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Jeffrey Thomas's Punktown work shoud be looked into.
As noted above for one to start with China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is to start on a great path. M. John Harrison's Light is one of the best SF novels in recent memory IMHO.
But I think you'd love visitng Mieville's New Crobuzon.
Jeff Vandemeer recently put out a phenominal list of works. He just forgot to include himself.
A any rate, The Hugo is a fantasy award as well so should be helpful as well.
I think Martin is the best epic fantasy author IMHO, which perhaps puts him in the top 25 overalll curently IMHO. If we are talking current author's, here are the 20 who I think are the best:
Jefrey Ford
Lucius Shepard
Jeff Vandermeer
Michael Chabon
China Mieville
Graham Joyce
Hal Duncan
Kelly...
I think by far the best work ever written in Realms is being written right now by Paul S. Kemp, and can be found in his Ervis Cale Trilogy.
Note, while I do like some of RAS's work, I'm generally not a fan of any Wizard's of the Coast products (to put it mildly), but Kemp is a talented writer...
I'm assuming you mean Robert Jordan (if I'm wrong, my apologies), who I find completely lacking regarding any complexity :D. Being long-winded doesn't equate to complexity in my opinion.
I stcuk with this series several years ago (still ongoign I believe) but I really didn't like Janny Wurt's Wars of Light and Shadow (through 5 long-winded books). I'm usually not the one that complains about methodical writers, description, or wasted pages of do-nothing narrative, but this...
Well, I'm reading the second book (Throne of Jade - which I think jsut came out) and third book (Black Powder War whcih comes out at the end of next month) now. Those are U.S. releases, in the UK ,Throne of Jade comes out in August. The nice thing about the UK versions are that they are...
Regarding Epic fantasy series (and noteing you enjoy Martin, thus have some sene of good taste), I'd recoomend these:
-R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy:
The Darkness that Comes Before
The Warrior Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought
This was recently completed, and will be...
Actually Paoloni's is probably more effective than the huge majority of author's blurbs they could solicit. Those two authors write to the same target audience (not to mentioned one of the biggest groups in fantasy). I remember someone I know (a former Del-Rey publicist) mentioning how hard it...
Welk, I certainlyagre that an author's diposition has nothing to do with why I wouldn't or woukd read an author.
I'm not, I simply think Brooks is an awful writer.
I'd be interested as well. Everything thing I have heard about Brooks (even though I don't care for his work) is that he is a real good guy - to both fans and aspiring writers. Are you sure you're not talking about Terry Goodkind (who historically makes an ass out of himself in interviews?)