Just finished First Lords fury, by jim butcher. I have read all of the Dresden Files, the cryptonomicon, all the Heinlein books, game of thrones...all the standard fantasy staples. I am looking for some suggestions to branch out. Also a Cussler and WEB Griffin fan.
Joe Abercrombie
Daniel Abraham
Kage Baker
Patrick Rothfuss
All names I haven't heard of, with the possible exception of Abercrombie. I will check them out.
I noticed that John Barnes great Mother of Storms has recently been re-released.
John Ringo, either the Troy Rising or Looking Glass series are the best starting points.
David Weber is mostly known for his military sci-fi, but he's also done the War God series that follows the adventures of a Barbarian/Paladin across a fantasy world.
Eric Flint, when he can tear himself away from his 1632 series, has done a number of great books.
- The Belisarius series is one of, if not the, best "knowledge of the future is sent back to change the past" stories I've ever read.
- 1812: The Rivers of War and it's sequel are excellent straight alternate history novels set in America during the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. They are in fact the only alt-history novels set during that period I've ever seen, and beyond just being great stories, go into great detail about the social and political forces that shaped America's Indian policies and the march to the American Civil War.
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I highly recommend >this< 4 volume set.
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Lol...Not my idea of light reading,
Joe Abercrombie
Daniel Abraham
Kage Baker
Patrick Rothfuss
Can't get abercrombie or abraham from my library, got hotel under the sand from baker and have the kingkiller chronicles on hold. Thanks DA.
I noticed that John Barnes great Mother of Storms has recently been re-released.
John Ringo, either the Troy Rising or Looking Glass series are the best starting points.
David Weber is mostly known for his military sci-fi, but he's also done the War God series that follows the adventures of a Barbarian/Paladin across a fantasy world.
Eric Flint, when he can tear himself away from his 1632 series, has done a number of great books.
- The Belisarius series is one of, if not the, best "knowledge of the future is sent back to change the past" stories I've ever read.
- 1812: The Rivers of War and it's sequel are excellent straight alternate history novels set in America during the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. They are in fact the only alt-history novels set during that period I've ever seen, and beyond just being great stories, go into great detail about the social and political forces that shaped America's Indian policies and the march to the American Civil War.
David Weber is a fun author...bahzell bahnakkson (sp) is pretty awesome.
Eric Flint is not on my list of favorite authors...I have read several of his books and always come away with a meh feeling.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, the Vorkosigan series.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, starting with "Guards, Guards".
Eric Flint is not on my list of favorite authors...I have read several of his books and always come away with a meh feeling.
I have as well, especially (despite it's popularity) his 1632 series, which is why I mentioned the ones I did.
With his Belisarius series you have the Eastern Roman, Ethiopian, and Persian Empires teaming up to battle an India conquered by and evil "god" from the future . And in the Rivers of War series you have Sam Huston battling the British in a burning Washington DC, then in the second book Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams teaming up to try and defeat Henry Clay in the election of 1824. It's all great fun.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, the Vorkosigan series.
Miles Vorkosigan aka Captain Naismith is also a great series. Read all of them. Its even more fun when you line them up by the timeline given and read them that way.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, starting with "Guards, Guards".
I have read several of these, but haven't sat down and read the entire series. They are one of my fun sets, when I can't find anything else I know I will get a quick, amusing story from them.
Eric Flint is not on my list of favorite authors...I have read several of his books and always come away with a meh feeling.I have as well, especially (despite it's popularity) his 1632 series, which is why I mentioned the ones I did.
With his Belisarius series you have the Eastern Roman, Ethiopian, and Persian Empires teaming up to battle an India conquered by and evil "god" from the future . And in the Rivers of War series you have Sam Huston battling the British in a burning Washington DC, then in the second book Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams teaming up to try and defeat Henry Clay in the election of 1824. It's all great fun.
All right, you have sold me. I will swing by the library and see what they have.
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I highly recommend >this< 4 volume set.
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Those books are on my eventually, maybe, I will get them when I get the spare money and after I have picked up other books first. But they do look interesting.
CJ Cherryh's Chanur series (5 books) or Foreigner series (13 of 15 written). Plus about 40 other books.
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel trilogies are real good too. As is her LOTR-influenced duology.
Steven Brust's Jhereg is real good too. It's about a human assassin/crime boss/sorcerer/chef/witch and his adventures amongst a society of 5000 year old, 7 foot tall "elves."
Gregory Keyes has a couple good tetrologies, one is kind of GRRM-lite, the other has an alchemist Ben Franklin.
Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings (probably wanna get it on ebook/kindle/whatever, the book is HUGE) and Mistborn series.
I'll echo SmiloDan's recommendation of Jacqueline Carey, and add Ellen Kushner's three Riverside novels (Swordspoint, Privilege of the Sword, and The Fall of the Kings [the last one co-written with her wife, Delia Sherman]), Katherine Kerr's Deverry-series (almost as long as Wheel of Time - but she survived her health-scare), and, finally, a non-fantasy one: Lindsey Davis' Falco novels (20 in total) which are crime-novels set in Rome and begins the year after the Year of Four Emperors (in Vespasianus' reign).
