Tim Hergert
John Abbe (aka Slow)@cjust @danlyke Now I'm trying to think of other worthy series. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon comes to mind, for science fiction.
Jens N@slowenough @cjust @danlyke
For stories about wizards, may I suggest the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, starting with "So you want to be a wizard"
IMHO vastly superior to anything Rowling has every written.
For stories about wizards, may I suggest the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, starting with "So you want to be a wizard"
IMHO vastly superior to anything Rowling has every written.
Jaime Herazo@aserraric @slowenough @cjust @danlyke
I'm like 4 books behind or so, but Dresden Files, for a much more adult take, just beware that Jim Butcher is eeeeeevil 😂
I'm like 4 books behind or so, but Dresden Files, for a much more adult take, just beware that Jim Butcher is eeeeeevil 😂
viq@jherazob
Personally I found the escalation of power a bit tedious (in first book it's equivalent of gangs fighting each other with baseball bats, book 12 or so has equivalent of tactical nukes), and that I need some palate cleanser between the books, I cannot binge on them one after another.
Also the presentation of women is somewhere between "could be better" and "problematic".
@aserraric @slowenough @cjust @danlyke
Personally I found the escalation of power a bit tedious (in first book it's equivalent of gangs fighting each other with baseball bats, book 12 or so has equivalent of tactical nukes), and that I need some palate cleanser between the books, I cannot binge on them one after another.
Also the presentation of women is somewhere between "could be better" and "problematic".
@aserraric @slowenough @cjust @danlyke
obscurestar@aserraric @slowenough @cjust @danlyke In my trollier moments, I've been telling people Rowlings is a Worst Witch fanfic writer who made Mildred into a Harry boy and that her transphobia is a symptom of her shame.
I'm probably going to Hell but the similarities really are uncanny.
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻
🇨🇦@aserraric @slowenough @cjust @danlyke
Interesting. I know her from Star Trek novels. I may have to check this out.
Interesting. I know her from Star Trek novels. I may have to check this out.
Ariaflame
CuriosityCatI second this!!
Also, ‘The Lady Slings The Booze’ series, although I’d add a content warning.
(The premise & internal world ideas are *great* - but it does take place in a brothel, so there are stories around various kinds of abuse. Handled v well & with as light a touch as possible, but they’re there.)
I recommend Spider Robinson anyway, but his Callahan series are great to start with. They are a series of stand-alone, but semi- interconnected short stories. ✅
Dan Lyke@slowenough @cjust for YA fiction, Diana Wynne Jones has also been recommended to me a number of times. And I think with the rise of indie ebook publishers, there are tons of worthy authors out there writing good YA with better messages, just waiting to be found.
EJJames
zellyn@EJJames @danlyke @slowenough @cjust +1 for Okorofor.
If you wanna go oldschool, Wizard of Earthsea is good.
In the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon vein is also Stainless Steel Rat.
@zellyn @EJJames @danlyke @cjust Clearly, I will have to check out Okorofor. I enjoyed the Stainless Steel Rat I read, but I don't remember a focus on people being human to each other? Been a while.
For some reason your comment reminded me of Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures books (and comics), which certainly are that way.
@slowenough @EJJames @danlyke @cjust Oh, yeah, Stainless Steel Rat is old-school sci-fi, so no actual humans. It's why Asimov's Robot stories are so much better! 😂
Okorofor is modern and thus has a heart 🙂
Nicolas Delsaux