Recommendation: If you’re in the mood for rich, mature, original fantasy novels (or have run out of Guy Gavriel Kay books to read), Bujold is a good place to turn. I didn’t like The Hallowed Hunt quite as much as I did the other two Chalion books, but they’re all well-written and quite satisfy...
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13 Months Ago,
Fyrefly from fyreflybooks.en (WordPress) says
(in Opinion: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt)
Recommendation: If you’re in the mood for rich, mature, original fantasy novels (or have run out of Guy Gavriel Kay books to read), Bujold is a good place to turn. I didn’t like The Hallowed Hunt quite as much as I did the other two Chalion books, but they’re all well-written and quite satisfy...
21 Months Ago,
josephmallozzi from josephmallozzi (WordPress) says
(in June 26, 2008: My green initiative, more special guests, and next month's Book of the Month Club picks.)
From the publisher: “In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chi...
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josephmallozzi from josephmallozzi (WordPress) says
(in June 26, 2008: My green initiative, more special guests, and next month's Book of the Month Club picks.)
In the SF category, it’ll be Lois McMaster Bujold’s Cordelia’s Honor. Now this is an omnibus made up of two novels, Shards of Honor and Barrayar, so you have a choice of reading one or both.
Discussion on Cordelia’s Honor begins August 11th.
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Shards of Honor is sci-fi, but it’s character-driven sci-fi. The technology is not the point of the story; you could replace all of the ray guns with swords and the spaceships with boats, and the novel would work just as well as a medieval fantasy. That’s because it’s not about the spaceships...
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