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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4950615" data-attributes="member: 22424">It's a tricky question, both because I don't know what you've read, and also because an awful lot of fantasy is, frankly, bad.If you enjoyed J.V. Jones' &quot;Cavern of Black Ice&quot;, you might want to check out her previous trilogy &quot;The Book of Words&quot;, which I quite enjoyed. It's not as good, but still interesting. (It's also set in a different part of the same world, and there are a couple of links between the two series.) She also wrote a stand-alone novel, &quot;The Barbed Coil&quot;, but I didn't enjoy that as much.Bernard Cornwell wrote a trilogy about Arthur that is very good. The first book is &quot;The Winter King&quot;. It's sort-of historical fiction, but there are definate fantasy elements. (He also has various other series, including the Sharpe novels, but those are definately historical fiction rather than fantasy.)I was also a big fan of David Gemmell's work, although he did tend to retell essentially the same story over and over. My recommendations would be to go for &quot;Legend&quot; and his &quot;Troy&quot; trilogy, and dip into the rest if you want. In much the same vein is Conn Iggulden's Emperor series (about Julius Caesar), although that's sort-of historical fiction. (He's taken some serious liberties with actual history.) Oh, and the &quot;Black Company&quot; novels by Glen Cook.Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman is good, and China Mieville is considered one of the most inventive new fantasy authors. (&quot;Perdido Street Station&quot; was fascinating, but a very tough read; &quot;The Scar&quot; I enjoyed immensely, while &quot;Iron Council&quot; wasn't quite as good, IMO.)&quot;Watership Down&quot; was surprisingly good, as was &quot;The Princess Bride&quot;. And the Conan stories (though only the ones by Howard) were excellent.Does any of that help? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4950615, member: 22424"] It's a tricky question, both because I don't know what you've read, and also because an awful lot of fantasy is, frankly, bad. If you enjoyed J.V. Jones' "Cavern of Black Ice", you might want to check out her previous trilogy "The Book of Words", which I quite enjoyed. It's not as good, but still interesting. (It's also set in a different part of the same world, and there are a couple of links between the two series.) She also wrote a stand-alone novel, "The Barbed Coil", but I didn't enjoy that as much. Bernard Cornwell wrote a trilogy about Arthur that is very good. The first book is "The Winter King". It's sort-of historical fiction, but there are definate fantasy elements. (He also has various other series, including the Sharpe novels, but those are definately historical fiction rather than fantasy.) I was also a big fan of David Gemmell's work, although he did tend to retell essentially the same story over and over. My recommendations would be to go for "Legend" and his "Troy" trilogy, and dip into the rest if you want. In much the same vein is Conn Iggulden's Emperor series (about Julius Caesar), although that's sort-of historical fiction. (He's taken some serious liberties with actual history.) Oh, and the "Black Company" novels by Glen Cook. Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman is good, and China Mieville is considered one of the most inventive new fantasy authors. ("Perdido Street Station" was fascinating, but a very tough read; "The Scar" I enjoyed immensely, while "Iron Council" wasn't quite as good, IMO.) "Watership Down" was surprisingly good, as was "The Princess Bride". And the Conan stories (though only the ones by Howard) were excellent. Does any of that help? :) [/QUOTE]

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