What ongoing fantasy of SF series can you point out? I know about Dragonlance, Star Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40K and Blood Bowl.
What ongoing fantasy of SF series can you point out? I know about Dragonlance, Star Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40K and Blood Bowl.
There are quite a lot of "ongoing" series. Star Trek is another.
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malazan
or do you mean series in the same world with different authors?
Originally Posted by jbcohen
Well, all of these are adapted from other types of media, so I can tell you that there are a lot of original series you should look at. There's too many to name here, but these are my favorite yet-to-be-complete series:
(Read the books on Andols's list before anything)
Godslayer by James Clemens. I always shout this series out, and I can't get enough of it. Treat yourself to this.
Thomas Covenant by Stephen R.R. Donaldson. I get lost in Donaldson's world with ease.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie. The final book is actually about to come out, but I still think this counts.
Kingkiller Trilogy by Pat Rothfuss. Gonna be a while for book 2, but if it's as good as the first than it's all worth it.
Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch. Pure fun. Book 2 of 7 is out, and I've eaten each one up several times.
Also, if you like books based on video games, give the Halo books a shot. The only one that sucked was the one literally based off of the game (great game; repetitive story in literature format).
Hope you enjoy these books.
Do you want Science Fiction or Fantasy? I ask because you list both.
Do you just want a list of ongoing series? If so, just plug around the forums for about five minutes and you'll probably find at least 10 series, and a few threads dedicated specifically to series.
In the same kind of vien, theres also The Forgotten Realms books too.
Yeah, there are a lot of ongoing series at the moment. Too many to list. Seems every second author is embarking on thier own 'epic' book series.
I ran across something the other day that may help here, and for other recommendations. It's called Google Sets.
Essentially you type in a list of things and it generates a larger set. So, for example when I listed David Eddings, Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks it returned:
robert jordan
terry brooks
david eddings
terry goodkind
tad williams
george rr martin
terry pratchett
robin hobb
raymond feist
david gemmell
margaret weis
jrr tolkien
christopher paolini
marion zimmer bradley
Anyway, just some food for thought and something else for people to waste time playing with.
His post was a bit confusing, and if you change the word "of" with "or", he might have meant both.
Regardless, it led me to think of series that mix up typical Science Fiction and Fantasy elements, like how Star Wars has plenty of creatures you would be more likely to see in a Fantasy series than most Science Fiction series. In the end I guess series with interplanetary space travel will always end up being labelled Science Fiction.
On a different, but related subject: When or where does Fantasy stories happen? Are they all supposed to be happening on earth?
I am nearly done reading A Game Of Thrones now, and I was thinking about how it could fit into ancient or future earth history, or possibly even on another yet similar planet.
Last edited by Anders; March 6th, 2008 at 02:57 AM.
Two restrictions:
1) The series must be based on a group of authors rather than just one author where the individual authors come and go ocasinally.
2) The series must still be ongoing.
Ah, well then you should remove Blood Bowl from your list because all four books so far are from the same author.
Besides the obvious shared worlds derived from games/movies/tv shows/etc. (Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Eberron, Warhammer, 40K, Star Wars, Star Trek, Starcraft, Warcraft, Battletech, etc.), the only original world not tied to a franchise I'm aware of would be the Malazan books by Steven Erikson and Cameron Ian Esselmont.
Last edited by columbob; March 6th, 2008 at 08:39 AM.
Well, that mainly limits you to tie-in fiction, of which there are quite a lot of series, even when the original creation for the tie-in is not still around. The Halo tie-ins from the Halo game seem to be extremely popular at the moment.
In the 1980's, shared world series got popular in fantasy for awhile. The big one of those, Thieves World, has been revived recently and I believe is still on-going.
I thought Halo and Warcraft were no longer being written.
I'll probably go with battle tech, please see my other thread focusing on battle tech.
I just thought of this old series that's been revived in the past couple of years. Dark Future (originally published by Games Workshop books, now Black Flame). Very very cool Road warriory/semi-lovecraftian/post-apocalyptic stories of our future world dominated by mega-corps.
Although it seems like Black Flame (imprint of Black Library and Games Workshop) hasn't published anything in the past 12 months or so, no idea if they'll do anything more. BL is pushing Solaris these days, probably with the same staff that was working on Black Flame, so who knows.
Last edited by columbob; March 7th, 2008 at 08:16 AM.
As far as I know, they are. There were two Halo novels in 2007, both bestsellers -- Contact Harvest and Ghosts of Onyx, and I think there was a Warcraft novel too.
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