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The Green Bone Saga door Fonda Lee: "The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities.
The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion--but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection. When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself."
Denk Aziatische godfather. De afsluiter van de trilogie komt in September uit. Te beginnen met Jade City.
Dragon Mage door ML Spencer: Geweldige stand-alone ode aan fantasy van de jaren 80, met een modern laagje verf en een autistisch hoofdpersonage. Ookal is deze 981 pagina's, zo voelt hij zeker niet aan.
Ash and Sand trilogie door Richard Nell: "A deformed genius plots vengeance while struggling to survive. A wastrel prince comes of age, finding a power he never imagined. Two worlds are destined to collide. Only one can be king."
Enorm duistere boek. Deze zou ik zeker niet aanraden als je graag fantasy leest die redelijk 'blij' is. Het hoofdpersonage is gruwelijk intrigerend. Te beginnen met Kings of Paradise.
Licanius Trilogy door James Islington: "It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience."
Deze gebruikt wel wat standaard fantasy tropes, maar ze zijn zo goed uitgewerkt! Alsook, alles komt hier subliem samen in de afsluiter van de trilogie. Te beginnen met The Shadow of What Was Lost
The Burning door Evan Winter: "The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine. Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance. Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him."
Een geweldig wraak-verhaal met een verfrissende setting. Te beginnen met The Rage of Dragons. 2/4 boeken zijn momenteel uit.
A Brightness Long Ago door Guy Gavriel Kay (of een van zijn klassiekers als The Lions of Al-Rassan, Tigana, ...): Low fantasy geinspireerd door bepaalde historische periodes van onze wereld. Deze speelt zich af in het Renaissance Italie. Geen "je moet de wereld redden van het kwaad". Geweldige personages. Aangrijpend.
China Mountain Zhang door Maureen F McHugh: "With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyber-kite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF."
Dit gaat over hoe een homoseksuele man van Chinese afkomst door het leven worstelt in een toekomstige sinocentrische wereld. Was zijn tijd ver vooruit. Mag gerust bekend staan als klassieker.
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Hopelijk zit er een aanrader bij voor iedereen.
The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion--but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection. When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself."
Denk Aziatische godfather. De afsluiter van de trilogie komt in September uit. Te beginnen met Jade City.
Dragon Mage door ML Spencer: Geweldige stand-alone ode aan fantasy van de jaren 80, met een modern laagje verf en een autistisch hoofdpersonage. Ookal is deze 981 pagina's, zo voelt hij zeker niet aan.
Ash and Sand trilogie door Richard Nell: "A deformed genius plots vengeance while struggling to survive. A wastrel prince comes of age, finding a power he never imagined. Two worlds are destined to collide. Only one can be king."
Enorm duistere boek. Deze zou ik zeker niet aanraden als je graag fantasy leest die redelijk 'blij' is. Het hoofdpersonage is gruwelijk intrigerend. Te beginnen met Kings of Paradise.
Licanius Trilogy door James Islington: "It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience."
Deze gebruikt wel wat standaard fantasy tropes, maar ze zijn zo goed uitgewerkt! Alsook, alles komt hier subliem samen in de afsluiter van de trilogie. Te beginnen met The Shadow of What Was Lost
The Burning door Evan Winter: "The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine. Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance. Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him."
Een geweldig wraak-verhaal met een verfrissende setting. Te beginnen met The Rage of Dragons. 2/4 boeken zijn momenteel uit.
A Brightness Long Ago door Guy Gavriel Kay (of een van zijn klassiekers als The Lions of Al-Rassan, Tigana, ...): Low fantasy geinspireerd door bepaalde historische periodes van onze wereld. Deze speelt zich af in het Renaissance Italie. Geen "je moet de wereld redden van het kwaad". Geweldige personages. Aangrijpend.
China Mountain Zhang door Maureen F McHugh: "With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyber-kite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF."
Dit gaat over hoe een homoseksuele man van Chinese afkomst door het leven worstelt in een toekomstige sinocentrische wereld. Was zijn tijd ver vooruit. Mag gerust bekend staan als klassieker.
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Hopelijk zit er een aanrader bij voor iedereen.
