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Big Sc-Fi!
The last few weeks I’ve added in some serious fantasy series with Xanth, The Wheel of Time and Discworld topping the list.
This week I wanted to show that there are some sizeable SF series out there too. I started off with The Saga of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro. This is a big SF series with 13 books. We already had The Last Hawk (1998 Nebula nominated) and The Quantum Rose (2001 Nebula winner) – books 3 and 6 respectively – so I added in the other 11 books ending with Diamond Star, out just this year.
To top that I went in for an old classic series from Marion Zimmer Bradley, Darkover. Twenty-two books! The Sword of Aldones (1963 Hugo nom), The Heritage of Hastur (1975 Nebula nominee) and 1978 Hugo nominee, The Forbidden Tower, are the most celebrated books of a series that spans 40 years. This is a series that you often hear mentioned when people talk about what got them hooked on SF.
Keeping in the SF vein, I’ve also finished out several smaller SF series like Peter F. Hamilton‘s Greg Mandel Trilogy, which includes 1995 BSFA nominee The Nano Flower, and Greg Bear‘s Anvil of Stars – the sequel to triple nominee The Forge of God (Nebula 1987, Hugo and Locus SF 1988).
Next comes Karl Schroeder‘s Virga, beginning with Sun of Suns (2007 Campbell nom) and ending with The Sunless Countries published by Tor in 2009. I love the Stephan Martinere cover art for these books and the excerpts sound intriguing. I’ve added these to my reading list!
Stephen Baxter‘s Xeelee Sequence is now complete with the 3 middle volumes added between Raft (1992 Clarke nominee) and Vacuum Diagrams, winner of the 1999 Philip K. Dick Award.
That’s a lot of sci-fi but don’t fret fantasy fans – I didn’t forget you. I went old-school again by finishing out Barbara Hambly‘s Winterlands series with books 2-4 added to 1986 Locus Fantasy nominated Dragonsbane. And finally, to round things out, I give you the last volume of Orson Scott Card‘s The Tales of Alvin Maker. I somehow managed to miss The Crystal City last go ’round.
That’s 46 new books for you to tag, so get busy.
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