I actually have read Tamsyn Muir. 
Albeit just the first one.
But yeah, I read very little fantasy/sci-fi these days. Off the top of my head, all I've read of recent-ish genre literature is Harrow the Ninth, A Memory Called Empire and its sequel, A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and I think part of the sequel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Babel if you count that (it's really more a rant about real-world colonialism than it is spec fic), The Poppy War, the first book of Tad Williams' MST reboot, perhaps one or two more I forget now.
So my assessment of what is and isn't popular these days is more based on what I see in bookstores, than on what I've actually read.
View original postSanderson right now is probably the single biggest name in adult fantasy, for our sins, and even if you discount the Cosmere setting as a series (rightly, imo) and only consider STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE, you're looking at a series that's just hit its halfway point and is at around 2.2 million words. WOT ended at a tidy 4.4, so they're basically exactly the same, minus Jordan's capacity to write memorable characters.
He may be the biggest name in the field, but is he as big as Jordan, Martin, Erikson, even Goodkind got back in the 90s and 2000s? Compared to other would-be successors of that generation, like Patrick Rothfuss or Scott Lynch, at least he's still going with his series and for all I know it may be pretty good, but what I see of fantasy sections in bookstores is heavily tilted to the YA and 'romantasy' stuff these days.
View original postIt hasn't aged all that well for a lot of older readers, too, but people still love Tolkien despite the marketing trends these days being quite different.
Yeah, I don't think WoT is on a level with LotR though... and honestly, the length thing, LotR is still a reasonable length for new people to get into and then after that you can decide step by step how far down the lore rabbit hole (hobbit hole?) you want to go. WoT is crazy long by itself.
View original postAnyway if you keep making these sorts of claims I'm going to hold you down and force you to read some Seth Dickinson, Tamsyn Muir, or Max Gladstone.
Never heard of those other two, though the name of Dickinson's series did sound vaguely familiar.
Critical question, now that we've seen the show flop and get cancelled...
- 25/05/2025 09:55:51 AM
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I don't really think anybody would be interested anymore...
- 25/05/2025 09:07:34 PM
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Ultra-long series have always been anomalous.
- 26/05/2025 04:06:36 AM
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I'll have you know...
- 26/05/2025 05:48:32 PM
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*NM*
Sanderson did a wonderful job with the final novels.
- 26/05/2025 02:29:07 AM
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I feel the exact opposite
- 26/05/2025 02:30:25 PM
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And FYI.....
- 26/05/2025 02:34:43 AM
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Have fun with the interminable flashbacks in the next two clunkers, bud.
- 26/05/2025 03:57:33 AM
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You seem to have some unusual rage directed towards Sanderson
- 30/05/2025 11:05:58 PM
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He's not the worst writer I've ever come across, but he's probably the most overrated.
- 01/06/2025 12:34:12 AM
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You would have to go back and fix the problems Jordan himself created
- 30/05/2025 02:42:20 AM
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