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Originally Posted by CRussel
Finished reading Born To Run by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon.
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I enjoyed the book, and wish more of the series were available as eBooks. (A second one is, as part of an eBook omnibus " The Chrome Borne", but that's it at this point.) |
BTR is one of my favourite guilty pleasure trashy mind candy books. I enjoy it all out of proportion to the quality and coherency of the plotting and writing, and Tannim is still one of my very favourite characters, despite the passage of time and pop-culture making him a retro mullet-wearing furry-lover.
Actually, there's quite a lot more, almost all available as e-books. At some point they linked it up with Lackey's other elves/magic urban fantasies and now it's part of the entire "Elves on the Road Universe" which comprises the SERRAted Edge books, the Bedlam's Bard books, the Doubled Edge prequels, and the Diana Tregarde books.
The other books in the SERRAted Edge can be found in The Otherworld omnibus, available on either of the Mercedes Lackey hardcover tie-in CDs at the Fifth Imperium. Read the books in that before tackling Chrome Circle in The Chrome Borne (which is chronologically 4th, and really kind of a letdown after a promising first 100 pages which then goes into WTF Idiot Ball Road Trip territory).
The Doubled Edge is an Elizabethan historical prequel to the SERRAted Edge characters (which incidentally totally ignores the actual established stuff about those characters but is otherwise okay if you like elves-meddling-in-Tudor-politics stuff) and the 1st in series This Sceptre'd Isle is directly in the Baen Free Library and the rest can be found on the Invasion CD.
Bedlam's Bard series starts with Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (which is quite good), though the series kind of progressively deteriorates as it goes along. 3rd book in series, Beyond World's End, which reboots the series with a new co-author, is available directly via the Baen Free Library. A rather good prequel featuring Ellen Guon's character Kayla is also in the BFL, Bedlam Boyz. Some of the SERRA characters guest-appear or are mentioned in the Bard books. There's also a multi-author anthology of shorts (varying quality) set in the EoTR universe, also on the Invasion CD.
The Diana Tregarde books are published by Tor and with the exception of one novella in a collection, not available as e-books, which is a shame, since the first one was pretty good, the second was decent, and the 3rd one gives part of the backstory on Tannim.
Also, you might see a listing for Stoned Souls in the SERRAted Edge series in some stores/bibliographies. Due to some sort of argument/drama with Baen and a case of rotating co-authors, this never got printed and may still not even be completely written.