Recommended Reading

[Darkfire]

Hi All

I've been out of the reading loop for the last few years.
What new Fantasy/Sci-Fi authors would you recommend that I spend my hard earned pounds on?

Thanks

 

[EricNoah]

Here are some recent threads that might get you started.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27297&highlight=recommendations

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24566&highlight=recommendations

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15881&highlight=recommendations

I personally have been reading and enjoying everything by Robin Hobb recently (fantasy). Also greatly enjoyed the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons (sci-fi). And you really can't go wrong with George Martin's current fantasy series beginning with A Game of Thrones.

 

[Morrus]

Not so much fantasy, but Sharon Penman wrote some superb historical fiction novels based in England/Wales during the middle ages. Most of it centres round the nobility (the protaganists are real people - Sharon Penman essentially wrotes her fictionalised version of true events, although she obviously has to take some liberties here and there and fill in some blanks herself).

 

[Warrior Poet]

Suggestions:

Gene Wolfe. Anything. Seriously. The man's a genius, and one of the best modern Sci-Fi writers alive, and outside the writing community, few people know his work, and that's a shame. Won just about every major award there is to win, prolific, and devastatingly intelligent. When I read his Book of the New Sun series, I had to look up new words on almost every page, and I consider myself possessed of a fairly formidable vocabulary. Brilliant symbolism, metaphor, plot, sense of wonder, magic, and science.

Martha Wells: City of Bones and Death of the Necromancer. Martha's terrific, writes wonderful stories with compelling characters, fast action, witty dialogue, genuine terror, and great archaeological mystery.

Sean Stewart: Night Watch A masterful vision of the future of magic and technology, combined with ancient Chinese mythology and ghost stories. No Hollywood endings here: the "good" guys don't always win, don't always end up with their loved ones, and everyone gets scars.

There's always more ...

Warrior Poet

 

[Darkfire]

Thanks

Awesome sounding selection of authors, it'll be so good to get back into a good book