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Happy New Year! My recommendations stand from previous years: the novels of Ian Watson contain his distinctive form of inspired lunacy, but as I recall you really didn’t like Miracle Visitors, so you might not like The Martian Inca or The Jonah Kit either. But maybe under different circumstances?
The Far Side of the World is good, but it looks as if you are just up to Desolation Island so you have several books to go before that one, and they are best read in order, the next being The Fortune of War.
After The History of the Lord of the Rings, you’ll find The Peoples of Middle-Earth to be a bit pedestrian. Lots of family trees and chronologies. The most interesting bit is “The New Shadow”, the abandoned opening to a projected sequel to The Lord of the Rings.
I’m still interested to hear about Cycling in Victorian Ireland. And about whether Gavin Menzies has crossed the line from “hilariously deluded” to “full-fledged alternate universe” in his 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (the title contains multiple falsehoods: I guess the idea is that the reader can have no excuse that they didn’t know what they were getting).
And finally, a book that’s not on any of your lists, but which I think you will enjoy: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts.
Happy New Year! My recommendations stand from previous years: the novels of Ian Watson contain his distinctive form of inspired lunacy, but as I recall you really didn’t like Miracle Visitors, so you might not like The Martian Inca or The Jonah Kit either. But maybe under different circumstances?
The Far Side of the World is good, but it looks as if you are just up to Desolation Island so you have several books to go before that one, and they are best read in order, the next being The Fortune of War.
After The History of the Lord of the Rings, you’ll find The Peoples of Middle-Earth to be a bit pedestrian. Lots of family trees and chronologies. The most interesting bit is “The New Shadow”, the abandoned opening to a projected sequel to The Lord of the Rings.
I’m still interested to hear about Cycling in Victorian Ireland. And about whether Gavin Menzies has crossed the line from “hilariously deluded” to “full-fledged alternate universe” in his 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (the title contains multiple falsehoods: I guess the idea is that the reader can have no excuse that they didn’t know what they were getting).
And finally, a book that’s not on any of your lists, but which I think you will enjoy: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts.