I need a good fantasy or sci-fi recommendation urgently!

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Just finished Deborah Harkness’ Time’s Convert and the preceding trilogy, enjoyed it but definitely wasn’t love bit too much like Twilight.

Brandon Sanderson is one of my favourites but I think I’ve exhausted his oeuvre. Read Wheel of Time, the powder mage books, Tolkien, Pratchett, Ursula Le Guin, most Neil Gaiman and Dan Simmons too as well as a lot of enjoyable shite like the Shadowhunter books..

I’m unsure what next- very grateful for any recommendations. I need something soon though as it’s the first time in ages I haven’t had my next book/ series lined up and am feeling all twitchy!

(For full disclosure I do actually have an entire shelf of unread books but they’re not ‘speaking’ to me at the moment .)

I love Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle books. They start with Daggerspell and run for a total of 15 books. When I reached the end of the final book I blubbed like a baby with joy at reaching a satisfactory end and grief that the story had ended and there would be no more. It's a gorgeous fantasy series that has beautifully interwoven characters and timelines that kept me gripped every time that I have read it.
The only other book to have had a similar effect was On The Beach by Nevil Shute which is more sci-fi but is one of the most devastatingly brave and beautiful books I've read.

I love the Rivers of London.
Also have you read the Ender books by Orsen Scott Card? The movie was terrible but the whole Ender universe is brilliant. I couldn't put them down.

CJ Cherryh's Foreigner saga.

Oh, I was forgetting! Blood Song by Anthony Ryan is flippin fantastic! Just pretend it's a debut novel - the rest of the series isn't worth bothering with. But the first is a great one to curl up with, hot chocolate in hand, on a cosy winter's night :-)

I would also recommend Joe Abercrombie and Hugh Howey, and would add Scott Lynch to the suggestions. The Lies of Locke Lamora is the first in the Gentlemen Bastard series.

should say standalone novel - it was his debut, what am I saying. I can't words today.

Oh yeah the lies of Locke Lamora was good. And David Eddings, used to love him as a teenager!

@Soiree, yay a fellow Eddings fan! I know very few people who like his stuff, but it was what made me fall in love with fantasy as a genre. And with Silk, the sexy little thief. :P

I'm really enjoying V. E. Schwabs work at the moment. Finished Vicious, and now am in the middle of This Savage Song. Both good, a mix of real world inner-city darkness/violence mixed with fantasy/monsters/super-powers. Very dark and gritty.

I also enjoyed the Magicians Guild series years ago by Trudi Canavan, lots of fantasy/magic but not silly with it, and again more dark/serious.

I hate these threads.

It always ends upcosting me a fortune.

I love the urban fantasy by Benedict Jacka.

The Boy on the Bridge, the companion to TGWATG is very good. Hopefully they film it as well as the first one.
Charles Stross's Laundry Files, with CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN now in full progress and No. 10 now occupied by...that would be telling. Also the Freyaverse novels: forensic accountancy and interstellar banking has never been such fun.

Brent Weeks, night angel trilogy for sure

And Greg Keyes, kingdom of bone and thorn I think?

If you want something epic, get into any Tad Williams series!!

Argh, might sack off work tomorrow and read instead!

David Gemmell for a bit of fun. And his Greek myth books are good too.

This is my kind of thread. Read lots of the series mentioned.

Started on the Belgariad by David Eddings from the local library then graduated to Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. The Malazan Empire by Steven Erickson was the next meaty series.

My username is a female character from ‘The Riddle-Master of Hed’ by Patricia M. Mckillop.

Also a very satisfying, beautifully written complete series is The Sun Sword by Michelle West starting with The Broken Crown.

Oh, and Ian M Banks for sci fi.

And there’s a little known series by GRR Martín that’s a good read. A Song of Ice and Fire, first book, Game of Thrones. Started reading them about 20 years ago and still waiting for him to get on with finishing them off. He’s been distracted by some TV series apparently. Seriously, I love the books.

Almost everything I love has been recommended here already, but I couldn't see NK Jemisin's Broken Earth series which is one of the best things I have read in a very long time.

I'm also seconding/thirding:
Patrick Rothfuss
Lois McMaster Bujold
Becky Chambers
Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time)
Ann Leckie
Rivers of London

The Sword of Shannara series by Terry Brooks, David Eddings - Belgaraid,
Raymond E Feist - Magician series,
Ilona Andrews, Thea Harrison, Nalini Singh books are more paranormal romance but good fantasy world building and compelling characters.
Sarah J Maas - Throne of Glass
Patrick Rothfuss - the Kingkiller Chronicles
The wheel of time,
Robin Hobbs,
Issac Asimov

Sarah J Maas Throne of glass series for fantasy, super hot fae, lots of swords and magic.

Iain M Banks for SF, I particularly like Player of Games.

I really enjoyed The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman. The only series ever where I thought the books got better as they went.

@HairyStorm

I was almost rooting for them by then end!

Janny Wurts' epic The Wars Of Light And Shadow. No one knows them, which makes me sad, but they are my favourites. Every word is chosen for maximum impact. It's like reading extremely long poetry.

For shorter Urban Fantasy I love Helen Harper, especially her Blood Destiny and Lazy Girl's Guide To Magic series.

Lots of great recommendations. YY to Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time / Dogs of War etc.

Any contemporary sci-fi lovers, I'd really recommend Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer - doesn't seem to be have recommended on here so far.

Also some good sci-fi recs on this thread I started recently. Thread was looking for xmas presents for dd, but I've got lots of recs for me off it too.

Another one recommending Raymond Feist Magician (and all the rest that follow)
Ilona Andrews - Kate Daniels first, Aldo recommend the edge books