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#1 Favored Genre
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:26 pm
by JEAP
Do you have a favorite genre? Do epic works of high fantasy dominate your bookshelf or do you perfer the hack and blast of a good sword and sorcery novel? Maybe you perfer the cyberpunk of Neuromancer or Bladerunner? Or how about the epic tapestry that a good space opera weaves?
For me, steampunk is a craving I have trouble satisfying. All that outlandishly retro-advance technology... There is just something about the style of it that captivates me.
#2
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:25 pm
by B4UTRUST
cyerpunk and steampunk for me though I enjoy a good high fantasy or epic space opera as much as anyone
#3
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:21 pm
by Lindar
i like fantasy with the whole girl has magic, boy has sword, both get in trouble, dragon saves the day...
you know the usual.
for high examples of my preffered style i suggest
Blue Moon Rising
Royal Chaos
Dragon Companion
Minerva Wakes
and "Chicks In Chainmail"
i also recommend for light reading
The Sword in the Stone
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Botchan
The Little Prince
Peter Pan
and all three of Bruce Covilles Magic Shop Books
#4
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 pm
by Cynical Cat
I tend to like grittier work, whether sci-fi or fantasy. David Drake, Steven Erickson, R. Scott. Bakker, George R. R. Martin, etcetera.
#5
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:02 am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
I prefer very medieval, gritty, and 'realistic' high fantasy. Lords and nobles in battered plate armor, peasant armies pressed into service, with the occasional mage or dragon here and there.
I also like high-magic stuff like Forgotten Realms and other D&D-grade stuff.
And, of course, Planescape, which is practically a genre of its own. :P
#6
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:26 am
by Narsil
JRR Tolkein-style fantasy, the high-magic style of Forgotten Realms, steampunk and the like, parody fantasy (Discworld springs to mind), sword and sorcery hack-and-slash does also have a place on my bookshelf.
And who doesn't love a good space-opera:
It brought us the Venator