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Originally Posted by ATDrake
 These are some of my very favourites and I own them in two languages in multiple editions (including a hardcover omnibus with very nice illustrations by Kaja Foglio of Girl Genius fame). Very highly recommended, for anyone else who might be thinking of picking up the series which is now e-booked from Subterranean Press (not available to Canadians, alas). |
The omnibus is coming to the Fantasy Masterworks series next year. Hopefully this will make it available to the rest of the world.
I'll admit I temporarily "relocated" to the US to buy the Subterranean edition from Kobo back at the start of the year.
I've only read Bridge of Birds so far, but I liked it a lot.
Since I last posted, I've read:
The Sittaford Mystery - Agatha Christie. Had to stop reading a Christie short story a day so I could catch up a bit on the novels. This one was fine.
Soldier of Sidon - Gene Wolfe. I loved the Soldier books way back when the first two were written, and this belated follow-up won a World Fantasy Award. Latro is a Roman mercenary in the pre-Empire ancient world. He forgets every night, so has to write things down. Since he has no memory, he doesn't think it odd to see demons and speak to gods. The earlier books were set in Greece, this one moves to Egypt. Still pretty great. Still felt like half of it was going over my head, but it didn't matter. I genuinely think that Wolfe is an underappreciated literary colossus.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley. Not as good as I was expecting. I found it a bit heavy-handed and clunky, with a big infodump at the start, and an actual embodied argument between the two opposing viewpoints. I read Zamyatin's
We earlier in the year, which was earlier and covered similar ground. It handled the world-building much better in my opinion, but had other faults that made it a worse read overall. I guess I already knew the setting of BNW - I think I saw part of a film adaptation once - which might have ruined its impact.
And now I'm nearing the end of
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, which I have very much enjoyed so far, although I already feel I know Sanderson's MO after less than two books.