So I don't facebook but I see FPW's along with his tweets here, and there have been many instances where I would have chimed in on a topic but don't due to my being a non facebooker or tweeter. I don't do them because I know myself well enough to know that they would consume me if I were to join. Anyway I'm starting this thread so that I can comment on the things from there like the panel for lost classics that FPW is on. Now if I've read them they can't be too lost and I doubt that any of them are true classics but here's a few fantasy writers that I rarely see mentioned whose work I've enjoyed.
Dennis McKiernan's The Iron Tower Trilogy which introduces us to his fantasy realm of Mithgar.
Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border books I think pre-date the real dark epic fantasies that are so popular today(I'm not saying he invented them but he was my first exposure to that kind of writing).
Michael de Larrabeiti's The Borribles and The Borribles Go For Broke were the first books to feature teenaged anti-heroes that I read.
Robert Weinberg is well-known as an editor but I don't see his writing mentioned and he was one of the first authors that I'm aware of to tackle urban fantasy with books like The Devil's Auction, The Armagedon Box and The Logical Magician.
Kenneth C. Flint writes about Celtic myths in his Sidhe books but he wrote two of my all time dark fantasies in Cromm and Otherworld.
And lastly Garfield Reeves-Stevens Bloodshift is the most kickass vampire book that no one knows about.
This post was last modified: 10-06-2013, 02:05 PM by Scott Miller.
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