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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Talos" data-source="post: 1342025" data-attributes="member: 12577">An even older fantasy series(though not necessarily "fantasy" at the time they were written) were the works of Alexander Dumas.  The Three Musketeers,The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte Bragelonne (AKA The Man in the Iron Mask) were all stories about the continuing adventures of the Musketeers.  As these books were written in the mid 1800s, the idea of the serial novels in romantic/fantastic literature is not a new one.If you want a great fantasy novel that was only recently published, try The Knight by Gene Wolfe.  It is not as difficult to read as some of his earlier stuff and manages to turn out an extremely fresh and exciting take on what at first seem to be stanadard fantasy themes.Another book I recently read that turned out to be pretty good was Shadow by K.J. Parker.  Parts of the book make your brain do somersaults and unfortunately the book is the first in a series, but on the whole it turned out to be halfway decent.As for the crud out there, I have to throw in The Ring of Five Dragons as terrible along with The Fifth Sorceress.I am learning to never read any book advertised within the pages of Dragon.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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