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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1010014" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>1) Glen Cook's the Black Company - Probably the best "Grim 'n Gritty" fantasy ever written.</p><p></p><p>2) Glen Cook's Garret Novels (titles follow the form of Color-Metal-Noun ex Red Iron Nights, Cold Steel Hearts...). Basically hard-boiled, film Noir set in a fantasy town. Great characters and some quite devious plots. Unfortunately all but the last 3-4 novels are out of print so you'll have to check used book stores for those. </p><p></p><p>One last Glen Cook book to recomend - The Swordbearer. Probably also have to check used book stores.</p><p></p><p>3) Steven Brust's Jhereg books - They center around the adventures of a human assasin in a society where humans are Not the dominant species. </p><p></p><p>4) Terry Pratchet books - Nearly all of them are terrific and very funny, but there are a few stinkers. His books fall into a few "series". Most reliable for good books are anyone where Death is a main character, The city watch books (usually centering around Cmdr. Grimes - head of the watch or Captain Carrot who is pretty much the definition of lawful sincere totally honest caring good) and ones that Center around Rincewind the world's most incompetent wizard who seems to be able to survive nearly anything.</p><p></p><p>5) It's not quite fantasy, but the Belesarius novels by David Drake and Eric Flint are very good, though they do start to suffer from the Uber character problem towards the later books. They take place in an alternate earth where time traveling forces from the very-very-very far future are trying to reshape the history of humanity and pitting the Byzantine empire vs the Malwa empire in India.</p><p></p><p>6) David Weber's Oath of Swords and The War God's own. Set in a fairly original fantasy world, these are just rollickling good fantasy adventures. Very entertaining and highly re-readable.</p><p></p><p>7) Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth books - Terrific for the first 5-6 books and drop off after that. The first book has also been adapted into a graphic novel with artwork by Phil Foglio. So its humorusness gets cubed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1010014, member: 149"] 1) Glen Cook's the Black Company - Probably the best "Grim 'n Gritty" fantasy ever written. 2) Glen Cook's Garret Novels (titles follow the form of Color-Metal-Noun ex Red Iron Nights, Cold Steel Hearts...). Basically hard-boiled, film Noir set in a fantasy town. Great characters and some quite devious plots. Unfortunately all but the last 3-4 novels are out of print so you'll have to check used book stores for those. One last Glen Cook book to recomend - The Swordbearer. Probably also have to check used book stores. 3) Steven Brust's Jhereg books - They center around the adventures of a human assasin in a society where humans are Not the dominant species. 4) Terry Pratchet books - Nearly all of them are terrific and very funny, but there are a few stinkers. His books fall into a few "series". Most reliable for good books are anyone where Death is a main character, The city watch books (usually centering around Cmdr. Grimes - head of the watch or Captain Carrot who is pretty much the definition of lawful sincere totally honest caring good) and ones that Center around Rincewind the world's most incompetent wizard who seems to be able to survive nearly anything. 5) It's not quite fantasy, but the Belesarius novels by David Drake and Eric Flint are very good, though they do start to suffer from the Uber character problem towards the later books. They take place in an alternate earth where time traveling forces from the very-very-very far future are trying to reshape the history of humanity and pitting the Byzantine empire vs the Malwa empire in India. 6) David Weber's Oath of Swords and The War God's own. Set in a fairly original fantasy world, these are just rollickling good fantasy adventures. Very entertaining and highly re-readable. 7) Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth books - Terrific for the first 5-6 books and drop off after that. The first book has also been adapted into a graphic novel with artwork by Phil Foglio. So its humorusness gets cubed. [/QUOTE]
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