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⌈ Secret Post #2120 ⌋

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Recs from my bookshelf!

[(Anonymous)]

Since I don't quite want to shower or start working from home, here's a list of high fantasy (using the broad sense of "set somewhere other than Earth", rather than more narrow tolkienesque epics). This is just a list off of my bookshelf, so these are books that either survived my moving two years ago, or were bought since then.

-the Discworld novels, by Terry Pratchett. (Parody/comedic fantasy. highly recommended)
-the Codex Alera novels, by Jim Butcher (6 book series, complete, pseudo-Roman rather than pseudo-medieval. Also, Neanderthal elves!)
-Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson (10 *giant* book series, plus several tie-ins I haven't yet read. Extremely epic in scope. The main series is complete, though.)
- A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (If you don't know by now, this won't help)
-The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss (really good fantasy, but only the first two books of three are out.)
-Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil and Kaja Foglio (first volume of the novelization of the webcomic Girl Genius. I actually recommend the webcomic more. The books aren't terribly well-written, but are really fun if you've already read the comic to get some extra background. Steampunk (sorry, "Gaslamp Fantasy") adventure.)
-The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (first in a series, only the first two books are out, but they stand alone pretty well. pseduo-Renaissance heist novel)
-the Heralds of Valdemar novels by Mercedes Lackey (I *loved* these books when I was about 13. I've reread some of them since, and they hold up a lot better than most, but I can't honestly say if they're any good to someone without the nostalgia factor. But there's a ton of books, mostly arranged as trilogies in the same world)
-Raymond Feist's novels (I read a bunch of them, starting with Magician: Apprentice a while back. I remember enjoying them, but they don't stand out particularly much to me.)

If you want *really* different, still technically "high fantasy", but not at all in the Tolkien vein, try China Mieville's Perdido Street Station.

I also highly recommend the Year's Best Fantasy collections. I don't know if they still exist, but if you can find back years, the stories are typically really excellent, and I'm pretty sure I've found a few new authors from them in the past. The Legends anthologies can be pretty good too, since those had excerpts from larger works by various authors (I know Martin, Feist, and Gaiman all had novellas which were taken from larger works, and serve as pretty good test to see if you want to commit to the series)