I remember STIII: The Search For Spock: The Book Of the Movie as being at least medium-good, yes. If your to-be-read-for-not-work pile were not already visible from space I'd say add it to it just because.
Yeah, Witch World novels often have a Long-Ago Series Of Questgivers And Inexplicably Functioning Plot Token Dispensers With Arrows To The Next One involved. I guess it's to be preferred to The Protagonist Wanders All The Hell Over Azeroth Without Finding Out What She's Supposed To Do Next; Meanwhile, Evil Triumphs Half A Continent Away... (MMORPGs are set up precisely so this doesn't happen - the action starts, animatronic-like, RIGHT when the player(s) get there, however long they've spent canoodling around with the auction house in the meantime.)
On A Pale Horse was the first book of Incarnations of Immortality, which went first to five (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature), then to seven (Evil, Good), and finally to eight (Night). And had the usual "stop when you feel creeped out because they don't get less creepy" Anthony thing going, though I actually liked them all up through Good. Night, _Under A Velvet Cloak_, turns out to have so much underage sex in it (not just talking about it like the Xanth series) that he had to go to an independent publisher for it. (Plz don't ask how I know this. sob.) But all of the first five had some fairly interesting fantasy-meets-magitech stuff going on in them, and all of the first seven are, dare I use the word, incestuously intertwined in their family trees for the protagonists, so you keep seeing glimpses of the Other Plots in each book...
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Yeah, Witch World novels often have a Long-Ago Series Of Questgivers And Inexplicably Functioning Plot Token Dispensers With Arrows To The Next One involved. I guess it's to be preferred to The Protagonist Wanders All The Hell Over Azeroth Without Finding Out What She's Supposed To Do Next; Meanwhile, Evil Triumphs Half A Continent Away... (MMORPGs are set up precisely so this doesn't happen - the action starts, animatronic-like, RIGHT when the player(s) get there, however long they've spent canoodling around with the auction house in the meantime.)
On A Pale Horse was the first book of Incarnations of Immortality, which went first to five (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature), then to seven (Evil, Good), and finally to eight (Night). And had the usual "stop when you feel creeped out because they don't get less creepy" Anthony thing going, though I actually liked them all up through Good.
Night, _Under A Velvet Cloak_, turns out to have so much underage sex in it (not just talking about it like the Xanth series) that he had to go to an independent publisher for it. (Plz don't ask how I know this. sob.) But all of the first five had some fairly interesting fantasy-meets-magitech stuff going on in them, and all of the first seven are, dare I use the word, incestuously intertwined in their family trees for the protagonists, so you keep seeing glimpses of the Other Plots in each book...
--Dave