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30+ geeky suggestions for your winter reading list

Broken Blade by Kelly McCullough -- It's an interesting premise where the goddess of justice uses her disciples as assassins to kill people who are not bound by the normal rules of law, like Kings who commit genocide. The assassins are bound to Shades, who live in their shadows and can speak to them and give them other abilities. The main character is the last known (to him anyway) living disciple of his goddess who was murdered by the other gods. He now takes jobs just to keep himself in a room and full of booze until he gets a job from a mysterious woman to deliver a letter. Then he finds he's not so alone.

It's a bit different from the usual fantasy where the poor young boy/girl is picked to go on a quest for jewel/sword/save the princess, and gathers a group of diverse companions to save the jewel/sword/princess from the evil sorceror/god/demon/whatever.

Oh that was a hard one, I mean we've only been waiting for years having read the first four and seen book one on the telly....

Are you sure these are for geeks? Dweebs would be nearer.

David Eddings, to quote one of my favourite characters in one of ny favourite books, "Gah".

Surprised you didn't throw in Number Of the Beast, SOT and WOT, Pratchet, and of course several books involving sparkly types who only drink blood when they have to...

Guilty of loose and muddy thinking is all I can say.

When you finish the hardcover, try the ongoing semi-steampunk comic (the authors dislike that term) it's based on:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104

Updated MWF, and there's just short of a decade in the archives. The first chapter / prologue is sepia-toned, and the rest is glorious color. Safe for work, and thoroughly addictive.