HermitFromPluto wrote:I thought it apt in our little SciFi / Fantasy thread here to pay tribute to Arthur C. Clarkehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_ ... bit_clarkeA brilliant writer and Master of the genre. What a contribution he made. The City and the Star & The Fountains of Paradise are two of my favourite books.
Badmike wrote:I read Rendezous with Rama in junior high...absolutely blew my mind, plus after I described it to my circle of nerd friends, everyone else ran out to buy it and read it also. To this day haven't read any of the sequels.....something else I need to get around to!
mellmorranth wrote:has anyone read godslayer, shadowclimber, or dragonrank master by mickey zucker reichert?really good stuff.h p lovecraft of course - but not really fantasy.the first six books of the dragonlance series (chronicles and tales) i've read and reread i think four times now.and just a little flamebait for those who hate comics - but sandman.
Xaxaxe wrote:They are pretty much exactly what you see; the series is pretty straightforward. They are "fleshed-out" versions of the classic 1e adventures, told from the point of view of an adventurer or adventurers, and with lots of background detail and new stuff to get the books up to novel length.White Plume Mountain was the first one by a "real" author; it is from the fall of 1999. Author Paul Kidd went on to write two more books in the series, and many fans consider them to be the high-water mark of the series. I agree, FWIW: Kidd spins an entertaining yarn.The series is lucky to have survived Ru Emerson's debut with the Giants novel. It is truly God-awful. Despite being completely predisposed to like the book (D&D fan, played the actual adventure, fantasy fiction fan, etc.), I did not even reach the halfway point. I found out later that I wasn't the only one.The series just pretty much stopped, nor did it ever receive a lot of publicity from WotC. It always struck me as a pretty easy money-maker for WotC, as the books were by relatively unknown authors and were casually edited at best ... I figured they might just keep going.There might have been some sort of anniversary or celebration of the Greyhawk setting going on about this time, too. Our own Grodog could probably shed more light on that; if there was something specific these books were supposed to celebrate, I don't remember what it was.
jasonw1239 wrote:Has anybody else read Silverlock by John Myers Myers?It was first published in 1949 but there was a paperback release in either the late 70's or early 80's.Fun little adventure story with tons of literary references and characters.
killjoy32 wrote:sorry but i am still a fan of the old perry rhodan novels. i think they are fab fun to read - i never tire of them.have also just finished reading glory road yet again.Al
JZavoda wrote:My only problem with Karl Edward Wagner is that he didn't write enough. Thw Kane stories are some of the best fantasy adventure novels ever written. While I loved the Conan stories I enjoyed the setting more than the character. The setting of the Kane stories is just as rich and even more diverse, but Kane himself is a richer, fuller character, and a mean bastard to boot. He is self-interested, and evil by some standards, but not a villain. He reminds me of Ganelon from Zelazny's Amber series. A guy who would cut your throat for a pair of boots if he happened to need them, but not paricularly evil for evils sake.Wagner's other writings are also good. His horror/pulp stuff isn't bad and I have two short story anthologies of his that feature them that are well worth reading (Why Not You and I) is the one I remember offhand.He is one of those writers whose work I will always look for though I'm sad to hear they published his rough work that wasn't intended for print. Even good writers write crap from time to time and most of them know enough to stop and put it aside in some dark drawer where it might bring forth a better idea later on.
killjoy32 wrote:oh i think they are a blast. it is just the kinda swashbuckling flash gordon/doc savage sci-fi ish stuff that i like for a good ol' leisure read.i really like the stories a lot. simple and raw and you get a damn good read out of it. not everyone cup of tea i guess, but it always did the job for me. i dont know how many novels i have, maybe 30-40 or so. i got them really really cheap in a market one time, many years ago. my mum thought i was mad, spending my pocket money on "them stupid books". you wanna hear what she says now, seen as i still have them, many moons later some novels in my collection come and go, happily, these are ones that will always stay, as i constantly go back and read them again and again.Al