[ SECRET POST #2882 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2882 ⌋

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Some other fantasy authors to check out

[cushlamochree]

Can this be a thread for non-conventional fantasy recs?

Some authors I've read and liked: John Crowley, Patricia McKillip, RA Lafferty, Mervyn Peake, Jack Vance, Peter S Beagle, James Blaylock, Avram Davidson, M John Harrison, Gene Wolfe, Jo Walton, Catherynne M. Valente, Hal Duncan, Elizabeth Bear, Tim Powers

I know I'm forgetting some other people I've liked as well

ETA: two more I remembered - Lucius Shepard and Charles De Lint

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding Shepard and De Lint; two of the very few fantasy writers I can stomach.

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[cushlamochree]

Yeah, they're pretty decent, aren't they? I haven't liked much of De Lint's very recent stuff but I'll always love his style a whole lot.

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[icecheetah]

Patricia McKillip is non conventional?

Maybe I should actually pay attention to the random books mum hands me to read every now and again...

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[cushlamochree]

At least in the sense that she's not doing a bunch of save the world, epic quest, elves and dwarves stuff.

It's still very fantasy world with kings and cities and witches, but in a much more... almost fairy-tale, capital-R Romantic way. And quite well done IMO.

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[icecheetah]

I see! Thank you.

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[xenomantid]

For those who don't mind searching for books that have fallen into out-of-print purgatory, Jane Gaskell's Atlan series is as weird as most fantasy novels get. Yes, the main character is a princess, but that is the series's one trope in common with cliched high fantasy. Gaskell mixes Theosophy and Aztec mythology and paints the results with a Gothic brush. The books are set in a fantastic prehistory that posits a very eldritch South America. They have just about everything: a plucky but constantly imperiled protagonist, a lost continent, a land war between the North and South over said lost continent, lizard-men and ape-men, occasional witchcraft, carnivorous riding birds, giant reptiles, abduction, incest, interspecies mating, an evil priest and his minions, a temple of doom, a tentacled creature or two, a V. C. Andrews-esque aura of wrongness, and more. The characters in these novels make references to "Ancient Atlan," which is the lost continent as it was before the current civilization came to dominate it. We are told that vestiges of Ancient Atlan remain in the continent and are just waiting to take possession of it again--and there is ample reason to believe that Atlan itself is self-aware, as in Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows."

Re: Some other fantasy authors to check out

[(Anonymous)]

Well, damn. I definitely have to get my hands on this! Thank you!