What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

[Zarathustra]

Finally getting around to The Many-Colored Land by Julian May. I'm about 80 pages in. It's okay.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth ... Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do-back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. -Nietzsche

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Oh, ok.

So...

Without spoilers, I found the first series to be the worst.

I read them chronologically instead of in publication order. (Thanks Fist. )

Intervention, then the "Jack The Bodiless" series, and only then the Pleistocene series.

They work much better that way, you're more invested, and the later writing is better too...

--A
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[peter]

Am very excited. Very! For the first time in years I've started on a series that truly floats my boat in the fantasy sense. I'm two thirds through the first book in the Sword of Shadows series by J V Jones and it's great. It's a sort of blend of almost historical dark-ages fantasy with elements of paganism and barbarian stuff thrown in; pretty adult in nature but enough sorcery in there for it to satisfy the fullest of full on fantasy buff. A great quest saga with all of the elements in place, but used to great effect and often with a twist (the use of sorcery for example is dangerous - very dangerous - to the user (to the point where it can tear them apart, physically). I just love its adult and realistic playing of the old tropes. If magic and sorcery were real things in the world, this is what it would be like!


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