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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 9: Recommend a fellow writer you believe is under appreciated.
Graydon Saunders. (Self-publishes a series of fantasy novels. Ebooks only, refuses to work with Amazon or anyone else who requires DRM, so best sought on Kobo. Absolutely madly different to anything else that fits the label "high fantasy" because, to start with, he's anti-monarchist and anti-aristrocratic *and so are his protagonists*.
@cstross
Absolutely amazing series. I've reread it multiple times.
#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Recommend a fellow writer you believe is under appreciated.
@cstross Seconding Graydon Saunders.
Fantasy with unique politics and economics, and a really interesting mix of magic plus realistic engineering. (When the production of your magical artillery is gated by the availability of samarium and cobalt, you know this is not your usual fantasy).
I also liked his "The Human Dress", which is an equally different and cool take on dinosaurs + vikings + zombies.
@cstross These books are great. Also, a healthy appreciation for both artillery and what artillery can't do.
@cstross bought one. Thanks. (Oof, figuring out how to get Kobo installed and logged in to the right account on a Boox reader was painful, but now it’s done).
@cstross
"they’ve been writing snarky articles at each other in the scholarly journals for so long that the earliest ones were two major vowel shifts ago"
i think i'm gonna like this, thanks for the rec!
@cstross Ooo, looks like I have a new book to read.
@cstross I'm just in the middle of a reread and yes, they are great!
@cstross I've been asking myself if something like this existed for a long time.
@cstross did he write that wierd thing about the artillery squad powered by ghosts you recommended years ago?
That was a hard read, but worth the effort. And, yes: very “different”.
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