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Lyn McConchie says:
Frankly I’m wondering what’s happened to SF writers. This year I’ve mostly reread older books, because the new ones I’ve brought I’ve found that I get partway and dump them. Two of those listed on this site as the first in great new series, I couldn’t get past 20% before discarding them. My local library was happy, but I wasn’t. They had great blurbs, but that was the best part. Sigh. I couldn’t connect with the characters and that’s fatal for a reader. Oh well. I can only hope 2021 does better by me.
You might want to try the “Time Wars” series by Craig Robertson. Most of his stuff has been pretty tame, but this one is going pretty well. It involves his old protagonist Jon Ryan, but this series is doing a great job of bringing in new people and concepts. It will be a six-book series, and I believe the third book is available now. Maybe the fourth.
The best thing about living in a free country is that I don’t have to read any of these books! What a sorry looking lot.
Happily working my way through my 2,000 or so unread books, 1950s through about 2010 or a little after. The greats–Vance, Sheckley, Benford, De Camp, Kay, Tanith Lee, McDevitt, Niven, Alastair Reynolds, Silverberg, Stross, Tepper, Banks, Powers, Pratt, Pratchett, Sawyer, Sheffield, Vinge, Zelazny…
Time to Decide: What Was the Best New Sci-Fi Series of 2020?
Frankly I’m wondering what’s happened to SF writers. This year I’ve mostly reread older books, because the new ones I’ve brought I’ve found that I get partway and dump them. Two of those listed on this site as the first in great new series, I couldn’t get past 20% before discarding them. My local library was happy, but I wasn’t. They had great blurbs, but that was the best part. Sigh. I couldn’t connect with the characters and that’s fatal for a reader. Oh well. I can only hope 2021 does better by me.
You might want to try the “Time Wars” series by Craig Robertson. Most of his stuff has been pretty tame, but this one is going pretty well. It involves his old protagonist Jon Ryan, but this series is doing a great job of bringing in new people and concepts. It will be a six-book series, and I believe the third book is available now. Maybe the fourth.
Please omit “Bobiverse by Naylor Grant”? I adored the Bobiverse series, which is by Dennis Taylor, and isn’t a 2020 release.
I totally agree with you! Dennis E Taylor is da man!
The best thing about living in a free country is that I don’t have to read any of these books! What a sorry looking lot.
Happily working my way through my 2,000 or so unread books, 1950s through about 2010 or a little after. The greats–Vance, Sheckley, Benford, De Camp, Kay, Tanith Lee, McDevitt, Niven, Alastair Reynolds, Silverberg, Stross, Tepper, Banks, Powers, Pratt, Pratchett, Sawyer, Sheffield, Vinge, Zelazny…
I vote Bryce O’Connor and Luke Chmilenko’s Iron Prince!