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Hi everyone! We are almost finished with our Deverry series read and I'm wondering if there is interest in another series when this one is done? I have a few suggestions:

Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli (/series/5011...)
Stephen King's Dark Tower books (/series/4075...)
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series (/series/4033...)
Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels (/series/4037...)
Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy & follow-ups (/series/4145...)
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos (/series/4046...)
John Scalzi's Old Man's War series (/series/4078...)

all of the above are series where I've read and enjoyed at least one of the books, and I'd be willing to lead the discussions. I'd also love to be introduced to new series so please share your suggestions! Mods, hope this is ok, just thought I'd get the ball rolling :)

Shel, it's absolutely OK! Thanks for getting this out on the table.

Several of these sound great to me. I loved the Dark Tower and have been considering a reread. I've enjoyed several in the Vlad Taltos series and a handful from the others you listed.

Let's see what the group thinks!

I would be interested in reading the Dan Simmons or John Scalzi books.

Old Man's War (Scalzi)
Tales of Ketty Jay (Chris Wooding)
Magician (first tetralogy till Magician's End)
Blackthorn and Grim (Juliet Marilier)
Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch)
and maybe some others.. I lots of series followed.

I don't like to spend too much time on re-reads, so I would go for Robin Hobb's Farseer books (I've only read the initial Farseer Trilogy). I've read the Roberson, King, most of the Brust, and the Simmons series.

I will toss a few others in the mix (uh-oh, might need a poll...)

Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Series [whoa, maybe not--31 books? Starts with the Riftwar Saga and apparently goes on (and on) from there] /series/4964...

Elizabeth Moon's Paladin's Legacy (a follow-up series to her The Deed of Paksenarrion) /series/4960...

Carol Berg's The Bridge of D-Arnath series /series/4245...

I've been meaning to reread sandman and read Rivers of London.

I am currently reading Larry Niven's Know Space books.
/series/5022...
using the read order from this amazon page:


and Dune
/series/4593...
using this read order


I also want to read:
David Brin Uplift
/series/4113...

Asimov's Foundation Universe
/series/4942...

Gregory Benford's Galactic Center series
/series/4986...

Iain M. Banks Culture series
/series/4911...

Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series
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All worthy reads, although the Herbert saga loses steam toward the middle. And I've never been a Benford fan (just a personal bias, I guess).

Maybe also consider C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series or Tim Powers' Fault Lines trio (Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather)

Jim wrote: "All worthy reads, although the Herbert saga loses steam toward the middle. And I've never been a Benford fan (just a personal bias, I guess).

Maybe also consider C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series or ..."

I've read a few Culture books and would be game for more, also interested in the Powers trio.

I would rather read Cherryh's Foreigner series but it's at least 16 books.

I would be up for Roberson's series. I have already started Brust(3 books) and Gaiman's(2 books) so would be in for those as well. Saying that I fully intended to jump in on the Deverry read and never quite managed to.

I forgot to add Asimov's Robot series

I would be definitely interested in reading
1. Dune - I have read first two books and then just lost steam to read remaining books.

2. Dark tower - Have finished first three books but if you guys start then can hold on.

3.Revelation space

4.Foundation

So, of those that have been suggested already - I would be interested in reading or re-reading (in no particular order)

Gaiman's Sandman series (my husband read them all and we have them all too)

Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (I'm on book 2 ATM and would love to discuss)

Simmons' Hyperion/Endymion series (I've read the 2 Hyperion books and would love to finish the series)

Hobb's Farseer or Fitz and the Fool series. (I've read them all, but would loooove to re-read them!)

Brin's Uplift
Cherryh's Foreigner

And I'll ad to the mix:
Julian May's The Many Colored Land series.
Octavia Butler's Patternist series

I suppose we need a poll :) Should I just set one up with the series that have been mentioned more than once?

Bill wrote: "Saying that I fully intended to jump in on the Deverry read and never quite managed to."

But you know the folder and discussions are there when you do read it, right? 😋

Diane wrote: "Julian May's The Many Colored Land series."

