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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1207715" data-attributes="member: 151">As stated above, it all depends on the type of fight you're looking to hear about: Glen Cook does some of the best fantasy military fiction around, most notably The Black Company series.  His warriors are canny, dangerous and their lives are always on the line.  His combats are gritty and desperate. Robert Jordan DID good combats in the Wheel of Time, up until, as said, around Book 5, when he clearly got bored of the whole affair.  Apparently, we can get fifteen pages of a character reflecting on the lack of rain, but only a two paragraph description of an epic battle and the defeat of the Shaido chief.  George R. R. Martin, by contrast, knows when to zoom in, and when to zoom out.  The two standouts from "Song of Ice and Fire" for me are the Battle of King's Landing and the aforementioned battle between the Mountain and the Red Viper.  The duel to defend the dwarf is another good one. Eric Flint writes a pretty good stab at historical military fiction, even though I tend to think he misses the boat on characterization a tad.  I enjoyed his discussion and representation of military battles of the 17th century (and the subsequent introduction of 20th century militiamen into it).  And Akira Toriyama's original Dragonball and Dragonball Z manga not only revolutionized the level of art in comedy manga, he redefined the level of loving detail for fight choreography, too.  There's a reason the man sits atop an empire of his own manga making. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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