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Originally Posted by rkomar
You might try Stephen Hunt's series starting with "Court of the Air". It's more steampunk than high fantasy, but it's definitely epic, high stakes, and has good triumphing over evil. The stories are classic potboilers, with a Victorian flavour to the stories.
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Thanks. I'm a huge steampunk fan, as I mentioned elsewhere. Maybe not this thread. I'd like to broaden his horizons, although, right now, I'm just so delighted he's reading that I have started out sloooowly, with the WIT series and The Dark is Rising series (sorry if I have a title name there rather than the full series name).
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If we're stretching a point then Jules Verne wrote a number of good books that are like epics in some ways and which could be considered a bit 'steampunk' in nature. Like '20,000 leagues under the seas' for example. or "Journey to the center of the Earth.' Would E. R. Burrough's Mars books fit I wonder?
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I ADORED Burroughs as a kid, although I admit I leaned more toward Tarzan than POM. I have all the POM's in digital form, which I could lend him, IF he had an ePUB-reader. Drat. Hmph...I wonder if Mum and Dad would let me give him the spare NookColor I have sitting here (purchased for a client that never used it)? Or even, for parental monitoring, one of the newer inexpensive Kindles? He could learn to come to MR and PG and download classics, too.
Hmph. You guys are tough on my BUDGET! (It's nice to have a kid in the family, albeit my DH's, with whom to relate. The rest really aren't kindred spirits. I didn't know I even LIKED the little buggers until now.).
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