Post 640849 by jardshiel@radical.town
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(DIR) Post #640762 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:20:02Z
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what are the best works of 20th century fantasy?
(DIR) Post #640775 by SeddyOchs@yiff.life
2018-10-19T18:20:51Z
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@mardiroos Atlas Shrugged.
(DIR) Post #640803 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:22:22Z
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some famous series that spring to mind:His Dark MaterialsEarthseaThe Dark Is Rising
(DIR) Post #640804 by illnessideology@radical.town
2018-10-19T18:22:22Z
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@mardiroos fiat currencies
(DIR) Post #640823 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:23:30Z
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Discworld, for sure, but it's less of a single coherent work, I think.
(DIR) Post #640841 by Tasnyx@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:24:32Z
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@mardiroos oofa doofa this is a tough one, I think the amber series by roger zelazny are up there for me, earthsea trilogy, most of moorcock's fantasy work, the discworld series. Those are the ones that come to mind
(DIR) Post #640849 by jardshiel@radical.town
2018-10-19T18:24:54Z
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@mardiroos Brazil by John Updike.
(DIR) Post #640860 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:25:11Z
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a series that's a bit less known is Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, which I think is absolutely fantastic
(DIR) Post #640879 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:25:54Z
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@Tasnyx Amber is incredible, and I love Zelazny to bits, but I rank it a bit lower because it's a bit all over the place as a coherent work
(DIR) Post #640901 by Tasnyx@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:26:34Z
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@mardiroos oh absolutely, it is scatter through and through but it holds a deep place in my heart
(DIR) Post #640906 by goodleftyfundies@soc.ialis.me
2018-10-19T18:26:43Z
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@mardiroos have you read Delanys fantasy series from the 80s? Been meaning to read it but it’s been on my shelf
(DIR) Post #640922 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:27:14Z
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@goodleftyfundies I have that on my shelf too! also unread, sadly
(DIR) Post #640961 by flowerysong@cybre.space
2018-10-19T18:28:48Z
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@mardiroos The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
(DIR) Post #640964 by thatcosmonaut@monads.online
2018-10-19T18:27:28.374588Z
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@mardiroos book of the new sun but i havent read it in a while and now i am worried it might be reactionary
(DIR) Post #640965 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:29:16Z
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@thatcosmonaut Wolf is extraordinary but uhhhhh very Catholic iirc
(DIR) Post #641005 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:30:55Z
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@mardiroos I liked Joe Abercrombie's books a lot when I first read them. I'm not sure how well they stand the test of time - the test of 10 years, lol - but I think they're a much more readable pop-fantasy kind of approach to the George RR Martin 'subversion'. and The Heroes is a genuinely good fantasy war novel i think
(DIR) Post #641012 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:31:12Z
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@mardiroos wait that's 21st century. lol
(DIR) Post #641013 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:31:24Z
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@AnndraADunn I'll allow it, lol
(DIR) Post #641034 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:32:38Z
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@AnndraADunn I quite enjoyed Abercrombie, the Heroes is great. I also loved Red Country, I'm a sucker for a western
(DIR) Post #641042 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:33:03Z
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@mardiroos yeah and I enjoyed that Red Country actually kind of nodded towards colonialism and stuff. it was more than i expected
(DIR) Post #641070 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:34:50Z
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@AnndraADunn Abercrombie is surprisingly hard on the idea of empire without falling into the even greyness of grimdark
(DIR) Post #641459 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:51:57Z
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@mardiroos the First Law trilogy blew my mind when I read it first but now I'd find it hard to look past some of the unthinking orientalism and stuff
(DIR) Post #641545 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:55:35Z
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@AnndraADunn yeaaaah that's hard to get around. have you read his Shattered Seas books?
(DIR) Post #641560 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:55:57Z
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@mardiroos I have and I think they're mediocre at best and shitty at worst. Basically declining as they go on
(DIR) Post #641577 by goodleftyfundies@soc.ialis.me
2018-10-19T18:56:26Z
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@mardiroos I just never get around to it and it’s not an audiobook :(
(DIR) Post #641583 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:56:38Z
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@AnndraADunn yeah I found them strangely flat.
(DIR) Post #641665 by AnndraADunn@4eva.online
2018-10-19T18:58:57Z
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@mardiroos before it becomes clear it's a post-apocalyptic earth the fact that everything is analogous to europe is... really tired and unoriginal. then it remains so but then 'how did the exact same situations arise again post-apocalyptically' rears its head as a question
(DIR) Post #641690 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T18:59:55Z
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@AnndraADunn yeah, "wow look at humans, doomed to run in those same circles huh" is the worst reactionary post-apoc trope
(DIR) Post #641695 by mardiroos@knzk.me
2018-10-19T19:00:16Z
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@AnndraADunn I found it pretty profound when I was 16 but it gets tiring
(DIR) Post #642438 by robotcarsley@jorts.horse
2018-10-19T19:33:23Z
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@mardiroos a lot of his stuff is post-millennium but I am currently on a huge China Mieville kick