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It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Larry Send a noteboard - 08/12/2009 11:26:35 PM
Fantasy should not include science fiction. It would be a list along the lines of:

- Tolkien
- CS Lewis
- Lloyd Alexander
- JK Rowling
- Robert Jordan - Wouldn't add this one, due to the poor characterization skills.

- George RR Martin
- Brandon Sanderson - OK, but as I said in your post, more of a "popcorn" level read

- Pratchett
- Pullman
- Mieville
- Erikson
- Goodkind - You're sadomasochistic, aren't you? }<img class=' />
- Gaiman
- Farmer
- Bakker
- Eddison
- Moorcock
- Wolfe
- Zelazny
- Salvatore - Ummm...no
- Weis & Hickman - see above
- McCaffrey (collective vomit after the last three) - or maybe with the first three as well? :P
- Fritz Lieber - LEIBER
- Piers Anthony - Meh
- 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) - Not what I'd consider to be the best written stuff out there, to say the least
- Lackey - Meh
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Vance
- Eddings - Nah...
- 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.


And most of them are just commercial bestsellers of various times. Might as well choose The Titanic as being the best movie of all time, since it was so visible back around 10 years ago :P

Oh, and there's no real clear boundary line between science fiction and fantasy.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Since people are weighing in on that best fantasy list I posted, how many on this list have ya read? Larry - 06/12/2009 05:22:40 AM 2283 Views
A lot of those books aren't fantasy. Tom - 06/12/2009 05:34:18 AM 818 Views
Most of those depend upon how loosely one defines it Larry - 06/12/2009 06:41:50 AM 795 Views
Up next, fantasy fans attempt to co-opt Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 07:20:03 AM 253 Views
Actually, considering who put that list together, I'd at least look into their rationales Larry - 06/12/2009 07:42:11 AM 726 Views
Mmm... there's been a pronounced tendency among spec ficcers, from what I've seen, Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 09:09:26 AM 970 Views
I agree Camilla - 06/12/2009 09:35:32 AM 718 Views
I'm a bit different than that Larry - 06/12/2009 09:20:09 PM 780 Views
Re: I'm a bit different than that Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:04:47 AM 828 Views
Then what should it be defined as? Larry - 07/12/2009 02:28:55 AM 868 Views
What, didn't you major in Fixing Up Confusions and other Issues? Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:49:30 AM 560 Views
I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes Larry - 07/12/2009 02:50:35 AM 686 Views
You majored in being a pain in the butt is what you majored in. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:00 AM 733 Views
No, that was my second minor Larry - 07/12/2009 02:54:53 AM 647 Views
In that case, I trust my definition more than theirs. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 03:05:32 AM 712 Views
Re: I majored in raising more questions and doubting absolutes The_Last_Gunslinger - 08/12/2009 10:59:03 PM 755 Views
Not really Larry - 08/12/2009 11:19:46 PM 1057 Views
Fantasy has no easy definition. Werthead - 07/12/2009 02:46:33 AM 773 Views
That's true. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:50:37 AM 732 Views
But the Song of Soloman is certainly akin to that *NM* Larry - 07/12/2009 02:51:21 AM 246 Views
No, that's just porn. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:52:24 AM 345 Views
If you redefine fatasy as fiction, the category loses its value Camilla - 06/12/2009 12:33:03 PM 755 Views
Remember what I studied for my grad degree Larry - 06/12/2009 04:10:08 PM 767 Views
Re: Remember what I studied for my grad degree Camilla - 06/12/2009 04:33:58 PM 777 Views
Really? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:22:21 PM 893 Views
Re: Really? Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:49:36 PM 850 Views
Literature does not exist in a vacuum Larry - 06/12/2009 10:53:58 PM 555 Views
Obviously I know that Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:30:55 PM 716 Views
But it is a material artifact of a culture Larry - 07/12/2009 12:47:45 AM 624 Views
But that is not all it is. Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:16:32 AM 820 Views
Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Werthead - 06/12/2009 04:32:26 PM 740 Views
Re: Indeed. A lot of them are science fiction. Camilla - 06/12/2009 05:01:55 PM 635 Views
Several dozen contributed to the suggestion list Larry - 06/12/2009 09:23:21 PM 555 Views
I've read 34. Legolas - 06/12/2009 10:53:38 AM 617 Views
Well, when individual preferences affect listings, such things happen, I guess Larry - 06/12/2009 09:24:39 PM 621 Views
78 that I have finished, but that is really not the point. Camilla - 06/12/2009 11:55:16 AM 766 Views
Definitions of "fantasy" vary considerably Larry - 06/12/2009 09:25:35 PM 713 Views
According to the one you just applied, my master's thesis was one... Camilla - 06/12/2009 10:47:25 PM 631 Views
It's just a state of mind, I suppose Larry - 07/12/2009 12:50:22 AM 737 Views
Re: It's just a state of mind, I suppose Camilla - 07/12/2009 08:17:09 AM 765 Views
I've read 28. Linda - 06/12/2009 03:42:40 PM 813 Views
89... but in general, that is many by the same author. jh - 06/12/2009 06:17:06 PM 625 Views
46. This is an idiotic list. A Confederacy of Dunces just IS NOT fantasy. Ghavrel - 06/12/2009 08:34:07 PM 844 Views
You say that, based on having read maybe 2% of the list? Larry - 06/12/2009 09:27:32 PM 553 Views
Jane Eyre? Napoleon62 - 07/12/2009 12:00:36 AM 696 Views
It plays upon the Gothic novel precepts Larry - 07/12/2009 12:51:31 AM 583 Views
Larry...come on...if it's Fantasy I have a bridge in Brooklyn for you to buy Tom - 07/12/2009 04:17:38 AM 751 Views
Devise a better? Larry - 07/12/2009 04:34:46 AM 666 Views
It would be much shorter Tom - 07/12/2009 02:20:05 PM 932 Views
It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Larry - 08/12/2009 11:26:35 PM 676 Views
Argh. Your quoting skills need work. *NM* Ghavrel - 09/12/2009 08:58:15 AM 354 Views
You seem to be misunderstanding Tom's post. Legolas - 09/12/2009 10:57:08 AM 688 Views
No,I was just just commenting on my likes/dislikes of that list Larry - 09/12/2009 01:21:45 PM 819 Views
I think you are misunderstanding again... jh - 09/12/2009 01:46:49 PM 792 Views
Yes. What Jonte said. *NM* Legolas - 09/12/2009 02:41:41 PM 371 Views
Oh,that Larry - 09/12/2009 06:07:11 PM 867 Views
Re: It should be shorter than some of the ones you listed Camilla - 21/12/2009 09:35:11 AM 1078 Views
I read it very recently. He masturbates to a dog. Fetishes != fantasy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 01:58:57 AM 598 Views
Like I said, it's been years for me Larry - 07/12/2009 02:30:58 AM 801 Views
No worries. That one just got me a little testy. Ghavrel - 07/12/2009 02:48:01 AM 693 Views
96... but so many books are missing that i can think of... i mean, really! temeraire - 07/12/2009 02:07:18 AM 639 Views
It's an interesting experiment of a list, miki, and I think it's little more than that Larry - 07/12/2009 02:29:56 AM 584 Views
I've read about 90 of them ranagrande - 18/12/2009 03:37:49 PM 956 Views
It would be a more interesting list if it contained more books that fantasy fans would want to read random thoughts - 30/12/2009 06:35:18 PM 822 Views
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