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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9607042" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>Speaking of women authors...</p><p></p><p>Elizabeth Moon's first three Paksenarrion books (<em>Sheepfarmer's Daughter</em>, <em>Divided Allegiance</em>, and <em>Oath of Gold</em>, often sold as an omnibus edition <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deed_of_Paksenarrion" target="_blank"><em>The Deed of Paksenarrion</em></a>) are awesome, and build from a super grounded S&S-scale world (Moon was in the US Marines, and this informs her military fiction quite a bit, though her fencing and equestrian interests also show) into a somewhat more epic scale by the end. This is one of my favorite fantasy series of all time. Up there with LotR and Vance's <em>Lyonesse </em>in enjoyment and influence on me. They've also got multiple nods to D&D in there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I really liked Katherine Kurtz' original Deryni books. Very grounded in medieval historicism, as that was her area of scholarship before becoming an author. Her fantasy take on a quasi-Welsh kingdom has a realistically powerful Catholic church, for example, and chapter headings usually include an applicable verse from the Bible. The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels#The_Chronicles_of_the_Deryni" target="_blank">five or six Kelson books</a> I really enjoyed and consider worth revisiting.</p><p></p><p>Elizabeth A Lynn's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Tornor" target="_blank">Tornor books</a> ('79-'80) I found a bit more challenging and mature as a young man. A bit ahead of their time in portraying queer relationships, but very grounded. I'm torn on whether to categorize them as S&S, thematically, but definitely in scale and grittiness.</p><p></p><p>N. K. Jemisen is a more modern and current author who's been mentioned earlier in the thread. I've just dipped into her stuff with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)" target="_blank">The Fifth Season</a> but was very impressed by and definitely going to read more of her.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore" target="_blank">C. L. Moore </a>OTOH is a first-gen S&S writer from the '30s. I started with her story <em>Black God's Kiss</em>, about her heroine Jirel of Joiry, and it was enough to get me to back a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janaka/black-gods-kiss" target="_blank">kickstarter for a game</a> based on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9607042, member: 7026594"] Speaking of women authors... Elizabeth Moon's first three Paksenarrion books ([I]Sheepfarmer's Daughter[/I], [I]Divided Allegiance[/I], and [I]Oath of Gold[/I], often sold as an omnibus edition [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deed_of_Paksenarrion'][I]The Deed of Paksenarrion[/I][/URL]) are awesome, and build from a super grounded S&S-scale world (Moon was in the US Marines, and this informs her military fiction quite a bit, though her fencing and equestrian interests also show) into a somewhat more epic scale by the end. This is one of my favorite fantasy series of all time. Up there with LotR and Vance's [I]Lyonesse [/I]in enjoyment and influence on me. They've also got multiple nods to D&D in there. :) I really liked Katherine Kurtz' original Deryni books. Very grounded in medieval historicism, as that was her area of scholarship before becoming an author. Her fantasy take on a quasi-Welsh kingdom has a realistically powerful Catholic church, for example, and chapter headings usually include an applicable verse from the Bible. The first [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels#The_Chronicles_of_the_Deryni']five or six Kelson books[/URL] I really enjoyed and consider worth revisiting. Elizabeth A Lynn's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Tornor']Tornor books[/URL] ('79-'80) I found a bit more challenging and mature as a young man. A bit ahead of their time in portraying queer relationships, but very grounded. I'm torn on whether to categorize them as S&S, thematically, but definitely in scale and grittiness. N. K. Jemisen is a more modern and current author who's been mentioned earlier in the thread. I've just dipped into her stuff with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)']The Fifth Season[/URL] but was very impressed by and definitely going to read more of her. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore']C. L. Moore [/URL]OTOH is a first-gen S&S writer from the '30s. I started with her story [I]Black God's Kiss[/I], about her heroine Jirel of Joiry, and it was enough to get me to back a [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janaka/black-gods-kiss']kickstarter for a game[/URL] based on it. [/QUOTE]
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