 PM (#3995896) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: michaelr Donaldson's Covenant series became hugely tedious long before he got finished. I recommend Tad Williams' "Otherland" tetralogy. |
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11 Jun 19 - 01:52 AM (#3995902) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Dave the Gnome David Gemmel. Multiple books in multiple series. Pretty good at historical stuff too. Sadly died before finishing his Troy series but there was enough material for his wife to get the last book to press. |
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11 Jun 19 - 05:33 AM (#3995933) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Jack Campin James Branch Cabell was probably the first writer to do that in English. Unlike his successors he could actually write, and he didn't have an overspecified word processor encouraging him to write a paragraph when a phrase would do. Working in a second hand bookshop I get to see how well these things have stayed the course. Of all the SF/fantasy genre, by far the best sellers are the Golden Age books written as one-offs; I can sell all the Ray Bradbury or Stanislaw Lem I get. Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan and the other shelf-footage-mongers are dead meat and I usually send them for pulping now. There is a layer even further down in the primordial slime of unsaleabity. Percy Jacson, the Beast Quest books, another couple of early-teen-oriented interminably mass produced hackwork series. Pulp is too good for them. |
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11 Jun 19 - 08:03 AM (#3995950) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Nigel Parsons Ursula Le Guin (Earthsea series) Marion Zimmer Bradle (Darkover series, "Mists of Avalon" series) Anne McCaffrey (Pern series, "The Tower and the Hive" series, "Crystal Singer" series) From the Pern series I particularly enjoyed/recommend Dragonsinger & Dragonsong. TERRY PRATCHETT* (Discworld) *can't mention him without a footnote! |
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11 Jun 19 - 08:57 AM (#3995956) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Stilly River Sage Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave series was one of the earliest I read through almost without stop. And Tolkien of course - my Dad read The Hobbit out loud to us kids and we read the LOTR series ourselves. Several times. :) |
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11 Jun 19 - 07:20 PM (#3996039) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Thanks, Jack, for the tip about James Branch Cabell. Funny, I had read a detailed biography of author Elinor Wylie, who is mentioned in everything I have just read about Cabell … but Cabell left no impression on me in her life story. I'm going to look up Cabell's The White Robe which sounds like juicy stuff, even if it is not part of his Poictesme series. |
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12 Jun 19 - 09:37 AM (#3996074) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Charmion I strongly recommend Guy Gavriel Kay, a Toronto writer who clearly doesn't sleep much as he also practises law. He calls his stuff "historical fantasy" because he builds his worlds within the semi-familiar framework of history, using elements of ancient and medieval cultures. It's fun figuring out what he's riffing on while you read. He has major cred in the genre. Check out his Wikipedia entry here. |
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12 Jun 19 - 12:35 PM (#3996093) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Monique I remember reading Ian Irvine's The View from the Mirror Quartet, David Edding's Belgariad, Malloreon, Rivan Codex, Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress, 3 by Abraham Merritt and I don't remember what else that haven't been already mentioned. |
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12 Jun 19 - 12:54 PM (#3996096) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Jack Campin's remarks about pulp have sense in more ways than one, as some serial authors put food on the table writing for pulp magazines. One of those wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Mundy, and he is the author of King of the Khyber Rifles. He cranked out books with recurring characters. I looked at some of them; the writing is pulpy, all right. 'OM: the Secret of Ahbor Valley' is a cut above most of them, although some people will hate it as well. |
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12 Jun 19 - 02:42 PM (#3996105) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Nigel Parsons For a musical link: 'OM: the Secret of Ahbor Valley' Don't I recall a song about the Abhor valley P.T.A.? |
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12 Jun 19 - 03:21 PM (#3996108) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Rapparee White's "Sector General" series. |
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12 Jun 19 - 03:58 PM (#3996122) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Much of C J Cherryh's work |
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12 Jun 19 - 04:30 PM (#3996127) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce There is a tendency among the better SF authors to create a "Future Universe" and write stories in a common reference frame. CJ Cherryh has several intersecting frames, with some interaction between them, but each stands on its own as well. I think that this is true of many of the writers brought up here. David Drake and Steven Weber are additional examples. |
