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Of course also from TSR there are the Forgotten Realms books.One of the early shared universe series was the fantasy series that started with Thieves World. For the superhero version of that concept see George RR Martin's Wild Cards series which includes stories by the likes of Roger Zelazny, Melinda Snodgrass and Martin.
Then of course you could explore the infinite number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels.
Yeah, I've been recommended Thieves World, but I have a hard time getting into books that are pre-80's. Wild Cards I plan to read when I'm craving comic books again.
Star Trek novels don't really interest me, but I'd love to read some good Star Wars. Any recommendations for where to start?
Gah! Goodreads at my post again. This was written much better before, but this is the third time today that this happened, so here's the jist.I have a hard time getting into pre-80's books.
Wild Cards I plan to read.
Star Wars I'd like to get into. Suggestions for where to start?
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Edit: I'm actually enjoying this book so far, and I'm gonna keep this part more serious and somewhat informative.
Ok, continuing on:
Homeland is set in 5 parts, each of which open with an essay from Drizzt, and from what I can remember, they're the best part of the trilogy. I admire how Salvatore delivers so much from half a page. I've taken influence from this with my P&P character sheet in games like D&D.
Anyways, this one talks about how Drizzt's childhood is as you'd expect, and how he had to deal with severe reverse-sexism. The poor guy.
Chapter 6 has probably my favorite part in the the Homeland. We learn why Drizzt uses two swords. He's extremely ambidexterous. He's asked to catch several tossed coins in in a specific hand, showing off his talent, and he catches them all, several times a row like it's nothing! I know you might say "Gary Stu!" To that I say "it's still pretty damn engaging!"
Chapter 7 this this fight with this drow Alton versus spiders, where a minor character almost ends up kamikazi-ing himself by dropping a fireball at his feet. How does he survive?
Chapter 8 is Zak training Drizzt and...it's not boring. I'm impressed. The most boring part of origin stories and it works! I remember dropping Red Sister because 10 chapters of training and it and showed no sign of stopping anytime. This time it was dare I say...fun!
Chapter 9 has Alton again getting assigned to spy on Drizzt, and be prepared to fight him when the time is right.
Chapter 10 we learn that Drizzt is Malice's final child, along with a few other interesting things that I can't recall.
Chapter 11: Final Chapter for part 2. Drizzt is reminded By Zak that he cannot ever lose a battle, for if he does, it is truly the end of him.
Well this was fun writing up. Hope someone got some joy out of this.
There is the Man/Kzin series based on Larry Niven's "Known Universe" series.
I'm looking for fantasy/sci-fi series where there's a TON of books written in the same universe by multiple authors. Stuff like Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance Shadowrun, and Pathfinder.
Please suggest both the series, and where to start within them.
I wrote some notes on the first 5 chapters of the Drizzt origin trilogy, but, it got nothing but backlash, I'll rewrite it later.