I almost added the Julian May series series, too, so that one would be OK with me.

Shel wrote: "I suppose we need a poll :) Should I just set one up with the series that have been mentioned more than once?"

I'm OK with that. Once we have chosen a serie, a mod needs to set up the overall folder and then you can do the threads. At least, that's how we did it for Malazan and Deverry.

A ways back there was a lot of interest in doing the Vlad Taltos series read after we did the first four a monthly read. I would still be game for that.

Now that said, I personally like some variety between sf and f, and we've had a few fantasy in a row now.

How about the Expanse series? (sorry, on app and I can't link) starting with Leviathin Wakes. Read the first a few years ago, enjoyed it, and then got distracted and never continued.

Also game for Benford's Galactic Center series or Julian May's Many Colored Land series.

I am a huge fan of Feist's Riftwar books, but agree that might be a bit too big. I do want to eventually do a reread at some point. I was a kid when I discovered that series.

I'm back and forth with Scalzi's OMW series and have read all but the last two. My feelings in regards to Bank's Culture series are better left unsaid. :D And Reynolds isn't far behind sadly.

Random wrote: "A ways back there was a lot of interest in doing the Vlad Taltos series read after we did the first four a monthly read. I would still be game for that.

Now that said, I personally like some vari..."

After we read the first Vlad Taltos book, I DID go on and read most of the books. Love that series but probably would not reread (so many books, so little time).

A sci-fi alternate to a fantasy series would be OK with me, and then my vote would be for the May series, since I have the books but have never read them.

Edited to add that I am currently watching The Expanse and my husband and I think it is very good. Those books are on my list of things to buy... if that series were chosen, it would push me to get them.

I'm totally in for a series read. All the suggestions sound good, looking forward to see where we end up.

I noticed last night that my husband is doing a reread of the Pliocene Exile series, so I grilled him about it.

According to him, its really good (though our tastes can differ) but it really goes hand in hand with the Galactic Milieu series.
A quick glance says together they are 7-8 books and if we choose this path, he recommend that we read them as one series, though had no recommendation as which one to read first.

I have to admit though, my personal preference so far is the Expanse series as its been on my list to get to for ages now. Heard good things about the TV series, but I'm one of those who wants to read the books first.

Down side, Its not finished yet as a 7th book is due out later this year and 2 more are to follow.

Kathi wrote: "Edited to add that I am currently watching The Expanse and my husband and I think it is very good. Those books are on my list of things to buy... if that series were chosen, it would push me to get them..."

I have been watching The Expanse and think it is one of the best SF things to find its way to the small screen. Not to be a buzz kill, but I have a copy of Leviathan Wakes and recently skimmed through it to get a sense of where it fit in with the TV show. I was mildly surprised to see that the TV series has already gone well beyond the events in the first book. Considering the length of the books and the large number of them, I have decided to slavishly watch the series and skip the books. YMMV

Jim wrote: "I have been watching The Expanse and think it is one of the best SF things to find its way to the small screen. Not to be a buzz kill, but I have a copy of Leviathan Wakes and recently skimmed through it to get a sense of where it fit in with the TV show. I was mildly surprised to see that the TV series has already gone well beyond the events in the first book.."

Season One got about halfway through Leviathan Wakes, Season Two about halfway though Caliban's War. The show tweeks some of the storylines a bit.

Vlad reread would be cool, a new book is coming out in Oct, Valista.
I am presently reading OMW, I am at The Last Colony. It's only six books though

Riftwar books there are too many, I wouldnt mind but there are a lot

Foundation books, are we talking about the three that were not actually written by Asimov to be included?

This may not be cool but The Thomas Covenant books might be good, 10 books

I would definitely join a series read of Farseer and follow ups as I haven't read them yet.

My other suggestion is the Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells - book 5 is being released in July.
/series/6559...

I just remembered this one - Vatta's War by Elizabeth Moon. It is 5 books and the new series Vatta's Peace is just starting now.

/series/4109...

