I recently finished up Linda Nagata's
Nanotech Succession series. And though I wasn't as thrilled with the last two installments as I was with the first two, they were still quite good overall. These were her very first novels; and while it's easy to see how the first in the series won her a Locus award for Best First Novel, it's also easy to see--having read some her more recent works--that she's only gotten better. I mainly read this older series because her latest book,
Edges (the first book of the
Inverted Frontier series), is being billed as "
a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata's The Nanotech Succession" and I didn't desire it to be "a new entry point" for me. I have to have it all or nothing.
So while I look forward to starting her latest work, I'm first going to do a little palate cleansing via K.J. Parker's latest release:
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City.
Quote:
A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.
To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job.
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Should be fun. It's my first K.J. Parker book since his real identity--Tom Holt--was revealed (a secret that was kept for seventeen years!).