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EricNoah
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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.
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.
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
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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
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
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