Looking for fantasy book suggestions.

[Mishkaz]

Hi,
I'm looking for help on finding some good new fantasy authors (new to me, that is). I like Guy Gavriel Kay, Doris Egan, Judith Tarr, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's darkover stuff. Does anyone have similar tastes? If so, what would you recommend that I might like?
thanks in anticipation
Mishkaz

 

[Annette]

James Herbert

Hi, To be honest I haven't heard of those authors. I have read a book by James Herbert called 'The Ghosts of Sleath'. It is the 1st one I read of his but it is very good. I recommend it. Hope this helps you. If you read it, let me know what you think.

 

[Mishkaz]

Thanks annetshort, I'll try and get my sticky paws on that. I'm rapidly nearing the end of a book about "Akhenaten" who was the bad Egyptian Pharoah who tried to banish all but one of the Gods from Egypt, so I'll be on the prowl for James Herbert v. soon.
cheers
Mishkaz

 

[13jay]

Ihave a suggestion. You know I never heard of those people
before either. You should try reading some books by Anne McCaffrey.Some of the ones I read were about dragons.

[Edited by 13jay on 02-08-2001 at 07:44 PM]

 

[Mishkaz]

Thanks Jay. I did try an Anne McCaffrey (sp?) once but I struggled with it (wasn't a dragon in it though). My friend has been trying to persuade me otherwise for ages. I kinda like fantasy books with a touch of character humour (Terry Pratchett-ish, only not so insane).
cheers
Mishkaz

 

[peachy]

have you tried any of ann rice's? there about vampire's
but they are absolutly great, i love them...peachy

 

[Mishkaz]

nope, never heard of her, I'll look out for them too. cheers peachy

 

[muzungu]

Have you ever read anything like The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan or the Riftwar Trilogy by Raymond E Feist. If not they are great books.

 

[Vera]

Have you tried any of David Eddings (The Elenium and The Tamuli series) or Raymond E. Feist (The Riftwar Saga, The Empire Saga etc). Try also Roger Zelazny's Amber series.

 

[ponyperson]

David Eddings is brilliant... Either of his two main sci fi series are worth reading..
Terry Brooks is great too..
Dennis McKiernan has a really fun series going too, if you like elves and dwarves and warrows and magic and really neato bad guys!..

 

[Onira]

Merlin/Arthur and Atlantis series

Stephen R. Lawhead has a great series on Merlin & King Arthur, with Atlantis' last days involved, too. I know of four books in it. If you enjoyed Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon books, you might like these, too.

 

[Mishkaz]

Wow, thanks guys (scribbling frantically). For the first time in ages, I actually have a decent shopping list for books. I did try a few David Eddings a few years ago, but it wasn't really my sorta thing, but thanks. I haven't heard of most of the others suggested so they'll go on my list.
cheers
Mishkaz

 

[bwaybaby79]

If you like a like magic in your stories, you can also try Mercedes Lackey, Robin Hobb and Fiona Patton. Anne McCaffrey's Pern books (about dragons) are *great*, and she's probably the closest I've ever gotten to the "science fiction" part of SFF.

 

[imported_scifimoth]

You might try out the Dragonlance Chronicles which are published by the people that do all the Dungeons and Dragons Gaming stuff and written by Tracy Hickman and Margret Weis ( I hope I got the authors names right...)
These were the books that really got me into reading fantasy....

 

[redagate]

Anyone read any good fantasy books recently?

I got a GC for Amazon that I'm itching to spend. I'd love some recs. Anything with faeries, dragons, unicorns, etc. I need some summer reading!

Thanks!!

Red Agate

 

[imported_scifimoth]

R.A. Salvatore has some good books.....
I really like his stuff.

 

[redagate]

what ahbout Artemis Fowl

My friend’s sister told me about Artemis Fowl, it’s fairly new. He’s a 12 yo criminal genius and there are fairies, dwarfs and cool characters like that. Has anyone else read this book and what did you think?

Thanks!!

Red Agate

 

[Red Queen]

Hm...if you can find it, Mike Resnick's Stalking the Unicorn is good.

Mad Amos by Alan Dean Foster

Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green (to be followed up by his Hawk and Fisher series, then topped by Beyond the Blue Moon which brings them back to the beginning :star: Very cool series)

A Logical Magician and A Calculated Magic by Robert Weinberg...also kind of hard to find, sorry.

Hm...

Terry Brook's Magic For Sale--Sold series is excellent

But I'd really have to recommend:
:star: :star: Christopher Stasheff's Her Majesty's Wizard series--Stegoman rocks! (His SF series Wizard in Spite of Himself is excellent as well, but the horse is robotic, doesn't have a horn, and I don't recall any dragons.)

Hope that helps, at least a little!

 

[Red Queen]

If you like Terry Pratchett, you might try Tom Holt. But beware, his twist on things will warp your brain! He messes with Myths and Legends mostly. Arthur, Beowulf, the Niebenlungenlied, Snow White...

For Serious Books, another excellent author, especially if you like the mystic-edged, is Tim Powers. His Fisher King stuff is incredible! And his latest works a spy mystery into the mix

Also, Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence. I really enjoy that kind of mixing of past and present, mystic and 'real world' and even though this series is marketed to Young Adults, I (a Not Young Adult) found it very engrossing as well.

Too many times, publishers say "Oh, look, the hero/ine is a kid. Must be Young Adult."
Yeah, right! Some of that stuff is far better than the dross they force on Adults!

RQ

 

[Mishkaz]

Thanks Red Queen, appreciate the suggestions. I also read The Dark is rising series when I was younger, they are superb, I think they are what started my passion for Fantsay novels. I just read a Robert Rankin for the first time which was hysterically funny, so I may try another one of those.