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12 Jun 19 - 06:30 PM (#3996139) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Stilly River Sage I'm not sure if Octavia Butler wrote series, she's an author I've meant to look into. |
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12 Jun 19 - 06:45 PM (#3996141) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Books by Octavia Butler: Publication Order of Patternists Books Wild Seed (1980) Mind of My Mind (1977) Clay's Ark (1984) Survivor (1978) Patternmaster (1976) Publication Order of Xenogenesis Books Dawn (1987) Adulthood Rites (1988) Imago (1989) Publication Order of Parable Books Parable of the Sower (1993) Parable of the Talents (1998) Publication Order of Standalone Novels Kindred (1979) Fledgling (2005) Publication Order of Collections Bloodchild (1995) Unexpected Stories (2014) |
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12 Jun 19 - 06:54 PM (#3996142) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Books by C J Cherryh Publication Order of Morgaine Books Gate of Ivrel (1976) Well of Shiuan (1978) Fires of Azeroth (1979) Exile's Gate (1988) Publication Order of Hanan Rebellion Books Brothers of Earth (1976) Hunter of Worlds (1977) Publication Order of Faded Sun Books Kesrith (1978) Shon'Jir (1979) Kutath (1980) Publication Order of Alliance-Union Books Serpent's Reach (1980) Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983) Publication Order of Hinder Stars Books Alliance Stars (2019) Publication Order of Chanur Books The Pride of Chanur (1981) Chanur's Venture (1984) The Kif Strike Back (1985) Chanur's Homecoming (1986) Chanur's Legacy (1992) Publication Order of Alliance-Union: Company Wars Books Downbelow Station (1981) Merchanter's Luck (1982) Rimrunners (1989) Heavy Time (1991) Hellburner (1992) Tripoint (1994) Finity's End (1997) Chronological Order of Company Wars Books The novels Heavy Time and Hellburner are the first two novels in the series in chronological order. The rest are the same as the publication order. Publication Order of Age Of Exploration Books Port Eternity (1982) Voyager in Night (1984) Cuckoo's Egg (1985) Publication Order of Arafel/Ealdwood Books The Dreamstone (1983) The Tree of Swords and Jewels (1983) Publication Order of Heroes In Hell Books The Gates of Hell (1986) Rebels in Hell (1986) Masters in Hell (1987) Kings in Hell (1987) Legions of Hell (1987) Publication Order of Merovingen Nights Books Festival Moon (1987) Fever Season (1987) Troubled Waters (1988) Smuggler's Gold (1988) Divine Right (1989) Flood Tide (1990) Endgame (1991) Publication Order of Alliance-Union: Cyteen Books The Betrayal (1989) The Rebirth (1989) The Vindiction (1989) Regenesis (2009) Publication Order of Rusalka Books Rusalka (1989) Chernevog (1990) Yvgenie (1991) Publication Order of Sword Of Knowledge Books A Dirge for Sabis (1989) Wizard Spawn (1989) Reap the Whirlwind (1989) Publication Order of Foreigner Books Foreigner (1994) Invader (1995) Inheritor (1996) Precursor (1999) Defender (2001) Explorer (2002) Destroyer (2005) Pretender (2006) Deliverer (2007) Conspirator (2009) Deceiver (2010) Betrayer (2011) Intruder (2012) Protector (2013) Peacemaker (2014) Tracker (2015) Visitor (2016) Convergence (2017) Emergence (2018) Publication Order of Finisterre Books Rider at the Gate (1995) Cloud's Rider (1996) Publication Order of Fortress Books Fortress in the Eye of Time (1995) Fortress of Eagles (1998) Fortress of Owls (1998) Fortress of Dragons (2000) Fortress of Ice (2006) Publication Order of Gene Wars Books Hammerfall (2001) Forge of Heaven (2004) Publication Order of Standalone Novels Hestia (1979) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Wave Without a Shore (1981) Glass and Amber (1987) The Paladin (1988) The Goblin Mirror (1992) Faery in Shadow (1993) Lois and Clark (1996) Publication Order of Short Story Collections Sunfall (1981) Alien Stars (1985) Visible Light (1986) The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh (2004) |
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12 Jun 19 - 06:59 PM (#3996143) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Lois McMaster Bujold Books Publication Order of Cordelia Naismith Books Shards of Honor (1986) Barrayar (1991) Publication Order of Miles Vorkosigan Books The Warrior's Apprentice (1986) Ethan of Athos (1986) Falling Free (1988) Brothers in Arms (1989) The Vor Game (1990) Mirror Dance (1994) Cetaganda (1995) Memory (1996) Komarr (1998) A Civil Campaign (1999) Diplomatic Immunity (2002) Cryoburn (2010) Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012) Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016) Publication Order of Miles Vorkosigan Short Stories The Mountains of Mourning (1989) Labyrinth (1989) Winterfair Gifts (2008) Weatherman (2011) The Flowers of Vashnoi (2018) Publication Order of Miles Vorkosigan Collections The Borders of Infinity (1989) Chronological Order Miles Vorkosigan Books The official chronological/suggested reading order of all Miles Vorkosigan-related fiction is: Falling Free; Shards of Honor; Barrayar; The Warrior’s Apprentice; The Mountains of Mourning; Weatherman; The Vor Game; Cetaganda; Ethan of Athos; The Borders of Infinity; Brothers in Arms; Mirror Dance; Memory; Komarr; A Civil Campaign; Winterfair Gifts; Diplomatic Immunity; Cryoburn; Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. Publication Order of Curse Of Chalion Books The Curse of Chalion (2001) Paladin of Souls (2003) The Hallowed Hunt (2005) Publication Order of Sharing Knife Books Beguilement (2006) Legacy (2007) Passage (2008) Horizon (2009) Knife Children (2019) Publication Order of Penric and Desdemona Books Penric's Demon (2015) Penric and the Shaman (2016) Penric's Mission (2016) Mira's Last Dance (2017) Penric's Fox (2017) The Prisoner of Limnos (2017) Publication Order of Standalone Novels The Spirit Ring (1992) Publication Order of Short Story Collections Dreamweaver's Dilemma: Short Stories and Essays (1995) Proto Zoa (2012) |
