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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fiction Over Time
Sagrilarus wrote: If you want to read better than A Wizard of Earthsea read the next in the series -- The Tombs of Atuan which has a strong female lead and in my opinion is the best of the set. Of course LeGuin's real monster work is The Dispossessed.
Will pop both of these on my unmanageable "to read" list.
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When i was a kid i mostly read choose your own adventure, Goosebumps, Fighting Fantasy, or books my mum gave me; Lord of the Rings, The Weird Stone of Bresigerman, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe etc. Most of these books hold up pretty well. Goosebumps and Choose Your Own adventure are the only ones that reall suck.
As a teenager i mostly read what i read now; Philip K Dick, Alastair Reynolds, William Gibson, Ian M Banks, and lots of other Sci Fi.
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DukeofChutney wrote: The Weird Stone of Bresigerman
Did you read the new Garner book from last year that is in this series? Very good although somewhat confusing.
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It was probably 20 years later I read the Lord of the Rings.
I revisit the Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser books and Elric books every few years.
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I have a crazy memory, and I just remember most of what I read. So I never find the need to reread anything. Plus, my reading list is a mile long, I'm not sure when I'd find the time to re-read anything.
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The only thing I've ever read in Junior High School was LOTR, and a series of translated sci-fi book about kids who built flying disc, and then got to the cylindrical space colony in which you can ride air bikes from one end to the other. I don't even remember the title of the damn thing.
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I am trying to go back and catch-up on several things that I have missed the first time around - a shitload of Le Guin, Watership Down, and Gormenghast.
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I love Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain in public school, really young. I still remember some images from them surprisingly clearly and even though I can't vouch for their quality I feel like they were great.
I read a lot of Piers Anthony when I was a kid and I don't think I have the time for him anymore. I don't even want to test the theory although he had one collection of short stories I feel was better than most of his material, one about a guy being tortured until he's nothing but a brain really stuck with me.
Isaac Asimov is still great, I'll never turn my back on him. I read a lot of stuff my old man had hanging around. Ray Bradbury and I still like him quite a bit. Phillip Jose Farmer, I have no clue if Riverworld is great but I liked it at 15.
Oh, I loved the Sword Dancer series, I think it was Jennifer Robinson... they've stuck with me too but in a way where I specifically recall them being pretty cheesy and heavy handed. I could be wrong but that's how I remember it.
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I too was a big fan of Terry Brooks (I read Sword before LOTR - actually cut my teeth learning english on his stuff and Fighting Fantasy/Lone Wolf gamebooks). I'm reading his recent Genesis of Shannara trilogy right now, and while he's not that great a wordsmith, the ideas are pretty cool.
As for Dragonlance, I read the comics adaptation of the Chronicles a couple years back...the story's kinda crap! As is the writing. I think what drew me to these as a kid was the D&D factor stimulating my imagination.
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Most of the rest of the science-fiction and fantasy that I read when I was young holds up pretty well, because I made some lucky choices. Vance, Leiber, Zelazny, Moorcock, Lovecraft, Farmer, Ellison, Niven, Pournelle, Asimov, and Clarke. Some of the classic science-fiction writers were dry, but imaginative and knowledgeable. I also stumbled into the cyberpunk stuff early on, and the best of that lot holds up just great, especially Effinger, Gibson and Sterling.
Dragonlance was fun because I got the books and ran the early modules, but I never kidded myself that it was good writing.
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