(This diary is taking the place of Sarahnity's usual Books by Kossacks piece.)
Maybe you don't do the holiday gift-giving thing, but if you do, may I just say on behalf of kossacks who make their living in a lit'ry fashion: please buy our books! as long as you're buying stuff anyway, why not do a good deed, redistribute the wealth to some of your favorite librul bloggers, and give some great books by Kossacks?
Last week I posted a Guide to Children's Books by Kossacks, wherein you'll also find some more of this week's topic, which is
Fantasy and Science Fiction by kossacks
Shoot, there's a lot of this stuff. And I happen to know for a fact that some of y'all are working on more. What is it about libruls that they can't just accept the reality that was issued to 'em? Don't they know this is a Center-Right Country?
David
Brin is the author of a lot of classic science fiction, stuff you've heard of and probably read like the Postman and those dolphin books. As a kid I learned the facts of life from The Uplift Saga, which is probably why I'm still looking for a nice guy with a dorsal fin.
Steve Cross's (Kimball
Cross) Discarded
Faces tells of "Fifth Earth, a colony planet cut off from the mother planet, drags itself up from environmental disaster to a 21st century level--complete with all the problems of crime, gangs, and drugs," according to the publisher.
In Circle Molly Dwyer's Requiem
for the Author of Frankenstein, an American scholar finds herself interacting with Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron. One Powell's reviewer calls it "part historical fiction, part Gothic romance with a healthy dose of magical realism."
Swordsmith Leigh Grossman's The Golden Thorns and The Green Lion are two novels about the adventures of Falorn, an innkeeper's son who comes into possession of a magic card and a whole lot of trouble.
KMc is Kelly McCullough, the author of the Ravirn series from Ace. In WebMage, Cybermancy, and the just-released CodeSpell, fantasy meets the internet age. Publisher's Weekly says: "A hint of cyberpunk, a dollop of Greek mythology and a sprinkle of techno-magic bake up into an airy genre mashup. Lots of fast-paced action and romantic angst up the ante as Ravirn faces down his formidable foes."
Not entirely in the genre, but still of interest to the geeks among us, is R. Scott Peoples' aka Unitary Moonbat's Crusade of
Kings, a gaming guide for the medievally-minded. "Want to run a Byzantine campaign? An adventure centered on a mountain fortress in Lebanon? It's all here: everything you need to know to live or die in world-spanning adventures from 1094-1192." That makes perfect sense to some of y'all, right?
RASalvatore has written many fantasy
books, including The Dark Elf Series, The Hunter's Blades trilogy, Forgotten Realms series. I bet you've heard of him.
Mark Sumner aka Devilstower is the author of several
books in the f/sf field, of which I have to assume Devil's Tower is his favorite. According to the jacket flap, "The turning point of the Civil War had come when the bodies got up at Shiloh. Dangerous magic had risen on a flood of blood and violence, and it swept across the land, washing away all but the strong and the lucky. Unnatural powers had been loosed, and nothing would ever be the same again." Don't tell me you can stop reading after that.
My apologies to whomever I've left out. These are just the ones I know about. Please add anything that's missing to the comments.