Although Cory says there’s seven previous books, the original six books have been (slightly edited and) republished as a trilogy, starting with The Bloodline Feud. When he first started writing them, they were supposed to be broadly broadly fantasy, to get around a publishing contract that specified how he could sell sci-fi stories. There’s not an obvious point when the sci-fi starts to get introduced, but the first book or two is definitely leaving the how of worldwalking to one side. You don’t need to have read the previous books to enjoy Empire Games and Dark State, but the recent books do pickup and fire a few Chekhov’s guns left lying around from the first series. Kids, don’t leave your unexploded plot devices lying around! Baronmog: Felt like the narrative was being forced into some box that it really didn’t fit.
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I think that was the point, really. The retrospective elevator pitch could be “Portal fantasy meets realpolitik”, specifically the realpolitik of early 21st Century America. So the super-special person with magic powers discovers she’s a princess in another land — but the other land is an s-hole, run by a-holes, and try as she might she can’t change a lot about the situation, and the whole thing blows up in her face. It’s a post-imperial British kind of sci-fi. Howard: I absolutely loved that series until the nuclear bombs dropped. As far as the story went, they made sense, but as far as my guts go, that ended it for me.
Yeah, I put it down at that point and never picked it up again. Basically just went “everyone on both sides of this conflict are monsters and reading about monsters killing thousands and thousands of people does not entertain me.” If you want something with a similar premise but less crushingly dark, I’m reading The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, and it’s quite good.
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