Comments on: Nerd Watching: War of the Fantasy Worlds!

By: Otookee

Otookee — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:57:25 +0000

And some more…

The Door into Fire/The Door into Shadow/The Door into Starlight by Diane Duane

The Black Gryphon trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs

The Complete Compleat Enchanter by L Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt

The Curse of Chalion/Paladin of Souls/The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. Also the Sharing Knife series (and over in scifi, check out her Miles Vorkosigan series)

Red Unicorn/GoldUnicorn/BlackUnicorn by Tanith Lee

By: Otookee

Otookee — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:49:49 +0000

Well, I had a long list typed in and the blog ate it with an error message. So, second try… I’ll leave out stuff like Earthsea and Amber that have been mentioned by others.

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

Changer by Jane Lindskold

Inda/The Fox/King’s Shield by Sherwood Smith

Godstalk/Dark of the Moon/Seekers Mask by PC Hodgell

The Waterborn/The Blackgod by J Gregory Keyes (also the Briar King series)

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (also Seaward).

Black Sun Rising/When true Night Falls/Crown of Shadows by CS Friedman

The Wee Free Men/A Hat Full of Sky/Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:11:14 +0000

@Consumer Unit 5012: Like mythology is an excellent selling point for me. I’ll add Tales of the Flat Earth to the list of things I need to check out.

By: Consumer Unit 5012

Consumer Unit 5012 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:54:11 +0000

If you’re still taking recommendations, allow me to put in one for Glen Cook’s _Black Company_ series. It’s an epic tale of a Chosen One trying to overthrow an evil overlord… told from the point of view of a company of mercenaries employed by said Overlord.

Tanith Lee’s _Tales of the Flat Earth_ are quite good, and rather different from most fantasy–more like mythology, really.

By: hobson1975

hobson1975 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:55:58 +0000

I’ve always loved Eberron and the new EPG is pretty good. I’d like more meat, but we already have TON of material to pull from in the old books. I like the pulp noir flavor to it. I usually add in a bit more steam punk type flavor when I’m running my campaigns.

I would DEARLY love for Wizard’s to come out with a truly different world on the scale of Planescape, just something utterly out of this world. I’m not talking sci fi, but really out there fantasy (e.g. I’m thinking kind of the later Final Fantasy games).

As to WoW, I laid off the crack back in the winter. I’d just gotten bored with it all.