Fivemack FAILS at shopping

[fivemack]

Anyone want a brand-new copy of K J Parker's Colours in the Steel ? An unobserved shopping error at Amazon meant that I ordered two copies. Yours for a pint.

His trilogy beginning with Devices and Desires caught me by page three of the first volume when I picked that up at a con a few years back, and was good enough to the end that I bought this earlier trilogy of his sight-unseen.

(I had to check his gender; for some reason initials make me assume a writer is female, and the writing style, possibly by comparison with papersky, struck me as ineffably feminine)

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Hang on, what? Is that me failing to be a proper girl again?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that a story with both hideous war and some degree of whimsy makes me think of the King's Peace.