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The Complete Ivory (Ivory #1-3)

Doris Egan

Paperback | Pages: 896 pages

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Original Title:	The Complete Ivory: Gate of Ivory, Two-Bit Heroes, Guilt Edged Ivory
ISBN:	0756400414 (ISBN13: 9780756400415)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ivory #1-3

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I generally have trouble coming up with "favorites," even within narrow genres. If I had to choose though, The Ivory is my favorite (set of) fantasy book(s). Easily. The blending of the Science Fiction and Fantasy elements is elegant. The protagonist, Theodora, comes from a culture similar enough to our own to allow us to access the fantasy world on Ivory as though we are transported there ourselves, but she also comes from a culture somewhat removed from ours, giving her a compelling biography we wish to discover.

The fantasy world of Ivory strikes me as remarkably original. Amidst a sea of formulaic magical worlds with the same medieval or Renaissance-inspired cultures, burdened by variations on feudal systems, the world of Ivory offers welcome relief. It seems to live in a transitional cultural and political state, complex and unique to its own situation (rather than directly mirroring great cultural shifts in our history). One of the best parts of Ivory is how multi-cultural it is. I have found that in many fantasy novels attempts are made to create different cultures within the fantasy world, but many of them often are shallow in their depiction. Egan creates fully formed cultures that subtly suggest how they may have come about in relation to each other while retaining their distinct characteristics. Cultural change functions as it does in our world, but the cultures are unique to Ivory rather than being facsimiles of groups on Earth. And all of them struggle with alien cultural contact.

And it's only fitting that Ivory would be so well-developed culturally, as Theodora is a scholar of folklore. She looks at this alien world with an anthropologist's eye, and the scholarly world she comes from seems like the natural culmination of our "ivory tower." Theodora's scholarly lens helps tie everything together.

I can't say enough good about The Ivory. Read it. You'll love it.

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Title	:	The Complete Ivory (Ivory #1-3)
Author	:	Doris Egan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 896 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2001 by DAW
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Very different from the usual fantasy books that I read (more of a sci-fi/fantasy combination, really). Really good trilogy. The first book is the best and it really drops from there, but still maintains a high quality for the whole read.

Doris Egan is an author that I stumbled across, completely by accident, and I'm thrilled that I did. I was in Dark Delicacies years ago, and was intrigued by the back cover of "The Gate of Ivory". The book was only a few dollars in paperback, so I took a chance. This is a book that, while an easy read, reads smart, if that makes any sense. The heroine is smart, sarcastic and likeable - I read enough so that I really appreciate these characters when I find them, I grin.So go find her books - you

Doris Egan (1955) is an American screenwriter, producer, and writer. She has worked on Smallville, Dark Angel, and House as well as many other television programs.Also publishes as Jane Emerson.

I have just finished the second of the three books in this book - 'Two-Bit Heroes' (#2) was a bit of a slog to get through, frankly, but 'The Gate of Ivory' (#1) was excellent, so I am still keen to continue. The narrator, Theodora, is very sympathetic, and honestly the only reason I didn't give up on #2 was because it is nice to spend time in her company. Now finished 'Guilt Edged Ivory' (#3), which falls somewhere between #1 & #2. Not as fast-paced as I'd have liked, a tad too much

I started this and it was all right but it didn't grab me, so I took it back to the library. Might try again another time.

Lovely comfort books for me, with a wonderfully dorky heroine.

Is this series ever going to be out in e-book format?