Post your obscure Sci-Fi/Fantasy series that you loved.

[ControlD]

Kim Stanley Robinson is AWESOME.

I would say my favorite would be the Hyperion Cantos, but, as far as I know its not really obscure.

I enjoy both Robinson and Simmons as well. Hyperion is a book I still recommend often.

My contribution is The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson. He is obviously best known for the Covenant series of fantasy books, but I found the Gap books to be much better.

 

[Mayne]

I enjoy both Robinson and Simmons as well. Hyperion is a book I still recommend often.

My contribution is The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson. He is obviously best known for the Covenant series of fantasy books, but I found the Gap books to be much better.

the whole covenant series left a bad test in my mouth. Teh dugeon series almost made me kill someone.

 

[tynopik]

Probably not that obscure, but The Death Gate Cycle

nope

Is Alan Dean Foster obscure?

no

Not sure how obscure it is, but Piers Anthony was pretty popular back in the day.

nothing by Piers is obscure

Fritz Leibers "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" series.

No idea if it's obscure or not.

not

 

[Mayne]

nope



no



nothing by Piers is obscure



not

enlighten us please?

 

[ControlD]

the whole covenant series left a bad test in my mouth.

I think that was part of his goal honestly. He doesn't write pleasant happy stories. Somehow it seemed to work in the Gap books for me even though those are very dark as well.

 

[Mayne]

I think that was part of his goal honestly. He doesn't write pleasant happy stories. Somehow it seemed to work in the Gap books for me even though those are very dark as well.

yeah you need a thick skin and mind to read that stuff.

 

[Mayne]

its funny how scifi-fantasy all made us love computers. Its pretty awesome.

 

[eplebnista]

The Sword of Shadows series by J.V. Jones

• A Cavern of Black Ice, Book 1
  A Fortress of Grey Ice, Book 2
  A Sword from Red Ice, Book 3
  Watcher of the Dead, Book 4

The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn

• Dragon Prince, Book 1
  The Star Scroll, Book 2
  Sun-Runner's Fire, Book 3

The Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn

• Stronghold, Book 1
  The Dragon Token, Book 2
  Skybowl, Book 3

 

[Mayne]

The Sword of Shadows series by J.V. Jones

• A Cavern of Black Ice, Book 1
  A Fortress of Grey Ice, Book 2
  A Sword from Red Ice, Book 3
  Watcher of the Dead, Book 4

The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn

• Dragon Prince, Book 1
  The Star Scroll, Book 2
  Sun-Runner's Fire, Book 3

The Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn

• Stronghold, Book 1
  The Dragon Token, Book 2
  Skybowl, Book 3

last series I read was the George R. R Martin series.. i feel so old now.

 

[MongGrel]

I think I have read more books than anyone on this forum.

Probably not by a long shot, and I do not mean myself.

 

[Mayne]

Probably not by a long shot, and I do not mean myself.

we could probably debate this.

 

[Mayne]

I'm ready to debate anything cool from the last 30 years.

 

[MongGrel]

we could probably debate this.

Go read something that has some substance to it.

I'm not in the mood to debate you about anything, I have other things I'd rather do.

 

[Mayne]

Go read something that has some substance to it.

I'm not in the mood to debate you about anything, I have other things I'd rather do.

yep I started reading The Hobbit in grade one and found nothing since.

 

[Pheran]

I think that was part of his goal honestly. He doesn't write pleasant happy stories. Somehow it seemed to work in the Gap books for me even though those are very dark as well.

Donaldson writes anti-heroes. If you don't like anti-heroes, you won't like Donaldson, but his writing is amazing. The Gap series is great, as is pretty much everything else he wrote. The only exception I've found is the last (3rd) Covenant series, I don't think it held up to the rest.

 

[Pheran]

A somewhat obscure fantasy series that I think is absolutely great is Bakker's Prince of Nothing.

 

[DaveSimmons]

enlighten us please?

Best-selling, Hugo & Nebula award-winning authors are not obscure to those familiar with the genres.

Lieber's F & GM series was just below REH's Conan and Tolkien's Hobbit in its time. Pip & Flinx were as well known to SF readers.

 

[Mayne]

we all had that brother/friend that could kick everone's ass in the 70/80's

 

[Pheran]

More obscure stuff that I love:

David Zindell - Neverness

Daniel Keys Moran - Continuing Time series

 

[DesiPower]

book fuckin marked, awesome thread

 

[Mayne]

More obscure stuff that I love:

David Zindell - Neverness

Daniel Keys Moran - Continuing Time series

i recently got burned from a series after reading it for over 20 years.


Deathlands

I don't think I will ever recover from a book publisher.

 

[Pheran]

Is Alan Dean Foster obscure? He's got some good series.

Yeah, I just read through the Incarnations of Immortality series again last year, since I found out there was one released in the last decade. Ouch. Makes me rethink my plans to go through some of the Xanth ones.

A lot of Anthony's early stuff was actually pretty good, but unfortunately he became a hack later on. If you want to review Xanth, I would confine yourself to the first 6, after that it goes downhill pretty quick.

 

[MongGrel]

Best-selling, Hugo & Nebula award-winning authors are not obscure to those familiar with the genres.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Mayne]

Just saying I miss those mofos.

 

[CFP]

Revelation Space is pretty good by Alastair Reynolds. It's not a light read, and the space opera is really sprawling, but I was pleasantly surprised.

I don't know how obscure these are, but none of my buddies into sci-fi know much about Asimov's Foundation or Robot series. The way the two dovetail is kind of nice as well.