#122329 - Sun Jul 28 2002 11:27 PM
Fantasy Novels ( . . and some Sci-Fi too!)
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Hi all! I am an avid reader of Fantasy Novels in my spare time! I thought I'd make this thread to share favorite books, and comment on them! Some of my favorite authors in the genre are Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Jennifer Roberson, J.V. Jones, Tanya Huff, and many many many others!  -Scarlet
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#122330 - Mon Jul 29 2002 12:30 PM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Mon Jun 25 2001
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yup...those are some good ones
David Eddings
Michael Stackpole
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
etc.
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#122331 - Tue Jul 30 2002 10:08 AM
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Lois McMaster Bujold.
If you're a fantasy fan, start with Curse of Chalion. If sci-fi, you can't beat her Shards of Honor. (Actually you can - with the sequels - but those won't make much sense without the context. If you do get that far, Mirror Dance is the most thought-provoking sci-fi I've read in a long time, and A Civil Campaign is hilarious.
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#122332 - Tue Jul 30 2002 07:12 PM
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Registered: Sat Mar 30 2002
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Loc: Toronto Ontario Canada
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I like Roger Zelazny, John Marco, Dave Duncan, Robin Hobb and C.S. Friedman.
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#122333 - Thu Aug 01 2002 10:59 AM
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I can't get enough of George RR Martin, and i Love Terry Goodkind...id have to say that Faith of the Fallen was one of the most touching books ive read yet
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#122334 - Thu Aug 01 2002 01:20 PM
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Right now I'm on the 2nd of the 'Farseer Trilogy' by Robin Hobb, excellent and different.
I also like Ursula Le Guin, and of course J R R Tolkien.
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#122335 - Thu Aug 01 2002 04:58 PM
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excellent...how are you liking the boy and his wolf?
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#122336 - Thu Aug 01 2002 05:59 PM
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Registered: Tue Jul 09 2002
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Loc: Missing Mile, NC
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I've always loved fantasy but, I'm really into urban fantasy right now.
Charles de Lint
Midori Snyder
Storm Constantine
S.P. Somtow
Charlaine Harris
Laurell K. Hamilton
Emma Bull (War for the Oaks)
Susan Cooper
James Clemens
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#122337 - Sat Aug 03 2002 04:45 PM
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I'm a rabid SF/Fantasy reader.
My current favorite fantasy authors are Steven Brust (Taltos, Jhereg, Phoenix, Dragon, Yendi, The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After and others) and Michelle West (Hunter's Oath, Hunter's Death and others).
My current favorite SF authors are Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (who co-wrote Partners in Necessity, Pilot's Choice, Plan B and I Dare).
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#122338 - Mon Aug 12 2002 12:14 AM
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Loc: Riverside Chicago Illinois USA
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I've enjoyed lots of sci-fi and fantasy in the last 30 years but Andre Norton has always been one of my favorite writers. Recently I discovered Sheri Tepper, and I find her to be similar to Andre Norton but with better developed characters and stories. I've read 3 of her books so far and all of them were great: "The Visitor" (her newest), "Grass" and "The Fresco". My favorite books are those that combine elements of both sci-fi and fantasy.
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#122339 - Mon Aug 18 2003 06:00 PM
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Loc: southwest Alabama
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Grass starts what might be called a series, but the characters are totally different and separated by solar systems and by hundreds of years. The middle of the two, Raising the Stones, was my first Tepper read and got me hooked on her work. I don't think I'd ever looked at existing social systems in the way she does. I'd also recommend The Gate to Women's Country (not part of a series).
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Hi everyone! I am new to the site and I can't believe that no-one has mentioned my favourite authors on any of the threads that I have read. My all time favourite is Anne McCaffery who mixes both genres of fantasy and sci-fi. There is also Stephen Donaldson, Guy Gavriel Kaye, and Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman but what is exciting to me is the authors that have been mentioned that I have never heard of so I now have some new ones to find and read 
I do just wonder sometimes how many people have really truly read Lord of the Rings as I have tried to read them lots of times but never finished 
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