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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3089852" data-attributes="member: 27051"><p>Massive thumbs-up to Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert Howard, Julian May and Clive Barker. </p><p></p><p>Clive Barker in particular doesn't get recommended enough, as he has an undeserved reputation as a horror writer. Read <em>Imajica</em> even if you never read any other book in your life <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. <em>Weaveworld</em> is another incredible fantasy by him, as are the Books of the Art (specifically <em>Great and Secret Show</em> and <em>Everville</em>) and the <em>Abarat</em> books. Yes, his stories are grounded in the real world, but they feature parallel worlds, fantastic realms, magic, monsters, gods and dreams all come to fantasmagoric life. His capacity for invention is unrivalled by most "mainstream" fantasy authors and his writing is a beauty to read. Awesome. Simply awesome.</p><p></p><p>Also agree with recommendations for Stephen Donaldson (but skip the long-winded Covenant series and read the much more tightly-plotted and engaging Mordant's Need books - <em>Mirror of her Dreams</em> and <em>A Man Rides Through</em>), David Eddings (stick with the Belgariad, then stop before wasting time on the Malloreon), Joel Rosenberg (gaming as life - brilliant stuff) and Raymond Feist (The first three books are wonderful - gets a bit samey after that imho). Yeah, and Moorcock of course...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 3089852, member: 27051"] Massive thumbs-up to Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert Howard, Julian May and Clive Barker. Clive Barker in particular doesn't get recommended enough, as he has an undeserved reputation as a horror writer. Read [i]Imajica[/i] even if you never read any other book in your life ;). [i]Weaveworld[/i] is another incredible fantasy by him, as are the Books of the Art (specifically [i]Great and Secret Show[/i] and [i]Everville[/i]) and the [i]Abarat[/i] books. Yes, his stories are grounded in the real world, but they feature parallel worlds, fantastic realms, magic, monsters, gods and dreams all come to fantasmagoric life. His capacity for invention is unrivalled by most "mainstream" fantasy authors and his writing is a beauty to read. Awesome. Simply awesome. Also agree with recommendations for Stephen Donaldson (but skip the long-winded Covenant series and read the much more tightly-plotted and engaging Mordant's Need books - [i]Mirror of her Dreams[/i] and [i]A Man Rides Through[/i]), David Eddings (stick with the Belgariad, then stop before wasting time on the Malloreon), Joel Rosenberg (gaming as life - brilliant stuff) and Raymond Feist (The first three books are wonderful - gets a bit samey after that imho). Yeah, and Moorcock of course... [/QUOTE]
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