thank you kindly.

 

i just finished The Touch. but im torn. i really enjoyed the story overall, both beginning and end gave me those same goosebumps every time something awesome happens. but the middle seemed slow going.

 

not to mention that the whole reset kind of left me feeling like "oh....well what was the point."

 

was this book lumleys first venture in to a sci-fi influenced novel? it seemed that way to me.

 

i liked the comparisons between the Shing't and their Kiff vs a Wamphyri and their leeches. but i agree while still an excellent book overall, i didnt feel it was a needed extension of the Necroscope mythos.

 

but i agree while still an excellent book overall, i didnt feel it was a needed extension of the Necroscope mythos.

 

Sometimes when the fans and publishers demand more Necroscope though... you're torn between a rock and hard place as an author. Whether you want to continue it or not isn't always as easy a choice as it may seem. That's all I will say about that.

That is of course a very fair point Mr wolfe that not many people would think of, and lets face it as "dedicated readers" is there any one of us who would say no thank you if asked whether we'd like more necroscope? I think not!

 

McSneaky, it's not his first venture into sci-fi, not by a long way. There are elements of sci-fi in lots of his work, I think one of the most obvious perhaps being the House of Doors.

Sometimes when the fans and publishers demand more Necroscope though... you're torn between a rock and hard place as an author. Whether you want to continue it or not isn't always as easy a choice as it may seem. That's all I will say about that.

 

oh dont get me wrong. Silver was kind enough to warn me not to go in to it thinking of it as a Necroscope extension. Heck, in my opinion even Invaders/Defilers/Avengers was less about the Necroscope and more about E-Branch and i loved it.

 

Mr. Lumley did not fail to deliver as an author in any way to me. and even as i type this i think im not even bothered by the alien/sci-fi aspect of it. in fact it was how the reading experience played out. Scott St.John was pissing me off with his stubbornness so badly that i had to force myself not to stop reading. but i kept on, hoping he would come through. and he did! even though he didnt unlock ALL the secrets of the Necroscope, he was good by me in the end.

 

and just when everything is said and done, and he is square with E-Branch, and he has his Three Unit. BAM! reset! now i dont feel that the reading was all for nothing because it did give me some more insight into people like Ben Trask, Anna Marie English, Paul Garvey, Millie Cleary. not to mention how things kind of work in the great beyond. but to only have the Three retain memory of the events? i dunno about that. i guess i cant quite put my finger on why exactly it bugged me lol

 

As for Harry and the Pirates, that's available now to buy, and don't forget Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes. That one's a book of short stories, some are about Harry but not all.

 

Harry Keogh and other Weird Heroes is HIGHLY recommended because it introduces another of Lumley's best creations: the occultist Titus Crow.

I have all of that series as well and anyone who enjoys H.P Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard's Hyperborean landscapes should of course read the entire Titus Crow saga. In fact, my favorite characters in horror literature of all time include Keogh and Crow and have each had major influence on some of my own writing.

Well said niytemare, Lumley created other heros and stories that are similarly amazing, it's not just about Harry.

The Lost Years i loved the books, my favorite was Vamphyri i loved Yulian he was cool.

 

As for the Lost Years i seemed to read them out of order but in a way i read them in the chronilogical way as in the timeline of the story. I guess made more sense like that.

 

As for Radu he was boring i am sorry, it seemed to me that he made Radu into more a good guy though he wasn't, even the Drakuls were more interesting and we didn't find out alot about them. Though i have alwats been a fan of the Ferenczys.

 

As for the Invaders, Defilers and Avengers they were awesome, read the Torch it was cool, didn't read the two short stories in Harry and other heroes read Ressurection that was cool, and i haven't read harry and the pirates yet besides the last story

sorry for the double post...

 

Bloodwars was a great book, but the ending was a bit anti-climatic, but still a great book

well i have to go re read it ( im waiting for Last Aerie hard back to get here) but im in the middle of Defilers( as soon as im finished)Im going to go start all of them over in sequential order) for 1st to last

 

I have never been able to read all of them the way i wanted to..from start to finish (and other books in between) like the lost years...written after the real Keogh died ( and if u read books 1 -3) and place the lost years where he says they gop..it works)

I placed the touch imedeatly after deadspawn as that one suppossedly happens with months of harry's true death"...Harry and the Pirates is soon after book 2..as soon as i finish and have all my Hardcovers replaced..im going to sit back and re read them...

Lost Years take place between book 2 and 3 as does many of the short stories he has wrote especially from Harry and other Heroes and The Pirates...

 

Ressurection which is in The Heroes one goes during book 5, and the Touch does indeed come after book 5

Harry Keogh and other Weird Heroes is HIGHLY recommended because it introduces another of Lumley's best creations: the occultist Titus Crow.

I have all of that series as well and anyone who enjoys H.P Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard's Hyperborean landscapes should of course read the entire Titus Crow saga. In fact, my favorite characters in horror literature of all time include Keogh and Crow and have each had major influence on some of my own writing.

 

I liked the titus crow short...It made me wish i could go get the rest and actually start reading them...

 

and the short with Hero...a series i had never actually heard..was pretty funny

I really enjoyed both of those series Alucard, they're totally different to Necroscope and totally different from eachother.

 

The dreamland series is light hearted reading and full of mischeif, lots of fun. Titus Crow is more serious, really well written and I think quite Sherlock Holmes/Dr Watson-ish in the way the main characters interact.

 

If you haven't read them yet I suggest you make it your next priority, if you liked the short stories I'm sure you'll like the series