#mageworlds

[semiprofessional-cryptid]

& now a brief interruption of my irregularly scheduled bs because I have the dirge/shanty from the Mageworlds trilogy stuck in my head so now all 3 or so of the people who see my posts semiregularly get to suffer through seeing it too

“Now stand to your glasses steady—

The galaxy’s nothing but lies.

So here’s to our friends dead already,

And here’s to the next one who dies.”

“Take the carbon rods out of my kidneys,

Take the navicomp out of my brain,

Take the hyperdrive switch from my larynx,

And assemble my starship again.”

“Forgot by the planets that bore us,

Forsaken by all we hold dear,

The good ones have all gone before us

And only the evil are here.”

“Assemble my spaceship around me

And fuel it with beer when you’re done,

I don’t need a life-support system

If only the engines will run.”

“Then strap me again in my cockpit

And toast me in faraway bars.

Just let me fire off into hyper,

I’ll make my own way to the stars.”

— Debra Doyle & James Macdonald

First 2 stanzas are from The Price of the Stars & the last 3 are from By Honor Betray'd

[lianabrooks]

The Mageworlds Series by Debra Doyle

If you like magic mixed with spaceships, multi-cultural exchanges, non-human characters, secret identifies, gender-fluid biromantic demisexuals, and wish the Jedi could get married... MAGEWORLDS is the series for you. 

The Mageworlds series is everything Little Me wanted Star Wars to be, and everything Star Wars could never be because it was written by a misogynistic, racist old man who liked erasing and humiliating women.

Price Of The Stars

Starpilot's Grave

By Honor Betray'd

Gathering Flame

The Longhunt

FOR THE LOVE OF GOOD SCI-FI GO READ THE MAGEWORLDS SERIES. https://www.goodreads.com/series/53631-mageworlds

NOTE - Beka doesn’t identify as these things on the page because she the book was written in the 90′s. She switches between masculine and feminine pronouns fluidly, easily, and regularly throughout the first few books. She has a single lover who accepts being considered homosexual/bisexual without a blink is a pretty cannon-bi. Beka is written as having no sexual interest in anyone ever except for one person, which is pretty darn demisexual bordering on asexual. 

Other fun things include: sex-positive talks about sex workers (and a sex worker as a main character in the 3rd book), magic in space, well-developed world-building, space pirates, women in positions of power. 

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Got a nice little book haul from the library’s sale

Mercedes Lackey:

Heralds of Valdemar: Arrows of the Queen, Arrow’s Flight, and Arrow’s Fall

The Last Herald Mage: Magic’s Pawn, Magic’s Price (they didn’t have the second book, though)

Royal Assassin and Assassin’s Quest - Robin Hobb

Hunting Party - Elizabeth Moon

Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr

The Price of the Stars - Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Phylogenesis and Diuturnity’s Dawn - Alan Dean Foster

The Longest Way Home - Robert Silverberg

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin)

The White Lioness and The Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell

Alaska - James A. Michener

Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett (omnibus)

Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Coyote Waits - Tony Hillerman (another omnibus)

Sanibel Flats - Randy Wayne White

15 Travis McGee novels that I’m not going to list because it’s 15 books - John D. MacDonald

[longhairedantagonists]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mageworlds Series - Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ari Rosselin-Metadi/Llanat Hyfid Characters: Ari Rosselin-Metadi, Llanat Hyfid Additional Tags: By Honor Betray'd Spoilers, Fluff, First Kiss Summary:

In the midst of their conversation on Telabryk Field, Ari and Llanat share a few, precious stolen moments.

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in short: i was feeling Normal about llanat and ari

[mizeliza]

reading the price of the stars and it's really finny just how much of it comes down to this is postcanon star wars fanfic with the serial numbers filed off

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

have you read A Working of Stars, by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (2002)?

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[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

have you read The Stars Asunder, by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (1999)?

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have you read The Long Hunt, by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (1996)?

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