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Epic Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel world. It is most commonly considered to be the same genre as High Fantasy, since they share many of the same elements, but Epic Fantasy takes the story even farther, in a bigger and more epic way (e.g. the stakes are greater; the land/world is in peril; a great evil threatens the world; the conflict shakes all who dwell in the world of the story).

Epic Fantasy became more famous through the works of such as: Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, Terry B ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Epic Fantasy"

The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
Don't Be In Love
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
The Sunlit Man (Cosmere)
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
Cast in Blood: A Chronicles of Elantra Novel
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)
He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve (He Who Fights with Monsters, #12)
The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)
Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)
Daughter of Crows (The Academy of Kindness, #1)
Bloodline (Cradle, #9)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Immortal
He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
The Primal Hunter 4 (The Primal Hunter, #4)
The Primal Hunter 5 (The Primal Hunter, #5)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
The Primal Hunter 6 (The Primal Hunter #6)
The Primal Hunter 8 (The Primal Hunter #8)
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)
The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)
The Primal Hunter 11 (The Primal Hunter, #11)
The Primal Hunter 10 (The Primal Hunter #10)
Magical Midlife Awakening (Leveling Up, #10)
Heretical Fishing (Heretical Fishing, #1)
The Aspect of Essence (The Aelfyn Archives, #1)
Four Ruined Realms (The Broken Blades, #2)
Defiance of the Fall (Defiance of the Fall, #1)
Songbird of the Sorrows (Myths of the Empyrieos, #1)
Mark of the Fool 4 (Mark of the Fool #4)
Mark of the Fool 3 (Mark of the Fool, #3)
Azarinth Healer: Book One (Azarinth Healer, #1)
Mark of the Fool 5 (Mark of the Fool #5)
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
The Path of Ascension 11 (The Path of Ascension, #11)
Lessons in Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
Sunday Morning (Sunday Morning, #1)
Defiance of the Fall 5 (Defiance of the Fall, #5)
Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle, #3)
The Path of Ascension 4 (The Path of Ascension #4)
Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)
Azarinth Healer: Book Two (Azarinth Healer, #2)
Faithbreaker (Fallen Gods, #3)
Unbound (Songs of Chaos, #2)
The Path of Ascension 2 (The Path of Ascension #2)
Defiance of the Fall 2 (Defiance of the Fall, #2)
Defiance of the Fall 6 (Defiance of the Fall, #6)
Cursebound (Faebound, #2)
City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2)
The Half King (The Half King, #1)
Winter Solstice (The Wandering Inn, #4)
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Academy of Outcasts
The Path of Ascension (The Path of Ascension #1)
The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
The Demon King (Nightfall Saga, #3)
Pretenders to the Throne of God (The Tyrant Philosophers, #4)
The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy, #2)
Defiance of the Fall 3 (Defiance of the Fall, #3)
Threshold: Stories from Cradle
Long Live the Elf Queen (The Elf Queen, #2)
Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)
An Honored Vow (The Halfling Saga, #4)
The Last Starborn Seer (Chronicles of Arcelia, #1)
The Last Light (The Wandering Inn, #5)
Daindreth's Outlaw (Daindreth's Assassin, #2)
What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball
The Empress of Beasts (The Wandering Inn, #13)
Reckoning (Songs of Chaos, #4)
The Lies of Vampires and Slayers (Magic on Main Street, #1)
The Land of the Living and the Dead (Gael Song, #3)
Midlife in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #1)
House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1)
The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms, #3)
Quantum Radio
The Invisible College (The Invisible College, #1)
Breath of the Dragon (Breathmarked, #1)
The Tainted Khan (The Soulbound Saga, #2)
A Brief History of Chronomancy (Arcane Ascension, #6)
Anji Kills a King (The Rising Tide, #1)
His Face Is the Sun (Throne of Khetara, #1)
The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Penric and Desdemona, #14)
Daindreth's Traitor (Daindreth's Assassin, #3)
The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)
Lady of Fire (The Wandering Inn, #17)

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Quotes Tagged “Epic Fantasy”

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“ Burdened with my sins, I may be able to crawl toward the light, but it shall take an eternity. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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“ How can one man emit such noise by simply breathing?
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― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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