The Harping Monkey » scott lynch http://www.harpingmonkey.com Mick Bradley's Tavern in the Digital Aether Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:14:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Scott Lynch: Blah Blah Blah Author Has Opinion Blah Blah Blah http://www.harpingmonkey.com/2010/04/shared-scott-lynch-blah-blah-blah-author-has-opinion-blah-blah-blah/ http://www.harpingmonkey.com/2010/04/shared-scott-lynch-blah-blah-blah-author-has-opinion-blah-blah-blah/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:49:33 +0000 Mick Bradley http://www.harpingmonkey.com/?p=2142 I love author Scott Lynch for so many reasons, but this one is a whole new one:

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]]> http://www.harpingmonkey.com/2010/04/shared-scott-lynch-blah-blah-blah-author-has-opinion-blah-blah-blah/feed/ 0 Scott Lynch’s Queen of the Iron Sands http://www.harpingmonkey.com/2009/09/scott-lynchs-queen-of-the-iron-sands/ http://www.harpingmonkey.com/2009/09/scott-lynchs-queen-of-the-iron-sands/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:30:40 +0000 Mick Bradley http://www.harpingmonkey.com/?p=1438 [...]]]> Scott Lynch, author of the very excellent swashbuckling fantasy novels The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies, has begun posting a new novel entitled Queen of the Iron Sands. He’ll be posting the story online in weekly installments to give fans like me something to drink up while he works on his other projects.  QotIS is a pulp-swashbuckling-sci-fi adventure tale set on Mars in the Barsoomian vein, but with a woman WWII pilot as the protagonist. I’m in!

Queen of the Iron Sands

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My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Okay, this goes into my “one of the best I’ve ever read” category. Yes, it’s an adventure yarn, not high literature. So what?

I loved this book. All the best vibes of Lies of Locke Lamora, but with compelling female characters and actual pirates to boot!

I want a friendship like the one between Locke and Jean. But I’ll never have it because such brotherhood only comes with many years and many trials.

And this setting, it’s like Lynch took my dream rpg/fiction setting and put it into epic form. I can’t wait to see where this goes next. And I’ve got to try to emulate it in play at some point.

Definitely my favorite novel since Game of Thrones. Hands down. Thanks, Judd, for hooking me on this series!

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