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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3593469" data-attributes="member: 307">Read The Riddle Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire and Harpist in the Wind. You can also try The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, which is a standalone.The Chronicles of Prydain is a must. The Westmark series is good too.Merlin's Godson and Merlin's Ring are the books of his to read.The Magic Goes Away and the follow-ons to that are the ones to look at.The entire Alvin Maker series is a must. Enchantment and Hart's Hope are good too.The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls and The Hallowed Hunt are a must.The Swords series is where to go for him. His Berserker books (which are science fiction) are also quite good.The Majipoor Chronicles is the place to start. Gilgamesh the King is good too. I'd suggest The Book of Skulls but that is a more contemporary fantasy.Close, but not quite.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Brooks is really derivative, which is why I left him off the list. Weiss, Hickman, and Salvatore really haven't done much worth reading, at least none of their stuff I have read is worth recommending. Gemmell is good, but not a must. Wurts, Lackey, and Feist are, in my opinion, clearly second tier authors. Cornwell doesn't write fantasy, he writes historical fiction. I like Donaldson, but some events in his most famous series squicks a lot of people out, so I never recommend him to people I don't know. Lawhead is okay, but the Arthur ground has been covered better by other authors. Dunsany is hard to recommend, as it is difficult for a lot of people to read; Eddison is in the same category. Leaving Peake off was an oversight. I haven't read any Bradbury that would be properly classified as fantasy, except maybe Something Wicked This Way Comes, and that was not really on par with his best works. Kipling's fantastical works aren't really fantasy per se, more like contemporary horror, although I may have missed something of his. I left M. John Harrison off for the same reason I left Samuel R. Delany off - his work is too weird in some ways to be considered a must. As for Tepper, the only stuff of hers I have read are the Mavin Manyshaped books, and I wasn't overly impressed.I could have listed numerous authors that neither of us mentioned, but they aren't "musts" in my opinion like the guys I did list.</blockquote>

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