I always liked the aliens in the Darkwar/Demonwar/Chaoswar Saga's by Feist. Too bad he wasn't slightly more talented to flesh out all of the potential that was there.
I always liked the aliens in the Darkwar/Demonwar/Chaoswar Saga's by Feist. Too bad he wasn't slightly more talented to flesh out all of the potential that was there.
The problem is Feist is talented. Don't get me wrong the guys is no Tolkien but Feist can write - I mean Magician was brilliant. Problem was the rate at which Feist was writing these books they were only ever going to be OK. If you look at the schedule - the books start coming thicker and faster following the Empire Trilogy, it was also after this that the decline in quality and size came into effect.
Such a shame! I recently finished the Magicians End which was the last Feist novel and completed my read of all his works - it was simultaneously satisfying to get a conclusion and disappointing in how it came about.
It's not *literature* but I love the aliens in Aliens!
Love the aliens in Peter Watts' Blindsight--truly and terrifyingly different from humans.
Things like this make me wish HE would just make the jump from Westeros. HE brought this up (I'm terrible at estimating relative time) within the last while and tried to make some striking comparisons to the Inchoroi in an attempt to stem the "R. SCOTT RAP3ZT TERRIBLEZ LOLZ."
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