@Jim: The TV series is a good adaptation but it is a very compact version of the story. If you want more from that world, how the characters think (you find them slightly different with the TV at times) the books will give you that satisfaction.

Silvana wrote: "@Jim: The TV series is a good adaptation but it is a very compact version of the story. If you want more from that world, how the characters think (you find them slightly different with the TV at times) the books will give you that satisfaction."

Thanks for the clarification. I've read a few series containing numerous titles. Hamilton, Banks, Asher come to mind. These days, I tend to prefer shorter series or stand-alones. But who knows. I might weaken.

I started a reread of Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli books and only got half way through, so I'd be in for that one.

I'd also be interested in the Julian may books.

I am out of town this weekend but can set up a poll when I get back and have a chance (unless the mods want to do it earlier). Should we do the same thing we do for monthly reads, and have a runoff of the top two or three choices after the initial poll?

Sounds good Shel:)

I haven't gone back through and counted, but I suspect we have enough to handle this like the average monthly with the top 2 or 3 in a run off poll.

Shel wrote: "I am out of town this weekend but can set up a poll when I get back and have a chance (unless the mods want to do it earlier). Should we do the same thing we do for monthly reads, and have a runoff..."

Yes, elimination round poll and then run-off poll to choose the winner.

I was thinking of setting up a poll in a week or so when the call for August nominations goes out (so I don't have to pester members with two broadcast emails.) But if Shel wants to put one up before that, post away! (I think Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ will allow poll posting from non-mods...if now, let me know.)

Non-mods can do it off the group settings allow it.

Raksura is excellent. Farseer would tempt me but I too failed the Kerr read.

Helen wrote: "Non-mods can do it off the group settings allow it.

Raksura is excellent. Farseer would tempt me but I too failed the Kerr read."

Thanks, Helen! I checked in the settings to see how Stefan originally set things up, and non-mod poll creation was disallowed. I changed the setting, so things should be ready to go now. (After this poll, I'll flip the switch back so we don't have a ton of random polls going up. We can change it again as needed.)

:)

Setting it up now! :)

Ok, I put the poll up. I included just series that were mentioned more than once in this thread, in order to narrow it down - even so we have 13 options! I did not set an end date, but I think we can edit that? Mods? How long do we usually have a poll up for?

Shel -

We generally leave a first poll up for around a week to ten days, depending on the start date. But I usually split up the remaining days in the current month, with any extra days tacked onto the first poll (since there are more options for people to sort through, read about, and choose between.)

For example, in this case I would end the first poll at the end of the day Sunday, May 21, and put up the second poll Monday, May 22. (12 full days plus part of today for the first poll / 10 full days for the run-off poll)

Does that sound OK to you folks, or do you want a shorter or longer time frame?

I'm fine with whatever:)

Sounds good. Going to look at it now, and vote.

Sounds great!

Could you add a link to poll from here for phone app users please?

Don't know if this will work...
/poll/list/1...

I am urging votes for the Julian May series, since we haven't done a sF series (and since I haven't read this series yet but I own all the books).

Ok, I've edited in the end date for the first poll. Let me know if anything else needs tweaked or if the date needs changed again for any reason.

There are so many good choices in this poll! I'm going to have to think hard before I vote. I'd really like to jump into a series read - push my usual reading comfort zone a bit.

I posted links below the poll to the series pages for each nominee, since we can't easily link them in the poll options as we do with single books. Here's the list for the search-averse/phone users:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Uplift Saga by David Brin

Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust

Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Dune by Frank Herbert

Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Many-Coloured Land, aka Saga of the Pliocene Exile by Julian May

Chronicles of the Cheysuli by Jennifer Roberson

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Thanks Candiss!

Interesting list of choices in the poll. I've read a fair number of them already. Some in the dim, dark past. Of those that I haven't (at least those that I haven't completed) the sheer magnitude of some of them is a tad discouraging. That's why I voted for the Brin tales. I wouldn't mind doing a re-read and the scope is not overwhelming. The result should be intriguing.