FANTASY January Suggestions

[dwndrgn]

*your suggestions here*

[dwndrgn]

None yet? C'mon, I know you guys are burning to suggest something!

[rune]

I'll nominate Melusine by Sarah Monette. Here's some blurb on the book from Fantasy Fiction site -

Mélusine-a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption, and destinies lost and found...

Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But the horrors of his past as an abused slave have returned, and threaten to destroy all he has since become.
As a cat burglar, Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. But now he has been caught by a wizard. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay, but for Felix Harrowgate... Thrown together by fate, these unlikely allies will uncover a shocking secret that will link them inexorably together.

[dwndrgn]

I think that this one was recommended by Neil Gaiman as well. Thanks for the suggestion, rune. Anyone else?

[Rane Longfox]

Sure. I won't be reading it in January, be too busy preparing for my trip, but I'll still nominate: Vellum, by Hal Duncan (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...004062-9827007)

Originally Posted by http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/641

It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch.
But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply.


Here there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day, and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the world. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which. Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own skins, their own souls, but sometimes... just sometimes...

[Teresa Edgerton]

I nominated Melusine for the book club a while back, and since I still want to read it ...

[knivesout]

I'd like to read Melusine too, but as I haven't found a copy and am very selfish, why don't we read Neil Gaiman's new novel, Anansi Boys? Or we could tackle Hope Mirrlee's Lud-in-the-mist - I'd love to do that as a group read!

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by knivesout

Or we could tackle Hope Mirrlee's Lud-in-the-mist - I'd love to do that as a group read!

I'd be in on a group discussion for Lud-In The-Mist

[rune]

I'd be happy to read Anansi Boys too

[Teresa Edgerton]

Obviously, I would be up for a discussion of Lud-in-the-Mist, but I feel constrained to point out that we're concentrating on new books in the book club these days.

However, as a supermoderator, knivesout, you could start that Classics Book Club we were talking about a while back, and propose Lud as the first book -- couldn't you?

[dwndrgn]

Ok, so Anansi Boys is added to the suggestion list and Lud-in-the-mist is on hold for the Classic Book Club.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Kelpie

However, as a supermoderator, knivesout, you could start that Classics Book Club we were talking about a while back, and propose Lud as the first book -- couldn't you?

OOHHH a Classic Book Club would be like manna from heaven for a fantasy junkie like myself...

[knivesout]

OK, I'll see if I can kick-off the Classic Book Club in time for the New Year. Watch this forum for more details,