The Official Campaign To Get A Book In The Retrieval Artist Series As A S&L Pick

[Marion]

I'm going to have a little fun with this post. This is my official campaign to get one of the books in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch as a Sword and Laser Book Club Pick for this year.

I'm currently reading Recovery Man book 6 in this series and in full disclosure (self-interest as well) I'm reading and reviewing the entire series on my website. If you are interested in reading my reviews on the series so far:

http://marion-hill.com/category/retri...

You can read the first seven books in the series (The Disappeared to Duplicate Effort) as standalone books. However, if you read it from The Disappeared all way to Duplicate Effort you will get full effect of the entire series. Also, the entire Anniversary Day Saga will be published this year. But that series will need to be read together.

My favorite book in the series so far is Paloma and I would choose that novel as my pick. You can read my review to learn more about that book.

The reason this is my favorite ongoing series currently is the main character, Miles Flint and the main supporting character, Noelle DeRicci. They are well-drawn characters and their relationship gives the series depth. Also, the series explores the dynamic between human-alien cultures in a realistic fashion. Rusch is a skilled storyteller that keeps you guessing in each book.

There are some books better in the series than others. But, I have enjoyed my reading experience after each novel I've read.

If you are fans of this series like myself, please join my campaign to get Tom and Veronica to choose a book in this series for their pick.

If you not a fan or have never read a book in this series, please try a book out and I can write with confidence that you will have a good reading experience. And join our campaign as well. :)

Marion

[Leesa]

I'm in! I love this series (as you know :) ). Start with the short story, The Retrieval Artist, and go from there. The books aren't very long and, at least for me, the audio version is very enjoyable.

I just love the setting and all the tech. It's gritty (literally and literarily, heehee).

[Marion]

Thanks Leesa for your support. I will have to get that short story to complete my collection. :)

Marion

[Tamahome]

Maybe you can get VF to do it if S&L doesn't.

[David H.]

Oh, I *just* realized that this is not the same series as the book "Diving into the Wreck" by her. (I kept thinking that "Retrieval Artist" could refer to salvaging). I wasn't too enthused by the Diving book, so I stopped reading anything more by her. Perhaps this series would be better for me...

However, I thought you or someone else was saying that the first Retrieval Artist book was more of a setup book? You may want to be careful with that, unless you have a specific Retrieval Artist book you want to try out. I tried to get my real-life book club into Kage Baker with "In the Garden of Iden," the first Company book, but I got the impression that a lot of them weren't too excited about continuing on with the series (the second book is narrated by a different character who's way more fun than the first narrator).

[Leesa]

The Retrieval Artist: A Retrieval Artist Short Novel is a short story/novella that was I think published first, but I'm not sure if it is settings-wise chronologically first. So it should be OK to start with The Disappeared, which is where Miles and Di Ricci meet.

[Kev]

I read the first two or three books in the series and really enjoyed them. Be a good pick for the club.

I also read Diving the Wreck and absolutely LOVED and ADORED it, and devoured its sequels too.

Diving is a novella, if I recall.

[Ben]

I really enjoy the series, particularly the shorter works set in the world. I think the writer is doing something impressive in having something like 6 new books in the series published in 2015

(Murder of Clones, Search and Recovery, The Peyti Crisis, etc..)

Most writers struggle to release 1 book a year - I think she has about 3 others planned as well as being series editor for Fiction River and having quite a few short stories due out this year too...