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That's a good point. Chas Send a noteboard - 25/04/2010 06:39:09 PM
it's often simply a matter of some books not being released or at least not widely available in a given country. Wurts has gotten some attention in Belgium and the Netherlands because of her cooperation with the wildly popular Feist - my library has her Cycles of Fire trilogy besides obviously the Empire trilogy. But even so, I can't remember ever seeing any book of this series in any bookstore or library in here. I read part of the first book while in the US at some point, where the libraries, at least the good ones, have dozens if not hundreds of SF&F books and series that simply aren't available here in Belgium.

What the reasons are why a series like this doesn't get any attention in here, and others do, who can say... one might suppose that only the bestselling and most popular series get sold on smaller markets like Belgium's, but that's not true either - currently there seems to be a fantasy hype and all kinds of junk that I've never heard of and that's never been discussed on this board, which says at least something about its lack of notability, gets sold in local bookstores (plus some German fantasy that might be big in Germany for all I know, but not in the Anglo-Saxon world if it's been translated at all).

I guess I kind of went off-topic a little there... ;) I'm afraid I can't add much to the discussion of the books, though, having not even finished the first book - I would've, I liked it well enough, but I probably had to go back to Europe or something, I don't remember now.


I have never seen a Wurts book in any of the stores I frequent. And it's been a while since I've hit up a library, but I only recall seeing the Empire trilogy.


There's a lot of material out there, so unless someone has a reason to go looking...
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Janny Wurts: The Wars of Light and Shadow. Rebekah's reread. - 25/04/2010 10:11:41 AM 1103 Views
Book One: The Curse of the Mistwraith. - 25/04/2010 10:22:03 AM 621 Views
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My brother found that initially but soon got used to it. - 25/04/2010 04:30:13 PM 597 Views
Re: My brother found that initially but soon got used to it. - 09/06/2010 09:29:56 AM 541 Views
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Fair enough. - 25/04/2010 08:48:53 PM 655 Views
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About that flying below the radar of most readers... - 25/04/2010 05:10:40 PM 778 Views
That's a good point. - 25/04/2010 06:39:09 PM 655 Views
That's interesting. - 25/04/2010 08:27:40 PM 642 Views
Probably something like that. - 25/04/2010 08:38:42 PM 607 Views
That seems unlikely, she is American after all... - 25/04/2010 08:56:53 PM 564 Views
Nah, there has been something strange with her US publisher. - 25/04/2010 09:24:28 PM 570 Views
Ah, makes sense then. - 25/04/2010 09:34:27 PM 658 Views
Okay, I'll bite. - 26/04/2010 02:03:06 PM 662 Views
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Book Two: The Ships of Merior. - 18/05/2010 01:13:43 PM 581 Views
Finished this today. - 21/05/2010 12:44:58 AM 596 Views
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Hm. More. - 08/06/2010 03:16:53 PM 569 Views
Re: Hm. More. - 09/06/2010 09:39:06 AM 592 Views
Well, true. - 09/06/2010 09:40:55 AM 665 Views
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She writes about sex?? - 24/06/2010 10:50:20 PM 572 Views
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Re: Occasionally. - 26/06/2010 11:33:18 AM 581 Views
Re: Occasionally. - 27/06/2010 10:59:48 PM 678 Views
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