What book are you reading at the moment

[lejoueurdepipeau]

OK folks - need a bit of help. It is the OH's birthday soon and he is an avid science fiction/fantasy reader (and I am not!). He has already read everything not nailed down by Robert Jordan, Stephen Donaldson, Anne McCaffrey and Ursula le Guin. What other authors would you recommend? Would quite like to start him off on someone new while he waits for the new Wheel of Time - he's currently reading them all again in anticipation!

[bykimbo]

OK folks - need a bit of help. It is the OH's birthday soon and he is an avid science fiction/fantasy reader (and I am not!). He has already read everything not nailed down by Robert Jordan, Stephen Donaldson, Anne McCaffrey and Ursula le Guin. What other authors would you recommend? Would quite like to start him off on someone new while he waits for the new Wheel of Time - he's currently reading them all again in anticipation!

How about some Raymond E Feist? One of the best in the field, I reckon. If you start with Magician (which I think is excellent) and he likes it, you've got a whole bunch of books left to go - birthdays and Christmas for years sorted.

[leadhillsonline]

OK folks - need a bit of help. It is the OH's birthday soon and he is an avid science fiction/fantasy reader (and I am not!). He has already read everything not nailed down by Robert Jordan, Stephen Donaldson, Anne McCaffrey and Ursula le Guin. What other authors would you recommend? Would quite like to start him off on someone new while he waits for the new Wheel of Time - he's currently reading them all again in anticipation!

How about some Raymond E Feist? One of the best in the field, I reckon. If you start with Magician (which I think is excellent) and he likes it, you've got a whole bunch of books left to go - birthdays and Christmas for years sorted.

David Eddings and Katharine Kerr, both are authors I would recommend as well as Feist.

Adding to them (looked at my bookshelf ) Modesitt's Recluce series and Terry Brooks Shannara.

[bykimbo]

David Eddings and Katharine Kerr, both are authors I would recommend as well as Feist.

Adding to them (looked at my bookshelf ) Modesitt's Recluce series and Terry Brooks Shannara.

(minor hijack )

So if I like Feist and Eddings, I'll like Kerr? Haven't read any SF/Fantasy for a while, it'd be nice to try somebody new.

[leadhillsonline]

(minor hijack )

So if I like Feist and Eddings, I'll like Kerr? Haven't read any SF/Fantasy for a while, it'd be nice to try somebody new.

Kerr is not as light as them. Daggerspell (1st Deverry) was the first fantasy book I read and I loved it. They tend to go back into the past and then forwards again to the present so not light reading. I'm just waiting for the last one to come out and then I will read all 15 books. This is one series I can re-read many times and always pick up on something new.

[bykimbo]

Kerr is not as light as them. Daggerspell (1st Deverry) was the first fantasy book I read and I loved it. They tend to go back into the past and then forwards again to the present so not light reading. I'm just waiting for the last one to come out and then I will read all 15 books. This is one series I can re-read many times and always pick up on something new.

Thanks, I'll keep my eyes peeled at booties & jumbles, I think.

[lejoueurdepipeau]

Thanks for those - keep them coming! He has read David Eddings too and loves them - (forgot to mention him) and he recently discovered Robin Hobb but you have mentioned names that are new to me! I understand that Robin writes under another name as well - Megan ????? (something or other) - is her style and subject matter different with each persona?
How did you guess? I'd certainly like to get birthdays and Xmas sorted for years to come - brilliant!! Oh .... and feel free to hijack away....

[bykimbo]

Oh yes, Robin Hobb's excellent. Don't know the pseudonym so be interested to hear that one.

On a slightly different vein, but still very, very good: Julian May's Exiles stories are crackers.

[gyronny]

The best fantasy series I have read are 'A Song Of Ice & Fire' by George R R Martin, Joe Abercrombie's series, The Stephen Hunt series and Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series.
The Martin books are huge, each around 700 pages long and 4 so far with a fifth in the offing. I haven't read SF for years and these got me back into the genre.

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[gyronny]

ps Robin Hobb's pseudonym is Megan Lindholm

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