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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
For MacAvoy, by all means read "Tea with the Black Dragon", a charming and original fantasy.
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Oh, I bought that last month with the FW CyberMonday 60% coupon, and its sequel (and a whole chunk of other MacAvoy to sample) yesterday evening with the Xmas week coupon.
I did hold off on getting
The Third Eagle just yet, because I've found that sometimes writers who do really enjoyable fantasy just don't carry that talent over to science fiction enough for my tastes, and vice versa. Some authors can do both genres quite well, others seem to be visibly better at one or the other.
But yeah, this is probably one of the most important things about e-books: the potential to have all these old titles that might have fallen into obscurity become readily available to read (rights and other considerations permitting), regardless of physical print status or perceived profitability of maintaining such.
Of course there are costs to making them available in the first place, but it seems a far lower entry barrier than for paper-format books.
And less potential waste. There are some things that trees just shouldn't have to die for.