So what are you reading this year 2021?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Shockingly and criminally, A Wizard of Earthsea is not listed in Appendix N. Though, it does appear in the Moldvay Inspirational Reading list. That list rectifies some of Appendix N's notable omissions, and includes far more women writers.

Another entry, A Wizard of Earthsea, also has an explicitly non-white protagonist, but some of the older covers that show him white.

 

[Blue]

Shockingly and criminally, A Wizard of Earthsea is not listed in Appendix N. Though, it does appear in the Moldvay Inspirational Reading list. That list rectifies some of Appendix N's notable omissions, and includes far more women writers.

I had cheated and just checked Appendix E from the 5e PHB since I had it handy. I figured given it's age it was in the current it would be in back then.

Good catch.

 

[Zaukrie]

I really should read earthsea some day

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Honestly, its lack makes little sense. It's got wizards, dragons, shape-shifting. The Gebbeth is a monster that you could easily have snuck into the MM1 or 2 and had it fit in perfectly. Yes, it's not quite the sword & sorcery action tales that predominate Appendix N, but neither is The Blue Star (the inclusion of which still is a head scratcher for me).

I had cheated and just checked Appendix E from the 5e PHB since I had it handy. I figured given it's age it was in the current it would be in back then.

Good catch.

A Wizard of Earthsea is a book I didn't get to until my late twenties, and is one I wish I had read far sooner. It's one of those books that shows fantasy literature at its best, that is both deep and magical.

I really should read earthsea some day

 

[Blue]

A Wizard of Earthsea is a book I didn't get to until my late twenties, and is one I wish I had read far sooner. It's one of those books that shows fantasy literature at its best, that is both deep and magical.

It is the book that got me started on fantasy, which but a few years later led me to D&D. Before that I was all SF, preferably hard SF. Asimov, Clark, Heinlein, Lem.

 

[Ryujin]

It is the book that got me started on fantasy, which but a few years later led me to D&D. Before that I was all SF, preferably hard SF. Asimov, Clark, Heinlein, Lem.

It was also one of my earliest fantasy books. I read "Lord of the Rings" and didn't understand why restraint was necessary. "A Wizard of Earthsea" taught me that.

 

[Zardnaar]

Dissolution book 1 of the War of the Spider Queen. Read it before but 15 odd years ago.

 

[Nellisir]

I finished Tatiana and The Siberian Dilemma, both by Martin Cruz Smith, which makes me (finally) current on the Arkady Renko series. Also read The Quest of Kadji by Lin Carter, which wasn't bad at all, and The Night Sessions, by Ken Macleod. Pretty sure I read a couple other books, but I had to rebox a whole bunch of stuff in order to move a bookshelf, and frankly I don't remember. I've been buying a lot recently, and really have to take a break and get mildly organized. Also been doing a fair amount of game reading.

 

[Rob Kuntz]

When I have down time it's usually good short fiction and essays. Giving this baby a once over in between the design and writing:

 

[Alzrius]

Having finished Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift, I'm now getting ready to start reading Joseph Laycock's Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds.