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Cateagle Site Owner
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1004 Location: Ft. Worth, TX
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:37 am Post subject: Cateagle Recommends |
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I'm going to start recommending books, each month, I've found especially good.
For October, I'd like to recommend Digital Knight by Ryk Spoor (Baen Books, $7.99 US). A first novel, it drew me right in and is engrossing reading. You have a cogent and consistent treatment of vampires, werewolves, et al. in a modern setting. More to the point, you have a hero who wins as much by brains as by brawn.
Cheers,
Cateagle _________________ "But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cateagle. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him."
-- With apologies to Rudyard Kipling |
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Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 892 Location: East coast somewhere
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Cateagle Site Owner
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1004 Location: Ft. Worth, TX
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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It's a late book from October, but I heartily recommend Far Side of the Stars by David Drake (Baen Books, $25.00 US). It's the third of his "Leary & Mundy" series and a good read in it's own right. This is the initial hardback release and, while pricey, comes with some excellent value for the money in the form of Baen Books third CD containing in unencrypted, multiple-format e-book form all the material David Drake has written for Baen (either by himself or with a co-writer), the first novel of his "Isles" series from Tor, cover art work, and, here's the real goody, Manly Wade Wellman's "John The Balladeer" stories. These last are more or less contemporary Appliachian fantasy and are works I've thoroughly enjoyed for years.
Cheers,
Cateagle _________________ "But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cateagle. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him."
-- With apologies to Rudyard Kipling |
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