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 MarinusTopic: The Best of the Best...
Now that we seem to have a pool of superb fantasy authors, I think that it might be a good idea to have some shining examples of the fantasy author's art. Give us the fantasy stories that moved you, that carried you into their world and let you ride in the minds of the characters...give us the best of the best. |
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 RosemarineInkheart. |
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 Miriam DoyleMortal Engines. |
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Running SunriseA Game of Thrones and Abbhorson | #4 Nov 25th 2006, 10:27am | |
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NnaliseaaiWizard of the Grove |
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RosemarineWoah |
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RosemarineI just totally set a trend |
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Marie SilverThe Eyes of the Dragon by Steven King Tells the story of a prince who is wrongly accused of murdering his father and condemned to spend the rest of his life in a tower due to a treacherous magician. ~Marie Silver~ |
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Rosemarineany dragons in it? Or dragon eyeballs, at least? | #9 Nov 28th 2006, 12:28pm | |
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Miriam DoyleRosemarine You've spelt Whoa Wrong! | #10 Nov 28th 2006, 1:00pm | |
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Shadowless RainDragon Champion by E.E knight. Eww dragon eyeballs!(shudders) Are they any good? (= | #11 Nov 28th 2006, 5:47pm | |
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RosemarineBecki, gett ah grip | #12 Nov 29th 2006, 3:16am | |
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Will SachiksyI thought Neil Gaiman's short story collections "Smoke and Mirror" and "Fragile Things" were truly exceptional. Both contain a tremendous amount of diversity (from a retelling of Snow White from the Queen's perspective to an unusual take on zombies to a Sherlock Holmes story infused with Lovecraftian elements) and skill, and both collections give an immediate sense of the writer's passion for writing. Yes, I know you're not supposed to put quote around the title of a book, but you can underline or italicize in the forums (or at least I don't know how to). | #13 Dec 01st 2006, 5:58pm | |
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Miriam DoyleNo! The trend has been broken! Arg!!! Bad spelling ahoy! Too...many...typos! *commits seppeku* (ah, don't worry about it) | #14 Dec 02nd 2006, 10:44am | |
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RosemarineFeel the burn, Beckaroo. And don't kill yourself, please. This would be so much less amusing without you. Has anyone mentioned Harry Potter yet, or is that sortof implied? | #15 Dec 03rd 2006, 4:02am | |
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Miriam DoyleIt would be less amusing without me? Aw, you're too kind....^_^ But calling me Beckaroo? You are in for a world of pain.... A Discworld of pain, in fact, because the Discworld series deserves to go here. No pun intended.... | #16 Dec 03rd 2006, 7:58am | |
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MarinusI'd go with Perdido Street Station by Chine Miéville and Tad Williams' The War of The Flowers. Both very deep, superbly-imagined fantasy books.| #17 Dec 06th 2006, 3:36am | |
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RecklessApathyThe Earthsea books, by Ursula K. LeGuin Abbhorsen, by Garth Nix His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman The DragonLance Chronicles, by Weiss and Hickman (for fun more than literary merit) Blue Moon Rising, by Simon R. Green (turns the clichés on their heads) | #18 Dec 13th 2006, 7:31pm | |
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CeridweynThe Old Kingdom Trilogy, by Garth Nix The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley The Hungry City Chronicles by Phillip Reeve His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman The Black Magician trilogy, by Trudi [her surname escapeth me.] - May | #19 Feb 23rd 2007, 1:11pm | |
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ErilevR.A slavatore's "Legend of Drizz't" series, and all of his novels concerning those characters. Ed Greenwood's Elminster series The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Eragon,by... I forget who lol | #20 Mar 08th 2007, 10:49am | |
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MarinusPretty much anything by Garth Nix. Herbie Brennan's Purple Emperor series. Nice bits of sly humour inserted into nicely-written fantasy. Oh, and the Black Magician trilogy's author is Trudi Canavan | #21 Apr 07th 2007, 9:56am | |
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PrentiiceThe Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton is one of my all time favorite books, very re-readable. I'm not as huge a fan as the other two books in the series. I also rather enjoyed Mercedes Lackey's Joust, Alta, Sanctuary series, and am waiting for the paperback of Eyrie. | #22 Apr 07th 2007, 8:56pm | |
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X-Fantasy59Twilight and New Moon By Stehenie Meyer; I'm on my seventh time re-reading Twilight in the past month, and second time on New Moon.| #23 Jun 29th 2007, 9:53am | |
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Soul DecayOver the Wall trilogy - Garth Nix Batimus Trilogy - Johnathan Stoud Keys to the Kingdom Septrilogy (yes, thats right, 7) - Garth Nix All the Shannara Books (theres a go 15 of them) - Erm... i forget... =) and many more i cant remember at this time... | #24 Aug 11th 2007, 3:58pm | |
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Evil Minion Number 2Awww... all the Minion's favorite of all time have already been mentioned. One the minion enjoyed, but is not sure many other people would is "Running with the Demon" by Terry Brooks. One of those weird ones that she can't pin-point the exact reason for it's imprint on her memory... | #25 Aug 14th 2007, 8:24pm | |
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Soul DecayTerry brooks, thats it. thats the guy who wrote the Shannara Books. and why do u talk about yourself int he 3rd person?| #26 Aug 15th 2007, 5:57am | |
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 awilla the hunI would like to think that, in some far distant future, I would be on this list. But until then...Garth Nix is a very good writer. The dragonlances are just romps, in my mind. You know, somehow (apart from in the afterwords) that the plots were taken from roleplay sessions. Especially in the first one. | #27 Nov 28th 2007, 12:56pm | |
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Heatless FlameJonathan stroud wrote Bartimaues Trilogy, they have to be the best combo of humor and fantasy I have ever read. The Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flanagan, they aren't the best written but I love em! I've only read the first Shanara book, and honestly, I thought it was rather cliched. |
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