The Nightside Series

[Old Dwarf]

Nightside
The Nightside. That square mile of Hell in the middle of the city, where it's always three AM. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters.
Where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.

An Urban Fantasy series by Simon R. Green, the Nightside series chronicles the adventures of the mysterious John Taylor in the titular Nightside,
a hidden world in the middle of London wherein all manner of nasties lurk. Fallen gods and Eldritch Abominations lurk down every dark alley in a place seemingly
made entirely out of dark alleys and gaudy neon.

John has a gift: using his Inner Eye, he can find anything. Lost artifacts, the mystical strings binding some otherworldly horror to reality, your missing keys,
anything. Naturally, this gets him into all sorts of trouble.

The series spans eleven books, with one more planned before ending. The books are:
•Something from the Nightside (2003)
•Agents of Light and Darkness (2003)
•Nightingale's Lament (2004)
•Hex and the City (2005)
•Paths Not Taken (2005)
•Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth (2006)
•Hell to Pay (2007)
•The Unnatural Inquirer (2008)
•Just Another Judgement Day (2009)
•The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny (2010)
•A Hard Day's Knight (2011)
•The Bride Wore Black Leather (2012)

The Bride wore Black Leather is due out in a few days so I thought
it a good time to bring up this series,which I have enjoyed over
the past few years.Alas this Book will be the last of the series

Green has a fast paced Humorous style & Nightside is one of
the best alternative worlds I've come across.The characters
be they Razor Eddy,The Punk God of the Straight Razor or
Lilith herself & places like Strangefellows the oldest bar in the world
are fantastic yet the author holds it all together.

It's like every myth in the world has found a home here,and
Green's imagination & characters are indeed larger than life or
death(in the Nightside it's hard to tell)

If your into stuff like this check out the books there well worth the read.
They are fairly self contained but reading them in published order
helps keep the characters & places clear.

Green has other Series Deathstalker (far future) & Secret Histories
(sort of a James Bond) but frankly as much as I enjoy his work
it all rather whole cloth.He has one style of writing so the main character
in Secret Histories is basically the same character in The Nightside with
a name change.

IMO stick with the Nightside.

OD

[PJON]

Hi OD.

So....i realized i am such a Nerd.

My game club has meeting at a scifi club, that i go to regularly. http://www.bsfs.org/

So, they have the first three books. (all are first prints too, and free for me to borrow, sweet

I started reading Something From the Nightside. So far so good.

They also have a six book series of Hawk & Fisher, by Green. Any good ? any thoughts ? It seems very D&Dish, which i could like.

Thank for the suggestion.

[IanRoss]

Thanks for the recommendation OD. It sounds quite interesting. If I can ever make it through The Wheel Of Time series I'll start in on this.

[mqstout]

I believe I read a short story in the setting from one of my various compilations. I'll have to check.

[Old Dwarf]

(01-30-2012 06:27 AM)IanRoss Wrote:  Thanks for the recommendation OD. It sounds quite interesting. If I can ever make it through The Wheel Of Time series I'll start in on this.

I never met anyone who got through the entire Wheel of Time Series


OD

[IanRoss]

(01-31-2012 01:40 AM)Old Dwarf Wrote:  

(01-30-2012 06:27 AM)IanRoss Wrote:  Thanks for the recommendation OD. It sounds quite interesting. If I can ever make it through The Wheel Of Time series I'll start in on this.

I never met anyone who got through the entire Wheel of Time Series


OD

Ha! I believe it. I'm on my third time through as every time I give up on it for too long I feel I need to start from the beginning again. This time I'm on the 7th book. Furthest I've made it so far! I think it's a great series but a little.... wordy. (I know it's a book!) Jordan is just very.... descriptive.

[Old Dwarf]

(01-31-2012 02:48 AM)IanRoss Wrote:  

(01-31-2012 01:40 AM)Old Dwarf Wrote:  

(01-30-2012 06:27 AM)IanRoss Wrote:  Thanks for the recommendation OD. It sounds quite interesting. If I can ever make it through The Wheel Of Time series I'll start in on this.

I never met anyone who got through the entire Wheel of Time Series


OD

Ha! I believe it. I'm on my third time through as every time I give up on it for too long I feel I need to start from the beginning again. This time I'm on the 7th book. Furthest I've made it so far! I think it's a great series but a little.... wordy. (I know it's a book!) Jordan is just very.... descriptive.

I've read parts of it but at my age I don't feel I have the
time to really try the whole series.Good read though.

OD