Fantasy worlds

[Apisto42]

Young Adult - Prydain is the best.

Classic Fantasy, Conan (as mentioned), the Elric Saga, Amber.

Favorite Tolkien knock-off: Midkemia (it gets so tedious but I read and enjoyed them all)

Favorite Man I wish you were as good a writer as world builder: The Wheel of Time

Some of my favorite modern fantasy.
NK Jamison’s works, with 100,000 Kingdoms being my personal favorite.
The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie.

I loved Feist’s book as a teenager, read the whole series through to the end. Started book one of his new series after it and just couldn’t get into it.

 

[Him15]

Young Adult - Prydain is the best.

Classic Fantasy, Conan (as mentioned), the Elric Saga, Amber.

Favorite Tolkien knock-off: Midkemia (it gets so tedious but I read and enjoyed them all)

Favorite Man I wish you were as good a writer as world builder: The Wheel of Time

Some of my favorite modern fantasy.
NK Jamison’s works, with 100,000 Kingdoms being my personal favorite.
The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie.

Biggest issue with wheel of time isnt really the writing. I think its the editing. There is just so much in those books that could get trimmed down. Like book 1 when there is 50 odd pages of Matt and rand going to different inns.

 

[Him15]

I loved Feist’s book as a teenager, read the whole series through to the end. Started book one of his new series after it and just couldn’t get into it.

I never read those ones, going on the list!

 

[CuriousRick]

One of my current favorite series is The Wandering Inn. It is LITrpg and there are a lot of books! She has them all free in her web page. Posts new chapters twice a week. She has done a great job with her world building and I enjoy the genre. She will take you on a roller coaster of emotions! I have to step away from time to time, then go back and try to catch up!

I am also caching backup in Jim Butchets Dresden Files. Modern day wizards and things that go bump in the night.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Biggest issue with wheel of time isnt really the writing. I think its the editing. There is just so much in those books that could get trimmed down. Like book 1 when there is 50 odd pages of Matt and rand going to different inns.

Editors didn’t make him write every woman as if she peaked emotionally at 13. The editing is also bad. But the writing is the worse culprit.

 

[Him15]

Editors didn’t make him write every woman as if she peaked emotionally at 13. The editing is also bad. But the writing is the worse culprit.

I dont think the women really come off that way personally. I mean maybe some of them but a lot of them are like 16 and then some get reverted back in age.

 

[Him15]

One of my current favorite series is The Wandering Inn. It is LITrpg and there are a lot of books! She has them all free in her web page. Posts new chapters twice a week. She has done a great job with her world building and I enjoy the genre. She will take you on a roller coaster of emotions! I have to step away from time to time, then go back and try to catch up!

I am also caching backup in Jim Butchets Dresden Files. Modern day wizards and things that go bump in the night.

I always suggest the dresden files. I have the full series signed

 

[CuriousRick]

I always suggest the dresden files. I have the full series signed

I just finished Skin Job. I wanted to jump back a few books and work up to his last one. Have you read his fantasy series?

 

[Him15]

I just finished Skin Job. I wanted to jump back a few books and work up to his last one. Have you read his fantasy series?

Which one codex alera or the Cinder spires

The answer is yes to both lol

 

[CuriousRick]

Codex Aleta. I have t tried the Cinder Soires

 

[Apisto42]

Which one codex alera or the Cinder spires

The answer is yes to both lol

I tried Codex Alera and maybe it was the slow pace at the start of it or I was just tired of traditional fantasy, but I didn’t even make it halfway through the first book before just stopping.

Robin Hodd’s Assassin Apprentice series is very good. I think I ended up reading all of her related series as well.

Sci-fi: one of my favorite series is Stephen R Donaldson’s The Real Story.

 

[Him15]

I tried Codex Alera and maybe it was the slow pace at the start of it or I was just tired of traditional fantasy, but I didn’t even make it halfway through the first book before just stopping.

Robin Hodd’s Assassin Apprentice series is very good. I think I ended up reading all of her related series as well.

Sci-fi: one of my favorite series is Stephen R Donaldson’s The Real Story.

So codex alera is very good. But the first book does start really slow. Probably the slowest of any book Jim Butcher has ever written. Book one goes big at the end and the rest of the books really have the main character come into his own as aomone you really root for and like. Also it gets way less traditional on the fantasy as the series goes on as you get more of the Roman influence and aome.other interesting races.

 

[cheekygirl75]

Some of the best fantasy/scifi fantasy that I’ve read in recent years is anything by Nnedi Okorafor. Some is more young adult, but still very good.

 

[lilmissdarling]

Fantasy book series - Fourth Wing (all 3)

"Fantasy" TV Series - One Piece (side note: so far I have only watched the live action version.)

Movie, will forever be: Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (all 3)

 

[Volk359]

My ultimate favorite is the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster. He had some wild ideas and I liked how he wove animals into the stories with their unique abilities I always thought it’d make a great TV series.

 

[Endless_Night]

I'm not sure how this showed up in my feed, as no-one has posted for a bit, but since I'm here . . . .

I enjoyed the Imperial Radch core series, by Anne Leckie.

Ancillary Sword
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Mercy

It's a space opera where the primary race has two sexes, but only one gender. The writing is tight but still manages to be full bodied, and it really makes you think about personal identity.

I also found it interesting that I kept mentally assigning male of female gender to each character, based on behavior.