Anyone read the Ursula leGuin Earthsea series? Teenage books, but brilliantly well done. Her take on magic is a little bit different, too.


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I remember reading it when I was in Middle School. I can't remember the story very well, but I do remember that I liked it. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Yup!! I read them in college.. and again a few years ago. Very good books. Fljotsdale, it might be interesting to compare notes on books sometime. Seems as tho we have read MANY of the same ones. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Yeah! Nice idea Bilqis!
Let's see; how about:

Piers Anthony's 'Mode' series - Virtual Mode, Fractal Mode, Chaos Mode
& his 'Bio of a Space Tyrant' series?

Also:

Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World series?

I read these ages ago, but I still have 'em (I collect books like crazy, I have over a thousand, if I count paperbacks...) and remember how good they were!


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You actually managed to find the rest of Sir Michael Scott Rohan's series? I only ever found the first book and, being a habitual nordicophile, read it through and through. I saw the third book in a secondhand bookshop a lot but it was the kind of writing that I wanted to read in order. Concerning the Earthsea Trilogy (I don't call it a quartet because the fourth book isn't really as good as the other three and I didn't like it) they're generally well written, the magic system reminds me of a few (WFRP, RQ etc) that I know and I liked the subtle magic (there are some exceptions to subtlety in the first book but they are soon smoothed over).

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Errrm.... I guess I'm older than you, Balgin! I got 'em as they were published.. ! But I think they are still available (in England anyway) in Paperback. I'm sure I saw them recently in Waterstones bookshop in Birmingham.
I didn't know he had been knighted, though!

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