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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3874017" data-attributes="member: 18280"><p>Perhaps your memory is faulty. Mine includes, at the very least,</p><p></p><p>Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959)</p><p></p><p>John Myers Myers: Silverlock (1949)</p><p></p><p>L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Castle of Iron (1950), etc.</p><p></p><p>C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), etc.</p><p></p><p>Jack Vance: The Dying Earth (1950), etc.</p><p></p><p>Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine (1957), etc.</p><p></p><p>T. H. White: The Once and Future King (1958)</p><p></p><p>Peter S. Beagle: A Fine and Private Place (1960), The Last Unicorn (1968), etc.</p><p> </p><p>Michael Moorcock: Stormbringer (1965), Gloriana (1978), etc.</p><p></p><p>Alan Garner: The Owl Service (1967), etc.</p><p></p><p>Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Eartsea (1968), etc.</p><p></p><p>Fritz Leiber: The Swords of Lankhmar (1968), etc.</p><p> </p><p>Kingsley Amis: The Green Man (1969)</p><p></p><p>John Gardner: Grendel (1971)</p><p></p><p>Roger Zelazny: Jack of Shadows (1971), etc.</p><p></p><p>Richard Adams: Watership Down (1972, inspiration for Bunnies & Burrows!), etc.</p><p></p><p>Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), etc.</p><p></p><p>Gordon R. Dickson: The Dragon and the George (1976)</p><p></p><p>Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent, the Unbeliever (1977)</p><p></p><p>Of course, this doesn't count the works of William Morris, Lord Dunsany, Bram Stoker, E.R. Eddison, Rider Haggard, Burroughs, & a ton of other stuff. It doesn't include, after all, The Sword of Shanara (1977), "The book became the first fantasy novel to appear on, and eventually top New York Times bestseller list. As a result the genre saw an incredible boom in the number of titles published in the following years."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.warr.org/highfantasy.html" target="_blank">http://www.warr.org/highfantasy.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fantasy#Early_modern_fantasy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fantasy#Early_modern_fantasy</a></p><p></p><p>I'd also recommend picking up The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, for a good overview of the roots of the genre, as well as some great ideas for D&D and other RPGs.</p><p></p><p>Also worth looking at are the anthologies Black Water and Black Water 2 (same editor as the writer of the Dictionary of Imaginary Places), and Tales Before Tolkein. </p><p></p><p>If you couldn't find any fantasy before 1980, you were either not trying very hard, or you were really unlucky. </p><p></p><p>RC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3874017, member: 18280"] Perhaps your memory is faulty. Mine includes, at the very least, Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) John Myers Myers: Silverlock (1949) L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Castle of Iron (1950), etc. C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), etc. Jack Vance: The Dying Earth (1950), etc. Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine (1957), etc. T. H. White: The Once and Future King (1958) Peter S. Beagle: A Fine and Private Place (1960), The Last Unicorn (1968), etc. Michael Moorcock: Stormbringer (1965), Gloriana (1978), etc. Alan Garner: The Owl Service (1967), etc. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Eartsea (1968), etc. Fritz Leiber: The Swords of Lankhmar (1968), etc. Kingsley Amis: The Green Man (1969) John Gardner: Grendel (1971) Roger Zelazny: Jack of Shadows (1971), etc. Richard Adams: Watership Down (1972, inspiration for Bunnies & Burrows!), etc. Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), etc. Gordon R. Dickson: The Dragon and the George (1976) Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent, the Unbeliever (1977) Of course, this doesn't count the works of William Morris, Lord Dunsany, Bram Stoker, E.R. Eddison, Rider Haggard, Burroughs, & a ton of other stuff. It doesn't include, after all, The Sword of Shanara (1977), "The book became the first fantasy novel to appear on, and eventually top New York Times bestseller list. As a result the genre saw an incredible boom in the number of titles published in the following years." [url]http://www.warr.org/highfantasy.html[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fantasy#Early_modern_fantasy[/url] I'd also recommend picking up The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, for a good overview of the roots of the genre, as well as some great ideas for D&D and other RPGs. Also worth looking at are the anthologies Black Water and Black Water 2 (same editor as the writer of the Dictionary of Imaginary Places), and Tales Before Tolkein. If you couldn't find any fantasy before 1980, you were either not trying very hard, or you were really unlucky. RC [/QUOTE]
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