Whats your fav NON(!)-SRD Fantasy?

[Tjol]

FWIW I like Tombs almost more than Wizard and Farthest Shore. I'm not sure if it's the undergroundness, the sort of formless yet powerful evil, or something else. I have to admit that I can't remember how it resolves, it's been about twenty years. I could probably read it in a week if I weren't currently reading something else.

[Cagliostro]

FWIW I like Tombs almost more than Wizard and Farthest Shore. I'm not sure if it's the undergroundness, the sort of formless yet powerful evil, or something else. I have to admit that I can't remember how it resolves, it's been about twenty years. I could probably read it in a week if I weren't currently reading something else.

Yeah, I agree. My memory of Tombs even at the time when I first read it was that it was especially compelling. Originally, it took over half the book for me to finally get interested, but it has haunted me over the years much more than the other books.

I still haven't seen the miniseries, as I wanted it to be good.

[StevieG]

I liked Tombs too. I've read the first 4 books and Tombs has stuck in my mind the most.

[Pharaoh]

I liked the Eddings books in the Belgariad and the Malloreaon, but not the other series'. I find them "lighter" than Covenant, but I really like some aspects of what he has done, and I really like some of the characters. I like the humor. I also loved the Shannara series.

[hue of fuzzpaws]

The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K.Chesterton

[ninjaboy]

In the Earthsea cycle, I can't say I have a favourite.. I LOVE 'Tombs of Atuan' because it's so dark, and so powerful.. I love the bit where Ged's talking to Tenar about calling a rabbit and then saying it'd be a breaking of a trust to kill said rabbit. 'The Farthest Shore' is probably the most complete of all the stories, and 'Tehanu' makes the most sense if you follow it up with 'Tales from Earthsea' and then 'The Other Wind', 'The Other Wind' being my favourite book in the series.. It's just mindblowing!

I went through a Le Guin phase recently where I read the Disposessed, the Earthsea cycle, Lavinia and her Tao te Ching. There are prettier versions of the TTC, but i think her interpritation is sublime.

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Tehanu is my favourite. But never read The Other Wind. I found it darker in some ways than Tombs, which is my second favourite).

We're dissecting them over at The Hangar you know...

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Yeah, ninja, TOW is my favorite, too. (Not likely it will be yours, Av, if our preferences hold true. ) Azver and the female characters are awesome there and in Dragonfly.

And I like her TTC, too.

[Worm of Despite]

Tehanu is my favourite. But never read The Other Wind. I found it darker in some ways than Tombs, which is my second favourite).

--A

Yeah, ninja, TOW is my favorite, too. (Not likely it will be yours, Av, if our preferences hold true. ) Azver and the female characters are awesome there and in Dragonfly.

And I like her TTC, too.

The Farthest Shore, bitches. Tehanu felt like a bunch of nothing until the dragon showed up. The Other Wind I need to get around to reading.

As for me, my favorite non-SRD fantasy is a cage-match between Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, which is actually sci-fi but soft sci-fi and feels like a fantasy.

[ninjaboy]

Tehanu is my favourite. But never read The Other Wind. I found it darker in some ways than Tombs, which is my second favourite).

--A

Yeah, ninja, TOW is my favorite, too. (Not likely it will be yours, Av, if our preferences hold true. ) Azver and the female characters are awesome there and in Dragonfly.

And I like her TTC, too.

The Farthest Shore, bitches. Tehanu felt like a bunch of nothing until the dragon showed up. The Other Wind I need to get around to reading.

As for me, my favorite non-SRD fantasy is a cage-match between Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, which is actually sci-fi but soft sci-fi and feels like a fantasy.

Yeah.. Left Hand of Darkness is awesome. Le Guin just seems to be able to write any sort of story - sci-fi, fantasy, political and just make it all seem so solid..

I just want to point out that I feel anyone who has started the Earthsea cycle really owes it to themselves to read all six books.. The series doesn't end with Tehanu, that's just the start of something bigger..

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Yeah...if I could only find the others...

--A

[Seeker of Truth]

Favourite books/authors since childhood are: (not in any particular order)

1. OZ series of books by L. Frank Baum. for kids good intro into fantasy

2. Terry Pratchetts Discworld - only books to make me piss myself laughing! But they do have a bit of a serious side too...well one or two of them!

3. David Gemmel novels - most are good stories with plenty of action if you like that sort of thing!

4. Terry Brooks Shannara series - again a good read. Not keen on the Landover series.

5. Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

6. Clive Barker - Weaveworld & Imajica - that guy has one seriously disturbed imagination!

7. Tad Williams - both Memery,Thorn & Sorrow & Otherland series. Liked his story about cats too!

8. Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series - I think better than Harry Potter & my son loves them! Ideal for getting kids interested in Fantasy.

9. J R R Tolkien - nuff said!

10. R A Salvatore - Forgotten Realms series of books that feature Drizzt Do'Urden

11. James Barclay - Chronicles & Legends of the Raven series

not to mention why I am on this forum - Stephen Donaldson!!

[Holsety]

Seeker of Truth,
You're not even calling out attention to your namesake, Richard Rahl?

I could be wrong, but I assume you named yourself after the character from Terry Goodkind's series?

I wouldn't reccomend it, but I'm surprised that you aren't.

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2. Terry Pratchetts Discworld - only books to make me piss myself laughing! But they do have a bit of a serious side too...well one or two of them!

3. David Gemmel novels - most are good stories with plenty of action if you like that sort of thing!

5. Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

6. Clive Barker - Weaveworld & Imajica - that guy has one seriously disturbed imagination!

9. J R R Tolkien - nuff said!

All awesome. We have a Stephen King forum btw with DT discussions.

[Lord Zombiac]

fiction:
Robert E. Howard (my avatar is one of his characters, "Solomon Kane")
Frederick Brown
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
F. Paul Wilson (it doesn't take a lot of brains to figure out that a guy who dresses up like an ape to LARP would love a novel like "the Terry.")
William F. Nolan (Logan's Run is one of my favorite books ever and I HATE what they did when they filmed it!)
non-fiction:
Terrence McKenna
Rupert Sheldrake

[I'm Murrin]

More housekeeping! Think your post fits pretty well here, LZ.

(Haven't done this much actual modding in aaages.)

[Lord Zombiac]

Conan. I love Conan!

[Lord Zombiac]

I replied to this thread before looking at it and seeing that you had moved one of my topics here. Yes, as you can tell, I love Robert E. Howard. Even a casual glance at my writing reveals how influenced I am by him!

[Avatar]

(Haven't done this much actual modding in aaages.)

'Bout time y'all did some work.

--A

[Horrim Carabal]

My favorite fantasy authors besides SRD (who is #1) are:

Guy Gavriel Kay, and
Steven Erikson

I also enjoy G. R. R. Martin and Tad Williams at times. Stephen King is surprisingly good as well, Eyes of the Dragon being case in point (although the later books in the Dark Tower sucked).

Favorite series?

Erikson - Malazan Books
Kay - Fionavar, Sarantine Mosaic
Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
Williams - Otherland & MST

My least favorite fantasy author would have to be Eddings.

Don't like what I've read of Jordan, either....but that wasn't a big sample size.

And I'm not a huge Tolkien fan. Everyone in fantasy owes him a debt, but his dry, emotionless writing style leaves me cold.