When we were decluttering the house in order to make it more saleable, we put most of our books into storage. We each left out a small selection of books which we thought we would read until such time as we moved house and had all our books to hand again.

I decided to leave out Julian May's series of metapsychic novels: The Sage of the Exiles (aka the Pliocene novels), Intervention, and The Milieu Trilogy - eight books in all.

I whipped through The Sage of the Exiles in short order. I don't think I've read it since before the first of the Milieu books came out in UK paperback (1992) but I had read them several times prior to that. They're a fun series, with much politicking and gruesome action. One of my favourite things about it is that the way that the mental powers are described is so vivid - indeed, it makes me want to write a similarly evocative story about software (yes, really) - and yet so plausible. That plausibility continues into Intervention and The Milieu Trilogy.

I'm currently about half way through the first of the Milieu novels, only the second time I've read them. It is really of trmendous benefit to read the whole set as one, though... there are many references and interrelationships which I hadn't picked up on first time through because the Pliocene novels were not fresh at the time.

I'm very much enjoying reading all these again.

Posted by Dunx at July 11, 2003 09:51 AM