Fun Fiction

Fantasy is such a broad genre - you have everything from sword/sorcery to retelling of fairy tales to alternate worlds such as Terra d'Ange (Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart series). And then there's the line where fantasy and sci-fi blur...

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Originally Posted by Irulan

Fantasy is such a broad genre - you have everything from sword/sorcery to retelling of fairy tales to alternate worlds such as Terra d'Ange (Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart series). And then there's the line where fantasy and sci-fi blur...

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I consider each to be part of the same gene (different parts of a whole)-but that could be an over simplification on my part.

The distinction is important to me because I won't read the sword/sorcery stuff at all.
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My brothers taught me to read before I started school, I cut my teeth on Ray Bradbury. :D It was a long time before I read anything but Science Fiction.

I've just started Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand be Dammed! I needed something funny after the Silo series.

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Wow, I think I must be the only one here who doesn't like mystery, adventure, sic-fi, fantasy, etc.

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I'm not into most of that stuff either...as far as adventure goes I do like reading real-life adventure stories (mountain climbing, survival stories etc.) but not so much fictional ones. Never did get into sci-fi despite going to a college where it was very popular with other students (we were all a bunch of nerds!).

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Originally Posted by Irulan

The distinction is important to me because I won't read the sword/sorcery stuff at all.
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I know there IS a distinction, and it's a significant one, but "Who Fears Death" by Nnedi Okorafor and "Throne of the Crescent Moon" by Saladin Ahmed - just to name two I've really enjoyed recently - are about as far from Tolkien as you can get and still have magic and battles without firearms...

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

I know there IS a distinction, and it's a significant one, but "Who Fears Death" by Nnedi Okorafor and "Throne of the Crescent Moon" by Saladin Ahmed - just to name two I've really enjoyed recently - are about as far from Tolkien as you can get and still have magic and battles without firearms...

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Yes, this. There is such a broad area that is covered by "sword and sorcery" fantasy fiction that it gets difficult to include them all under the same umbrella. Don't get me wrong, I love Tolkien, but I don't care for a lot of those who have tried to copy him.

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Originally Posted by Irulan

the male equivalent of a bodice ripper, hee hee.

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Good one! :-)

Captain Alatriste looks interesting - added to my list.
Let me know what you think of Harry Flashman.