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12 Jun 19 - 07:06 PM (#3996144) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce and Larry Niven Books In Order Publication Order of Known Space Books World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Protector (1973) The Patchwork Girl (1980) Publication Order of Ringworld Prequel Books Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010) Publication Order of Ringworld Books Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1980) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004) Fate of Worlds (2012) Publication Order of Heorot Books The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995) Destiny's Road (1997) Publication Order of Moties Books The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993) Publication Order of Golden Road Books The Burning City (2000) Burning Tower (2005) Publication Order of Dream Park Books Dream Park (1981) The Barsoom Project (1989) The California Voodoo Game (1992) The Moon Maze Game (2011) Publication Order of The State Books A World Out of Time (1976) The Integral Trees (1984) The Smoke Ring (1987) Publication Order of Bowl of Heaven Books Bowl of Heaven (2012) Shipstar (2014) Publication Order of Stellar Guild Books Red Tide (2014) Publication Order of Magic Goes Away Books The Seascape Tattoo (2016) Publication Order of Standalone Novels The Flying Sorcerers (1971) Inferno (1976) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) Oath of Fealty (1982) The Descent of Anansi (1982) Footfall (1985) Fallen Angels (1991) Achilles' Choice (1991) Rainbow Mars (1999) Saturn's Race (2001) Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) Escape from Hell (2009) The Goliath Stone (2013) Publication Order of Man-Kzin Anthologies The Man-Kzin Wars (1988) Man-Kzin Wars II (1989) Man-Kzin Wars III (1990) Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991) Man-Kzin Wars V (1992) Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995) Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998) Man-Kzin Wars IX (2001) Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003) Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005) Man-Kzin Wars XII (2008) Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2012) Man-Kzin Wars XIV (2013) |
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12 Jun 19 - 07:15 PM (#3996146) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Terrific! I love to watch Mudcatters grab the ball and run with it. I am partial to Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion series (although Number 3 is terribly grim stuff) and C. J. Cherryh's Rusalka trilogy is rich and gorgeous. |
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12 Jun 19 - 07:17 PM (#3996147) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Agreed. On all points. |
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12 Jun 19 - 10:07 PM (#3996152) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Stilly River Sage It looks like BB has discovered one of my favorite sites: Fantastic Fiction. I go there when I'm trying to figure out what order to listen to my various audio books if they're in a series. I recently tracked down some police procedural mystery dates by Lawrence Block (most of his I've listened to are the Matthew Scudder protagonist, but he is prolific and has several interesting series.) And the Preston and Child "Pendergast" series, I came late to them but wanted to listen (or read, if the audio book wasn't easily available) in order. |
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13 Jun 19 - 02:54 AM (#3996165) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: michaelr Keb, you don't have to listen - or respond - to me, but Tad Williams is among the best fantasy/SF writers on wheels these days. And he's got all sorts of flavors: The Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series is straight Tolkien-plus fantasy. The above-mentioned Otherland tetralogy concerns an AI world becoming too real for comfort. He also has single-volume tales: Tailchaser's Song stars a cat, and The War of the Flowers is about a social clash between long-established fairy dynasties. A little more far out is the Shadowmarch series, where one can feel the writer stretching and coming into his own. Highly recommended. Then there are the Bobby Dollar novels: The Dirty Streets of Heaven, Happy Hour in Hell, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, which feature a low-level angel sent to California (and farther down) for record-keeping, who finds himself having to protect ladies and fight nasty demons. All written quite hilariously in a Chandler-type first-person noir style. Tad Williams is an exceptional writer of 'real fiction with important issues being discussed.' Any of his books will reward the reader with intelligent, quality entertainment. |
