So are there any fantasy authors that are worth reading besides Borges, Calvino, Le Guin, Tolkien and Wolfe?

So are there any fantasy authors that are worth reading besides Borges, Calvino, Le Guin, Tolkien and Wolfe?

Yes and no

Phillip Pullman

but mostly no

Samuel Delany
Clark Ashton Smith
Jack Vance
Fritz Lieber
Michael Cisco
M. John Harrison
Leena Krohn
Steph Swainston

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Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance are really good. Michael Swainwick is interesting. C. S. Lewis is great children stuff.

jack vance is one of the best writers of the 20th century. besides the le guin and wolfe, everyone else is very uneven.

Is Wolfe the most patrician surname?

Any chance of finding Cisco's books as pdfs? I've been wanting to read his stuff for a while but the prices online are ludicrously high.

Which Le Guin books are worth reading?

Should I just start with Earth Sea? So far I've always sort of dismissed her as run of the mill genre fiction, was I mistaken?

If we are allowing Borges to be considered fantasy then that opens up the whole window for magical realism, which means there are tons of great works.

Most of his stuff is on #bookz

Robert Howard

Magical realism is literally just a pretentious word for fantasy.

Cervantes ;)
>was I mistaken
Yeah. Earth Sea is a great children's' series. But, if you're used to classics, I'm not sure it'll hold up without nostalgia.

also libgen

Ken Liu, Chinese Mieville, K.J. Parker although he is not as great as the others.

Magical realism looks to me to be an academic highbrow effort at writing something the general population will actually like, to keep it highbrow because it's gotta be highbrow.

its like kafka

Fuck no.
YA-tier and only the first book is good, he completely botches the narrative in the second one.

Mervyn Peake is good. pretty sure OP is pretentious enough to like it.

Worm Ouroboros by Eddison

I would strongly recommend The Dispossessed. It may turn you into an anarchist, though.

If a fantasy book is actually able to change your political views you've got more to worry about than authoritarianism.

John Crowley

I always thought it was because the authors of the boom latino read Flaubert and the like

Both of these.
Don Quixote changed my political views, does that count?

It was one of her worst, anarchism she presents makes no sense because there are no conflicts at all in it.
Triggered me so much because I'm a lawyer. She doesn't take into account how massively petty people are at all.

disagree, the second and third books surpass the first in imagination and scope. also just because it's labelled 'YA' doesn't mean it's a shitty trilogy. eagerly awaiting the new release from the same universe coming later this year.

Atheist drivel

First book was good af, rest of the trilogy was trash in my opinion.

Eddison, Mervyn Peake

Le Guin is really, really liberal. So unless you enjoy entertaining ideas without accepting them no matter the absurdity, or you're already a socialist against the patriarchy, you may want to... read other books first.

She's ancom you dummy

Evangeline Walton
Fritz Leiber

>absurdity
Its not absurd
The Dispossessed is a good introduction to anarcho syndicalist / libertarian socialist ideas

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Yes, as I said: absurd.

Roger Zelazny isn't bad, as I remember.

Ray Lafferty beyond a doubt. M John Harrison and John Crowley.

White
Morris
Peake
Zelazny
Eddison
Dunsany

China Mieville is ok

Terry Pratchett if you donĀ“t hate fun.

seconding China Mieville

Walter Moers

I am in no way saying these authors are god-tier. I am naming authors that have not been mentioned.

>Joe Abercrombie
>Asimov
>Robert Jordan
>R.A. Salvatore
>Frederick Pohl
>Weiss & Hickman

My "go grab this immediately" recommendation would be "The Three Body Problem" and it's sequel "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin.

Mervyn Peake. John Crowley. Hope Mirrlees. Michael Ende.

Low quality bait

What books like the pic you posted?

> reading
> worth

oh op you so funny

Leiber is a bad writer. Poor story construction, and "push this button to conclude the ending" finishes.

Gene's problem is no story to be found in his stories.

This. The man put more into one paragraph than most listed here put into 6000 words. And did a better job of it.
C.L. Moore is worth a read.

Snooze fest maximus.

Another good choice, if you don't mind the failings of first person perspective.

Read this. Get through the first book, it's utter shit compared to the rest of the series. Most people don't get through it and try to meme it into being bad as a whole, but it's the only fantasy series I will revisit, and I used to read a lot of fantasy when I was younger. Best series I've ever read, and it's not even close.

Anne Frank

I was under the impression we were discussing literature

I am really disappointed no one has mentioned Octavia Butler.

>So are there any fantasy authors that are worth reading besides Borges, Calvino, Le Guin, Tolkien and Wolfe?
Robert E. Howard.

I think magical realism is more just a pretentious word for urban fantasy.

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I remember reading a book in school.
Mid 2000s
The series must have been released in 80s or 90s.
No "cgi" cover, or a cover with like a symbol and ugly colors.
The cover was red/brown, I think there was a castle or something in horizon.
The cover was an actual picture or scenery...
>Can't remember
>And there's a shit ton of fantasy shit out there

And not an actual photo, but art like MTG.