[ SECRET POST #2120 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2120 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Recommendations (mostly oriented around non-high fantasy): Neil Gaiman, but more than that, everyone that influenced Neil Gaiman. If you see that Neil Gaiman wrote the introduction to a novel, buy that novel immediately; consider that introduction as a guarantee of quality. I like Gaiman's work, although I have problems with it. But his taste is freaking impeccable - to name a few, I know that he's written a lot about RA Lafferty, Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, GK Chesterton, and M John Harrison, all of whom I would say are exemplary authors. Do any of them do worldbuilding? Not in a traditional sense, but they're still great.

For some more concrete recommendations - I would recommend Lisa Goldstein, who writes imaginative contemporary fantasy. Charles De Lint. Patricia McKillip writes really good books with a kind of enchanted, magical atmosphere. John Crowley. Michael Bishop. Cat Valente. I don't know man, there's so much good fantasy out there if you go outside of high fantasy. It's this wildly inventive, fertile genre but unfortunately what gets most attention is fairly derivative stuff.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[kathkin]

I don't know man, there's so much good fantasy out there if you go outside of high fantasy. It's this wildly inventive, fertile genre but unfortunately what gets most attention is fairly derivative stuff.

IKR. I just started working on a dissertation on fantasy literature (specifically on Greek myth in fantasy) and it's really fascinating. <3

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[greenvelvetcake]

The funny thing with Gaiman is that I like his urban fantasy ideas much more than his high fantasy stuff - really disliked Stardust.

Would Discworld count as high fantasy? Sure, why not, especially with some of the earlier books.

Also, Tamora Pierce.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Stardust is one of the very limited cases where I preferred the movie to the book. The movie's a lot of fun. The book's... interesting.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[othellia]

Don't worry; I'm the same way, anon.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Yay for a Patricia McKillip mention! Her Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword are both amazing. I also really loved her Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy. And she writes awesome female characters, to boot.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[juniperfan]

Robin McKinley wrote the Blue Sword and the Hero and the Crown. :D McKillip wrote the Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy, along with lots of others.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[sienamystic]

Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword are Robin McKinley. Patricia McKillip is Riddle-Master of Hed.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Chesterton wrote fantasy?!

(I remember some stuff that counts as speculative fiction-ish... Napoleon of Notting Hill if you need an example.)

Re: Anyone else got recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I would argue that pretty much every novel that Chesterton wrote was fantasy. With, maybe, the exceptions of Ball And The Cross and Flying Inn. Napoleon of Notting Hill is certainly fantasy, imo. I think that Man Who Was Thursday and Return Of Don Quixote are both fantasy as well, without question (for me, his two best novels by far - Return of Don Quixote is MAD underrated).

But, whether he wrote fantasy or not, he's still one of my favorite authors of all time...