Golden Road: The Burning City (Audiobook)

from zsms

I enjoyed this story quite a bit. It's classic fantasy with a little social commentary thrown in and a bit of too obvious character development to turn our hero into an economically independent free-thinker of the repressed civilization. Nevertheless, the world is interesting and the writing solid.

from quondame

This is pretty much my favorite Niven/Pournelle outing, but the cute anagram naming and the conceit that this is our prehistory were bigger drags this reading than the last. I would have loved a map.

from buffalogr

I tried--just not into fantasy.

from Karlstar

Set in the same world as the much better 'The Magic Goes Away', this is literally the story of what would happen if LA was remade into a fantasy city, with emphasis on out of control gang warfare. The characters are fairly interesting, but I found the setting jarring, and because the authors seem...

from Tyrshundr

Copy of my Launchpad review from 2001:Niven and Pournelle have taken pre-Columbian evidence and legend and woven it into an enthralling fantasy.The plot revolves around Whandall; a member of an ethnic grouping called Lordkin. Three groups live in the city of the title: the Lordkin, who are social...