(It's comment on comments time!)
Coincidentally, a friend on IRC recently recommended the Kushiel series. I've seen them in the library and thought about checking them out, but they set off enough little warning bells to not get ahead of all the other things I'm interested in. (For a while it seemed like I'd *read* everything in the SF section I was interested in, but they've expanded it a lot in the last couple years.)
I've read some of the Pip & Flinx novels (well, at least two, I think), but the library's selection here is so scattershot that I'm not sure it's worth seeking out more. ... Oh, and there's also the "Icerigger" trilogy. I've only read the last book (got it at a book sale somewhere or other), but it seems to be quite a story.
Jordan... personally, I'd *like* to see Wheel of Time finished, because I found the story interesting, particularly in the later books. (Or what was later at the time.) The problem I found when a new book in the series came out was that if I hadn't just finished reading the previous books, I couldn't really figure out who was who and what was going on. And as the early books are some of the slowest reading I've ever managed to make it through, I'm not inclined to reread the entire series every time a new book comes out.
(Oh, have I mentioned that I'm very happy that Stephen King finally finished The Dark Tower? '.' )
I seem to remember having a similar problem with the Recluse novels. I liked them, I just kind of ended up giving up on trying to read them.
Okay, new recommendation time. How about... the "Dream Park" novels by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes? ("Dream Park", "The Barsoom Project", and "The California Voodoo Game".)
Dream Park is basically the amusement park of the future. Holograms, virtual reality, roller coasters, and pretty much everything else is there. They also sometimes put on highly advanced live action role playing games, which are a major thing in this setting, with paid actors, movie rights, major gambling on the outcomes... and the occaisional crime. The problem becomes figuring out who the criminal is (and sometimes what the *crime* is) without disrupting the Game...
Unfortunately, the copies of this series at the library here seem to have disappeared, and so far I've had no luck finding it locally. I should probably look into ordering online from someplace...
(There's also a p&p rpg based on Dream Park. I have a copy. It's... somewhat dubiously designed, IMO. But some interesting ideas on how to handle games where the same characters move between scenarios with radically different settings...)
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)
Coincidentally, a friend on IRC recently recommended the Kushiel series. I've seen them in the library and thought about checking them out, but they set off enough little warning bells to not get ahead of all the other things I'm interested in. (For a while it seemed like I'd *read* everything in the SF section I was interested in, but they've expanded it a lot in the last couple years.)
I've read some of the Pip & Flinx novels (well, at least two, I think), but the library's selection here is so scattershot that I'm not sure it's worth seeking out more. ... Oh, and there's also the "Icerigger" trilogy. I've only read the last book (got it at a book sale somewhere or other), but it seems to be quite a story.
Jordan... personally, I'd *like* to see Wheel of Time finished, because I found the story interesting, particularly in the later books. (Or what was later at the time.) The problem I found when a new book in the series came out was that if I hadn't just finished reading the previous books, I couldn't really figure out who was who and what was going on. And as the early books are some of the slowest reading I've ever managed to make it through, I'm not inclined to reread the entire series every time a new book comes out.
(Oh, have I mentioned that I'm very happy that Stephen King finally finished The Dark Tower? '.' )
I seem to remember having a similar problem with the Recluse novels. I liked them, I just kind of ended up giving up on trying to read them.
Okay, new recommendation time. How about... the "Dream Park" novels by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes? ("Dream Park", "The Barsoom Project", and "The California Voodoo Game".)
Dream Park is basically the amusement park of the future. Holograms, virtual reality, roller coasters, and pretty much everything else is there. They also sometimes put on highly advanced live action role playing games, which are a major thing in this setting, with paid actors, movie rights, major gambling on the outcomes... and the occaisional crime. The problem becomes figuring out who the criminal is (and sometimes what the *crime* is) without disrupting the Game...
Unfortunately, the copies of this series at the library here seem to have disappeared, and so far I've had no luck finding it locally. I should probably look into ordering online from someplace...
(There's also a p&p rpg based on Dream Park. I have a copy. It's... somewhat dubiously designed, IMO. But some interesting ideas on how to handle games where the same characters move between scenarios with radically different settings...)
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)