Reading for inspiration · 2:07pm Dec 13th, 2014
Just finished a promise for blood, a fantasy approach to the French Revolution is always an interesting read and its a period of history not often put into fantasy worlds because of some irrational fear in the fantasy writing sphere of guns killing the feel of the fantastical elements. Brian McClellan puts paid to this fallacy and as a writer he is a deft hand at scene transition and concise characterisation, all the while creating a believable and deep world in the midst of a turbulent time full of grey morality and hard choices and the actions of man reaping the wrath of the gods.
Also mages who use gunpowder as a drug and whose magic essentially revolves around doing literal witchcraft with guns.
Good fucking stuff.
Not really satisfied I immersed myself in Mark Lawerence's Broken Empire trilogy after hearing alot of good things about it, particularly its supposedly villainous main character. Being the sort who is making a name on writing the adventures of a supposedly loveable bastard myself, I figured I'd give it a read to see what this author had to teach me.
*Thouasnds of words of blood and death and political intrigue later*
... I have much to learn.
What are you guys reading?
Paul S. Kemp's Erevis Cale trilogy.
Pretty damn good so far actually, especially if you're big into Forgotten Realms.
I also recently reread a few of the Dresden Files novels. Another excellent series.
I recently re-read the Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson, the story that are what got me into Fantasy in the first place.
It's about a group of people from a magically sealed off Valley. A thousand years ago, two people from the Valley left to find a way to save their homes and friends from barbarian invaders to the North, and a cruel and corrupt empire to the south. The two villagers eventually find a solution to their problem in the form of a powerful Sorceress. The north was blocked off by magical glaciers, and the south an enchanted forest. but the magic is fading, and soon it will fade, and the Valley will be destroyed on two fronts. Now, the descendants of the original heroes must travel to find a way to seal off their Valley once again, all the while escaping the power hungry Wizards of the Empire, and a mysterious magic-eating man called Moonfist.
Read alot, but among the latest, I've read the books of Brian s. Pratt; The Morcyth Saga and the Travails of the Dark mage.
I’m rereading the Word Bearer trilogy by Anthony Reynolds at the moment for some inspiration. Have a 10 player campaign I’m working on that will require a lot in terms of planning for it to work, but if I can pull it off then it will be beyond glorious.fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/090/f/4/lorgar___wh_dawn_of_war__chaos_space_marines_by_lordigan-d7ceu9q.jpg
Idunno, I'm just reading about the rise and fall of the Soviet Union (it only lists the time period that Joseph Stalin was into power, 'the man of steel') it's pretty interesting, I never really thought about exactly how Stalin came into power and ran the U.S.S.R. A tale of blood, cunning, luck, and did I mention bloodshed?
But ah ah ah, I assume we're talking about fiction books here, so I will not make a fool of myself by letting you know what trilogies and books of the like that I read.
It's really, really embarrassing. At least it's not erotica.
I'm currently on a Stephen King binge. Again.
A pile of books about as tall as I am consisting of various titles such as Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' to my all-time favorite book 'The Nine Questions' by Edward Fenton,
...Both of which I'm rereading currently. 'Wayfarer's Redemption' by Sara Douglas is also an interesting title.