I'm pretty sure I like fantasy, it's just I've never actually read much of it. I loved The Lord of the Rings, I preferred the Silmarillion. I'm currently half way through The Children of Húrin and like it too. I've also read every single Discworld novel, although I've felt the last few were declining in quality. Maybe I'm just personally bored with them. Anyway my point is, that's pretty much all the fantasy I've ever read. So what classics am I missing?
Also a related, much more specific question: I've become a fan of the D&D setting Planescape after playing the game Planescape: Torment. Are there any novels set in a similar fantasy world?
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Anonymous2007-07-18 1:43 ID:bgACq9ct
Not all "classics" as I usually prefer a more modern style of writing which the so-called classics I tried so far sometimes lacked, so this is more of a personal favorites list. Here goes..
Steven Erikson - Malazan Book Of The Fallen (series name)
George R.R. Martin - A Song Of Ice And Fire (series name)
Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die / Blade Of Tyshalle
Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (+sequels)
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name Of The Wind (+sequels)
Scott Lynch - The Lies Of Locke Lamora (+sequels)
David Gemmell - everything about Druss, Waylander and Skilgannon
Stephen Donaldson - Thomas Covenant stuff
Fritz Leiber - Fafrhd & Gray Mouser stuff
Steven Brust - Vlad Taltos stuff
Tim Lebbon - Dusk (+ Dawn)
Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
Karl Edward Wagner - Kane stuff
And if you want some urban fantasy for a change of pace and a lighter read, grab some Jim Butcher (his fantasy series is good too), Simon R. Green, Charlie Huston, Emma Bull, Mark Chadbourn (although he doesn't really qualify as light).
About PS:T, I have no idea. Would be cool though, here's hoping.
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Anonymous2007-07-18 2:48 ID:0fHLdVi4
Top of my recommendations would be John Marco's Lukien trilogy:
The Eyes of God
The Devil's Armor
The Sword of Angels
Its world is unusually interesting and unique for fantasy, pulls a lot from more Eastern ideologies. Loved them to death.
The Black Magician trilogy, by Trudi Cannavan. Very nice series.
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Anonymous2007-07-28 5:43 ID:Mz7SX0SV
Song of Ice and Fire is LEAGUES above the rest of the fantasy genre.
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Anonymous2007-07-29 15:36 ID:HdCEj4nt
Some other good ones:
-Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
-The original Conan stuff by Robert E. Howard
-The Elric saga by Michael Moorcock
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Anonymous2007-07-30 18:48 ID:tWU1T/op
if you like robert jordan you are a fucking retard and/or a child
of the stuff listed above i would only suggest george rr martin, but i read that while going through puberty and would probably find it fucking awful now.
Yeh, I pretty much got over Rbt. Jordan by my mid 20s. His stuff is complete gayfaggotry now. Totally homo.
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Anonymous2007-07-31 2:33 ID:R2DF5uQM
Robert Jordan's decent, but there are definitely better authors out there. However, I wouldn't take anything said by some nigh-illiterate moron who can't punctuate something properly too seriously.
#10, you DO realize that you're posting on 4chan, right? What icon of the Queen's English were you expecting to encounter?
Jordan's not the only metahomo around here. {holds up a mirror} Look like someone you know, you fucking queer?
JORDAN IS NOT "DECENT". You may as well read Kevin Anderson, either before or after he mouthraped Frank Herbert's paper-dry corpse. Jordan can carry you only so far, and then you have to set him aside as being a "phase" of your literary life. Since you have access to better authors, you should seek them out forthwith! There's no need to hang with the litqueers.
For your punishment, Fag#10, go re-read the "Sword of Shannara". Popular fiction becomes a tsunami of bad literature that we must constantly be on our guard against, lest the general public start to think that THAT dross is "normal".
I should have said, he was decent in the beginning. His more recent stuff has been nearly as terrible as that book by Anne Bishop my friend made me read. One might as well watch a sit-com.
As for nigh-illiteracy, I don't expect much from 4Chan, however I would expect more from the BOOKS section. At least capitals and periods... Though in light of the Harry Potter fags, I suppose I should lower my standards some.
I heard the books aren't quite as good towards the more recent ones. Is it so?
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Anonymous2007-08-02 18:59 ID:+W+VazOT
I liked "The Quickening" series.
It starts with Myrren's gift, and spans a trilogy.
Basically it's about a guy who, when he gets killed, switches souls with the killer and essentially steals their body. So it's quite an interesting concept. However, there are lots of other characters and sub-plots that end and begin, so there's are tons of twists.