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13 Jun 19 - 10:32 AM (#3996250) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Nigel Parsons In my list I missed Roger Zelazny's "Amber" series (in fact both of those serieses) |
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13 Jun 19 - 11:54 AM (#3996265) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: beardedbruce Sorry, it was https://www.bookseriesinorder.com Found it when trying to answer "I'm not sure if Octavia Butler wrote series, she's an author I've meant to look into." The other authors were because it is easier to copy than type. And probably a better chance at the correct spellings. |
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13 Jun 19 - 05:39 PM (#3996343) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu I was still fairly young when Clive Barker started selling lots of books and getting on bestseller lists. Probably my first Clive Barker book was Imajica. The "Hellraiser" films are based on his serial work; the last Barker title I read, The Scarlet Gospels, finally confronted Pinhead with Lucifer, and not before time; you can guess how that confrontation ended. I looked up Barker's fantasy novels for a few years. They seemed for a time to be the same novel written again and again. Galilee was a little different. But I fear Clive Barker's fifteen minutes may be over. |
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13 Jun 19 - 06:04 PM (#3996349) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Stilly River Sage Take a look at Fantastic Fiction - it has been around for a long time and has all sorts of wonderful stuff. I used it years ago when I was working on books in my Dad's estate - I didn't need to keep them all so I organized them in lots and sold them on eBay. |
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14 Jun 19 - 04:05 PM (#3996458) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu And as to the pioneers of pulp fantasy: One time, it is reported, one of Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim books, The Devil's Guard (1926), fell into the hands of Marion Zimmer Bradley, at the time deep into her Darkover series. And she looked at the book's premise, and thought: What if I redid this exact story, replacing all the men with women? The result was City of Sorcery (1984). |
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14 Jun 19 - 07:41 PM (#3996482) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Nigel Parsons It happens all the time. Apparently Roddenberry even described the basis of "Star Trek" as a "wagon train" to the stars. Also, anyone who has read Heinlein's "Citizen of the galaxy" (1957) is likely to recognise much of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" (1901). And more recently may spot the same source material in Anne McCaffrey's "Sassinak" (1990) |
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15 Jun 19 - 11:37 AM (#3996544) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Dave the Gnome Just been to a local gala where they had a used book stall and I spotted Julian May's "Many coloured land". I remember enjoying that series but can't remember the details. Wish I had bought it now! |
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15 Jun 19 - 01:09 PM (#3996554) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Jack Campin I was in a bookshop today that had a special display of books less than 200 pages. Great idea. Has there ever been a fantasy novel that short? The book that has stuck in my mind most among all I've read recently is Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams". Nothing like fantasy though there is a mythological angle. If it belongs to a genre it's the same one as Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping"; a kind of book you can only read very slowly. If it takes you 2000 pages to tell a story: what's WRONG with you? |
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15 Jun 19 - 04:02 PM (#3996571) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Helen I've read some of the books/series mentioned here and I enjoyed them, but one author not mentioned is Louise Cooper. I have read this series a few times since first discovering them at a SciFi bookshop in Sydney back in probably 1987. Time Master trilogy (1986): The Initiate The Outcast The Master The bookshop assistant told me that if I bought the first book and not the second one I would regret it. The third book was not yet published, I think. It was good advice, especially since I lived 100 miles north of Sydney and would not go back to the big smoke very often and it was pre-online book ordering days. The books were "un-put-downable". I also loved CJ Cherryh's Morgaine series, but I couldn't get into other books of hers. I didn't realise she wrote so many. I loved Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon series, and also read as many of the Darkover series as I could get my hands on. On the same theme, I loved Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave series and also T H White's Once & Future King series. Pratchett of course. I read so many over the years that I reached my limit and overdosed. Good Omen was the first one I read and it is still a favourite because it opened my eyes to a new fictional world, the inner world of the workings of Pratchett's amazing mind. I can't wait to see the movie. I loved his Truckers series for kids too. I read lots of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonworld series. Ursula LeGuin has always been a favourite author of mine. I reread her books sometimes. I love the Earthsea series. John Crowley's Engine Summer is different to anything else I have read, but doesn't count in this thread because it is not in a series. Margaret Atwood's MaddAdam trilogy is dark and strange. But not as dark and strange and disturbing as the dreadful and interminable TV version of The Handmaid's Tale, which thankfully Ms Atwood is going to rectify by writing her own sequel. I'm sure I can mention more. I used to devour Fantasy & SciFi until a couple of decades ago and then I just ran out of motivation to keep reading it. |
