LOL ... okay, I'll chime in My two tarsk bits' worth on the football thing before I get back to books... for college football, My blood has always run Tennessee Vols orange ... and unfortunately, My favorite pro team is having their worst season that I can ever remember: I've been a Miami Dolphins fan since I was, like, four (seriously, since about 1970). Ye gods but we need another Bob Griese...
Okay, back to books. Lil, since You're a LKH fan, I jsut gotta ask -- have You read her first novel,
Nightseer? Not a vampire to be seen in there, but ohhh can she do demons LOL. Keleios Incantare is one of the most memorable half-elves I've ever seen in print, and Master Eroar is jsut AWESOME. If You haven't read it yet, I highly suggest it. It's been one of My favorites for years (and as it happens I am re-reading it now hehe).
And since someone brought up really old SF...
Edgar Rice Burroughs , most notably his Venus series (I own
Pirates of Venus -- first edition, first printing, hardcover... good luck prying THAT from My cold dead fingers) and
James Blish's Earthman, Come Home series are both extraordinary tales.
Oh--and there is one more I wanted to mention, a married couple who write together:
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Their novels of the Liaden universe are, in a word, spellbinding. Some of the best space-opera I have ever read, and I have read a LOT of space opera. Check them out at
http://www.korval.com, they even have sample chapters posted. The books are DEEP, plenty of action, and the characters are so real you can almost reach out and touch them. I've read two so far,
Carpe Diem and
Plan B, and I can't wait to find the rest of them.
Ok, enough from Me for today. Gotta go tend the tea lol.
...Arlon
