williamjm Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 5 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: Anyone heard of or read this? Sounds suspiciously like the Kingkiller books! Even the cover is very similar. The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine, Book 1) by R. R. Virdi (Tor Books) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250796172/thefirstbinding If the author can write something similar to the Kingkiller Chronicles and actually publish the entire story in a timely manner then there's probably an audience for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaston de Foix Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 On 8/15/2022 at 12:49 PM, Derfel Cadarn said: I’m cautious. His last fantasy series started well, but the last book fell off a cliff You didn't like the Born Queen? If you liked the first three books, what about the last book was so different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaston de Foix Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 59 minutes ago, williamjm said: If the author can write something similar to the Kingkiller Chronicles and actually publish the entire story in a timely manner then there's probably an audience for that. Rothfuss is capable of gorgeous prose, no doubt the result of painstaking effort. I'm skeptical it be easily reproduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 8 hours ago, Gaston de Foix said: You didn't like the Born Queen? If you liked the first three books, what about the last book was so different? Been years, but I don’t remember enjoying the subsequent books as much as the first, and felt really disappointed with the last one. I can’t remember the specifics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Bumping because McCarthy's the Passenger is out in 2 weeks in the US. ARCs are out and some reviews on Goodreads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Cory Doctorow reviews China Miéville's latest (non-fiction), A Spectre, Haunting: On “The Communist Manifesto” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/books/review/a-spectre-haunting-china-mieville.html Quote “The way to tell if a fantasy novel was written by a Marxist,” an observant person once said, “is that it gets the ratio of peasants to lords right, while the bourgeois variety is off by orders of magnitude.” China Miéville is a fantasy writer and a Marxist. On both scores, his bona fides are beyond reproach: Since 1998, he’s published a string of best-selling, prizewinning, critically acclaimed fantasy novels of the so-called New Weird tendency, including the “Perdido Street Station” trilogy and his breakout novel “The City and the City,” which was adapted for British television. As for Marxism, Miéville’s dissertation in international relations, “Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law,” was published by Haymarket in 2006, and he was the Socialist Alliance candidate for British Parliament for a district in central London in the 2001 election. (He lost to the Labour candidate.) It is technically possible to be familiar with only one of these aspects of Miéville’s career, but it would require an act of will. His fantasy novels are shot through with class struggle, and in ways that are integral to the narratives. Novels like “King Rat” (1998) aren’t gripping phantasmagoric thrill rides despite their politics; rather, it’s the politics that imbues them with so much excitement and conflict. It turns out that class war is a hell of a plot device. (Full disclosure: I have been a speaker at several literary conventions at which Miéville also spoke and once appeared with him on a panel. I have also had dinner with him.) But for all that Miéville’s literary and political vocations can’t be easily separated, it’s still rare for him explicitly to merge them. That changed in 2017, when he published “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution,” an account of the revolutionary ferment in the yearlong run-up to the 1917 revolution. If the incidents “October” described were fictional, it would be a superb novel on par with any of Miéville’s others. That it is a work of history, one that is rigorous and faithful to the events of that time, makes it all the more remarkable. .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 On 10/31/2022 at 11:30 AM, Zorral said: Cory Doctorow reviews China Miéville's latest (non-fiction), A Spectre, Haunting: On “The Communist Manifesto” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/books/review/a-spectre-haunting-china-mieville.html Ah glad to Mieville's been doing something. I would commit horrible crimes to get a few more novels from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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