![]() ![]() That’s an interesting point on Piers Antony but I have to admit I’ve read all the series you’ve mentioned as well as a few others (Adept series, battle circle, mars tyrant ) and never noticed any pedophile content. When visting they’d put their ring on the tray, the servant would take it in and I can’t remember the rest, whether the ring returned or was kept.ĭoes this ring any bells with anybody? Who wrote this? Was it a short story in some collection or part of something more far-reaching? I’d greatly appreciate it if there were an aha! Thanking you in advance! By seeing whose rings people wore you’d know whose patronage and favour they enjoyed. They’d give them to other people and if accepted a bond of subjection and power was formed. I remembered that there was a whole galaxy of inferences to be made by visitors when they’d see other caller’s cards in the tray: someone wrote a fantasy version of that in which, I think, people lived in a castle and used rings as calling cards. The Hobbit, The LotR trilogy and after conveniently reading a book on Gnosticism, finding a first edition of The Silmarillion and enjoying its cosmology, as many of the Discworld novels as I could possibly lay hands on (an acquired taste, but oh, when it acquires you!), Earthsea, Narnia of my childhood and so many more!įinding a place full of so much lore, it dawned on me it is where I should ask if anybody knows the name of the author and the title of a particular story that came back to me today while reading, of all things, Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” and reaching a point where calling cards are mentioned as being left for people of the house to know who had come by while they were out or not receiving visitors. This is such a stunning and complete collection of the best and most timeless fantasy fiction I’ve ever seen! Some of these I’ve read, like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever back in my mid-teens, even buying and reading the Second Chronicles, and buying and TBRing the third trilogy. But the effort spent in reading this series is rewarded ten-times over and I recommend that every fantasy fan read this seminal work. The series can not be read without the reader’s constant concentration, it is adult fantasy fiction and the casual fantasy reader may need a period of time in which to become accustomed to this – there are no lovable hobbits to ease you into the story, here you have a man that has lost everything, a man who is angry, bitter, an outcast from the life and the world he knew. They are very complex pieces of work but at heart you’ll find a good old-fashioned tale of epic fantasy. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever are a series of fantasy novels with tremendous scope and a psychological depth that had never before been attempted. ![]() The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, the Unbeliever: Lord Foul’s Bane, The Illearth War, The Power that Preserves, The Wounded Land, The One Tree, White Gold Wielder, The Runes of the Earth, Fatal Revenant, Against All Things Ending and The Last Dark “The sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads… Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias” The Guardian My advice to someone who has yet to read this series is this: Forget the hype, try to forget the HBO series – read A Game of Thrones on its own merit and I hope you revel in the experience. Inspired by The War of the Roses, the English civil war of the fifteenth century the series features wonderful storytelling, a massive cast of characters that demand your attention and a narrative that shows that all humans of capable of being both cruel yet kind, intelligent yet foolish, brave yet cowardly. This not a finished series, only five of the seven books have seen the light of day so far (but those who have watched the HBO series will have a good idea of what is coming next). Martin is a wonderful writer and his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is so popular because it is excellent. ![]() A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring ![]()
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