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_Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth_, Simon R. Green
Book six of the Nightside, in which the Nightside is invaded by its creator, all the dead rise to ravage it, and most of the obvious fixes are tried and found wanting. Not a good starting point for the series, as this bring the internal trilogy to an end.

Books

_Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth_, Simon R. Green
Book six of the Nightside, in which the Nightside is invaded by its creator, all the dead rise to ravage it, and most of the obvious fixes are tried and found wanting. Not a good starting point for the series, as this bring the internal trilogy to an end.

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_Fell, Volume 1: Feral City_, Warren Ellis

Police detective procedural in a city that David Lynch would consider weird. I don't think a single panel is set in daytime. The stories held my attention but did not inspire me to seek out more of the same.

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_Fell, Volume 1: Feral City_, Warren Ellis

Police detective procedural in a city that David Lynch would consider weird. I don't think a single panel is set in daytime. The stories held my attention but did not inspire me to seek out more of the same.

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_Traitor_, Matthew (Woodring) Stover

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a good author in possession of a mid-list reputation, must be in want of funds.
And so media tie-in novels, in addition to being the purview of old reliables (Alan Dean Foster, Peter David) are also where a few non-specialists have tried their hands. I don't know sales figures for the various Star Wars and Star Trek novels, but I do know that they occasionally appear on the (yes, highly biased) New York Times bestseller lists, both in hardcover and paperback.

Wikipedia says there are about 26 books in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order sub-series. In addition to Stover, Walter Jon Williams, Aaron Allston and Greg Keyes wrote entries. So, then, good authors getting a guaranteed paycheck in exchange for writing in somebody else's universe, often with a given beginning and a given endpoint. Not an awful state of affairs.

This particular book, I must confess, I read solely because of the author. It's about 300 pages, has a dramatis personae listing six characters, and takes place mostly in the torture chambers of the Yuuzhan Vong. There is an extended torture scene, a tutorial on the philosophy of obscure epistemology, and a climactic scene borrowed from Horatio at the Bridge, plus a bit of Gandalf. And now, unless you are a fan of such things or of the estimable Mr. Stover, you don't need to read it.

Books

_Traitor_, Matthew (Woodring) Stover

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a good author in possession of a mid-list reputation, must be in want of funds.
And so media tie-in novels, in addition to being the purview of old reliables (Alan Dean Foster, Peter David) are also where a few non-specialists have tried their hands. I don't know sales figures for the various Star Wars and Star Trek novels, but I do know that they occasionally appear on the (yes, highly biased) New York Times bestseller lists, both in hardcover and paperback.

Wikipedia says there are about 26 books in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order sub-series. In addition to Stover, Walter Jon Williams, Aaron Allston and Greg Keyes wrote entries. So, then, good authors getting a guaranteed paycheck in exchange for writing in somebody else's universe, often with a given beginning and a given endpoint. Not an awful state of affairs.

This particular book, I must confess, I read solely because of the author. It's about 300 pages, has a dramatis personae listing six characters, and takes place mostly in the torture chambers of the Yuuzhan Vong. There is an extended torture scene, a tutorial on the philosophy of obscure epistemology, and a climactic scene borrowed from Horatio at the Bridge, plus a bit of Gandalf. And now, unless you are a fan of such things or of the estimable Mr. Stover, you don't need to read it.