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Originally Posted by wyndslash
i love endings too, but i also like spin-off stories about the characters after all is said and done  i really can't think of a good m/m fantasy series apart from Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, though... |
Well, if you like urban fantasy, there's always
Tanya Huff's* well-written and very entertaining
Blood and
Smoke series.
The
Blood series was the basis of the TV show
Blood Ties and one of the main characters is Henry Fitzroy, who's openly bisexual and involved with both men and women throughout the series (which, admittedly, is centered on an m/f/m love triangle in-between the supernatural case solving).
The
Smoke series continues the story after it wraps and focuses on Tony, a supporting character in the
Blood books, who's promoted to the main, and very definitely and openly gay, with both realistic romantic relationships and unattainable mancrushes.
Mind you, the actual sex content of both sets of books is pretty low, so don't go in expecting lots of sexyfuntimes for either f/m or m/m.
But they're solidly written, entertaining reads with good character emotional development over the course of the series, and good cases to solve as well.
And they've just gone and released the first few books in the series in e-editions and will hopefully add the short story collection and the rest of the
Smoke books (only have #3 currently).
And I should note that
Ellen Kushner's
Swordspoint is excellent indeed and an inventively low-key "mannerpunk" fantasy-without-seeming-to-be-fantasy, which has a number of mixed f/m and m/m and f/f relationships, with bisexuality being treated as practically the norm among the social set of the City With No Name.
One of the follow-ups,
The Fall of Kings, is more directly m/m focused as far as the main relationships go, but it will not make nearly as much sense without having read
Swordspoint first†.
All have been recently released in e-book editions, although Random House is now an Agency publisher, so no discounts applicable and they're more expensive than they used to be.
* A fellow Canadian who often incorporates LGBT characters into her worldbuilding. Her partner, Fiona Patton, is supposed to do so as well, but I haven't read any of her books.
† Also, the storytelling was kind of a letdown after the stuff that had been established in the first book, but
The Privilege of the Sword kind of redeemed the series, which IMHO, might have been better off sticking to the single book even though I did enjoy reading the follow-ups to find out what happened next, even if I felt some of it just didn't go very well with what had gone before and might as well have happened in another City With No Name that inhabited an alternate universe of the original.