Hey all! I’m currently looking for more recommendations to fill out my reading list for the year! I’m going to be reading the City of Brass trilogy (already read the first), The Dark Tower series (read the first last week), The Licanius Trilogy, and the Noumena series.
I want to have some books between the series I read so as to not burn out on them. Hit me with it!
Ps – I’ve read Between Two Fires and L O V E D it, so I’m totally into more fantasy horror like that one!
by BeginnersPluck
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WH40k Inquisitor Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett might be interesting. I know it is WH40k, but this particular series doesn’t go so much into gory details as it goes into character development. And inevitable corruption any Imperial Inquisitor eventually succumbs to. It is just a trilogy and a fairly short one, so it should not cause any burnout.
Black Company series by Glen Cook is an old-school dark fantasy military (mercenary) novel series with some horror elements. The series is long (~10 volumes) but individual novels are fairly independent. One in particular, ***The Silver Spike***, is mostly self-sufficient and leans towards horror more than most others. Check it and if you like the worldbuilding, you might go for the series in general.
Similarly, Glen Cook also has another great series, Garret P.I. It is also quite long and fairly divers, but it contains a mostly standalone entry with horror elements, ***Old Tin Sorrows***.
Stanislav Lem was a very prolific SF author, but in particular I will point at his non-fiction work “Summa Technologiae”, which is in my opinion a must read despite its age. It is a futurology work on results of advancement of tehcnology. He also wrote a few mindscrewy and disturbing novels. In particular, I suggest Solaris (a must read in my opinion. It has some Lovecraftian vibes for me) and The Futurological Congress (a mindscrewy psychologican science-fiction horror) . But honestly, I find most of his work worth a read.