Great Fantasy Authors

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by Realanlon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Heroes Die by Matthew Stover is possibly my favorite book of all time. Really interesting premise (the characters are "actors" sent to a parallel fantasy dimension to live out adventures that are recorded and experienced first-hand by those in the "real world"), brutal, gritty, full of action.

Hugely recommend The Acts of Caine series to anyone who loves dark fantasy.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/537...-acts-of-caine

100+ pages in already...<3

[Realanlon]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

100+ pages in already...<3

Nice man! Thinking of rereading these (again) too.

[Madbad]

Gotta second Sirken with the Stephen Brust recommendation, the first book in the "Taltos" Series is called "Jhereg" and reads like a fantasy Godfather. Super fun read but kinda short.

You may laugh, but I recommend Stephen King's "Eyes of the Dragon," it's a pretty cool dark fantasy (I know Stephen King isn't lesser known but this fantasy book is tragically underrated.)

[xKoopa]

Originally Posted by Realanlon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nice man! Thinking of rereading these (again) too.

Started the second book of this series yesterday

Pretty interesting, but the writing in some parts is pretty bad lol

Or maybe im just spoiled by sanderson

[Mandalore93]

Sanderson writes very typical high fantasy in my opinion. Good world building but the characters are so, so, soooo flat. Then again grrm really ruined most of high fantasy for me. Couldn't even get through my old favorite Drizzt series after asoiaf

[Poetic]

Brent Weeks - Night Angel Trilogy is really awesome. I've read all of Brandon Sanderson, Rothfuss, Peter Brett, R Jordans books + a ton more.

Some other great Fantasy Books I would recommend are:
Mark Lawrence - (Thorns Trilogy)
Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy

[xKoopa]

Originally Posted by Mandalore93 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sanderson writes very typical high fantasy in my opinion. Good world building but the characters are so, so, soooo flat. Then again grrm really ruined most of high fantasy for me. Couldn't even get through my old favorite Drizzt series after asoiaf

it is somewhat typical, but he does it in such spectacular fashion. its an over saturated genre but he remains original with his magic systems and world building. i also like most of his characters so /shrug kaladin is my dude

[Remeygi]

Gotta toss in some classics:

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Earthsea Trilogy
Michael Moorcock: the 'Elric' sequence ande the 'Corum' series

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by xKoopa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it is somewhat typical, but he does it in such spectacular fashion. its an over saturated genre but he remains original with his magic systems and world building. i also like most of his characters so /shrug kaladin is my dude

Yea...Kaladin/Vin 2016


Sanderson and Butcher are prolly the authors i enjoy reading the most. The Dresden files are just fucking amazing...can't recommend highly enough. Will be 22~ when the series is done and i've read all the current books and the short stories 3 or 4 times now. Not really high fantasy but still top notch stuff.

[xKoopa]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea...Kaladin/Vin 2016


Sanderson and Butcher are prolly the authors i enjoy reading the most. The Dresden files are just fucking amazing...can't recommend highly enough. Will be 22~ when the series is done and i've read all the current books and the short stories 3 or 4 times now. Not really high fantasy but still top notch stuff.

ive been hearing about dresden files but never read it

might read just because of wheel of time length and could be a good timesink