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Third book of the children of time. Still haunts me. Great book.

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Happy New Year! I'm planning to start The Sun Eater series this year, so I'm happy we'll be on this journey together! I've only read The Appeal from Janice Hallett and loved it, also hoping to read more from her in 2025. Fingers crossed for a good reading year ahead.

The outcast mage sounds pretty interesting. Im going to have to add that one to the tbr. Also going to pick up The Wood in Midwinter

I look forward to hearing more of your journey through valdemar!!

Nice list, I’m middle of 5th book in sun eater series so far so good, all these books can get long winded at times, if you get past that, they improve one after the other, although half the 4th is very dark, but probably required to justify the story arc if a genocide..tbd I agree Hadrian’s actions are infuriating at times..great series so far! PS the homage to dune continues in so many way, often surprising it’s interesting

Ursula Vernon is one of the finest writers out there. I've only recently begun working my way through her T. Kingfisher titles. I just read Paladin's Grace earlier today. What a pleasure. She and Elizabeth Bear seem to write effortlessly. That should get a laugh out of either of them.

Greg Bear's War Dogs trilogy is actually very good. It deals with aliens, ancient aliens, other alien manipulation and man's fight to fit in and understand his place and role in it all. It's all fought in our solar system, with Mars and the moon Titan as major locals. It's worth a read if this is your genre.

Dune sucks as well

A memory called Empire was not good as far as I am concerned

Old guy here, I thought this was awesome!! You made a comparison I didn't fully understand, but it's always nice to have something to look up!

I would recommend you to read Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming, a short story by Cixin Liu. This short story, to me is the very definition of military sci-fi.

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I tend to recommend Pub order because you get the chance to see her writing grow along with the world-building, and while the different series jump around in the timeline, the questions raised in one series are expanded in the next by written order. If you count By the Sword as your 'current' timeline, Arrows trilogy takes part in the middle of BtS, the Mage Winds + Mage Storms series continue forward from BtS/Arrows (and Winds/Storms are basically a two-part trilogy), then the Owl series goes further forward after a small timeskip. But you really Really need the context of The Last Herald-mage series to understand current events in Valdemar (though it is set about 500 years in the past), and you Want the context of the Mage Wars (Gryphon series, thousand or so years in the past) to understand the world, and the reasons there is so much messed up wild magic and places devastated by ancient mage battles. Though for you personally having started with By the Sword you might want to read Vows & Honor next because that is Kethry and Tarma's story (Kerowyn's grandmother and sword-grandmother) and drops you back about 60 years and will fill you in on all of their adventures with Need. It's not set in Valdemar at all but helps expand the world-building and helps you have appreciation for how odd Valdemar is with their Heralds and magic horses. Then go to Arrows and onwards in pub order. Talia's books are a good start because the main POV in a young farmgirl from a remote border area and she actually doesn't know much about her own country, so as a reader you learn with her. My hands down favorite series is The Last Herald-mage trilogy, it was written 1989-1990 and were the first books I read as a young teen that had a gay protagonist. It's won a LAMBDA Award and has had a place in my heart ever since I first read it, and I still reread it! (But fair warning, you will cry your eyes out!) And if you are interested, here is a recording of the song "Kerowyn's Ride" (there are like 8 albums of music from the books!) ruclips.net/video/Dri6vvAlDCg/видео.html

The owlsight trilogy part of the valdamar series is my favorite three books. Love the Crown of stars!! If you havent read them the green rider series is good, The Mistborn trilogy is great. Black Magician Trilogy i love. Sorry i can go on forever lol. Love you videos 👍

Thankfully for me there are only a few new books coming out this year that I will make a high priority for myself. Maybe ill be able to catch up on some of my backlog reads.

No Martha Wells? A sequel to The Witch King is coming. She's also working on a new Murderbot but I don't know if the date has been set. A new space opera installment by Elizabeth Bear. Vivian Shaw.…What I want to read are the finale's by Philip Pullman and Tamsyn Muir. Who knows when we'll see either.

