There's probably an abundance of them on here already, considering this is 4chan, but after reading Perdido Street Station I'm hungry for some moar fantasy/sci-fi, whatever. I've never particularly liked the genre (I always thought it seemed a bit juvenile, if you'll excuse the elitistfag tone), so I literally know crapall. Just any good fantasy stuff would be cool.
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Anonymous2007-12-25 2:35
Just read Ice and Fire.
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Anonymous2008-01-01 23:32
Otherland
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Anonymous2008-01-02 10:36
cat's cradle. (any vonnegut)
the chrysalids
magician.
the man in the high castle. ( any philip k dick)
stranger in a strange land.
jonathan strange & mr norrell.
snow crash.
the name of the wind.
the stand.
song of ice and fire.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 16:23
The Stand isn't fantasy, just a fantastical situation.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 19:31
Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth Series,
Anything by Terry Pratchett is hilarious!
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Anonymous2008-01-03 21:20
read Soul Music or The Truth by Terry Pratchett
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Anonymous2008-01-03 22:39
>>5
it falls into sci-fi/fantasy. quit your whining.
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Anonymous2008-01-03 22:50
Chris Wooding - The Braided Path
Garth Nix - Sabriel
Only the first one, maybe two Sword of Truth books are good. The rest are SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITHSIT.
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Anonymous2008-02-03 1:40
Rhapsody and subsequent books in the series- Elizabeth Hayden
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Anonymous2008-03-03 21:02
Terry Brooks Sword of Shannara series. And the series after that whos name i cant not remember. They are great.
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Anonymous2008-03-04 5:02
The sword of truth is shitty political propaganda with a thin veneer of story ("The evil communist emperor rapes people!")
The sword of shannara series is a shitty Tolkien ripoff with none of LotR's good sides, just elves are awesome lol, time to go n a quest for a magic item.
Otherland is not fantasy, but a meandering failure at cyberpunk that spends all of its time in cyberworlds and is about 3000 pages too long.
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Anonymous2008-03-04 16:49
Thank for for your unrecommendations and for not reading the topic.
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Anonymous2008-03-05 12:49
The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.
Basically if you know anything about D&D and Forgotten Realms you'll know what the dark elves are. If not, well it's still a good book and I learned what I know now about them through those books
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Anonymous2008-03-05 17:22
>>15
Fine. Go read shit fantasy. See if I care. Because I don't.
R.A. Salvatore? Lol. He's not a writer, he's a cynical hack peddling half-baked sub-fanfiction bullshit.
For a good, intelligent fantasy read go with Steven Erikson, George R.R. Martin, or Dan Simmons (more sci-fi, but then Mieville has that leaning too...).
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Anonymous2008-03-07 8:51
What about Shaun S.A. Sinep? He writes god stuff.
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Anonymous2008-03-07 17:59
>>18
If you want half-baked sub-fanfiction, you should stick with Terry Brooks. He might not actually have an imaginative bone in his body, but his prose is at least adequate.