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<blockquote data-quote="Mikan" data-source="post: 622494" data-attributes="member: 8612"><p>I've personally read about 90% of the books mentioned in this thread and many more. I don't make many book recommendations in fiction either as my tastes run odd. </p><p>With that caveat, the current best fantasy series is the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. Here is his landing page on Amazon.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Steven-Erikson/e/B000APIXTU/" target="_blank">http://smile.amazon.com/Steven-Erikson/e/B000APIXTU/</a></p><p></p><p>They story follows different units in a Roman Era style military conquest (but with magic) as well as political and religious figures in the same empire, the Malazan Empire. There is no protagonist and the lines between the good buys and the bad guys is often so blurry as to be completely meaningless. He kills characters often and terribly, and some meet fates even worse. Most of the story follows the surviving members of a Malazan special forces style unit that falls out of political favor when the old emperor dies and almost the entire division is killed in a set up early in the first book. </p><p></p><p>If you like fantasy and history, read these books. </p><p></p><p>The best thing about these books is that they exist. All 10 books are written and the series is done. There are quite a few other books with shared characters in the same fantasy world, but the initial 10 book series that they are all based on is complete. He has also written a trilogy that takes place over 20,000 years before the main story and a series that follows two necromancers on their adventures. I especially enjoy these as there are so few "Bad Guy" main characters in fantasy.</p><p></p><p>Be warned about these books, they are not for casual readers or people with low comprehension skills. This author has two Phds in archaeology and anthropology and these books are conceptually dense. There is also very little exposition, you are dropped into the middle of an ongoing major event with dozens of characters with established history, all of which has to be inferred from dialog and subtext. These are not books for the Harry Potter crowd.</p><p></p><p>The fantasy world is also shared with another Author, Ian Esslemont. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Ian-C.-Esslemont/e/B001QV1XBC/" target="_blank">http://smile.amazon.com/Ian-C.-Esslemont/e/B001QV1XBC/</a></p><p></p><p>Ian has fewer books but they are all good. Each new book follows a few characters from the previous book on a related but distinct adventure. These books also use many of the characters from the Book of the Fallen as minor characters in their stories as the books take place at the same time, major events in Erikson's books are referenced by the characters in Esselmont's books and vice versa. These books are quite as difficult to understand as the Erikson books, but they also aren't as vibrant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikan, post: 622494, member: 8612"] I've personally read about 90% of the books mentioned in this thread and many more. I don't make many book recommendations in fiction either as my tastes run odd. With that caveat, the current best fantasy series is the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. Here is his landing page on Amazon. [URL]http://smile.amazon.com/Steven-Erikson/e/B000APIXTU/[/URL] They story follows different units in a Roman Era style military conquest (but with magic) as well as political and religious figures in the same empire, the Malazan Empire. There is no protagonist and the lines between the good buys and the bad guys is often so blurry as to be completely meaningless. He kills characters often and terribly, and some meet fates even worse. Most of the story follows the surviving members of a Malazan special forces style unit that falls out of political favor when the old emperor dies and almost the entire division is killed in a set up early in the first book. If you like fantasy and history, read these books. The best thing about these books is that they exist. All 10 books are written and the series is done. There are quite a few other books with shared characters in the same fantasy world, but the initial 10 book series that they are all based on is complete. He has also written a trilogy that takes place over 20,000 years before the main story and a series that follows two necromancers on their adventures. I especially enjoy these as there are so few "Bad Guy" main characters in fantasy. Be warned about these books, they are not for casual readers or people with low comprehension skills. This author has two Phds in archaeology and anthropology and these books are conceptually dense. There is also very little exposition, you are dropped into the middle of an ongoing major event with dozens of characters with established history, all of which has to be inferred from dialog and subtext. These are not books for the Harry Potter crowd. The fantasy world is also shared with another Author, Ian Esslemont. [URL]http://smile.amazon.com/Ian-C.-Esslemont/e/B001QV1XBC/[/URL] Ian has fewer books but they are all good. Each new book follows a few characters from the previous book on a related but distinct adventure. These books also use many of the characters from the Book of the Fallen as minor characters in their stories as the books take place at the same time, major events in Erikson's books are referenced by the characters in Esselmont's books and vice versa. These books are quite as difficult to understand as the Erikson books, but they also aren't as vibrant. [/QUOTE]
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