Re: Old Tea Leaf Reviews 6: 1986 Locus Poll Best First Novel

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
4 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay

I've never been able to finish this.

Apparently you either love this trilogy or you hate it (The Wandering Fire,
The Darkest Road). I've not heard from anyone who said "meh" about it yet.
(Fantasy, set in Fionavar, the One True World, with five people from Earth
imported as a group, each ending up with a different destiny. Battling the
Big Bad UberEvil.)

Guy Kay is as far as I can tell fairly successful.

Yes, and I'm buying his stuff still and reading it as soon as I can. Just,
you know, not always in hardback any more.

5 Tailchaser's Song Tad Williams

This involved a cat and is thick enough to stun a nun if thrown.

Williams is also still with us.

His books have retained that quality as well (well, not the cat part
necessarily). Currently working my way through Shadowmarch.

6 Cats Have No Lord Will Shetterly

As I recall, the reason cats have no lord in the universe is tied
into the continued existance of the universe in question. I don't remember
much about the book except that there's an amusing reference to the duel
at the Cliffs of Madness from the PRINCESS BRIDE.

Shetterly is still active as a writer, among other things.
Apparently he had a book out as recently as 2007 but not only did I
manage to miss reading it, I missed its existence until now.

_If_ I remember right this had a sequel, The Tangled Lands; he then went off
into, I think, either Liavek novels or whatever that series was where the
elves came back and the series focussed on the city where elves and humans
both lived and there were a lot of teenagers and homeless people involved.
(I know, I know, 'be more specific'...)

Dave 'again, many of these I have no memory of' DeLaney
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