alls wells thats ends wells

[reverancepavane]

This is another quote reccomendation for a book. However I haven't read past page 30 yet, but I still expect it's going to be good. I've been waiting for it to appear for a while. I heartily reccomend it and the prequels Voyage of the Shadowmoon and Glass Dragons. No one in Scalticar would have believed that in the last months of the year 3143 they were being watched keenly by intelligences from another world. "If they are so intelligent, why are they bothering to look at us?" would have been the reaction of Empress Wensomer. "Would have been" were the three critical words, however. Empress Wensomer had gone missing, and Scalticar was experiencing what historians annoyingly refer to as interesting times. Voidfarer by Sean McMullen

Comments

[maelorin]

ah, an interesting concoction of references in a few sentences. bravo to the author!

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'll have to keep an eye out for it ... McMullen is, sadly, a little harder to find in these parts (apart from when he randomly turned up at a convention here a few years back :-) ).

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

It's being published by Tor (US). No sign of a UK (or Australian) publisher.

[leonhard.livejournal.com]

I recently picked up 2 of McMullens, not having read him before. Souls of the Calculor and Miocene Arrow are definately a good read! I'll have to look up Voidfarer...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

It's vitally important that you read them in order of writing(Voyage Of The Shadowmoon, Glass Dragons, Voidfarer). This is because the later books tend not to have a great deal of exposition on what has gone on before (or how important parts of the world work), but also because the heroes of each subsequent book tend to be the B-characters of the previous book and a lot of the humour depends upon already knowing the characters. In this case having read Glass Dragons is a must. So far it's a reasonably competent book, but not as much fun as the utterly fantasic (in all senses of the word) Glass Dragons.