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For this board? Larry Send a noteboard - 04/09/2009 07:09:00 AM
Since I see few of the old OF regulars posting here, I'm going to guess several of the following will be unfamiliar to several of those now posting at the successor board:

M. John Harrison, Viriconium (omnibus); Light; The Course of the Heart; Signs of Life; Nova Swing

Hal Duncan, Vellum; Ink

Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch (forthcoming); Veniss Underground

Brian Evenson, The Wavering Knife; Last Days

Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy; Memoranda; The Beyond; The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque; The Girl in the Glass; Empire of Ice Cream; The Shadow Years

Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky; A World Too Near; City Without End

D.M. Cornish, Foundling; Lamplighter

Jo Graham, Black Ships; Hand of Isis

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus; The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, and so many others

Margo Lanagan, Black Juice; Red Spikes; Tender Morsels

David Petersen, Mouse Guard: Fall 1152; Mouse Guard: Winter 1152

Michael Cisco, The Tyrant; The Traitor; The San Veneficio Canon

Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco; Nightmare Factory: Volumes I and II; My Work Here is not Done

John Crowley, Little, Big; Ægypt cycle

Stepan Chapman, The Troika

Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

J.G. Ballard, Why the fuck aren't more people here talking about Ballard, especially since his writings have been more "prophetic" than most any other SF work of the past 50 years? - any of his collected fictions, or just Crash and The Vermillion Sands for starters.

Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen; Magic for Beginners; Pretty Monsters

Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer; A Betrayal in Winter; An Autumn War; The Price of Spring

Felix Gilman, Thunderer; Gears of the City

J.M. McDermott, Last Dragon

Kristin Cashore, Graceling; Fire

George MacDonald, Lilith

Zoran Živkovi?, The Fourth Circle; Candid Camera; The Book, The Writer, The Reader; The Bridge; Impossible Stories I and II

Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars; Landscape Painted With Tea; Second Body

