Just started Something from the Nightside. A fantasy novel by Simon R Green. If you're not familiar with his works he is well worth looking into.
The series itself takes place in a fictional inner city area of London known as the Nightside. The Nightside experiences perpetual night ("it's always 3am"). The Nightside itself is contained within London, yet is significantly larger than London itself. Though access to the Nightside is hidden, it does experience a steady stream of tourists from the "normal world".
The series' protagonist John Taylor describes the Nightside as "a place where dreams come true and nightmares come alive. Where one can buy anything, often at the price of your soul... or someone else's. Where the music never stops and the fun never ends"
Halfway through the first one and I'm enjoying it. Green is a very prolific author and I love most of his work, but his work is very formulaic and quite repetitive. You couldn't read an entire series in one go without getting fed up. All his books are non stop action with huge dollops of very dark humour.
Blue Moon Rising is another one of his and it is one of the funniest but at the same time darkest and most gruesome fantasy novels you could imagine. It spawned a whole series of Fantasy/detective novels, The Hawk and Fisher series.
Deathstalker is another of my favourites of his. It's sci-fi rather than fantasy and it is quite brilliant. Nothing is original, he draws lots of inspiration from other books and movies. It is a genuine space opera and if you don't take it too seriously it is tremendous fun. It's almost like the Roman Empire in space.
The series itself takes place in a fictional inner city area of London known as the Nightside. The Nightside experiences perpetual night ("it's always 3am"). The Nightside itself is contained within London, yet is significantly larger than London itself. Though access to the Nightside is hidden, it does experience a steady stream of tourists from the "normal world".
The series' protagonist John Taylor describes the Nightside as "a place where dreams come true and nightmares come alive. Where one can buy anything, often at the price of your soul... or someone else's. Where the music never stops and the fun never ends"
Halfway through the first one and I'm enjoying it. Green is a very prolific author and I love most of his work, but his work is very formulaic and quite repetitive. You couldn't read an entire series in one go without getting fed up. All his books are non stop action with huge dollops of very dark humour.
Blue Moon Rising is another one of his and it is one of the funniest but at the same time darkest and most gruesome fantasy novels you could imagine. It spawned a whole series of Fantasy/detective novels, The Hawk and Fisher series.
Deathstalker is another of my favourites of his. It's sci-fi rather than fantasy and it is quite brilliant. Nothing is original, he draws lots of inspiration from other books and movies. It is a genuine space opera and if you don't take it too seriously it is tremendous fun. It's almost like the Roman Empire in space.
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