Top 40 Fantasy Series of ALL TIME!

I started reading Pawn of Prophecy once and gave up after 100 pages. It just seemed to have been written at a sixth grade level, but it's popular so maybe it's just me.

I will always have fond memories of The Sword of Shannara. I wouldn't rank it very high on any list since it's a blatant knock-off of The Lord of the Rings but it was amazing when I was 10 years old.

Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings (Assassin's Apprentice, ect.) series is top notch. I still need to read the last 3 books.
 
Gorst said:
I started reading Pawn of Prophecy once and gave up after 100 pages. It just seemed to have been written at a sixth grade level, but it's popular so maybe it's just me.

I will always have fond memories of The Sword of Shannara. I wouldn't rank it very high on any list since it's a blatant knock-off of The Lord of the Rings but it was amazing when I was 10 years old.

Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings (Assassin's Apprentice, ect.) series is top notch. I still need to read the last 3 books.
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Hehe. I have the Easton Press, leather bound edition of Sword of Shannara.
 
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Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, I still remember being a teenager reading Dragonlance (Chronicles and Legends), a lot of years later I bought them in a special edition:


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I also enjoyed a lot the death gate cycle, now I'm reading Brandon Sanderson Mistborn Era
 
Marder75mm said:
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, I still remember being a teenager reading Dragonlance (Chronicles and Legends), a lot of years later I bought them in a special edition:


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I also enjoyed a lot the death gate cycle, now I'm reading Brandon Sanderson Mistborn Era
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Nice! Sanderson really cranks out the books, the polar opposite of G.R.R. Martin.
 
Meat Grinder said:
Nice! Sanderson really cranks out the books, the polar opposite of G.R.R. Martin.
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I've lost my faith in G.R.R Martin and I really think he will never finish the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, and I have all the books, here in Spain, Gigamesh editorial, have printed it in a beatiful hardcover edition (I have all of them), now those editions are sold for 50 or 60€ (used):

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My personal favorite is the chronicles of Thomas Covenant, probably because it was the first I ever read. Fantasy is my book genre, you name it and I read it or plan to read it, currently re-reading Sword of Truth series. I read everything Tolkien every couple of years, I'm a big LOTR nerd as witnessed by my large map of Middle earth and sword collection (Glamdring, Andúril, Orcrist, and of course little Sting) hanging on my office wall.
 
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My personal favorite is the chronicles of Thomas Covenant, probably because it was the first I ever read. Fantasy is my book genre, you name it and I read it or plan to read it, currently re-reading Sword of Truth series. I read everything Tolkien every couple of years, I'm a big LOTR nerd as witnessed by my large map of Middle earth and sword collection (Glamdring, Andúril, Orcrist, and of course little Sting) hanging on my office wall.
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This is the mouse tap XL I use at home:

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Marder75mm said:
I've lost my faith in G.R.R Martin and I really think he will never finish the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, and I have all the books, here in Spain, Gigamesh editorial, have printed it in a beatiful hardcover edition (I have all of them), now those editions are sold for 50 or 60€ (used):

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Those look very nice! I started reading A Song of Ice & Fire when a coworker gave me her book club edition of A Game of Thrones sometime in the 1990s. I have all the book club editions now, to the most current one.

However, I recently purchased the Folio Society edition of A Game of Thrones. Let me tell you, it is, without doubt, the highest quality hardcover edition of any book that I own.


I plan to purchase the entire series of Folio Society editions, cost be damned.

But yes, I don't think old GRRM will finish it before he dies. Which author do you think has the chops to finish the story, should his estate enlist one? I'm thinking Tad Williams, but my nephew says Stephen Erickson.
 
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Those look very nice! I started reading A Song of Ice & Fire when a coworker gave me her book club edition of A Game of Thrones sometime in the 1990s. I have all the book club editions now, to the most current one.

However, I recently purchased the Folio Society edition of A Game of Thrones. Let me tell you, it is, without doubt, the highest quality hardcover edition of any book that I own.


I plan to purchase the entire series of Folio Society editions, cost be damned.

But yes, I don't think old GRRM will finish it before he dies. Which author do you think has the chops to finish the story, should his estate enlist one? I'm thinking Tad Williams, but my nephew says Stephen Erickson.
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I don't know who will, but it will take a lot of time (years), I mean, there will be a lot of problems regarding the author copyright, and in the end, whoever will finish the books, he will always have a lot of trolls blaming him because "he has destroyed the GRRM legacy", it is better to finish the books under a pseudonym. BTW, those editions are just awesome
 
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