Here is a list of books I've read in 2005. That was the first year I started to keep track of what I had read instead of just what books I own. Comments are mostly about neat ideas I might use in a gaming world. The list is in the order I read something by the specific author.
There Will Be Dragons - Set about 1200 years from now, the book is the first in the Council Wars series. It's high tech reasons for sword and sorcery military fiction. I really like the use of Mother as an almost invisiable wish machine until the power fails. I could use it as a means to explain magic.
The Emerald Sea - book two of the Council War series
Against the Tide - book three in the Council War series
Into the Looking Glass -
N-Space - collection of Known Space stories mostly.
Marque and Reprisal - book two in series
Shadow of Saganami - first book in a new series set in the Honorverse
Curious Notions - Book two of Cross Time series
Darkness / Delavi War series listed below.
Return Engagement -
Day of Infamy - alternate history Pearl Harbor. Instead of just
The Spellsong War - book two in a series. Book one, The Soprano Sorcerer was good. This one though was a slog. I think it had more to do with my attitude at the time than with the book though. Not much game use per se. Magic is accomplished by song, especially if accomponied by instruments. The casting of magic uses up energy from the people involved in the spell. As such, casters and instrument players have to eat constantly or die of starvation in time.
Dies the Fire - set in the same universe as the Islands in Time series, this book covers what happens in the rest of the modern world after Nantucket is shifted back in time. The major event is the destruction of electrical power and all high energy devices including firearms on the Earth.
The Reformer - (with David Drake)
The Family Trade - Book one in a new series. There is an group of people, refered to world walkers, who are able to cross from our Earth to another Earth. The other Earth is midieval tech, with a very different history. Apparently the America's was settled by Vikings on the east coast, and Chinese or Japanese on the west coast. The world walkers are an extended inter-bred clan that has been doing cross world trading for almost 300 years. The world walking ability is genetic, so they have a strangle hold on the trade.