July 2nd, 2008, 08:05 AM
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Re: OT-Black Company
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HoneyBadger said:
Stephen Brust is a wonderful writer, and I can't recommend him enough, except that I just can't abide his Taltos novels. To me they read like an internet chatroom live action role-playing melodrama, where everybody's part dragon, part elf, and part supermodel, with a mandatory tragic past, lost love, sentient weapon, adopted children, sparkling emerald eyes, and enough powerful friends to gag a senate committee. So, take that as you will, but I do consider him extraordinarily talented, aside from that. Try "Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill"  It's not fantasy, but it's good.
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Personally, I had a sentient beltbuckle. And I'd recommend Brust's "To Reign in Hell" before "Cowboy Feng's". It's fantasy, captain, but not as we know it. It's also brilliantly written.
I also recommend Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy, in particular her "Curse of Chalion."
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