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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2016852" data-attributes="member: 11760">I thought I said. I think Terry Pratchett, George R. R. Martin and J. K. Rowling, for starters, are doing good work. While I think Glen Cook's Black Company novels are flawed, they embody a lot of what I like in fantasy fiction.They have their own voices, are telling their own stories their own ways. While there will always be links to previous works -- I had a high school English teacher who claimed that the only stories in the world were Greek myth, the Bible and some Shakespeare, although that's obviously her exaggerating for dramatic effect -- each of them sat down to tell a story for its own sake, not because someone said "we need a Mercedes Lackey-style story, but with white lions" or "wouldn't it have been cool if Sauron just went to sleep for 100 years and Frodo's grandson had to create a new fellowship to beat him?"If I want to read "The Hobbit," I'll re-read "The Hobbit." I don't need it regurgitated at me by an author who turns it into a trilogy and insists it's a new work.I will read any genre. My favorite novel is "Lonesome Dove," I have the complete collection of "Little Fuzzy" novels and I have no problem picking up children's books, if they're entertaining, like the Spiderwick Chronicles.New voices and fresh stories are what I'm interested in. If fantasy can't reliably provide that (nor sci-fi, for the record), there are plenty of other books out there I haven't read yet.</blockquote>

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