/lit/ - Literature

>>10802848
>Any fantasy where the hero is the son of a goddess?

Christianity

>>10623119
can someone dust off the GRI seal of approval, please

we need it again

>>9968746
There's fantasy and there's fantasy. If you were reading Gene Wolfe, well...

>If any writer from within genre fiction has ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe. This Texas-trained engineer (he helped design Proctor & Gamble's original Pringle's potato-chip machine), born in 1931, a Korean War veteran, and a full-time writer since 1984, reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Chesterton, Borges and Nabokov rolled into one, and then spiced with all manner of fantastic influences from H.G. Wells to Jack Vance, H.P. Lovecraft to Damon Knight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2002/04/07/could-a-former-engineer-who-helped-invent-pringles-be-our-greatest-living-writer-reviewed-by-nick-gevers/99fce68e-ce0f-4bd2-8409-6b99e4e09945/?utm_term=.b15f46235ff4

>>9795775
>>9795792
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.

I am a sick man... I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man.

(I restricted myself to opening lines only, otherwise I'd be here for 5 hours)