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15 Jun 19 - 06:01 PM (#3996576) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Nigel Parsons I'm in countdown mode. It is now only two months until the "Worldcon" (world science fiction convention) opens in Dublin. Dublin Worldcon |
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16 Jun 19 - 03:18 AM (#3996603) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Dave the Gnome You'll enjoy the Good Omens series Helen. It is brilliantly done and, in my opinion, the casting is spot on. Not a movie though, unless there is one I have not heard about. |
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16 Jun 19 - 03:58 PM (#3996718) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Mo the caller Helen mentioned the Once & Future King. Interesting how many books have been written on the King Arthur saga, and each being 'about' something quite different from the others. Faust too, I guess. |
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16 Jun 19 - 04:04 PM (#3996720) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Helen DtG, yep, I forgot. A series, even better! I mentioned The Handmaid's Tale before. I forgot to say that I was watching the movie Matilda and I kept thinking of Aunt Lydia while seeing Miss Trunchbull on the screen. I'm left idly wondering whether the Aunt Lydia actress Ann Dowd ever unconsciously found herself hamming it up as Miss T and had to reign her character back to the dark side. LOL |
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16 Jun 19 - 05:43 PM (#3996729) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Now that you mention it, Mo-the-caller, there is a three-book series by English author James Treadwell which mixes up Faust, Camelot, Tristram and Iseult, and Cassandra of Troy. |
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17 Jun 19 - 02:49 PM (#3996815) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Well, James Branch Cabell's The White Robe, which is not to be found at my lending library, just arrived at my mailbox, so I opened it and sampled some pages. Actually, it's The Witch-Woman, edited by Cabell late in life, in which The White Robe is one of three reprints. Cabell uses the English language as the gourmet chef uses his utensils, and, as you Brits say, Cabell knows his onions. Only, this cuisine shows me up for the uncouth, coarse, vulgar old sow that I am, because I keep muttering, 'where's the beef?' Yes, there is solid sustenance in there, but the recipe is rigorously ordered for tastes different than mine. Never mind. I'll read it anyhow. I'm just never going to be a Cabell completist, I fear. I like my meat and veggies and rice prepared differently. |
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19 Jun 19 - 12:20 PM (#3997036) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu One more note on Cabell, which I am certain Jack Campin already well knows. Cabell got dragged into court in the 1920's for the salacious innuendos in one of the fantasy-series books titled Jurgen. Cabell emerged victorious, and the notorious book was, as they say, well publicized. Example of innuendo: The man's sweetheart is distracted, to the point of distress, but the size of his ... staff. The sight of the size of it. The man's remedy: He put the ... staff where the lady could not possibly see it ... da dum DUM! |
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20 Jun 19 - 02:19 AM (#3997102) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: Amergin Anything by Tad Williams. The guy's a great writer. Harry Turtledove's World at War series....(basically WWII in a fantasy world. Susan Coopers Dark is Rising Sequence. Morgan Llewellyn I loved Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon...but since it came to light the horrible abuse she perpetrated, or at the very least enabled, really leaves a sour stain on my stomach. I can't read it anymore. |
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20 Jun 19 - 05:08 PM (#3997186) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: wysiwyg CS Lewis, Narnia series. Nesbit. ~S~ |
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20 Jun 19 - 05:13 PM (#3997191) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: wysiwyg Nesbit: https://librivox.org/author/24 |
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23 Jun 19 - 04:31 PM (#3997577) Subject: RE: BS: Books: Fantasy multi-book series authors From: keberoxu Just encountered the work of author Patricia Briggs. Vampires, werewolves, a coyote shapeshifter, a female river-devil attended by otters, some really vile witches, and, in one installment, would you believe two dozen zombie-fied miniature goats?! Along with Underhill, where a day underground is a week aboveground. And a walking-stick, with a silver handgrip, fashioned by Lugh of the Tuatha de Danaan. Good grief … hugely entertaining, but bound to offend the high-brows. |