I first read Mary Gentle's Orthe series ten years ago, when I picked up a copy to take travelling.  Back in those days, before e-readers, a two-week holiday meant a book the size of a brick that would last the whole fortnight. Now, of course, you can load five or six new novels onto a Kindle or Kobo, but in 2002 e-books hadn't been invented. and I ( Read more... )