Good, recent Fantasy books

[Thornir Alekeg]

I enjoyed Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.

 

[Randolpho]

You know... the next Harry Potter book comes out in July. If you haven't read the series, give it a go now so you can get caught up.

Just sayin'

 

[Olive]

You know... the next Harry Potter book comes out in July. If you haven't read the series, give it a go now so you can get caught up.

Just sayin'

I read the first one and pretty much hated it... so, nah. Yeah, I don't like kids books or kids writing. I didn't like the Amber Spyglass stuff much either although I enjoyed those more than the HP books.

No modern fantasy or kids books for me! Well, actually some modern fantasy I don't mind but as a general rule...

Hmm. I might try the Kate Elliot. It sounds different in a good way!

 

[GSHamster]

I recommend John C. Wright. Either The Last Guardian of Everness / Mists of Everness, or Orphans of Chaos.

It's kind of modern fantasy, but kind of not. Actually, it's really ancient fantasy, just set in modern times.

Which doesn't sound like a whole lot of sense, but I think you will see what I mean when you read them. Science fiction, only rooted in mythology rather than science.

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

Another good book I read recently is Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It tells what is supposedly the true story of Wonderland's Alice. Lewis Carroll got most of it wrong.

 

[Particle_Man]

Yup - fantastic book. Anyone read the short stories one?

Yes. Clarke uses a different style for each story (including one style that matches Jonathan Strange and M. Norrell). I liked the collection, but felt that it was a bit small - but then maybe I was just greedy for more stories.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'm beginning to feel like a complete shill for her but Kate Elliot's newest series The Crossroads is just damned good. The first book is Spirit Gate ....

Naomi Novik's Temeraire series is quite interesting and you can pick up all three published books in paperback in the States. Though it's not quite so much blatant fantasy as alternate history fantasy, and no real magic. Though I just couldn't resist the Napoleonic Wars on Dragons. This is a book where Napoleon invents airmobile infantry tactics in the 19th century.

I second both of these. Excellent books.

 

[Olive]

I actually ended up buying an R.Scott Baker novel. The Kate Elliot books - there were a lot of them and I couldn't remember which one I was supposed to get!

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Tim Lebbon's Dusk is a good read. Very bleak and unforgiving setting, with lots of decidedly mature context.

Here's his website. The sequel, Dawn, is coming soon...
http://www.noreela.com/

I just finished it, and it was, well, okay. The rampant drug addiction and whatnot was annoying. One wonders how those poor little bats still exist.

Brad

 

[drothgery]

I read half of something of Brust's one time and it didn't grab me at all - Jhereg I think. Should I try other stuff?

If you'd read Teckla or Agyar or The Phoenix Guards and it didn't grab you, I'd definitely say yeah; the first is probably the weakest Vlad book, the second has no connection with Brust's major series at all, and the last is the first of a series set somewhat earlier than the Vlad books and written as a riff on The Three Musketeers. Jhereg, though, was the first Vlad Taltos book (Brust's major series), and while it's not the best of them, it's far from the worst, and is in the same style as the best of them.