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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8016199" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Glen Cook is the one author I pick up everything by and keep rereading.  His Black Company gets a lot of shout outs (and I've reread it all of it twice or more, so I'm not dissing it), but I don't think that's his strongest work, I thought the ones below were outstanding for fantasy (and he might be even better at sci-fi):Dread Empire (and especially the short stories Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, Filed Teeth, and Severed Heads - none of which need you to have read the series)Garrett Chronicles (the first nine anyway)The Tower of FearDevil's Tooth short story----Tolkien's LotR and SilmarillionLeGuin's EarthseaHoward's Conan (in part for the ideas it shares with Lovecraft)Going over the other lists above, there are so many series I haven't read in years that are probably still rolling around in my brain - the graphic novels took over the book shelves and I didn't have space for all of them :-/I'm not good at trying new-to-me authors. I've been trying to read things from the 1e DMG appendix, but a lot of it has been just ok or disappointing (Lieber has some moments, but gets outright bad at points; deCamp and Spratt weren't what I was expecting; getting ready to start Moorcock). As for trying new things, I really liked Rothfuss's Name of the Wind, but not so much The Wise Man's Fear.----I should read more short story anthologies, I almost always enjoy most of the things in them and come away with lots of inspiration (for things I invariably don't have time to try).  The four fantasy ones on my shelf that make me say that are:Songs of the Dying Earth (eds. Martin & Dozois)Fearsome Journeys (ed. Strahan)Shattered Shields (eds. Brozek & Schmidt)Swords & Dark Magic (es. Strahan & Anders)</blockquote>

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