Comments | meganbmoore: Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane

meganbmoore

Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane

Jan 11, 2008 17:40

Stealing the Elf-King's Roses is a modern fantasy that's not quite like any other fantasy novel I've read. Or rather, I've seen plenty attempted to do it, but none actually succeed. It is, quite simply, a procedural murder mystery in an alternate reality where magic, and other worlds, exists. While most modern and urban fantasy that has reality ( Read more... )

ya/mg/kids, a: diane duane, books, genre: sff

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estara January 12 2008, 15:21:12 UTC

I hope you've also read Duane's "Door into ... " Series, which is great epic fantasy (with male/female balanced world and a bi hero who loves his male best friend, but also a solar flare, eventually... you have to read it).

And, if you like original Star Trek, all her Star Trek novels (she did a lot of the Romulan ones), I think she's the best ST novel author of them all. Her Kirk is more likeable than the original, though. ;D

meganbmoore January 12 2008, 16:23:19 UTC

All I've read by her before this is the first of her Wizard books(one of several series I'm convinced R.K. Rowling was very familiar with before starting Harry Potter) though I do have the 2nd and 3rd of that series waiting.

estara January 12 2008, 16:43:17 UTC

Those are good, too, at least the first four, I sort of lost interest after that. They're shelved as YA, and the other ones I mentioned aren't.

Not sure if you still could get the Door into books, though, as Meisha Merlin shut its doors last year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Duane#The_Middle_Kingdoms
http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Five-Dragon-Diane-Duane/dp/1892065517/
http://www.amazon.com/Door-into-Sunset-Tale-Five/dp/0312851847/

They still seem to be affordable.
She's also on lj as dduane, I believe.

smillaraaq January 12 2008, 22:10:43 UTC

I sort of lost track of the "Young Wizards" a couple of books ago, and lost a few of the later volumes loaning them out to friends, so that's something I've been meaning to catch up on. Out of the ones I've read (1 through 5), the second book, Deep Wizardry, was always my favorite, so I'll be quite interested in seeing your reaction to it.

(Ultra-geeky version of Warhol's fifteen-minutes-of-fame confession time: my old boss and I have walk-on parts in one of DD's Trek novels. I'm an alien Starfleet ensign with multiple personalities, he's a human Starfleet captain with a rather Transformers-esque nickname.)

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smillaraaq January 13 2008, 02:30:02 UTC

Oh, and since you're a comics geek and I don't see it on the massive-tags-sidebar-of-DOOOOOOOM! over there...have you read Top 10?

meganbmoore January 13 2008, 02:38:42 UTC

Yes, I have. The massive-tags-sidebar-of-DOOOOOOOM! only emerged about a year and a half ago, and I read Top 10 before that.

It's pretty good.

Why?

smillaraaq January 13 2008, 02:43:48 UTC

Why? The "police procedural in alterworld where X works, without being obsessed with shipping" bit in your review. Replace "magic" with "superheroes" and that's pretty much why I loved that series in a nutshell. (Heck, you can even leave in the magic for some of the bits, like Smax...)

meganbmoore January 13 2008, 03:06:22 UTC

"without being obsessed with shipping" huh?

But yeah, that's Top 10 in a nutshell. What can I say? It's a type of fictional preferrence with me. And I am very happy Top 10 never actually went "the leads hook up" route with Smax/Toybox, though I feared it would in the Smax mini(which then, like Saiyuki, got the very rare and special "sometime incest is OK" pass from me)

Though I do think she should have let him pound her cheating boyfriend into the dust...