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[Anonymous No.22818795]

Hello /lit/ I would like to ask for some author recommendations. I have gorged myself on sci-fi books and want to get into medieval fantasy or anything similar. The authors I enjoyed most were Philip K. Dick, Jack Vance, and Gene Wolfe. What authors in the medieval fantasy genre are most similar to them and not Reddit tier?

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[Anonymous No.22818805]

The Xanth series is pretty cool. Conan too. Try those.

[Anonymous No.22818824]

>>22818795
>medieval fantasy
Why don't you just read actual works of medieval fiction and poetry?

[Anonymous No.22818835]

>>22818824
I'll gladly take suggestions of those as well. As long as there are modern English translations.

[Anonymous No.22818857]

>>22818795
Why was the Eragon book series just Star Wars with a Lord of the Rings paintcoat?

[Anonymous No.22818900]

>>22818857
All Italian creativity ran out in the Renaissance, and now all they do is steal..

[Anonymous No.22819741]

>>22818857
Because it was begun by a literal teenager

[Anonymous No.22819747]

>>22818900
Star wars was stolen too

[Anonymous No.22819752]

>Eragon is just Dragon with the D shifted by one letter

[Anonymous No.22819765]

>>22819752
wasn't the guy like 14 when he wrote the book?
let's see your book that got published in your teens kek

[Anonymous No.22819766]

Read Bakker. Bakker is king

[Anonymous No.22819794]

>>22819765
His parents owned the publishing company.

[Anonymous No.22819797]

>>22818795
I want to fuck that dragon.

[Anonymous No.22819803]

>>22819794
really? I take it back then. Some people have it all.

[Anonymous No.22819808]

>>22819803
I mean, the book still succeeded on its own

[Anonymous No.22819822]

>>22818795
I myself barely ever read good science fiction novels except for Dune, mostly just novellas and short stories. But I have fantasy to recomend with some brief description:
>G.R.R. Martin's fantasy
Tales of Dunk and Egg are his best, currently there are three novellas but the fat man is probably never going to finish the two other promised ones. It's about a wandering knight, really immersive with few fantasy elements. Got me to read fantasy.
A Song of Ice and Fire are fine, they aren't particularly special, mostly because they defined the genre of modern fantasy. It's long, but enjoyable. Wouldn't make you read all of it, but you can try the first book.
>Diskworld by Terry Pratchett
It's a comedy, nothing more, but a really good comedy. Lighthearted and witty. You might need to be familiar with the genre of fantasy to understand the parody.
>Second Apocalypse by R. Scott Bakker
Quite a dive into modern plus dark fantasy. Disturbing and sometimes absurdly fantastical like some weird anime. Gets a lot of shit on /lit/ because everyone here read it and shills are annoying, but it has more new and unexplored concepts, some of which are closer to hard science fiction.
>Lord Dunsany's works
Good classic fantasy, pre-Tolkien. There is a novel King of Elfland's Daughter, might be quite long and tedious because of the time it was written, but definitely better than YA fantasy and other slop. His short stories are also good, even better. I think there are other novel-like works, but they are more like books describing history and mythology of a fictional world.

[Anonymous No.22820163]

>>22819794
Yeah but they didn't make him the best selling teenage author ever

[Anonymous No.22821034]

>>22819797
Saphira was my first crush. She was actually the first thing I beat my schlong to.
That blue dragon is the reason for who I am today.

[Anonymous No.22821040]

>>22821034
Whoops, that was supposed to be a crop.
Fuck it, whatever.

[Anonymous No.22821042]

>>22818795
Read Reverend Insanity.