First books for 2011
Jan. 22nd, 2011 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melita66 I'm almost done with the first novel of the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, Agatha H. and the Airship City. I think I agree with Brenda W. Clough who stated on rec.arts.sf.written that it works much better if you're already familiar with the series as a web comic. I did find it quite enjoyable and laughed out loud a few times as I'm remembering/imagining what the artwork would look like.
I just finished one of the most anticipated books in the SF/F community right now, Among Others by Jo Walton. It's a story of growing up and surviving and reading and how (genre) literature can be the most important thing in your life and affect you in all sorts of ways. It's excellent. I consider Walton to be a very thoughtful and advertent writer. I've followed her career for a long time as she was on rec.arts.sf.written (a usenet newsgroup) for years. Her first novel was published after a Tor editor (iirc, Patrick Nielsen Hayden) asked if she'd written any novels after reading her posts on the newsgroups.
I was able to finally read Sandra McDonald's The Stars Down Under. It's the second book in a trilogy that begins with The Outback Stars. I've already read the 3rd book, The Stars Blue Yonder. The series starts off as military/colony SF, but then brings in Australian aboriginal gods, time and space travel (via gates), and alternative time lines.
I also dropped another book, The Mirror Prince by Violette Malan. It's a stand-alone, set here but with faerie/elves in exile. It's fine, but couldn't hold my attention. I just like her series about Dhulyn and Parno much better. It's a fantasy world. Dhulyn and Parno are Mercenaries who get themselves involved in scrapes and bigger doings. Dhulyn is the senior partner, and is harder and in some ways more talented (as a fighter) than her partner, Parno. That makes a nice change.
I just finished one of the most anticipated books in the SF/F community right now, Among Others by Jo Walton. It's a story of growing up and surviving and reading and how (genre) literature can be the most important thing in your life and affect you in all sorts of ways. It's excellent. I consider Walton to be a very thoughtful and advertent writer. I've followed her career for a long time as she was on rec.arts.sf.written (a usenet newsgroup) for years. Her first novel was published after a Tor editor (iirc, Patrick Nielsen Hayden) asked if she'd written any novels after reading her posts on the newsgroups.
I was able to finally read Sandra McDonald's The Stars Down Under. It's the second book in a trilogy that begins with The Outback Stars. I've already read the 3rd book, The Stars Blue Yonder. The series starts off as military/colony SF, but then brings in Australian aboriginal gods, time and space travel (via gates), and alternative time lines.
I also dropped another book, The Mirror Prince by Violette Malan. It's a stand-alone, set here but with faerie/elves in exile. It's fine, but couldn't hold my attention. I just like her series about Dhulyn and Parno much better. It's a fantasy world. Dhulyn and Parno are Mercenaries who get themselves involved in scrapes and bigger doings. Dhulyn is the senior partner, and is harder and in some ways more talented (as a fighter) than her partner, Parno. That makes a nice change.
