Magical forests

**Rob B** · February 15th, 2002, 02:21 AM

estranghero-
I've been considering trying Cherryh again after the very bad experience with TDT. Not sure if I should go for the Fortress series or maybe her SF like Downbelow Station, Faded Sun or Foreigner.

Considered SF, but how about the "Trees" in OSC's Speaker for the Dead?

**Rooster** · November 30th, 2002, 11:14 AM

Garroting Deep still seems to be my favourite 'magical' forest, but Tapiau'la-an-aithen is a close second.

**Shayna** · February 17th, 2003, 10:51 PM

The book I am thinking about is the Fionavar Tapestry. Great magical forests.

Also glad to see you mentioning CJ Cherryhs' - The Dreaming Tree!

FitzFlagg...you got to finish the book!

**Mithfânion** · September 26th, 2008, 04:26 PM

Some more books set in forests I found:

Hood-Stephen Lawhead
The Forest- Rutherfurd

Any more suggestions? Outside of Mythago Wood that is

**owlcroft** · September 26th, 2008, 07:28 PM

Besides Ryhope Wood-, he complete series encompassing--

Mythago Wood
Lavondyss
The Bone Forest
The Hollowing
Merlin's Wood
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn

--there's the regrettably little-known Zollocco by Cynthia Joyce Clay: nominally sf, but also feeling in many ways more like fantasy (and yes, with sentient forests).

And of course, at least some of the forests in LotR are to some degree sentient.

Oh, and there'a a "haunted" arguably sentient forest (though it is only one episode of the book) in John Bellairs' wonderful little masterpiece The Face in the Frost.

**...** · September 28th, 2008, 05:14 PM

J.V. Jones Sword of Shadows series has takes place mostly in nature.

**algernoninc** · September 30th, 2008, 02:00 PM

it seems my post from yesterday is "lost in translation" [i'm not really complaining, i know it's hard work to switch and upgrade servers without shutting down the forum completely] , so I'll post again:
- Robin Hobb - Soldier Son series: very good ideas about intelligent trees, some weaknesses with whiny main character and weaky ending, but I appreciated the big forest culture of the dappled people
- Patricia McKillip - Winter Rose and Solstice Wood : haunted forest and beautiful prose, especially the first one.
- Ian McDonald - King of Morning, Queen of Day : four stories linked together by a forest gate into the faery world.
- Juliet Marillier - Sevenwater books - there are some druids in it, but not a central part to the story.