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Originally Posted by Darqref
In addition to many of the previous recommendations, I like a category mostly known as Alternate History. In general, books from this category take a real historical setting and tweak it with something else - aliens, a bigger natural disaster, magic, or even just the proverbial one little thing different - and then write about how stuff expands from there.
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A great example of this style is the Kage Baker "Mendoza, the botanist" series (but I
see that most of her stuff is unavailable... pity...it's an hysterically funny look at immortality, humanity (& human nature), greed, and time-travel.
Others I love:
Lynn Flewelling - Nightrunner & Bone Doll (Tamir) Trilogies
C.S. Friedman - pretty much anything (PMA) esp. Coldfire trilogy
Raymond Feist - Magician series
Harry Harrison - Eden series
Dian Duane - Door into... series
Mercedes Lackey - Last Herald Mage series, or Valdemar series - PMA
John Varley - Titan series (and Millennium tho' not a series)
Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake series
Piers Anthony - the first oh-dozen or so of the Xanth series
- Double Exposure series
Oh, an of course
Madeleine L'Engle - Time Series (although the first "Wrinkle in Time" was IMHO her very best - *and* the first book I ever read
on my own... my Mom was tired of reading to me one night and when asked for "one more chapter" she tossed me the book and she that if I wanted more, I could read it for myself, so I did, and she never read to me again or needed to... I think I was 6 or 7 so it holds a very special place in my heart.)
I, too, have always had my bedroom walls covered with paperback SF/F books (usually used), but I usually only have one or two of any series actually present at any one time... one of the things I'm looking forward to in my eReader is to have *all* members of series in one place at the same time... I notice that for several mentioned here, Amazon, so far, has only a couple of members of series available in Kindlebook format... hmmmm. *That* could get frustrating!