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Fantasy: is it innovative enough and should it be?
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Drizzt



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fair does. Meanwhile, back on topic for those not up so late, which books are the most innovative you've read? (what the hell, why not, let's go for horror as well as fantasy since there's such a fine line between the two)
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DeathJunior



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OOH OOh OOH

I did particularly like Monkey Planet the book ...
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NicciM



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Foul's Bane took me to a place I was surprised and amazed by. Stephen R Donaldson is truly a writer who earns respect through his story telling.

I would also agree about the Ascendants series.

Personally one that takes the cake for me has always been the Dark Tower series..

And then there Jack of Kinrowan by Charles De Lint...All books that really got my attention really fast and really hard because they were so different from the main stream
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some Russian fantasy writers do amazing things with the genre, really, but since they haven't been translated into English, there's no point in naming them. Apart from that - for me New Weird is highly innovative. Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" or Macleod's "Light Ages" left me really stunned, if you know what I mean.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

At the moment it would be a tie between Abercrombie and Lynch, two guys doing great stuff with the genre Very Happy I honestly couldn't choose between the two... Confused
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