As written earlier I’m really looking forward to the next Wheel of Time book that was supposed to be released later this year. Now Tor has announced it and I’m on the fence; should I be angry or annoyed like I guess a lot of people will be or should I be happy that we’re actually getting 3 three books over 2 years instead? My initial thought was leaning towards being quite annoyed, but after reading Brandon Sanderson’s blog post about how the decision came to be I’m now feeling that I should be happy and probably will be. But a lot of people, including me, could have told them that it would be impossible to wrap up most of the plot threads in one volume, Jordan started way too many of them for that.
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Wheel of Time re-read on Tor.com
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Are you a fan of the Wheel of Time series? Are you looking forward to the final installment? No time to re-read the old books until then? Then you’re like me and will most probably really appreciate the really nice summaries and commentary by Leigh Butler (of WoT FAQ fame) over on tor.com.
It’s been a while since my last complete re-read, I think it was before The Path of Daggers, so after reading the posts on the first two books I’m amazed once again by how much actually happens so early in the series! It’s sad that the pace slowed down as much as it later did, it seems like things might get way to rushed in the final book. Looking forward to it anyway though!
Oh and BTW, sorry about not posting the review on The Dreaming Void, in short it was pretty good but I was a little bit disappointed as I felt it was a bit too much of a filler inbetween the first and last book of the trilogy. I really did enjoy the fantasy parts that takes place within the void though, I was a bit sceptical while reading the first book but they soon took off and continued to be great all the way through The Dreaming Void.
“The Dreaming Void” has arrived
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Peter F Hamilton’s latest beast of a book has arrived. After a quick dinner I’ll sink my teeth into it and I will most probably keep reading way past bedtime. 
The first book in the trilogy was great so I have high hopes for this installment even though it seems that Ozzie won’t be in this one either. Will post a review when I’m done!
More free books from Tor!
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008It’s been a while since the new tor.com site was launched and the free books stopped flowing but now they’re back! Head on over to their site to register and get a copy of the two new books released!
I’ve been reading a few of the ones released before the launch using MobiReader on my Nokia phone and it’s quite nice to always have something available to read.
“Flood” by Stephen Baxter
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Flood by Stephen Baxter is not what you would first expect. I expected something a bit like Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital books and that is not quite what you get when read Flood, it’s a bit more sci-fi than that.
One of the most intriguing aspects of his story is the back-story of the leading characters. They start out as hostages living through a several year long hellish existence at the hand of their captors. After being saved we then follow them and their friends and families around the globe as the flooding starts wreaking havoc on life as we know it. Baxter’s depiction on how major cities of the world are affected is detailed and really gets you involved in the story, at least if you are familiar with them. The later chapters showing how the next generation treats the transformed world as something normal, already adapting to it, and showing almost no interest in stories of what it used to be like is almost scary.
Apart from some near-future tech which seems to be within our reach we unfortunately get to know very little about the really science fictiony stuff in the story . We’ll have to wait for the coming sequel Ark for that part of the story I guess. Looking forward to it myself!
I’ve been a Baxter fan for quite some time and looks like I’ll continue to be one; Flood gets a rating of 4 stars out of 5 from me.
Tor.com and free books
Friday, July 18th, 2008The latest newsletter about the upcoming new tor.com site of course included a link to a new book but for you who might have missed out there’s a nice little announcement included as well:
” Once the full Tor.com site opens on Sunday, July 20, we’ll be making all the books in this program briefly available one last time, so be sure to stop by for our launch!”
Looking forward to see the new site and of course I’ll check if there were any books available before I signed up.
Free books!
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Tor Books are working on a new site and if you sign up to be notified about it you get links to free e-books sent to your e-mail! The last book sent out was John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. I have it sitting in my bookshelf since a while back and it’s actually pretty good. Acccording to Scalzi more books are coming, looking forward to it!
There’s also some really nice free reading available at the Baen free library. I recently re-discovered it and read John Ringo’s “A Hymn Before Battle” and “Gust Front”. Both were pretty decent but a bit to hard-core military for my taste.