The Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books Thread Book • Page 154

When I read it it was the first 10% one day and the remaining 90% the next day, just sitting in my cubicle at work until like 9pm haha. It’s captivating.

 

I'm on 7 now and faction wars just started so of course I now need to find as much time as possible to continue on.

This is great. I was expecting June from prior rumors (close but a little early) but Matt has such great productivity for a series that's got as sprawling as it has. I mean 8 books in 6 years?

 

thank god the audio will be out at the same time. That really sucked waiting like 6 months for book 7 audio after book release. imho, if your audiobooks aren't ready, wait.

 

It should be noted that this 5/12 date is super tentative and with how busy Matt is, it will almost certainly be delayed from that date.

 

I'm fine living in delusion

 

How was this not posted in here? I just bought like three of these series for $3 apiece

https://www.ryancahillauthor.com/da...9JICelnaYXfCkLfZJQ_aem_Jgyf2r3xYbbhQW_6vpIGZw

 

somebody talk to me about all these authors I see in every used bookstore ever.

I want to know more about Mercedes Lackey, L.E. Modesitt Jr, Melanie Rawn, David Drake, Sara Douglass, etc.

Find your opinions and tell them to me

 

all of them having huge swaths of books in every used bookstore I've ever been in lets me know that they aren't particularly good books haha. But that may be a bad assumption. Modesitt also appears to have completely copied the style of Wheel of Time original hardcovers too which it's funny.

 

either they are bad or they sell really well and there are therefore a lot of copies out there

 

I mean, they're all old. And old books end up in used bookstores, no matter how many people like them.

I've got a friend who really likes Modesitt, and he keeps putting out books pretty much every year. (And he debuted a year after Jordan, so if anything he's just the same vintage; allll the best books of the early 90s looked like that.)

I've got Rawn, Drake, and Douglass on my shelf waiting to be read.

I'm reading the first Lackey trilogy right now and really liking it. I think it's a very solid example of fantasy from that era and there's a reason she's also published like a million books.

 

I was just comparing against their contemporaries like Tad Williams, Robert Jordan, etc. that I rarely ever see their books in used bookstores. I always have to double take the Modesitt books. He knew what he was doing copying the WoT art hahah

 

Yeah, those Darrell K. Sweet covers are iconic.

 

I'm essentially a sucker for any of those 90's era Tor covers lol

 

Same

 

I'm pretty sure I bought like 5 or 6 of the wheel of time books when I was longer and still a tad too young to read them based solely on how awesome the covers were

 

kicking myself for getting rid of my copies circa 2012

now I just have this silly boxed set of the first 3 books that I got on sale at Ollie's

 

I've got all the original cover hardcovers and regularly talk myself out of buying the Juniper covers

 

I am thankful I lack the money to buy fancy editions of anything

My bookshelf is a mishmash of sizes, editions, and covers. Honestly it'd drive most people here mad if I showed it lol

 

I'm going to attempt to get the Dragonsteel set but who knows how long that'll take to complete

 

I like the chaos of a mix and match bookshelf

 

I have Books 1 thru 6 in softcover and then randomly 7 & 8 in hardcover, and I thought I had New Spring also but I'm not able to locate it at the moment

 

The annoying thing about my wheel of time books is the first one is the cover for the tv show and the rest are the same style. Will probably replace it.

 

my worst offense is having the first ten Jhereg books but nine of them are paperbacks and one is a big hardback. It's the ninth book so it sticks out bad lol