Ross’s Comments (group member since Oct 03, 2012)
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Also a lot of these lists are heavily skewed towards recent fiction as mike notes. Until recently I always associated Conan the Barbarian with Arnold, but having read Robert Howard I would argue that his later Conan works, specifically Hour of the Dragon, could easily belong on many "best of" fantasy lists
Brandon Sanderson is awfully productive and needs to stop writing books faster than I can read them because its getting embarrassing. My impression is that his writing had improved significantly from mistborn onwards and, from traversing the Internet it seems like by word of mouth, Mistborn has become quite popular among specialized science fiction/fantasy communities
I saw this article put Anthony Ryan on the list and thought "okay this author knows what he's talking about". Then I saw that the Hyperion Cantos was in the "just missed" list, and thought, "what the hell? Does this guy know what he's talking about?" The Hyperion novels were some of my favorite SF novels from the phase before Dan Simmons joined the "old reactionary right wing mediocrity retirement pool" that authors like Orson Scott Card and James Clavell languished in.
It's only $6 on the kindle, and the ratings histogram distribution (more meaningful than the actual rating) looks quite good. We should do it
Perhaps the best books I've read this year would be "Blood Song" by Anthony Ryan, and "The Ocean at the end of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman. The first is an epic fantasy by a completely new author, and the second is a very personal fantasy-ish book by a well established author.Enigmans who haven't read the Hobbit, however, are a problem!
