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Original Title:	The Modern World
ISBN:	0575087552 (ISBN13: 9780575087552)
Series:	Fourlands #3
Literary Awards:	Tähtifantasia Award (2013)

The Modern World (Fourlands #3)

Steph Swainston

ebook | Pages: 300 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 434 Users | 27 Reviews

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Title	:	The Modern World (Fourlands #3)
Author	:	Steph Swainston
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	December 21st 2010 by Gollancz (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Weird Fiction. New Weird. Fiction

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Still a good read, but a tad frustrating.

Lightning's character becomes more and more of a caricature (the author even refers to him as Lord Melodrama at one point).

Swainston has added as many questions as answers in this volume, so much so that it makes me wonder if we aren't in for a ten-volume series here. There's far too much "heh, heh, I'm not going to explain that yet." Including a cryptic reference to this world having uranium but not using it.

I do like the idea that immortal does not mean invulnerable, but again the author has some 'splainin' to do later.

There are some unnecessary distractions and jokes, which are interesting but break the carefully-created sense that we really are in another world and hold up an "aren't I clever?" sign reminding us that there is an author at work, not the narrator. In an earlier book, our hero is checking out Middle Ages armour while wearing denim cutoffs and a T-shirt; perhaps there will be an explanation in a later volume. In a scene I can't describe closely without spoiling, Lightning stretches our suspension of disbelief with some archery work. The scene would have been as good without that.

We meet the Vermiform again, an entity that appears to follow Shift physics even in this "real" world. It also seems to be very powerful at times, not so much at others.

We learn that Cyan is indeed the selfish brat we saw in the previous book. In this one we also learn that she is not very smart. That bothered me at first, but seemed OK after a while. We are coming to realize book by book that most of these folks get things wrong just about as often as we do in this world.

And enough already with the logistics of troop movements, and naming everyone, and making sure there's a Circle member for swords, one for spears, one for javelins ... no doubt there's also one for nunchucks, one for coshes, one for farm-tools-as-weapons, one for unarmed combat, one who tells opposing forces that they smell of elderberries, ...

And finally, for all of Swainston's pleasure in throwing plot twists at us, several of the developments in this volume are predictable 200 pages away.

I'll read the next one, but I'm not going to be patient with it. I require some answers.

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Battles fought, friends lost and secrets explained. Better than the first two in some ways, and I'm sad that I've run out of Swainston to read.

Clever, but I preferred the first two.



I think this was the best part of the series so far. Very entertaining, and the events that unfolded... well, wow. Pretty cool. Now I'm really looking forward to reading more of this. Quite the contrast to forgetting the series for five years after the first part.

This book surprised me again and again. The beginning brings Insects back to the fore--as they were in "The Year of Our War"--and introduces a plot concocted by the immortal Circle to push the Insects back into the Paperlands and reclaim territory lost in centuries past. Jant and his immortal companions jest, talk about the past, and prepare for battle. It was all familiar, and it was all a welcomed read; I figured that I had a good idea as to where Swainston was going to take the story, and I

I think this volume (in the series that includes previous books The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time) is actually a bit more readable than the last book, probably because there's more action and we're getting at some of the background mysteries of how and why things are as they are in this world. (I assume there will be another book in the series next year, and I assume I will read it.)

A great ending to an awesome series. Another angle on the immortality theme, although some of the flash-backs felt like all to convenient plot devices.