Those who follow the OF Blog are probably aware that a few days ago I announced that I would adding additional series of SF and Epic Fantasies to my already in-progress Dune Chronicles and Wheel of Time re-read commentaries. Since the response both on this MB and the WoT board have been more than I expected (and with some good counterarguments to points I raised), I thought maybe there might be some interest in the next few re-read projects, since most of these are fairly well-known works around here.

I plan on alternating books like I have been doing with the Dune/WoT series (going to be writing commentaries on the fourth volumes of each shortly), starting after I finish first the original Dune series. Here's the series I'm re-reading through next month:

George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire (to alternate with books #7-10 of WoT)

R. Scott Bakker, Prince of Nothing (maybe The Judging Eye, if I can get it back in time. This will alternate with WoT #11 and the next series)

Steven Erikson, Malazan Book of the Fallen (to be read after the WoT #11, since the last book I've already reviewed on the blog)

Dan Simmons, Hyperion Cantos (to alternate with the Malazan series, after PoN is finished)

And if I'm not burned out by then, I might add commentaries on the first two Acts of Caine books by Matt Stover and repost my 2008 review of Caine: Black Knife.

If anyone is interested in discussing these books, I don't think I'll be re-reading more than 2 or at most 3 of the books in a particular series any given week (I will read around 6-10 books total during that week, though), so there should be plenty of time to catch up with the reading, particularly since I don't think I'll be starting the SOIAF series until the first of May or so. Also, it won't be a structured affair, so if you hadn't read any of these works and just want to ask general questions, that'd be great. If you want to argue with my interpretations or provide your own sakes on the individual books, that also would be great. And if you want to suggest other series that I might have (mind you, I have already done commentaries on Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, for example, on the OF Blog, plus I didn't grow up reading spec fic like most of this readership might have, so several series will be totally foreign to me), feel free to do so. Or even better, start your own and see who chimes in (although I have barely read anything in that series, I get the impression that if someone were to start a re-read of the Harry Dresden series, that it would get some responses).

It's all in the name of saying something and responding back. Discussion: Isn't it great?