It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here, and I’ve read a ton of books, so i’ll be more brief talking about them. However, a few words first about Simon Green and the stuff he wrote. I’ve read most of his books, and I like every one of them, enough to reccomend them.

You have the Hawk and Fisher series, dark, gritty whodunnit mysteries in a medieval fantasy-ish world, part of the bigger Forest Kingdom series, that are fantasy with a twist. Then there is the Nightside, stories about John Taylor, a private investigator in a hidden area of London where magic, technology, old and new gods, time travellers, angels, demons and basically everything else that is nasty congregates. The Secret History series are a take on James Bond meeting fantasy, acting as a sort of framework for his other series, since you encounter characters from the Deathstalker universe, the Nightside, and the Forest Kingdom.

And then there’s the Deathstalker series, a universe where a decadent human star empire is being ruled by a paranoid empress (aptly named the Iron Bitch), and comes under threat both from the outside by various alien civilizations, and from the inside by a rebellion combining espers, clones and other malcontents.

The series is bloody, over the top, very well written, and a parody of the 1950′s Sci-fi. Basically anything goes, nothing is too improbable, and blood flows everywhere. It’s space opera at it’s best, and it spans thousands of pages. Read the rest of this entry