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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 1056468" data-attributes="member: 3820">The sequels are long out of print, as I recall; but you can get a compilation of all three books. Since Kaja Foglio did the illustrations, you can pick it up from studiofoglio.com. Very, very good stuff. I second the recommendation; read Hughart! Mythic China was never so accessible. I just got (contact) hooked on the Fafhrd & Gray Mouser books so bad he wound up hunting down the old TSR Lankhmar modules on amazon.com. If you haven't read those before, do so; Fritz Leiber had the remarkable position of being both a pulp sword & sorcery author and a wordsmith par excellence. There's a new paperback edition of some of the books; the cover art is pretty eh, but the contents are what counts. As far as new stuff goes, I'd also put in a vote for Mieville's Perdido Street Station; you could build a frightening fantasy campaign out of that world, even if you go with the traditional dwarves and elves instead of khepri and vodyanoi and cactacae. Haven't read the new sequel (The Scar), but I plan to.And Steven Brust has finally published the first part of the sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After — Paths of the Dead. Some folks like the Vlad Taltos stuff better, but I loves me the Khaavren Chronicles; the language in them is like a long hot soak, luxurious and utterly relaxing. Fine stuff.</blockquote>