Topic: Good Book Warning

[The GrimSqueaker]

Foundryside by Robert Bennett.

Here's what I posted on Amazon:

Think of magic like a computer program. You add instructions and arguments and with those you reform reality. The tighter your arguments the stronger and more varied changes you can make to reality. However, imagine being limited by not knowing all the different programming languages and only being able to use certain commands from those languages you do know. The old ones had the language of the gods but they went to war and destroyed themselves. Now people are trying to relearn the words and commands using artefacts and ruins.

This book is about a thief. She was a former slave and has abilities not generally found amongst the general populace. All the better to help her thieving. She's hired to steal a small box from security at the dock. A small box and not to look in it at all. Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy and it all goes pear shaped rather fast. As with any story where you're not supposed to look, she does, and from there our story explodes.

It's a very good book. This is the same author who previously did the Divine Cities trilogy so he knows his amphetamine parrot and this a step up from that. You have instances where people are able to interface with the enchantments and it's all loophole abuse from there. This is a book roleplayers have already been living.

[faitherun (Fay-ith-er-run)]

Wow - that looks really interesting - I'll defiantly have to check it out!

I'll throw out the series I am currently working through. First book is called the Passage by.

I will shameless steal the summary from goodreads

“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

For me, what really made this book, was the level and depth of the characters. This book is more a sci-fi/thriller/horror/semi-mystery. But all of that is the back drop for a very interesting series of characters who develop over the course of the story.

[The GrimSqueaker]

The book I'm currently reading, Bloody Rose, has a mention of Tree Ent pornography...

[Wyddr]

The first book in that series, The Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is absolute freaking gold. I loved the hell out of that book. I will be picking up the sequel soon, no doubt.

The book I'm currently reading, Bloody Rose, has a mention of Tree Ent pornography...

If any of you haven't read them yet, check out the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. The first book, All Systems Red, won the Hugo this year for best novella and it is very well deserved. It is narrated from the point of view of a security robot which has hacked its own governor module and has dubbed itself "Murderbot" since it went on a rampage a few jobs ago and killed its humans. The corporation scrubbed it, of course, and sent it out to work again, but Murderbot feels guilty and really only wants to hide away and watch a lot of pirated media that it has illegally downloaded.

It's funny, heartwarming, and full of really interesting tactical dilemmas. I've read the first 3 (they are short, quick reads) and can't wait for the fourth.

I also would be remiss if I didn't mention my own books. Click on my sig, but I'm a professional author with a fantasy series out from Harper Voyager called The Saga of the Redeemed. I think it's pretty good. The fourth and final book comes out this fall.

[The GrimSqueaker]

I've read the MurderBot series as well, they're short and very good.

Wyddr's books are good. He's not blowing smoke up your arse.

Wyddr - Bloody Rose is full force like the first one. Takes place a few years after Kings. The sheer number of musical group puns and shout outs is mind boggling.

[Wyddr]

Wyddr's books are good. He's not blowing smoke up your arse.

Thank you kindly!

the check is in the mail...

Wyddr - Bloody Rose is full force like the first one. Takes place a few years after Kings. The sheer number of musical group puns and shout outs is mind boggling.

Good to know!

[The GrimSqueaker]

Last MurderBot novella is out today. The author has been contracted for a full length novel about him though.