Angalin Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 This thread is for recommending sf/f novels which are not at all famous or particularly well known, i.e., not books by authors such as Tolkien, Martin, Mieville, Wolfe, Bakker, Herbert, Abercrombie, Kay, Gaiman, Hobb, etc. (If you don't know who those authors are, may I direct you to the Westeros Fantasy and Science Fiction Book List.) Please limit your nominations and discussion to obscure books and series. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madking Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Riverworld by phillip jose farmer which comprises four books: To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat, The Dark Design, and The Magic Labrynth. Anyone else read these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Would The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook count? I hardly ever see it mentioned. Or Passage at Arms for that matter. Both great books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine989 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I would recommend Johannes Cabal - Necormancer by Jonathan L. Howard. I don't know if it can be considered obscure, but you don't see it mentioned a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstar Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Anybody read The Seer King Trilogy by Chris Bunch. Its made up of The Seer King, The Warrior King and The Demon King. I read them after A Song of Ice and Fire and they were still good. Usually books I've read after ASOIAF seem crap by comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatz Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 The Tales of the continuing time by Daniel Keys Moran.First book contains scene that might be considered squicky by someThe wilderness of Four by Niel Hancock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Fritz Leiber's Fafrd & Gray Mouser series.Gordon R. Dickson's The Dragon and the George series (first book is, of course, The Dragon and the George. Nine books in allDavid Weber's Oath of Sword trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I don't think some of you know what obscure means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samalander Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Right. Most of these books aren't even a LITTLE bit obscure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatz Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 I don't think some of you know what obscure means.Weel, and I'M pretty sure you don't mean me. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crates of Thebes Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Since it has no real web presence and hardly gets mentiond in discussions, and no one I know IRL has heard of it/read it except my uncle who reads tons of boks, I'll toss in The Deed of Paksenarrion atrilgy, I think probably only availabe online as a single volume, but probably at libraries (possibly in YA, though I never understood why it was, at least at mine) , sinle volumes: Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold. I've read t at least twice.There is a pair of prequel novels, but I haven't read them. I also discoveredjust now that a sequel was released in 2010, and another this year I can't wait to read the new ones. After a re-read of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I don't think some of you know what obscure means.I think that obscure is meant to be relative to the lit forum - if you've never seen it discussed and can't bring up more than 2-3 total posts about it, then it's clearly a recommendation that isn't going to be found simply by hanging out in the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealasaid Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Thorne Smith's Topper series, the Rain in the Doorway, and Nightlife of the Gods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartman Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I'm always going to thrift stores and come across a ton of no-name or out of print/old Sci/fi and fantasy. Samuel R. Delany - Nova (it's pretty good old school science fiction)Poul Anderson - The Devil's Game (kind of like truth or dare with a twist)D.T. Niane - Sundiata: Epic of Old Mali (pretty cool African Myth story) Some random Sci-fi / Fantasy I recently found at Salvation ArmyDamon Knight - CVRoger Zelazny - The Dream Master Cherry Wilder- The Luck of Brin's FiveMichael G. Coney -Mirror ImageBen Bova - The Exiles trilogy Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon (classic Post-Apocalyptic) If you are looking for things no one has heard of just go to your local Goodwill / Salvation Army. Browse the books and take a chance, you can't beat the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I'm always going to thrift stores and come across a ton of no-name or out of print/old Sci/fi and fantasy. Samuel R. Delany - Nova (it's pretty good old school science fiction)Poul Anderson - The Devil's Game (kind of like truth or dare with a twist)D.T. Niane - Sundiata: Epic of Old Mali (pretty cool African Myth story) Some random Sci-fi / Fantasy I recently found at Salvation ArmyDamon Knight - CVRoger Zelazny - The Dream Master Cherry Wilder- The Luck of Brin's FiveMichael G. Coney -Mirror ImageBen Bova - The Exiles trilogy Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon (classic Post-Apocalyptic) If you are looking for things no one has heard of just go to your local Goodwill / Salvation Army. Browse the books and take a chance, you can't beat the price.Stuff like that always makes me wonder if any authors we all exult now will even be remembered 20 years from now. I lot of the time I find hardcovers filled with praise and from the author of on it, but for the life of me Ive never heard of the author and they've completely disappeared since. It's surreal.Also as to not thread jack, Michael A Stackpole's new Revolutionary War Fantasy At The Queens Command seems to have completely slipped under peoples radar. I thought it was very good. Kind of Conan meets Sharpe. But in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartman Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 It really is crazy what books you find there. I recently got the Thomas Covenant first trilogy HB all first edition, for less than 2 dollars. Also, more books. Orson Scott Card is well known, but one of his under the radar books was Enchantment. It's a rethinking of the classic sleeping beauty tale, with a present day/ fantasy setting. Also, The White Mists of Power - Kristine Rusch (a fantasy about a Bard... not that original, but hey)Gor Series - John Norman (the cover art, alone, is cliche enough to be brilliant) Born to Exile - Phyllis EisensteinThe Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (before they knew the name of the Wind, there was the rose...)Otherness - David Brin One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovion - Alexander Solzhenitsen (found this at a thrift store signed by the author with a note)I have boxes full of titles most probably haven't heard of, at least in a long time. Sad thing is I can't really get to them. The mentioned titles are ones I remembered off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Don't read Gor. It's bad for your soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Don't read Gor. It's bad for your soul.Agreed.Wasn't Otherness written by David Zindel, not David Brin? ETA: No it wasn't. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartman Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 thanks for the warning about Gor. I picked it up at a yard sale from this old guy who had about 13 of them. He sold them all for like a $1 to me, so who was I to refuse? I haven't touched them since but like to think reading them would be like watching a lot of bad sci-fi movies, which is great (when done in low quantities). Sometimes its fun just to read/watch junk to appreciate "not-junk". I guess some books are lost to the mainstream for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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