Nice list. A couple caught my eye, and I've pre-ordered the Outcast Mage. Two questions for you, thought; 1) have you read/reviewed "A Flame in the North" or "The Fall of Waterstone"? I see them on your shelf, and was curious. And 2) Where did you find the gnome? I'm thinking my wife would love one. As always, thanks for your thoughts and ideas. Hope the jolly, fat man brings you lots of interesting and exciting stories this holiday season.

Interest list, just wrapping up the 4th in the sun eater series, this one took a dark turn, after the mostly positive 3rd book, still very good, thinking the 5th will be more positive, tbd..Merry Christmas to you and your family, pet the crew especially chip!

Sorry! My bad. Frank Herbert wrote The Dorsadi Experiment. While the Dorsai books were written by Gordon R Dickson. I always got these titles mixed up. A great book by Gordon R Dickson is 'Naked to the stars'.

Elizabeth Moon 'Vata War Saga' and her 'Serano Legacy' stories. Read them you won't regret it. I also like Frank Herbert's 'The Dorsai Legacy'. (or books he wrote with 'Dorsai' as part of the title).

Hey Lee, I'm a newly published author and I would love to send you a review copy of my book. Let me know if we could possibly arrange that. Cheers.

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One of the few books I couldn't finish. The feel of it reminded me of Chuck Palahniuk, who is someone I'll never read again.

Chip multiple appearances! Yes! Sounds interesting, not sure I’ll read it, don’t like stuff like that, rational mind says these things are rubbish, my Imagination agrees but than imagines, than I remember many unexplained things in this world..almost all of them with a rational logical explanation, which we haven’t figured out yet..

This one sounds like a solid pass. Not a fan of the horror/suspenseful thriller type genres. Having to stop the flow of the story to go read footnotes is too much like work.

Your list overlaps my own favorites a lot. Based in that I'll be adding Memory Called Empire to my TBR list. 😁

At some point you'll want to try and tackle The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Set aside the time to read it twice as you'll miss most of what's going on in the first read.

Such a fun and eclectic reading month!

Oh man Archangel sounds really interesting. Ill have to add that one to the tbr

Love the kitten appearances!

Chip appeared! See I told she loves the camera! Nice list added a few to mine..on third book of the Sun Eater series this one so far is the best one yet first two are very detailed so they slow down at times, but this third one is a roller coaster so far..great recommendation thank you

I finished the third book of the Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri: The Lotus Empire. Also re-read Tiamat's Wrath from the Expanse series by James SA Corey

Well since you've included some of my favorites with Wheel of Time and Crown of Stars (plus I really enjoyed Chalion and need to continue) I'll definitely have to check out the others!

*Legend of the Galactic Heroes* is, by far, the best military/political sci-fi/space opera series you are going to find. The 80s anime adaptation is every bit as great.

Bujold is a PERFECT example of Comfy! I was so inspired by her World of Five Gods books in my own writing. What a great list!

I tried to read Jaran twice but it was so slow and without action but the character work was good

Nice! Thank you

No Asimov? Fail. Foundation is THE best sci-fi. then there's Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Just off the top of my head and in no particular order, A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge Use Of Weapons by Iain M Banks Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams Startide Rising by David Brin Madness Season by CS Friedman The Rift by Walter Jon Williams Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Vang by Christopher Rowley In The Company Of Others by Julie E Czerneda The Legacy Of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes

Having read On Origin of Species, all I can say is "*yawn*". Quite dry, but given your background you should find it enlightening. My non-fiction these days seems to be slanted towards astrophysics. Of course, there is Hawking's, "A Brief History of Time". Tyson's "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" is filled with his humour and is a good read. I'm currently reading "A Brief History of Black Holes". by Dr. Becky Smethurst. I'll end with a mention of Issacson's biography of Einstein, and Hawking's autobiography, "My Brief History".

No cameo from skip and the rest of the boys? Good luck with you new books

"The Vang: The Military Form." Extraterrestrial invasion that makes a xenomorph outbreak look a box of kittens.