The Marquis de Leech Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 He only has one fantasy work that I know of which at this time is unfinished.Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag are both fantasy (tinged with horror elements), and both are complete. Quite a few of his short stories (In The Lost Lands, The Skin Trade) would qualify as fantasy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigei Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag are both fantasy (tinged with horror elements), and both are complete. Quite a few of his short stories (In The Lost Lands, The Skin Trade) would qualify as fantasy too.Ah yeah, Fevre Dream must have slipped my mind since its vampire stuff. Not really my thing these days. Wiki says The Armageddon Rag was a huge failure which I guess explains why I never heard of it. I have read some of his short story collections and all of the ones that come to mind as being good are all sf. There might be a few good fantasy short stories there but I don't remember them.Regardless, GRRM just doesn't make my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFlame Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 I really loved the prose in Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire books. Lean but punched me right in the feels. Also, Glen Duncan's werewolf books have awesome writing. It's like poetic Adderall. The prose was great at swinging between the truly monstrous sides of the main characters and the pervasive dark humor. Oh, and Angela Carter. It's like ElegantPoeticAmusingElegant...whoa random hilarious smutty bit...wow sexy fun bit...holy crap scary disturbing bit...annnd back to elegance and lyricism. Repetez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old-Growth Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag are both fantasy (tinged with horror elements), and both are complete. Quite a few of his short stories (In The Lost Lands, The Skin Trade) would qualify as fantasy too.The Rag, it seems to me, is also "tinged" with fantasy, rather than being primarily a fantasy novel. I am puzzled why it did not sell well; it got good reviews it seems. On the other hand, I did not know that there was a GRRM until someone gave me a copy of AGoT several years ago. I became interested in that and went to the library to see what else he had written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koudoulis Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 i am really sorry but patrick rothfuss propably doesn't even know what prose means. him being a published author is still a puzzle...on the other hand i strongly appreciate GRRM early ice and fire prose. on the rest i ll have to think about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borsabil Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 When I was a kid I was an obsessive reader of SF and fantasy, I loved all of it from the high concept hard science speculative fiction to the space operas and sword and dragons epics. Funnily enough I always hated Ursula Le Guins books, turgid, boring...does anything EVER happen in these bloody novels? Recently I re read some of them thinking my youthful cynicism had colored my opinion.....nope, talk about overrated.Anyway best prose? Tolkien, the only fantasy author who will still be read centuries from now. Cormac McCarthy just for The Road, zombie horror porn transmogrified into high art, marvelous. And OSC, much hated I know, but for pure storytelling ability supported by unaffected and efficient writing none better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Buck Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 I just started reading The Book of the New Sun two days ago. It's amazingly well-written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Also, Glen Duncan's werewolf books have awesome writing. It's like poetic Adderall. The prose was great at swinging between the truly monstrous sides of the main characters and the pervasive dark humor. Most definitely. It's also quite amazing how different the voices are between the first two books. I wasn't going to post in yet another iteration of this thread, but I had to agree here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morienthar Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Tolkien is the obvious one.I thought Jonathan Stroud i.e the guy who wrote Bartimaeus was pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanek's muse Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Vandermeer is probably my favorite but Lawrence was so concise and appropriate that I gotta pitch him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Findo Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 1. Patrick Rothfuss2. Tad Williams3. Joseph Campbell4. Terry Brooks (only his Sword/Heritage style)5. Stephanie Meyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zocc Arris Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Authors that I didn't see mentioned in my quick scan through this thread: BeagleVance I also actually really, really enjoy Bakker's prose, but there's a definite arc of improvement with him and I don't know that I could honestly call it great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galbrod Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 In random order: * Joe Abercrombie* R. Scott Bakker* Scott Lynch* Patrick Rothfuss* mark Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Findo Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Seriously, the two players who'll reach the Best Prose Superbowl would be the Tadster and Rothfuss. Now move along.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samsaptakas Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Hal Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Mod:I don't want to close this thread due to stupid, but I will. Learn to recognize when a joke is no longer funny and move on. In this instance, that may have been from the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Gene Wolfe, when he isn't being gratuitously over wordy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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