I've read The Philosopher Kings and Penric's Demon - both pretty good.
Can you recommend any of the others? I'd happily read Reynolds or King if opportunity arose but the others I don't know other than as names - and slates have made the Hugo shortlists a bit useless for making notes this year.
The Reynolds is very Reynolds, I'm not so keen on his writing any more but if you're a fan then I should think you'll like it.
I really liked the Brandon Sanderson novella (_Perfect State_), which surprised me as he's the person who took over _The Wheel of Time_ and that's not my sort of thing at all.
_Folding Beijing_'s worth a read, and the Jim Butcher is quite fun in a brainless steampunk kind of way (though I've only read the extract in the Hugo packet).
I haven't read a lot of Reynolds, but haven't bounced off him yet. Bounced off Butcher very quickly - his things are not mine, and I found his writing incoherent (maybe my "incoherent" = your "brainless"?)
But I will pay more attention to Brandon Sanderson next time I meet him - people have been saying interesting things about his work. Thanks.
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Can you recommend any of the others? I'd happily read Reynolds or King if opportunity arose but the others I don't know other than as names - and slates have made the Hugo shortlists a bit useless for making notes this year.
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I really liked the Brandon Sanderson novella (_Perfect State_), which surprised me as he's the person who took over _The Wheel of Time_ and that's not my sort of thing at all.
_Folding Beijing_'s worth a read, and the Jim Butcher is quite fun in a brainless steampunk kind of way (though I've only read the extract in the Hugo packet).
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But I will pay more attention to Brandon Sanderson next time I meet him - people have been saying interesting things about his work. Thanks.
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