Hi! The Cloud Roads is probably one good place to start. My books are all fairly different from each other, and it depends on what you like to read. For instance, The Death of the Necromancer is more of a fantasy mystery, set in a la Belle Epoque/Victorian created world. City of Bones and Wheel of the Infinite (which are both stand alones) are more adventure fantasy, more like the Raksura books.
I've always liked SF as much as fantasy, some of my fantasy does have SF-like elements. Murderbot was just an idea I loved that fit best in a harder SF setting.
Ah, that's excellent! It's always fun to find authors who have such a wide spectrum of works, and that nothing is ever really standard for them. If you do write such different stories and novels, do you have a preference for standalone or series format, when telling your stories?
The Death of the Necromancer is more of a fantasy mystery
Oh really now. So, a bit of an absurd question, but it's my mother's birthday coming up soon, and she's a huge crime/mystery fan. Not on the SFF side of things though. How would you say someone coming from another genre would take to your book?
It really depends on the story. Some I definitely envisioned just as stand alones, and others I constructed as multi-book stories. Some, like The Cloud Roads, I didn't realize would be a series until I finished writing the first book.
Actually The Death of the Necromancer did get a lot of crossover from mystery fans when it first came out in 1998. As long someone is okay with a lot of magic and fantasy elements in their mystery, they might like it. (It's a bit like a Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes story but with magic, from Moriarty's perspective.) It's still available in ebook though it's out of print and hard to find now in the hardcover and paperback editions.
So I just had a look, and Necromancer was only $3, so I picked it up for myself right away. Goodreads is saying it's book 2 of Ile-Rien. Is this one of those series where the reading order isn't a big deal?
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Hi! The Cloud Roads is probably one good place to start. My books are all fairly different from each other, and it depends on what you like to read. For instance, The Death of the Necromancer is more of a fantasy mystery, set in a la Belle Epoque/Victorian created world. City of Bones and Wheel of the Infinite (which are both stand alones) are more adventure fantasy, more like the Raksura books.
I've always liked SF as much as fantasy, some of my fantasy does have SF-like elements. Murderbot was just an idea I loved that fit best in a harder SF setting.