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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-22 06:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #2120 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2120 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 069 secrets from Secret Submission Post #303.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - random image ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

(Anonymous) 2012-10-23 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Brandon Sanderson's books have the best magic systems and some of the best worldbuilding of any fantasy author I've read. His prose skills aren't always the best, but the amount of thought that must have gone into the plots, the settings, the characters, etc. more than makes up for it IMO.

Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard sequence is really good, too. The setting is somewhat based on Renaissance Italy but different enough not to be obnoxious, and what stock fantasy tropes are present are done very well (decadent city of blood sport-->shark gladiators! disappeared ancient advanced race-->glow in the dark cities!). It's very much low fantasy plot- and structure-wise, though-- the main characters are a gang of con artists who get in way over their heads, and the author does not pull any punches.

Re: Anyone else got recs?

(Anonymous) 2012-10-24 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Lynch's GB series HIGH fantasy?

I'd love recs if they were actually, you know, HIGH FANTASY.