Thread:Nuicakes/@comment-27122883-20160111094404

Hi Nuicakes

Well I tried for a top ten but settled for a bakers dozen, in no particular order.

First up a do or don't that probably set the pattern.

Lord of the Rings. J.R.R.Tolkien I've been in love with this for nearly 50 years. First for the story, I'm a sucker for a grand epic, then for looking for his influences.

Robert Holdstock. Mythago Wood. Wonderfully atmospheric and a fascinating idea that a wood could hold history.

Mary Gentle. Golden Witchbreed. Contact with an alien race.

Ursular le Guin. The left hand of darkness. Again contact with an alien race, how to understand a totally different mind set.

Roger Zelazny. Amber. A slight cheat as its a series but published in one volume. Superpower princes from the one true world.

Robin Hobb. The Farseer Trilogy. Trials and tribulations of a bastard prince trained as an assassin.

Tim Powers. The stress of her regard. Spooky.

C J Cherryh. Something of a favourite and she writes both fantasy and science fiction but if I have to pick one, Serpents Reach, it's the first one I read a great number of years ago.

Charles de Lint. Memory and Dream.

Kate Elliott, Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberston for a seamless collaboration. The Golden Key.

These last two are based on the idea that art makes things real. I'm an art lover.

Patricia McKillip. The Riddle Master of Hed. It's a good yarn

Guy Gavriel Kay. Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emporors. Hard to describe. but an alternative history novel.

William Gibson Neuromancer. I like cyberpunk

(Strong tendency to myth and legend here rather than the hard scifi stuff) 