I need to ask you all a question. I’m going to list a few authors and their series, and I need to know if it’s going to be worth my time tracking down these books to read. Thing is, most of these people are at least five or six books into their series, and thusly shall require many late nights, long subway rides, and sore eyeballs to get through all their works. And, as a reading addict, once I begin (unless I come across one that stinketh like a dog fart) I am pretty dedicated to finishing off an author’s entire list of works to get the entire experience.
So. Here we go. I need to know if the following authors and series are worth the while.
Steven Erikson, focusing on his The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, which I believe is coming out with the fifth (?) in the series come April. I can get the first one, Gardens of the Moon for three bucks off Amazon.com. They look like rather hefty books.
Next up is E.E. Knight and his Vampire Earth series, beginning with Way of the Wolf. Another two-buck buy off Amazon, so I know it’s not going to cost a lot money-wise, but I don’t want this series burning me out on the vampire mythos entirely. Tell me it’s consistently original enough, and I’ll give it a go.
Lastly, I’ve been seeing Neal Asher show up with some interesting science fiction titles, mainly those set in a world of Polity and rubincles: Gridlinked, Polity Agent, and so on. Looks like substantive work, but intriguing.
Have I made any good choices here, or are they all bunk? Give me some lanterns through the fog here, folks.
I see that smile.