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06-21-2010, 05:50 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
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06-22-2010, 03:56 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
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In the science fantasy category, yes.
Another of that type is Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series: Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, and Valentine Pontifex. Majipoor is a huge planet, much larger than Earth, settled by humans and a few minorities of other alien races thousands of years before. It has Earth-level gravity because it is metal-poor, which means a low-tech medieval-style economy. Fantasy elements are provided by strange creatures genetically modified in the past and remnants of ancient psi-based technology, which the modern inhabitants use without really understanding. Good stuff.
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07-11-2010, 03:02 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
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Haven't read much post-Tolkien fantasy....
Splitting this into two categories Adult: 1- Tolkien- why else would I be here? 2- Fritz Leiber-Grey Mouser/Fafhrd- why else would I have this name? 3- Lord Dunsany 4- E R Eddison, "The Worm Ouroboros" 5- John Crowley, "Little, Big"- sadly neglected, probably because it doesn't fall ino the category of heroic fantasy. Honorable mention: Neil Gaiman Young people's 1-Tove Jannson, Moomintroll 2-Ursula K. LeGuin, Earthsea Trilogy 3-C.S. Lewis, Narnia 4- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials 5- E. Nesbit, Psammead Series- Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet; the Arden series Tolkien should go in here as well for The Hobbit
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
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08-22-2010, 11:20 PM
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Hobbit
Join Date: Aug 2010
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My top five fantasy list
1. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2. A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson 3. The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb 4. Earthsea Saga by Ursula Le Guin 5. A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin |
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