BookLog

[curgoth]

8. Chill by Elizabeth Bear
Probably my favourite Bear setting. Nanotech! A decadent aristocracy fighting back form the brink of annihilation! In spaaaaace! I had forgotten how much influence this had on the Nano-Victorian Future setting. I want a basilisk.
9. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Steampunk! Zombies! Airships! Believable characters

Comments

[immlass]

You're into the low period of Vlad. I still read them in hopes they'll be as good as the first two, but I'm always disappointed. They do get better again, though.

[curgoth]

I've found Vlad is like sex is supposed to be - even bad Vlad is still good. (I have found that bad sex is actually worse than no sex, but that's another story).

[immlass]

The Cawti stuff is bad enough sex that I skip Phoenix on rereads of the series. It's a pet theory in one of my circles that Brust was processing his divorce when he was writing it. I can believe it.

Maybe it's shallow of me, but I love the caper books. The Dumas pastiches are a different kind of fun, but the non-caper Vlad books just ... aren't.

[curgoth]

Ah, I am able to console myself with setting-geeking on Dragaera during those parts, and, by this point in re-reads, checking for foreshadowing.

[mycrazyhair]

I'll try to remember to bring Athyra back on Saturday, since it's not close to the top of my to-read pile.