I’m hoping for a sci-fi/fantasy book that’s available in audio format, ideally a bit light and fun but not outright zany/ridiculous.
Things I know I like:
* Mistborn (the original trilogy)
* Discworld & Bromeliad Trilogy
* Wheel Of Time (although it was a slog in the middle)
* The old Dragonlance series (Weis & Hickman)
* The Darksword Trilogy
* Death Gate Cycle
* Ringworld (the original book by Niven)
* Dune (the first book
I wasn’t excited by:
* Bobiverse (felt like there was too much to track – especially in audio)
* Foundryside (seemed slow to develop, plot-wise)
As I get older I like sci-fi/fantasy where the premise is a little different from the standard “wizards and warriors” thing.
I particularly liked the gimmick in Mistborn (pushing/pulling against metal, “burning” metal, etc.), and I even liked the gimmick of Foundryside but found the story non-compelling and boring.
Any thoughts?
by WhoIsRobertWall
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Magic 2.0 is light, but not as zany as Discworld
also try Christopher Moore, Piers Anthony, and Douglas Adams
Jasper Fforde is great, as well as Lois McMaster-Bujold, but if you didn’t like Bobiverse you might not be interested
*Myth Adventures* by Robert Asprin – Light, fun series about a mediocre apprentice wizard whose master promptly died after playing a prank on another wizard, leaving the apprentice and the other wizard stuck in a backwards kingdom with basically no magic.
*Spellsinger series* by Alan Dean Foster – A guitarist is summoned to another world and finds he can vaguely control magic via his songs.
*Wiz series* by Rick Cook – A hacker is accidentally summoned to another world (I’m noticing a theme in my suggestions) and learns to program magic, much to the distaste of the magicians who already inhabit the world.