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i love asoiaf but it's hard to start rereading atm of course

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[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you’re looking for something less childish (or not YA) and less bigoted, I would suggest not thinking just in terms of series, but in terms of prolific authors.

People have mentioned the Discworld series, which is a series in the loosest sense of the word. They occur in the same universe and the books share characters. There’s individual storylines with min the series as well (eg the Witches books). You can start pretty much anywhere because each of the books is self-contained, and when you do stumble across, for example, the origin story of a character you liked from a novel where they were appearing as a costar, it’s always a bit more fun than if you had worried about getting all the backstories down in the first place.

I’d also recommend Neil Gaiman. His works are even less collected than Discworld, but there are commonalities and shared mythologies that make them feel coherent. Good Omens is where I’d start - it’s a feel good rom com about the antichrist and the end of the world. American Gods. Graveyard Book. The Sandman series is pretty brilliant both as a graphic novel and as a full-production audiobook. He has a ton of other work, too.

Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Trilogy is a compelling piece of pretty accurate historical fiction incorporating the great figures and events in science and politics of the 18th century (Newton, Leibniz, Hanover, the English civil war, Hooke, cryptography, natural philosophy, puritanism, capitalism, and so on). In total it runs a bit over 2000 pages. It’s not high fantasy though. It’s more like historical (science?) fiction.

[-] forvirreth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It might not stay with the quaint forever.

However I had a lot of fun reading the "Mage Errant" books! It's a progression Fantasy (comparable genre with shounen anime) that follows a group of students at a magic school as they grow into their powers as they attempt to become strong magic wielders.

I find the book to not only not be bigoted, but be delightfully inclusive in so many aspects, it also includes characters dealing with trauma in a positive way.

I blazed through this 7 book series like popcorn.

Other than that, there are many good suggestions here!

[-] Dagwood212@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Martha Wells. 'Death of the Necromancer' is a stand alone. Thief and his actress mistress are on a course of vengeance, get side tracked by evil. 'The Wizard Hunters' is the first book of a follow up trilogy featuring their daughter. First book is 1890's tech plus magic, and the trilogy is WW1 level tech. Airships and ocean liners.

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pern might appeal.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The Riftwar Saga! Such a fun series that is criminally under-appreciated.

[-] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Gandalara Cycle by Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron is a fun one (available digitally on Amazon). It's a product of its time (soft misogyny comes to mind) but I don't remember anything drastically awful. Escapist fantasy.

The worldbuilding is deft, the stakes ramp up from book to book, and the story unfolds nicely to the Big Reveal in the last book. It's a quick read. Plus: giant telepathic cats.

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