Your Fantasy Top Five?

[BeardofPants]

Originally Posted by Tessar

And Frank Herbert.

Freakin' A.

[GrayMouser]

In the science fantasy category, yes.

Another of that type is Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series: Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, and Valentine Pontifex.

Majipoor is a huge planet, much larger than Earth, settled by humans and a few minorities of other alien races thousands of years before. It has Earth-level gravity because it is metal-poor, which means a low-tech medieval-style economy.

Fantasy elements are provided by strange creatures genetically modified in the past and remnants of ancient psi-based technology, which the modern inhabitants use without really understanding. Good stuff.

[GrayMouser]

Haven't read much post-Tolkien fantasy....

Splitting this into two categories

Adult:

1- Tolkien- why else would I be here?
2- Fritz Leiber-Grey Mouser/Fafhrd- why else would I have this name?
3- Lord Dunsany
4- E R Eddison, "The Worm Ouroboros"
5- John Crowley, "Little, Big"- sadly neglected, probably because it doesn't fall ino the category of heroic fantasy.

Honorable mention: Neil Gaiman

Young people's

1-Tove Jannson, Moomintroll
2-Ursula K. LeGuin, Earthsea Trilogy
3-C.S. Lewis, Narnia
4- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
5- E. Nesbit, Psammead Series- Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet; the Arden series

Tolkien should go in here as well for The Hobbit

[Snowdog]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

My picks:

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkien's Middle Earth
2. The Black Company series (all of them)
3. Dune (first three books at least)
4. Farseer trilogy
5. Fire & Ice (haven't finished this, but what I read has been good)

This has to be seriously edited. When I posted this, I was trying to read GRR Martin's Game of Thrones. But after managing to get 7 chapters in, it sat and sat and sat. I could not get back into reading it again. Then the TV series came along and I gave up.

Here is my updated listing:

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Black Company series - Glen Cook
3. Dune - Frank Herbert (first three books)
4. Malazan Books of the Fallen - Scot Erickson
5. Farseer trilogy - Robin Hobb