Kevin's Watch

Jus' drop your top 10 fantasy novels/series/triologies, etc. (not SRD Tolkien Lewis). tx.

(In no particular order)

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Conan (Howard)
Wheel of Time (first four books)
Sword of Truth (I know. Gimme a break.)
Battle Circle trilogy
Mossflower series
Guardians of the Flame series
Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrel
Anything Camelot related
The Rigante series.(Gemmel)

In no particular order, and subject to change on a whim (mainly because I don't really have any criteria by which two good but different books can be ranked one above the other):

China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
Hal Duncan, The Book of All Hours
Jeff VanderMeer, Shriek/City of Saints and Madmen
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Scott Bakker, The Prince of Nothing
E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
Mark Z Danielewski, House of Leaves
Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber
Steven Erikson, Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

In no particular order, and also subject to change:

Steven Erikson - Malazan series
Glen Cook - Black Company
Michael Moorcock - too many to name
Storm Constantine - Wraeththu/Chronicles of Magravandias
Terry Pratchett - Discworld
George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel
Stephen King - Dark Tower
Steven Brust - Taltos
Garth Nix - Abhorsen

..plus a lot of honorable mentions.

Apparently I like authors named Stephen/Steven.

Sorus wrote:In no particular order, and also subject to change:

Nope.

From here until you die, these are your favorites, you got that? Do ya?

Ian Banks' Culture series
Dan Simmons' Hyperion series
Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series
Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth
Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (up to the sixth book or so, then it lost it's way)
Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind
Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle
David Brin's Uplift series

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:Nope.

From here until you die, these are your favorites, you got that? Do ya?

Nope.

I will not discriminate against so many brilliant books by denying them a place on such a list. Ten just isn't enough.

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:

Sorus wrote:In no particular order, and also subject to change:

Nope.

From here until you die, these are your favorites, you got that? Do ya?

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

By the way, where's your list?

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Conan (Howard)
Wheel of Time (first four books)
Sword of Truth (I know. Gimme a break.)
Battle Circle trilogy
Mossflower series
Guardians of the Flame series
Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrel
Anything Camelot related
The Rigante series.(Gemmel)

@Bold: Because I respect your taste from other posts, I will not mock you for liking these books. Esp since I agree the first four books of WoT are missing many of the problems of later books.

@Italics: do you mean the Redwall series? Mossflower isn't the first in any sense, not even chronologically (it's the third or fourth book in the series). I'm not even sure how it's placed in terms of "pre-book stories" since most of those throw off chronology even further (since the stories are usually set generations later).

Nitpicking, I know.

U: good choices. Especially Norrell.

Sorus wrote:

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:

Sorus wrote:In no particular order, and also subject to change:

Nope.

From here until you die, these are your favorites, you got that? Do ya?

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

By the way, where's your list?

Well, I've only ever read ten fantasy novels, so here we go:

1- 1st Chrons
2- LOTR
3- 2nd Chrons

Yeah, that's nine, but I won't include "Ruins the Earth" and, so far, "Fatally Irrelivent" in a list like this...

The Wizard Knight - Gene Wolfe
Latro (except the last one) - Gene Wolfe
Malazan - Erikson
Prince of Nothing - Bakker
The Book of Atrix Wolfe* - Patricia McKillip
Book of Swords - Fred Saberhagen
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - Tad Williams
Discworld - Pratchett
The Dark Tower (minus the last two) - King
Deathgate Cycle - Weiss and Hickman (don't you judge me)

*You can substitute anything else of hers here, like the Riddlemaster books or the Cygnet ones. I just didn't want to fill the whole list with her books.

I liked the early books in the Deathgate Cycle. The ending was a little blah though.

Syl,
You put both my favorite and my least favorite Wolfe works on your list XD

The Latro books are the best and the Wizard Knight books are the worst in my judgement.

Shannara (nah -- just kidding:p)

Seems that fantasy authors have a hard time finishing...

...yay for SRD!

Holsety wrote:@Italics: do you mean the Redwall series? Mossflower isn't the first in any sense, not even chronologically (it's the third or fourth book in the series). I'm not even sure how it's placed in terms of "pre-book stories" since most of those throw off chronology even further (since the stories are usually set generations later).

Mossflower is the second book in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, and none of the books were published in order of the "history" of the world in which the stories are set. (I've read, and enjoyed, nearly all of them, despite the fact that it is the same plot over and over with different character names.) The first published book was Redwall, and the first chronologically (AFAICT) is The Legend of Luke.

I cannot limit myself to merely ten fantasy series/books/authors, as fantasy and sci-fi constitute most of my library, and I read fantasy quite often.

I am currently enjoying Diana Wynne Jones' books. Fluff, I know, but enjoyable fluff nonetheless.

I am incapable of deciding such things as "favorites".

There's gotta be those that really touched you though...

1.The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
2.The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
3. The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
4. Mordant's Need
5. Daughter of Regals
6. .......Wait, you said NOT tolkein, SRD, or Lewis? Damn, those are the best ones! Hold on, let me think a little...

1.Titus Groan
2.Gormenghast
3.Lord of Light- Zelazny (see what you made me do? I have to list sci-fi now!)
4.The Wind in the Willows-Kenneth Grahame
5.Eaters of the Dead
6. Beowulf
7. The Illiad
8. The Odessy
9. Tales of Mithgar-Dennis L. Mckiernan (haven't re-read it, so in my mind it's still good )
10............Arghhh! Curse my seperation of science fiction from fantasy! It's regarded as one genre everywhere else, but nooo, I have to keep them seperate, and now I can't complete this list!-This book written by Hans Rambleich

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:There's gotta be those that really touched you though...

All fantasy really touches me. That's why I read it.

Vader wrote:Shannara (nah -- just kidding:p)