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_The Android's Dream_, John Scalzi
_Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence (v6)_ and _Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree (v7)_, Mike Carey
_Jhereg_, _Yendi_ and _Teckla_, Steven Brust (rereads)
The Scalzi is better than I expected, and I expected good things. It's the sort of SF mystery/thriller in which the Competent Guy Who Has Been Keeping It Low-Key discovers a Lady In Distress, and then they have some adventures while Trying To Discover The Plot Against Her. And I think it was engineered to make sense as a movie, with one flashy character-based SFX sequence, a few action sequences, and a rapid but satisfying denouement. There is one physics-breaker (other than FTL) which also broke suspension of disbelief, and one religious disconnect (upon which I will expound in a later post), but otherwise... very good. Standalone, too.
I'm still liking Lucifer. Arc timing appears to be taken from _Sandman_. Definitely could not make sense of these without the prior volumes.
Rereading the early Brust Taltos novels was a good idea: I am reminded of how good he can be. (About as good as non-brilliant Zelazny, but consistently so, which Zelazny was not.)
_Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence (v6)_ and _Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree (v7)_, Mike Carey
_Jhereg_, _Yendi_ and _Teckla_, Steven Brust (rereads)
The Scalzi is better than I expected, and I expected good things. It's the sort of SF mystery/thriller in which the Competent Guy Who Has Been Keeping It Low-Key discovers a Lady In Distress, and then they have some adventures while Trying To Discover The Plot Against Her. And I think it was engineered to make sense as a movie, with one flashy character-based SFX sequence, a few action sequences, and a rapid but satisfying denouement. There is one physics-breaker (other than FTL) which also broke suspension of disbelief, and one religious disconnect (upon which I will expound in a later post), but otherwise... very good. Standalone, too.
I'm still liking Lucifer. Arc timing appears to be taken from _Sandman_. Definitely could not make sense of these without the prior volumes.
Rereading the early Brust Taltos novels was a good idea: I am reminded of how good he can be. (About as good as non-brilliant Zelazny, but consistently so, which Zelazny was not.)
