Aaron6 comments on Lawrence Watt-Evans's Fiction - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2008 03:00AM

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Comment author: Aaron6 15 July 2008 10:27:32AM 3 points [-]

I'd recommend starting with one of his Ethshar series, actually. _With a Single Spell_ is I think an excellent exemplar of the type of work you're admiring. The canonical starting point is _The Misenchanted Sword_, which has most of these elements, but is slightly weaker in my opinion.

Watt-Evans has used a version of the street-performer protocol to publish the latest two of the series online, essentially acting as the advance, before having them published on paper. The draft of one is still up at http://www.ethshar.com/thevondishambassador1.html but might not make as much sense without having read the previous books.