Which books, movies and other games are recommendable for fans of the world of thief?

Dia on 29/12/2005 at 15:11

C.J. Cherryh wrote the "Foreigner" series, which involves humans crash landing on the world of the Atevi. The Atevi have an assassins guild, highly respected and absolutely fascinating. It's a long series, but very much worth checking out.

bartekb81 on 9/6/2008 at 10:36

(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/juliet-e-mckenna/thiefs-gamble.htm)

Thief's Gamble is a great novel. There is not many similarities with the world of Garrett, but the main character, Livak, is a cute female-thief, probably more like Zaya from T2X;) I've got it, read it and going to search next volumes of this great series!

Here is another variant of cover and short note of author (http://www.julietemckenna.com/talesmain.html)
(I'm recommending it to people who like to read very good fantasy and/or want to read about thief as a main character of the story:D)

The Magpie on 9/6/2008 at 13:11

Thanks for the recommendation. Even if you're only a novice thread necromancer resurrecting a thread scarcely two and a half years old, it's a good thread all in all. I don't know exactly how many other threads have the same theme, but there must be dozens of them, so you picked wisely.

:cool:

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Larris.

Knock on 10/6/2008 at 11:58

Well why not...

Game: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
It's rally thiefy, but with more fish people.

Neil_McCauley on 10/6/2008 at 15:46

Books:
Fritz Leiber, Ill Met in Lankhmar - the Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser series, and, by extension, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

FatherMerrin on 10/6/2008 at 18:35

Well, let me add this unusual pebble to the mountain... The subject of urban exploration - both watching it done (in films such as "Urban Explorers", "Mole", "After"...) and doing it personally - has always had strong "Thief" vibes in my mind...

Shadak on 10/6/2008 at 19:31

A couple years ago I read a very good young adult (think "Harry Potter") book called "Ranger's Apprentice", very much like Thief, a young man learns to be extra sneaky, use a bow, go undetected in the castle/forest/town, etc. There are a couple sequels too which I plan to read. It's slightly light fare, but very fun and good.

fett on 10/6/2008 at 23:40

I actually just finished that book! It was a pretty fun read, though the author has terrible POV problems. I'm planning on checking out the next in the series.

The Magpie on 11/6/2008 at 08:47

Quote Posted by FatherMerrin

Strange. I found "(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280956/) Mole" and "(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462172/) After..." on IMDb, but not "Urban Explorers." Instead, I found its (http://www.urbanexplorersfilm.com/) official web site, which turns out to be more interesting than the two others put together.

Not to derail, but in the old forums I remember there was a thread or two about urban spelunking. Why don't you see if more people here are explorers like yourself?

Oh, I'm back in this thread again. Well, since I'm here, and I already (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1694513#post1694513) wrote about it in two other threads, I might as well repeat it in this one: Fans of Thief would probably like the setting and characters and plot of The Lies of Locke Lamora.

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L.

Tarkusb on 11/6/2008 at 12:15

Was just going to recomend The Lies of Locke Lamora myself, ya beat me to it:D Scott Lynch has also written a sequel "Red Seas Under Red Skies", more of a piratey thing going on there. But the first book is fantastic, with some very funny banter between the two main characters and lots of thiefy shenanigans.