Fantasy Fans, i have run out of Authors... help!

[ASorcererIsAWizardSquared]

I have had a scan through the other thread, but its mostly stuff i have already read.. i am a bookwork in need!

My library includes
Katherine Kerr
Mercedes Lackey
Raymond E Feist
David Eddings
David Gemmel
Brent Weeks
Anne McCaffrey
Trudi Canavan
Jenny Wurts
Robin Hobb
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

I have read some Terry Goodkind and also the Wheel of Time (author escapes me)

I've just bought Brian Sandersons Mistborn Trilogy to try and i do have a Patrick Rothfuss novel somewhere i haven't dipped into yet properly. Game of Thrones doesn't really grip me to be worth trying.

Can anyone suggest anyone else?

I'm not keen on science fiction, space ships bore me.

Is there anyone i've over looked?

You need to click "Watch this thread" :)

Second Atomicdog they are epic.

patricia McKillip, the Riddlemaster of Hed

actually having a good look through the Fantasy Masterworks series on Amazon might give you some good ideas. Although it comes expensive after a while if you can't resist buying ...

i have downloaded Peter Bretts first book to my Kindle, and i have ordered the paperback copies of Rivers of Londons first two books (cheaper than the kindle 2nd hand) along with the Mistborn trilogy.. should keep me amused over half term hopefully, once i've finished with my Valdemar books again :)

Have tucked away quite a few recommendations off her to look through once i've got through those!

Oh I already watched it, the trouble is that only works for a while and then I watch too many and they fall off the end! Too many threads I would like to come back to and browse at leisure sometime

I bookmark threads like this. Although they do cause a few arguments on the cost-front with husband.

I've just thought of some more while I've been feeding DD and looking at my bookshelves

The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake is wonderful, proper gothic stuff and very strange. The third book (Titus Alone) is not the same quality as the first two (Titus Groan and Gormenghast), IMO, but is easily omitted.

The Lies of Locke Lamora is the first of three by Scott Lynch - I really loved this book. The two following I liked, but the first is the gem. Complex plots and interesting characters, and a really well-constructed fantasy world. Brilliant.

And finally, the trilogy that begins with The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. They are full of folk stories about fairies and sprites and suchlike, and is really well done. When I tried another series by the same author, however, I was disappointed - it seemed like she'd taken the plot of these books, changed it superficially, and republished it.

I second Kate Elliot. And what about Anne mccaffrey? It's a little bit space-y but has dragons.

evil, i've read the Celia dart-Thorne books, i really enjoyed them, but felt the same about the others outside that trilogy!

Kettricken, im a big PERN nerd, i have read all of them except the latest two that Todd wrote, and i have modded a couple of the big RPG forums sets up to write fan fic under the genre. There isnt much i dont know about the series.. it'd be my MasterMind subject, lol.. i've even got The DragonLovers guide to Pern, both editions because there is some info in one thats missing out of the first.

However, even with those, i struggled with the couple of books and short stories she wrote about the discovery of the planet, but i made myself read them simply because they were important to the rest of it, and as a Moderator, i HAD to know it.

Have you read any Frances Hardinge? Again notionally YA, (but wasted on them ) - Fly by Night and the sequel Twilight Robbery are fantastic, the kind-of-anti-hero Eponymous Clent is one of my favourite characters ever. I also loved A Face Like Glass.

Sorry op, totally missed that she was in your original post
Still as you're a super fan it wasn't an entirely daft suggestion I guess!

The fantasy series that remains in my mind is The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It's a series of four novels set in the far future of the Earth but it definitely has a fantasy feel about it rather than a sci-fi one.

Even after many years I remained haunted by it.

Jodi Taylor 's boxset featuring her first three St. Mary 's books is selling for 99p on kindle for a few days if anyone is interested.

Glad it wasn't just me feeling like that, sorcerer! I really felt cheated

Sorcerer, I'm not sure the problem with the PERN books where they land on the planet is necessarily the sci-fi-iness.

That 'type' of book with colonists exploring new worlds is one of my favourites, but I found them very disappointing. (Unlike the ones where they discover Landing many generations later, which I loved :) )

I want to live on Pern

Haven't rtft yet, but has anyone suggested Patrick Rothfuss' 'The Name of the Wind ' and 'The Wise Man's Fear'? They are unbelievably wonderful and I can't wait for the third one to (finally) be written.

OP - I started a thread on just this topic a while back and got some great suggestions. Will check where it is...

Thanks for starting this thread - some great suggestions. I used to read a lot of fantasy / sf but have got out of the habit and this has given me some ideas on where to start again. I have just got the first 3 Jodi Taylor books for 99p on Kindle - bargain!

holmes, The Name of the Wind is the one patrick rothfuss i have lurking in my Kobo books account, but haven't actually read yet, i will get to it though :)

Asorcerer - it is actually my favourite book ever. I have read it and the second book of the trilogy umpteen times. Hope you enjoy it!

No one has mentioned L E Modesett jnr?

I really need to get up into my loft. I know I've read L E Modesitt before but I can't work out which book(s) fro Amazon.

I've read the Spellsong Cycle books from LE Modesitt, a loooong time ago.

I think I read the Recluce ones.

Anyone else here read The Castle series of books by Steph Swainston? Accessible and wonderfully strange, I've never read anything like them (in a good way).