Can anyone recommend me some scifi and fantasy which are beautifully written? So much of it seems formulaic, I want beautiful prose (pic related).
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Can anyone recommend me some scifi and fantasy which are beautifully written?
There's a general for this.
There's a general to contain the same 100 posts, and it usually descends into everybody admitting they like litrpg like coming out party.
The Night Land and Lud-in-the-Mist.
>fantasy
The Lord of the Rings
The Once and Future King
The King of Elfland’s Daughter
Till We Have Faces
Latro in the Mist
Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
Lyonesse
Viriconium
The Book of the Dun Cow
The Worm Ouroboros
There's not much. One recommendation I can give are Susanna Clarke's works, those are all excellent on the prose front.
I adored norell and strange, Piranesi is on the docket for sure.
Ice by Kavan is pretty good on the prose. I would not call it beautiful prose but it is much better than scifi/fantasy prose generally is and very effective, the entire book has a definite mood which is primarily developed through its prose.
The Eighty-Minute Hour by Brian Aldiss
fantasy: Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip
Patricia McKillip is GOAT when it comes to fantasy prose. Try The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.
I'm reading it right now (it's sitting next to me) and I have to say that I'm unimpressed. Her prose is serviceable but it's all just a little too 'twee'. It doesn't help that the pacing is all over the place, but of course that isn't an issue of prose. I'm hoping that Riddle-Master of Hed does more to grab me.
I was highly impressed at the dialog. It was terse and very modern without breaking fantasy tropes. I think compared to other fantasy writers, she manages to cram an incredible amount in so few pages.
John Crowley. His books The Deep, Engine Summer, Little Big
All the fantasy recs are excellent, thanks all. Anyone got some good sci-fi?
>Fantasy
The Worm Ouroboros
Mistress of Mistresses
Fish Dinner in Memison
all by E.R. Eddison. There's also a fourth book, the Mezentian Gate, but it's unfinished.
>Sci-Fi
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban
Huh. I was thinking of Riddley Walker too.
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Thanks!
Farie queene by edmund spenser
Conan the barbarian by robert e Howard
Are you into magical realism?
Check Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Lord Dunsany