good books

How's tricks, folks? I've read some excellent books lately that I thought
I'd share with y'all. I hope this doesn't interfere with all the other list
activity that's been happening lately.

First off, there's Kelly McCullough's "Bared Blade". This is the second
book in his Fallen Blade series. This is a fantasy series that doesn't fall
into the generic-medievalish-pseudo-western-european fantasy. If anything,
it has more of an East Asian feel to it, though I couldn't quantify why.

I was sorry to see McCullough's superb WebMage series come to a conclusion,
but this is an excellent follow-on. WebMage also ended well, so I'm not
really complaining about that.

A couple months ago I read Chris Randolph's two "Arcana Universalis"
novel-segments. They were a sort of mix of fantasy and space opera.
I really like these and I wish he'd g'head and finish the whole book.
This might be only available via Kindle.

I've also started re-reading EC Tubb's "Dumarest of Terra" books. I just
finished the third of the set. I read the first 15 when I was an early teen
and never finished the series. This is straight space opera, but there are
lots of elements in the series that show up in other books. I think these
were also inspiration for the "Traveller" RPG.

Currently, I'm reading Schwartz' "Gooseberry Bluff Community College" and
Malin's "Northwest Coast Indian Painting".

Wayne

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