Modesitt's Recluce Series and Dennis McKiernan's Mithgar series deserve a look.
McKiernan is mostly high fantasy, Tolkienesque, better than Shanarra, and as good as Eddings and Feist IMHO.
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Since you dragged this out of the depths - I'll say it.
Read one Eddings series, and you've read most if not all of his others.
Yeah, that's true of Athalus, the Dreamers, the Elenium and Tamuli. If you've read the Belgariad and the Malloreon, you'll notice once you change series.
Same stuff, slightly different names, but you can tell who is who. I'd wondered if the reason he got a different publisher for his Dreamers books was that he was shopping the same old, rehashed stuff around.
Read one Eddings series, and you've read most if not all of his others.
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The characters are identical, almost to a t I believe the proverb is, to his Mallorean and Belgariad.
Yeah, that's true of Athalus, the Dreamers, the Elenium and Tamuli. If you've read the Belgariad and the Malloreon, you'll notice once you change series.
Same stuff, slightly different names, but you can tell who is who. I'd wondered if the reason he got a different publisher for his Dreamers books was that he was shopping the same old, rehashed stuff around.
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A few of My suggestions
: Even if you have a bad taste in your mouth about Terry Brooks,
I might consider revisiting him in his Magic Kingdom :For sale series .
Or Running with the demons.
Both of those are a decidedly different flavor than the Shannara Series.
Also. Piers Anthony, the progenitor of the dreaded Xanth series, also had a very deep look into the psychology of man in his Incarnations of Immortality series. Start with On a pale Horse
If you were interested in pursuing the space opera genre, consider his Bio of a Space Tyrant pentology. Or the Apprentice Adept (extended trilogy) for a comparitive mix of Scifi/fantasy.
Those two authors have been among my favorites since i was a wee lad.
Other authors that have captured my attention in more recent times.
Kin Harrison
Jim Butcher
Douglas Adams
Melanie Rawn
R.A. Salvatore
L. E. Modesitt
: Even if you have a bad taste in your mouth about Terry Brooks,
I might consider revisiting him in his Magic Kingdom :For sale series .
Or Running with the demons.
Both of those are a decidedly different flavor than the Shannara Series.
Also. Piers Anthony, the progenitor of the dreaded Xanth series, also had a very deep look into the psychology of man in his Incarnations of Immortality series. Start with On a pale Horse
If you were interested in pursuing the space opera genre, consider his Bio of a Space Tyrant pentology. Or the Apprentice Adept (extended trilogy) for a comparitive mix of Scifi/fantasy.
Those two authors have been among my favorites since i was a wee lad.
Other authors that have captured my attention in more recent times.
Kin Harrison
Jim Butcher
Douglas Adams
Melanie Rawn
R.A. Salvatore
L. E. Modesitt
David Gemmell's Drenai saga is a very nice heroic fantasy with not much magic.
You will love his Waylander trilogy if you like the assassin concept in Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy.
You will love his Waylander trilogy if you like the assassin concept in Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy.
I like Gemmell, but i would never discribe him as "like Eddings".
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