If you want some magic and politics mixed in with your space opera then you can do no better than The Mageworlds series by Doyle and MacDonald. Because, well, I’m an author so I know how the game is played. I have, however, supported the series by buying them all. Tanya has joined my ill fated list of authors for whom I am suspicious of the dropsies (see The Silvered) so I am waiting until she concludes Valor satisfactorily to finish the books. I intend to finish this series, but at this juncture I am waiting for her to complete it. So if you have read Huff before and not liked her, I still suggest giving Valor’s Choice a try. Blood series and Keeper series) and both in turn different from her fantasies (e.g. The tone of Valor is entirely different from that of her urban fantasy stuff (e.g. A truly remarkable ability in an author, and one I admire greatly. She completely changes her author voice depending on the genre. Please, don’t make the mistake of comparing Tanya Huff’s different series to one another. I am a particular fan of the first book in the Valor series because it opens with a post sex pheromone hangover and ends with a battle based on one of the early moments in the Zulu War. Marvelous characters and alien races, extremely snappy dialogue, an endearing and tough heroine, and lots of fast action.
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