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MadassAlex:
Terry Pratchett is a really, really good author in my opinion. He tends to write comedic fantasy, but it sits on a fine line with sci-fi.
volatile:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 20 May 2008, 08:41 ---I'm rereading Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Neil Gaiman's made of win.
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This is troof. American Gods is also ridiculously good.
I'm still a huge fan/nerd of the best fantasy ever: Lord of the Rings. Read it every summer, which reminds me...I have to hunt down my copy.
Another favorite of mine is called Birth of the Firebringer. It's, uh, about unicorns. I read it and loved it as a kid, and then revisited it a few years back. Surprisingly, it really held up well.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 20 May 2008, 06:17 ---I feel that the vast majority of fantasy novels all recycle cliches, not just ones by young writers. The last decent fantasy novel I read (that was new, mind you, I've been reading Robert E. Howard recently), I can't even remember the name of because it was a year ago.
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Recent authors like Scott Lynch, Hal Duncan, China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, Patrick Rothfuss, Kelly Link and Brandon Sanderson are starting to do really interesting things with the fantasy/speculative fiction genre and are really worthwhile checking out.
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I'm in on the Gaiman love. Last month I bought the first two volumes in the Absolute Sandman series on a whim. I don't regret it at all considering it cost me my left nut and the loss of the right in 3 years time. I plan on pre-ordering the third volume from amazon that comes out in June. I recently read a novel called The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaternia Sedia which has been likened to Gaiman's American Gods, so if you're looking for something in the same vein as Gaiman then I'd definitely recommend this.
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--- Quote from: GenericName on 20 May 2008, 16:33 ---Guys we've been through enough centuries of literature that everything is recycled from somewhere. Just most novelists do it by accident.
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Agreed. It's that with fantasy novels in particular, and to a lesser extent sci-fi, a majority of them borrow from the same mythologies. Got a character that loses a hand? Most likely fashioned after the Norse god Tyr. Blinded protaginist? Most likely after the Arthurian Fisher King. Lost an eye and you're probably Odin. It's really no surprise that a lot of stuff out there seems recycled when it's basically all just taken from the same sources.
Surgoshan:
On my brother's recommendation, and because it's written by Gaiman, I bought Preludes and Nocturnes. It was my first comic book purchase since my first comic book purchase at the age of ten and I seriously don't regret it.
Terry Pratchett narrowly defeats Gaiman as my favorite author. It was a long and bloody battle, but it was hilarious and full of commentary about the human condition. Them being British, it was a battle of dry and largely cynical wit. And fisticuffs.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 21 May 2008, 17:10 ---Terry Pratchett narrowly defeats Gaiman as my favorite author. It was a long and bloody battle, but it was hilarious and full of commentary about the human condition. Them being British, it was a battle of dry and largely cynical wit. And fisticuffs.
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I'm ashamed to say, but I've never read a Pratchett book, except for Good Omens and that only half counts. I've always wanted to get into Discworld Whenever there's a series of that magnitude I always have trouble commiting to it so I just put it off.
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