Fantasy Authors
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Brandon Sanderson was a very good read for his Mistborn series. I'm stoked now for the Wheel of Time's last few books.
David Drake is one of my favorite sci fi authors.
Robert Buettner does some good military sci fi.
I also started reading the Virga series by Karl Schroeder.
Mark L. van Name has a series that's pretty new and good sci fi.
Lastly, Karen Miller's Kingmaker/Kingbreaker series was a great couple of books.
David Drake is one of my favorite sci fi authors.
Robert Buettner does some good military sci fi.
I also started reading the Virga series by Karl Schroeder.
Mark L. van Name has a series that's pretty new and good sci fi.
Lastly, Karen Miller's Kingmaker/Kingbreaker series was a great couple of books.
Terry Pratchett- I just love how he manages to fill his books with references to real life, in possibly the most obscure world ever imagined.
Philip K Dick- I've only read one of his books, A Scanner Darkly, but it is such an amazing representation of the drug and narcotics world and the insanity of Bob and Frank by the end of it is just astonishing, and it just shows so well what drugs can truely do to you.
Douglas Adams- I think it's the surreality of some of his work that interests me in him. His work is just so random and was full of standard British Comedy.
Philip K Dick- I've only read one of his books, A Scanner Darkly, but it is such an amazing representation of the drug and narcotics world and the insanity of Bob and Frank by the end of it is just astonishing, and it just shows so well what drugs can truely do to you.
Douglas Adams- I think it's the surreality of some of his work that interests me in him. His work is just so random and was full of standard British Comedy.
I must confess a confusion with the love of David Eddings. His writing is pleasant, but it lacks the depth of a lot of the really good fantasy out there.
Robin Hobb is an extremely good, if a little contrived. Assassin's Apprentice is a good place to start there. Good character development - nice moral ambiguity without being contrived. The angst of the main character can become a little tedious though. The Soldier Son Trilogy is fairly decent as well.
J.V Jones and the Baker's Boy Trilogy is excellent as well. She has a wonderful sense of style and manages to create interesting characters and relationships.
Already mentioned is Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space - It's an excellent cybergoth space romp - a little too much crammed into one book, but very creepy and atmospheric.
The best author I've ever encountered though, is Dan Simmons. Read Hyperion. He's a ridiculosuly erudite sci-fi author / classicist. Then get the sequels. His command of language is quite unparalleled. Also, read Ilium - it's a massively potent retelling of the siege of Troy, only infinitely sexier. With space-robots. And just... pure awesomeness.
Robin Hobb is an extremely good, if a little contrived. Assassin's Apprentice is a good place to start there. Good character development - nice moral ambiguity without being contrived. The angst of the main character can become a little tedious though. The Soldier Son Trilogy is fairly decent as well.
J.V Jones and the Baker's Boy Trilogy is excellent as well. She has a wonderful sense of style and manages to create interesting characters and relationships.
Already mentioned is Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space - It's an excellent cybergoth space romp - a little too much crammed into one book, but very creepy and atmospheric.
The best author I've ever encountered though, is Dan Simmons. Read Hyperion. He's a ridiculosuly erudite sci-fi author / classicist. Then get the sequels. His command of language is quite unparalleled. Also, read Ilium - it's a massively potent retelling of the siege of Troy, only infinitely sexier. With space-robots. And just... pure awesomeness.
I'm almost finished with his Mistborn Trilogy, and I've loved every word of it so far. His first novel, Elantris, is supposedly very good as well, though I've yet to read it.Anghrist said:
Diana Wynne Jones has always been one I liked (pre-Miyazaki, fyi) and beyond her I can only really say John Bellairs and Max Brooks.
And H.P. Lovecraft, if he counts.
And H.P. Lovecraft, if he counts.
I call seconded on the Bujold. Her Vorkosigan stuff is the best SciFi is the best i've ever read.Fightgarr said:
Why has no one mentioned Steven Erikson yet? The Malazan Book of the Fallen is one of the best written, most in-depth (even if it is damned complicated) fantasy I've read. The whole plot is one massive thirty xanatos pileup [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirtyXanatosPileup] - plots upon plots upon plots by everyone from peasants to elder gods.
The greatest fantasy author OF ALL TIME IS R.A. SALVATORE!!! No one tops him when it comes to fantasy story telling.
If you can ignore the most chronic case of delayed publication in the history of mankind, then George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice and Fire is full of epic win.
Terry Pratchett is hilarious. His stuff is fantasy--but it's more parody. It's awesome.
The best non-rose-colored-glass high-fantasy writer though--George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Fire and Ice". His stuff is amazing. I mean. Amazing.
Though, David Eddings wrote some great stuff too and Robin Hobb's stuff was pretty good.
The best non-rose-colored-glass high-fantasy writer though--George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Fire and Ice". His stuff is amazing. I mean. Amazing.
Though, David Eddings wrote some great stuff too and Robin Hobb's stuff was pretty good.