Memorable epic fantasy

[Zencho]

One that I always come back to is Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn. I love the setting, the magic system and overall story. Its so vivid and it was the first book chronicle that made me hate a character in the end.

 

[BAYLOR]

Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen

 

[soulsinging]

Hmm I fancy reading The Belgariad series again (David Eddings)
Last time I read them was when our daughter was born. Up all night with the feeds so we just stayed in bed and read. All but the last book. Just don't bother with the prologues...

funny, I just grabbed this series and Feist’s riftwar for similar reasons. I’ve read too much cynicism and suffering lately. The book I enjoyed most of recent reads was Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow & Thorn, read during midnight feedings with my son. Between that, my love of the dragon lance Chronicles, and a fizzled LOTR re-read, I find myself yearning for something with a little more hope and a little less self-consciousness. There seems to have been a golden age of sorts for this kind of fantasy in the 80s, before GRRM and Jordan turned the genre into a bunch of soap serials with varying levels of grit.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Jack Vance's four book Dying Earth series.
Plus Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd And Gray Mouser series of stories, they are a six volume set ( unfortunately one of my cats decided to pee on them, I was not best pleased ) so now I have them in a two volume omnibus paperback edition.
They are in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series, Tales Of The Dying Earth is an omnibus of all four books also in the Masterworks series.

 

[Guttersnipe]

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

 

[BAYLOR]

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

Yes , I loved Sybel and her beasts . I wish Patricia A. Mckillip had done a follow up.

One I would would suggest Too Long A Sacrifice by Mildred Downey Broxon .

 

[BAYLOR]

The Darwaith books of Barbara Hambly