Edward Whittemore, Shanghai Circus; the four books of the Jerusalem Quartet

Joanna Russ, The Female Man


And many, many more. Challenge: Who here has read half of these authors and/or books?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Underappreciated Fantasy books? Bryce - 03/09/2009 03:36:10 AM 2094 Views
I don't think Donaldson is underappreciated so much as disliked. Craig - 03/09/2009 04:21:33 AM 1256 Views
Donaldson is "kiddie" have you actaully read Donaldson? random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:30:14 PM 1072 Views
Re: sentence structure Craig - 14/09/2009 07:22:28 PM 1126 Views
I thought it must be something like that random thoughts - 15/09/2009 07:49:27 PM 1027 Views
Craig - 15/09/2009 08:08:52 PM 1164 Views
Goodkind. Kotagg - 03/09/2009 05:20:51 AM 1347 Views
but... Mat Girl - 03/09/2009 05:31:24 AM 1278 Views
He said "underappreciated", not "underwhelming" *NM* Tom - 03/09/2009 02:41:27 PM 539 Views
my problem with Goodkind... ranagrande - 03/09/2009 03:36:51 PM 1392 Views
I agree Ryan - 03/09/2009 05:10:16 PM 1225 Views
he does preach and ramble a lot and i admit that annoys me LadyLorraine - 03/09/2009 03:51:37 PM 1141 Views
Goodkind is porn! rebelaessedai - 03/09/2009 06:33:32 PM 1294 Views
I didn't know anything about Goodkind when I started reading his books. Danu - 04/09/2009 12:52:37 AM 1395 Views
+1 *NM* Bryce - 05/09/2009 07:57:35 AM 682 Views
I barely made it through the first book. everynametaken - 04/09/2009 03:21:36 AM 1328 Views
Michelle West Mat Girl - 03/09/2009 05:29:39 AM 1298 Views
I agree Nyrende - 04/09/2009 06:35:20 AM 1232 Views
I know! Mat Girl - 04/09/2009 03:19:31 PM 1315 Views
I don't either Nyrende - 04/09/2009 11:55:09 PM 1441 Views
yep, we should Mat Girl - 05/09/2009 12:51:14 AM 1671 Views
All Michelle West's books are fantastic. ajah - 05/09/2009 04:00:22 AM 1239 Views
I tried something of hers and couldn't get into it. rebelaessedai - 05/09/2009 09:14:12 PM 1036 Views
Janny Wurts Ryan - 03/09/2009 05:33:19 AM 1346 Views
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I just couldn't get into it *NM* Ryan - 03/09/2009 05:05:24 PM 671 Views
Yes, I agree Perdita - 03/09/2009 06:41:59 PM 1444 Views
I <3 her stuff very much. *NM* Rebekah - 03/09/2009 05:20:22 PM 631 Views
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Definitely! Meona Goodday - 04/09/2009 03:16:52 AM 1270 Views
Well, I am about to react like the people above who are having an allergic reaction to goodkind... jh - 04/09/2009 10:05:43 AM 1102 Views
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The Worm Ouroboros is underappreciated Tom - 03/09/2009 02:40:22 PM 1235 Views
One does sort of wonder... jh - 03/09/2009 05:25:43 PM 1237 Views
Everything by Guy Gavriel Kay. Tigr - 03/09/2009 02:46:54 PM 1304 Views
I got Tigana from the library. Darth_Katie - 03/09/2009 02:50:01 PM 1239 Views
Agreed. *NM* Kylia Skydancer - 03/09/2009 03:12:50 PM 559 Views
Kay in general, yes. However, Jacob - 03/09/2009 03:47:39 PM 1279 Views
Sure. Tigr - 03/09/2009 04:04:38 PM 1315 Views
+1, Tigana's a wonderful book. *NM* Perdita - 03/09/2009 06:40:16 PM 748 Views
If you liked Tigana... Tigr - 03/09/2009 09:47:43 PM 1358 Views
Don't worry, I've read all of his *NM* Perdita - 04/09/2009 12:10:14 AM 719 Views
I've only read The Lions of Al-Rassan, but it was fantastic. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/09/2009 10:23:49 PM 547 Views
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I liked the first Fey book a great deal. rebelaessedai - 03/09/2009 06:34:50 PM 1189 Views
*hugs* Kylia Skydancer - 04/09/2009 01:50:30 AM 1268 Views
AHH! rebelaessedai - 04/09/2009 03:49:29 PM 1224 Views
*dies of laughter* Kylia Skydancer - 08/09/2009 08:31:17 AM 1058 Views
God? ! rebelaessedai - 08/09/2009 04:24:14 PM 1080 Views
Yes. Now bow down to me. Kylia Skydancer - 08/09/2009 10:59:07 PM 1084 Views
Okay. *NM* rebelaessedai - 15/09/2009 03:23:59 PM 641 Views
Christopher Priest, Brian W. Aldiss, Paul Kearney, Chris Wooding Werthead - 03/09/2009 03:52:49 PM 1287 Views
My Amazon wishlist just got a lot longer. *NM* Haggard - 03/09/2009 04:10:51 PM 530 Views
Agrees on Kearney IndigoAjah - 04/09/2009 01:02:07 AM 1142 Views
Yes. Werthead - 04/09/2009 05:59:07 PM 1428 Views
Priest and Aldiss are brilliant. I'll have to pick up some of Wooding's works. Jacob - 22/12/2009 05:39:14 PM 1260 Views
Mercedes Lackey LadyLorraine - 03/09/2009 03:54:21 PM 1267 Views
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For younger people: Nicholson's Wind on Fire trilogy IndigoAjah - 04/09/2009 01:06:08 AM 1210 Views
Not even just for younger people! Nicholson wrote the Gladiator screenplay Perdita - 04/09/2009 09:32:42 AM 1363 Views
The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney (Spook's Apprentice in the UK) Bryce - 04/09/2009 01:22:43 AM 1254 Views
For this board? Larry - 04/09/2009 07:09:00 AM 1243 Views
I've read three of those and have plans to read maybe 10 of the others. Chas - 04/09/2009 02:22:42 PM 1227 Views
Re: J. G. Ballard wrote more than SF! And they were all awesome! Danae al'Thor - 04/09/2009 03:37:02 PM 1389 Views
I've read three and am on a fourth. Craig - 05/09/2009 01:54:49 AM 1235 Views
Thanks Larry. Seriana Sedai - 13/09/2009 10:22:57 PM 1132 Views
Re: All the stuff that gets called "Magical Realism". Stupid post-colonial conservatives. Danae al'Thor - 04/09/2009 03:49:43 PM 1195 Views
which C J Cherryh have you read random thoughts - 15/09/2009 07:22:50 PM 1112 Views
I need a My Favorites button!! *NM* nossy - 04/09/2009 05:53:51 PM 651 Views
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Not one book but the whole Historical fantasy genre is sorta unappreciated..... *NM* Murtach74 - 08/09/2009 09:44:36 PM 674 Views
Watership Down random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:35:51 PM 1186 Views
That is a very good book, indeed. *NM* Craig - 15/09/2009 07:10:07 PM 636 Views
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The Gone-Away World. Seriously, people Camilla - 11/12/2009 09:26:22 PM 1091 Views
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