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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Since I adored the first three on your list--and pretty much everything else I've read by those authors--I suspect I should take the other two as must-read recommendations.
(I'm entirely unconcerned about whether my taste in books is "good" or "bad." Considering that I've read over half a million words of DCU fanfic in the last few weeks, I think it's a fairly irrelevant consideration.)
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I actually enjoyed the Torturer books, but Woolfe has a very strange style of writing. He also wrote a book about Greek times, presuming the gods were real IIRC. I kept thinking it was the torturer character in Greece.
He wrote a Young Adult novel that was an atrocity... can't recall that title either.
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I'd call Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" series a must-read.
But note it's SF, not fantasy. It's set on a very far future Earth where the sun has become a red dwarf and will someday go out entirely.
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It's really only SF on a technicality. In terms of setting/action (sword and sorcerer... er... torturer!) it fits more squarely in a fantasy genre. Well, until he boards the space ship in the second series... but then it becomes a lot less coherent anyway.
Similarly, Robert Jordan is considered fantasy, but his work takes place in a different universe, and is in a world that
had technology, but lost it.
-Pie