Comments on: Mercedes Lackey

By: Errol

Errol — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:11:33 +0000

I (literally) picked up KT’s City of Pearl while browsing at my friendly SF-and-romance bookseller, and my girlfriend said ‘Hey, she wrote two of the four Star Wars novels that are any good’. The book-pusher (also a friend) recommended it to me (and she has a 80% success rate on such advice), so I bought it. I then got the next four in the series on my next visit.
Charlie has a number of books/series in different styles, my girlfriend likes Merchant Princes, disliked Singularity Sky, I love the first, liked the second. Some of his thoughts on the future were on the BBC recently. Links at
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/

By: Cineris

Cineris — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:46:35 +0000

Haven’t heard of either Karen Traviss or Jo Walton, although I’ve heard good things about Charles Stross lately, so he’s on my list of authors to be on the look out for. I’ll keep them all in mind, though I’ll admit I’m a bit turned off by the fact that Traviss seems to have published a number of Star Wars novels (I remember reading a few of them years back, which is where I learned of Kevin J. Anderson and his Amazing Autowriting Machine. Fortunately, this tipped me off to the travesty the new Dune novels would be in advance.). I also try to avoid jumping into new book series, at least until they’re finished, so I know what I’m getting myself into.

By: Errol

Errol — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:48:19 +0000

Completely understandable. I managed a book and a half before giving up - she was expected at a local con, and it seemed polite to borrow a series for a try.
I’m currently enjoying Karen Traviss’s Wess’har, have you read it? Other recent reads have been Jo Walton and Charlie Stross.

By: Cineris

Cineris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:31:19 +0000

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were from that period of time — It’s really surprising to me that an author more than one of my friends enjoyed would turn out to be so bad. But I’m loathe to give an author who made such a bad impression on me a fourth chance when there are so many other things out there to read.

By: Errol

Errol — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:27:01 +0000

I understand that there was a time when she was over-committed, and the quality of her work dropped as she had to pump several out quickly. I don’t know if this applies to that series.