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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1412409" data-attributes="member: 6533">I'll back up the Sean Stewart.  Gene Wolff is also excellent.There actually seems to me to be a pretty fair amount of innovation out there, just not necessarily things that seem to be making it very big.  Depending on what big is in Fantasy.I also highly recommend Mary Gentle.  She has written both a very funny satire called Grunts, which should be a required read for all those fantasy doesn't reflect the realities of technological development debates, and an excellent fantasy series called the Books of Ash which has my favorite take on the idea of alternate history ever.Glen Cook has been pretty innovative, in a sense, in both of his big fantasy series.  Black Company has been lauded many times and moves through a variety of fantasy genres as well as being an impressive bit of writing,  particularly over the course of the series.Read bits of a very different book about a strangler, anyone got any clues on that?Contemporary fantasy does appear to be a developing strong sub-genre.Martin is fantastic, and I think he does introduce some innovations, but he might be better characterized as renovating.I would like to see more of that.  Very little seems to have much sense of the literature of older periods that informed a lot of our great lights and games.It would be really great to see someone go in and create a whole world with different notes playing the same style, as AU attempted to do with DnD, and come up with something like Dune or LotR.But, sadly, I do think that sort of thing has been left to the science fiction writers.</blockquote>

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