Since I see few of the old OF regulars posting here, I'm going to guess several of the following will be unfamiliar to several of those now posting at the successor board:
M. John Harrison, Viriconium (omnibus); Light; The Course of the Heart; Signs of Life; Nova Swing
Hal Duncan, Vellum; Ink
Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch (forthcoming); Veniss Underground
Brian Evenson, The Wavering Knife; Last Days
Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy; Memoranda; The Beyond; The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque; The Girl in the Glass; Empire of Ice Cream; The Shadow Years
Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky; A World Too Near; City Without End
D.M. Cornish, Foundling; Lamplighter
Jo Graham, Black Ships; Hand of Isis
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus; The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, and so many others
Margo Lanagan, Black Juice; Red Spikes; Tender Morsels
David Petersen, Mouse Guard: Fall 1152; Mouse Guard: Winter 1152
Michael Cisco, The Tyrant; The Traitor; The San Veneficio Canon
Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco; Nightmare Factory: Volumes I and II; My Work Here is not Done
John Crowley, Little, Big; Ægypt cycle
Stepan Chapman, The Troika
Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
J.G. Ballard, Why the fuck aren't more people here talking about Ballard, especially since his writings have been more "prophetic" than most any other SF work of the past 50 years? - any of his collected fictions, or just Crash and The Vermillion Sands for starters.
Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen; Magic for Beginners; Pretty Monsters
Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer; A Betrayal in Winter; An Autumn War; The Price of Spring
Felix Gilman, Thunderer; Gears of the City
J.M. McDermott, Last Dragon
Kristin Cashore, Graceling; Fire
George MacDonald, Lilith
Zoran Živkovi?, The Fourth Circle; Candid Camera; The Book, The Writer, The Reader; The Bridge; Impossible Stories I and II
Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars; Landscape Painted With Tea; Second Body
Edward Whittemore, Shanghai Circus; the four books of the Jerusalem Quartet
Joanna Russ, The Female Man
And many, many more. Challenge: Who here has read half of these authors and/or books?
M. John Harrison, Viriconium (omnibus); Light; The Course of the Heart; Signs of Life; Nova Swing
Hal Duncan, Vellum; Ink
Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch (forthcoming); Veniss Underground
Brian Evenson, The Wavering Knife; Last Days
Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy; Memoranda; The Beyond; The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque; The Girl in the Glass; Empire of Ice Cream; The Shadow Years
Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky; A World Too Near; City Without End
D.M. Cornish, Foundling; Lamplighter
Jo Graham, Black Ships; Hand of Isis
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus; The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, and so many others
Margo Lanagan, Black Juice; Red Spikes; Tender Morsels
David Petersen, Mouse Guard: Fall 1152; Mouse Guard: Winter 1152
Michael Cisco, The Tyrant; The Traitor; The San Veneficio Canon
Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco; Nightmare Factory: Volumes I and II; My Work Here is not Done
John Crowley, Little, Big; Ægypt cycle
Stepan Chapman, The Troika
Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
J.G. Ballard, Why the fuck aren't more people here talking about Ballard, especially since his writings have been more "prophetic" than most any other SF work of the past 50 years? - any of his collected fictions, or just Crash and The Vermillion Sands for starters.
Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen; Magic for Beginners; Pretty Monsters
Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer; A Betrayal in Winter; An Autumn War; The Price of Spring
Felix Gilman, Thunderer; Gears of the City
J.M. McDermott, Last Dragon
Kristin Cashore, Graceling; Fire
George MacDonald, Lilith
Zoran Živkovi?, The Fourth Circle; Candid Camera; The Book, The Writer, The Reader; The Bridge; Impossible Stories I and II
Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars; Landscape Painted With Tea; Second Body
Edward Whittemore, Shanghai Circus; the four books of the Jerusalem Quartet
Joanna Russ, The Female Man
And many, many more. Challenge: Who here has read half of these authors and/or books?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Underappreciated Fantasy books?
- 03/09/2009 03:36:10 AM
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I don't think Donaldson is underappreciated so much as disliked.
- 03/09/2009 04:21:33 AM
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- 03/09/2009 04:21:33 AM
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Donaldson is "kiddie" have you actaully read Donaldson?
- 14/09/2009 04:30:14 PM
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Re: sentence structure
- 14/09/2009 07:22:28 PM
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Goodkind.
- 03/09/2009 05:20:51 AM
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I didn't know anything about Goodkind when I started reading his books.
- 04/09/2009 12:52:37 AM
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Michelle West
- 03/09/2009 05:29:39 AM
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I agree
- 04/09/2009 06:35:20 AM
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Janny Wurts
- 03/09/2009 05:33:19 AM
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Kate Elliott
- 03/09/2009 06:04:56 AM
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Re: Kate Elliott
- 03/09/2009 06:11:11 AM
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I actually put down Mistwraith a couple times before I made it through the first few chapters.
- 05/09/2009 05:20:33 AM
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Lois Mcmaster Bujold
- 03/09/2009 08:38:20 AM
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Well, I am about to react like the people above who are having an allergic reaction to goodkind...
- 04/09/2009 10:05:43 AM
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Everything by Guy Gavriel Kay.
- 03/09/2009 02:46:54 PM
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+1, Tigana's a wonderful book. *NM*
- 03/09/2009 06:40:16 PM
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I've only read The Lions of Al-Rassan, but it was fantastic. *NM*
- 03/09/2009 10:23:49 PM
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 03/09/2009 03:18:04 PM
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I liked the first Fey book a great deal.
- 03/09/2009 06:34:50 PM
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*hugs*
- 04/09/2009 01:50:30 AM
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AHH!
- 04/09/2009 03:49:29 PM
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*dies of laughter*
- 08/09/2009 08:31:17 AM
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God?
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- 08/09/2009 04:24:14 PM
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!
- 08/09/2009 04:24:14 PM
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Christopher Priest, Brian W. Aldiss, Paul Kearney, Chris Wooding
- 03/09/2009 03:52:49 PM
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Priest and Aldiss are brilliant. I'll have to pick up some of Wooding's works.
- 22/12/2009 05:39:14 PM
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Eric Garcia
- 03/09/2009 06:35:11 PM
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You've been pimping these books for... getting close to a decade now?
- 22/12/2009 05:26:04 PM
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- 22/12/2009 05:26:04 PM
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For younger people: Nicholson's Wind on Fire trilogy
- 04/09/2009 01:06:08 AM
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Not even just for younger people! Nicholson wrote the Gladiator screenplay
- 04/09/2009 09:32:42 AM
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The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney (Spook's Apprentice in the UK)
- 04/09/2009 01:22:43 AM
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For this board?
- 04/09/2009 07:09:00 AM
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I've read three of those and have plans to read maybe 10 of the others.
- 04/09/2009 02:22:42 PM
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Re: J. G. Ballard wrote more than SF! And they were all awesome!
- 04/09/2009 03:37:02 PM
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Re: All the stuff that gets called "Magical Realism". Stupid post-colonial conservatives.
- 04/09/2009 03:49:43 PM
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Not one book but the whole Historical fantasy genre is sorta unappreciated..... *NM*
- 08/09/2009 09:44:36 PM
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The Chronicles of Prydain! by lloyd alexander
- 26/09/2009 07:48:50 PM
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