Apolyton Fantasy Book Club Nominations

[raghar]

Originally posted by Wraith
If you're actually serious about this, I'll nominate one.

"Curse of the Mistwraith" by Janny Wurts.
Mistwraith")

Second book is not nice, I reviewed both. Story would quickly turns into mistrell and his travell.

[raghar]

Why not use old classic. Sunrunner trilogy. From Rawn.
Or Dragonlance chronicless. Hickman and weis.
Or Trilium saga.
Then again do you know if exist some books from warhamer about undeads. Not rulebooks, but stories with undead.

[Jon Miller]

scifi ish

but Morgaine (Gate of IVril) by Cherryh

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by raghar
Why not use old classic. Sunrunner trilogy. From Rawn.
Or Dragonlance chronicless. Hickman and weis.
Or Trilium saga.
Then again do you know if exist some books from warhamer about undeads. Not rulebooks, but stories with undead.

eh

not horribly ick

but eh

Jon Miller

[Stefu]

Stefu, Is that 'Varkaiden Paratiisi' ? If so, I have iiiiiit!

No, silly, it's "Salamurhaajan Oppipoika".

[SnowFire]

Hmm... I would nominate Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams being that that's what I'm reading right now anyway (well, right now in the "if I had time" sense), but that's a bit big for a book club. Suffice to say that what I've read of it so far is quite excellent.

Instead, I'll nominate The Black Company by Glen Cook. First off, if anybody played the game Myth: The Fallen Lords, it ruthlessly ripped off TBC, so you'll have a better idea from that what it's like than anything I'll say. About the best description I can come up with is All Quiet on the Western Front set in a fantasy world. The setting is a world in which an entity known as "The Lady" has ruled an empire founded in a great war long ago (more to it than that of course, but only so much time), using those who opposed her in the first war as her Generals called "Taken" (they've been bound to her will, at least somewhat). But unfortunately, her holdings are now under attack by a circle of new sorcerors who have raised quite an army. It's nice to not have the huge hordes of evil armies all brainwashed and there only being a small group of noble people ready to make a stand for Good, Light, blahdy blah blah blah. No, people hate the Lady's evil rule and there are more than enough rebels to go around. Meanwhile, because their leaders are arrogant ******* sorcerors who for the most part don't care about their own troops, morale is terrible on the "evil" side. The protagonists are part of The Black Company, a mercenary organization hired by one of the Taken to shore up defenses, and are professional enough to do the job to the bitter end.

Lots of fun stuff going on... and obviously, being that this a fantasy book, it's not all "grim in the trenches" stuff. They definitely get to do some neat stuff in their attempts to slow the Rebel tide. But it's a quite refreshing and unusual take on the fantasy genre. There are some sequels, too, but the first book is complete in and of itself and I never bothered to read the sequels myself.

[Bosh]

If you're actually serious about this, I'll nominate one.

"Curse of the Mistwraith" by Janny Wurts.

Yep, I'm serious (and if worst comes to worst I'll have a few good recs for this summer). Don't care that much for Wurts myself, couldn't empathise with the characters and being a history major her historical background realy rubbed me the wrong way...

I recommend the Serpentwar saga by Raymond Feist. Mich better and more involved than his previous efforts.

Sounds good, the Riftwar is enjoyable popcorn fantasy.

Why not use old classic. Sunrunner trilogy. From Rawn.

Read the ones she has with the dragons back in Middle School, remember liking them but not much else...

Instead, I'll nominate The Black Company by Glen Cook.

Great stuff, last summer I relied on Cook and Brust for non-Tolkienesque fantasy since I seem to have a problem getting into most fantasy lately.

[Rogan Josh]

So is this happening or not?

[Static Universe]

I'm interested as well. Is it on or is it not on?