[Loki's Master]

Have you read any good fantasy books that you haven't seen mentioned here? I have been reading fantasy almost exclusively for the past 15 years.It seems harder and harder to find anything decent to read.I've been reading some of the forum archives,and most "top 5" lists get repetative after the first 10 or 15 posts. ( which I thoroughly understand,I posted some of my own favorites) I KNOW that I haven't read all the good fantasy books in only 15 years.(please say it ain't so)
So here's a few of my rarely mentioned favs: Fred Saberhagen- Books of Swords/Lost Swords
Jennifer Roberson- Sword series & Shapechangers
Fritz Leiber-Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books
Michael Moorcock-Elric saga,Count Brass,Prince Corum etc.

[Qin]

Try finding any of those books in Barnes and Nobles or Borders. Go ahead and try. I'll be here waiting for you when you return. You take your time.

[ChrisW]

hehe, If he's lucky he might find a Moorcock book.

[Qin]

I once found an Elric book in Borders. There was only one copy, and no more. And there was only one GGK novel. It's like finding rare artifacts in the jungles of Peru.

[Hobbit]

Loki - Leiber and Moorcock are mentioned quite a bit round here - have you looked at the Archives? ;)

[Cannon Fodder]

Maybe it's just an Australian phenomona, or even just a Perth phenomonon but in any 2nd hand bookshop I go into there is are garaunteed to be a large amount of cheap Moorcock books. Considering how short they generally it's a good thig they're so cheap.

[Loki's Master]

I have most of these books in storage. I didn't ask for obscure titles that I could run down to Walmart and buy this afternoon. I have spent millenia (practically) in grungy little hole-in-the-wall bookstores looking for something "good". All I would like is a few good leads. It's like digging for treasure,finding a "gem",absorbing it,then hunting again. Between Half.com,ebay and used bookstores,I eventually find anything I specifically search for. I guess I'm searching for something to search for.

[Rob B]

Yeah, Moorocock is pretty easy to find since WhiteWolf repackaged most of his Eternal Champion Stuff.

White Wolf did the same with Lieber's Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser stuff as well. Though I haven't seen that around too much either.

Some authors I've mentioned in the past that only a few have concurred with:

James Stoddard
High House
False House
Really good fantasy here, sort of an homage to classic fantasists such. Fairly recent and I usually see the two book at at my local B&N.

Graham Joyce
Sort of Urban, Dark Fantasy.

Sean Russell gets mentioned once in a while, since he is in the midst of a trilogy.

and Mary Gentle. The Book of Ash is SUPERB, right Hobbit?

[asimovian]

One name I haven't seen mentioned here (but I may have missed ità is Jack Chalker.


***Spoiler Warning !***

Once more I forgot the title - I read it about ten years ago I think - but it's that story where a man and a woman meet each other on some road - it happens their lives should at this point come to an end but they are offered a new chance by a wizard who takes them to a parellel world, where magic reigns in lieu of science, and the strangest beings can be met.
I realize that, so far, it does not look like this is anything extraordinary, but I must say, I read this book (actually there were two or three of them) almost in one haul ; I was fascinated.
Does anyone know what I am talking about ?

[estranghero]

Changewinds trilogy?:(