Reading List: Planar Inspiration

[Khorod]

What books have inspired you in ways remotely planar or cosmic?

Raymond Feist: Riftwar/Serpentwar series'
David Eddings: Belgarion & Sparhawk
Elric: Completely transformed my views of Law/Chaos, raising them to a whole new level.
Glen Cook: The Plain of Shining Sands in the Black Company books gave me more than a few ideas.


I'll think of more later. So, what has inspired YOU?

 

[Severion]

Right now, Greg Bear's "Eternity"
Also i've read the "Deathgate cycle" by Hickman and Weis
Do "2001" and "2010" count
Thats all i can think of for now.

TTFN

 

[Khorod]

How could I have forgotten Deathgate!?

Is Eternity good? I seem to remember it being recommended to me...

 

[Severion]

Its the sequal to "Eon" and both are great sci-fi books.

 

[Sidran]

Magic Kingdom for Sale by Terry Brookes

Witch World Series By Andre Norton

Time Travelers by Andre Norton

Space Traders, Citizen of the Galaxy Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton.

Windhaven By G.R.R. Martin

The Order wars

Riddlemasters of Hed series by Patricia M.

Journey to Lilliput forget the name of the writer ( Childrens book)

Oz, Wizard of

Wonderland, Alice In

The movies

Labrynth, Legend, Fire and Ice, Dark Crystal. Land that Time forgot, and Highlander

 

[Khorod]

Highlander just for the immortality aspect, or did I miss something planar in there?

What exactly is the d20 Detective stuff being played with? I am just finishing off the collected Sherlock Holmes works and am feeling interested in that sort of thing at the moment.

 

[Telgian]

Well guys, hate to rain on the fiction parade...but...
well it *is* what I'm currently looking at...


*non-fiction alert*

A Sourcebook in Asian Philosophy John M. Koller & Patricia J. Koller.
ISBN 0-02-365811-8


Oriental Philosophies, second edition, John M. Koller.
ISBN 0-02-365810-X
OOP

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy Fung Yu-Lan.
ISBN 0-02-910980-9

 

[Khorod]

the Tao te Ching

World Religions: Eastern Traditions, edited by Willard G. Oxtoby

Mythology in general


<back to fiction>

Piers Anthony's Xanth (small doses)

 

[Telgian]

Piers Anthony's Xanth (small doses)
--Khorod

Punishment!

 

[Khorod]

Actually, if you keep a piece of paper handy when reading one of those books, there is usually at least a few good ideas that are less insane. Just eccentric. Like the elemental regions, Gifts, and the way Xanth and Mundania interact.

I never read more than 2 Xanth books in a row. Once I read three, and my sense of humor was warped for two weeks.