Fantasy should not include science fiction. It would be a list along the lines of:
- Tolkien
- CS Lewis
- Lloyd Alexander
- JK Rowling
- Robert Jordan
- George RR Martin
- Brandon Sanderson
- Pratchett
- Pullman
- Mieville
- Erikson
- Goodkind
- Gaiman
- Farmer
- Bakker
- Eddison
- Moorcock
- Wolfe
- Zelazny
- Salvatore
- Weis & Hickman
- McCaffrey (collective vomit after the last three)
- Fritz Lieber
- Piers Anthony
- Clark Ashton Smith (largely only for Averoigne)
- Holdstock
- Gary Gygax (he wrote the Gord the Rogue series in addition to D&D modules and rulebooks)
- Lackey
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Vance
- Eddings
- Lewis Carroll (can't forget him!!!)
I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but those are the major fantasy writers I can think of.
- Tolkien
- CS Lewis
- Lloyd Alexander
- JK Rowling
- Robert Jordan
- George RR Martin
- Brandon Sanderson
- Pratchett
- Pullman
- Mieville
- Erikson
- Goodkind
- Gaiman
- Farmer
- Bakker
- Eddison
- Moorcock
- Wolfe
- Zelazny
- Salvatore
- Weis & Hickman
- McCaffrey (collective vomit after the last three)
- Fritz Lieber
- Piers Anthony
- Clark Ashton Smith (largely only for Averoigne)
- Holdstock
- Gary Gygax (he wrote the Gord the Rogue series in addition to D&D modules and rulebooks)
- Lackey
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Vance
- Eddings
- Lewis Carroll (can't forget him!!!)
I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but those are the major fantasy writers I can think of.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Since people are weighing in on that best fantasy list I posted, how many on this list have ya read?
06/12/2009 05:22:40 AM
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A lot of those books aren't fantasy.
06/12/2009 05:34:18 AM
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Most of those depend upon how loosely one defines it
06/12/2009 06:41:50 AM
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Up next, fantasy fans attempt to co-opt Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. *NM*
06/12/2009 07:20:03 AM
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Actually, considering who put that list together, I'd at least look into their rationales
06/12/2009 07:42:11 AM
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Mmm... there's been a pronounced tendency among spec ficcers, from what I've seen,
06/12/2009 09:09:26 AM
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I'm a bit different than that
06/12/2009 09:20:09 PM
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Re: I'm a bit different than that
07/12/2009 02:04:47 AM
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Then what should it be defined as?
07/12/2009 02:28:55 AM
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What, didn't you major in Fixing Up Confusions and other Issues?
07/12/2009 02:49:30 AM
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I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes
07/12/2009 02:50:35 AM
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You majored in being a pain in the butt is what you majored in.
07/12/2009 02:52:00 AM
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Fantasy has no easy definition.
07/12/2009 02:46:33 AM
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That's true.
07/12/2009 02:50:37 AM
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If you redefine fatasy as fiction, the category loses its value
06/12/2009 12:33:03 PM
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Remember what I studied for my grad degree
06/12/2009 04:10:08 PM
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Re: Remember what I studied for my grad degree
06/12/2009 04:33:58 PM
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Really?
06/12/2009 09:22:21 PM
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Re: Really?
06/12/2009 10:49:36 PM
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum
06/12/2009 10:53:58 PM
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Obviously I know that
06/12/2009 11:30:55 PM
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I've read 34.
06/12/2009 10:53:38 AM
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Well, when individual preferences affect listings, such things happen, I guess
06/12/2009 09:24:39 PM
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78 that I have finished, but that is really not the point.
06/12/2009 11:55:16 AM
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Definitions of "fantasy" vary considerably
06/12/2009 09:25:35 PM
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According to the one you just applied, my master's thesis was one...
06/12/2009 10:47:25 PM
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46. This is an idiotic list. A Confederacy of Dunces just IS NOT fantasy.
06/12/2009 08:34:07 PM
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You say that, based on having read maybe 2% of the list?
06/12/2009 09:27:32 PM
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Jane Eyre?
07/12/2009 12:00:36 AM
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It plays upon the Gothic novel precepts
07/12/2009 12:51:31 AM
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Larry...come on...if it's Fantasy I have a bridge in Brooklyn for you to buy
07/12/2009 04:17:38 AM
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Devise a better?
07/12/2009 04:34:46 AM
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It would be much shorter
07/12/2009 02:20:05 PM
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It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed
08/12/2009 11:26:35 PM
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You seem to be misunderstanding Tom's post.
09/12/2009 10:57:08 AM
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No,I was just just commenting on my likes/dislikes of that list
09/12/2009 01:21:45 PM
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I read it very recently. He masturbates to a dog. Fetishes != fantasy.
07/12/2009 01:58:57 AM
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96... but so many books are missing that i can think of... i mean, really!
07/12/2009 02:07:18 AM
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It's an interesting experiment of a list, miki, and I think it's little more than that
07/12/2009 02:29:56 AM
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It would be a more interesting list if it contained more books that fantasy fans would want to read
30/12/2009 06:35:18 PM
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