Readers' Advanced Guide to Fantasy Fiction

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You and Petrik are the 1-2 combo of making fantasy readers feel like they haven't read anything 😂 never change dude love the content!

I have not completed the beginner recommendations yet but I am still here for the advanced guide.

The editing is off the chain! Like what! This is the highest quality fantasy video I’ve ever seen.

I highly recommend The Black Company. As a former Infantryman and combat veteran of two wars, trust me when I say Cook perfectly captured a military atmosphere and characters.

I'm so glad you're bringing more attention to Book of the New Sun. It's an incredible series, and it deserves more attention.

In my experience, whether you love The Silmarillion or not does not depend so much on how advanced a reader you are. It is really this: if you love leafing through books of lore, you will love The Silmarillion. If you do not, you will not enjoy it. If you are like me, and your favorite book as a child at one point was a Burpee seed catalogue, and you absolutely loved leafing through it looking at all the different kinds of flowers, you will love The Silmarillion. There is an easy way to tell, for there is a little bit of The Silmarillion in the Lord of the Rings. It's Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers. This is basically the part of The Silmarillion that made it into the Lord of the Rings Appendices, since it covers men and dwarves after the end of the first age. It is written in exactly the same style, and it is the writing style that turns some people off. If you love Annals of the Kings and Rulers, you will love The Silmarillion. If Annals of the Kings and Rulers bores you, The Silmarillion will bore you. Anyway, hope this helps! For some of us, The Silmarillion is such a treasure trove- but for others it will simply bore you! This is how to find out if it is for you!

Wolfe, Donaldson, Kay, Bakker in one video??? Wow❤

Excellent list. I especially liked the nods to Peake, Carey, Donaldson, Gemmell, Cook and Wolfe. Fantasy on YouTube seems to have an almost nonexistent memory. Have you read any of the following: Mieville’s Bas-Lag books, which are truly weird and wonderful; Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos books; Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell; Charles de Lint’s Newford series. None of these is traditional epic fantasy, but they are all well worth a try.

Woo-ho, GGK! Just finished "Under Heaven", big contender for Book of the Year for me! Clearly that the multicultural Tang Dynasty China is a great inspiration for GGK: Not only Chinese, but also Turkic, Persian and Tibetan Culture flows through his imagined world! The first chapter(s) could have been an amazing short story all on it’s own: I am always amazed how quickly I feel totally at home with his writing and characters!

Talking about Guy Gavriel Kay, his 'Fionavar Tapestry' is an awesome read, absolutely worth checking out

I‘m currently reading the Malazan series and I‘m IN LOVE! I was very confused by the first 300 pages but then it started to pick up. I just finished the third book (the fifth book in German, the German translation has 19!! books) and I‘m so happy to still have so much more to read

I started my Sanderson journey you recommended a while back. Finished "Final Empire," and moving right along--thank you!

The Gunslinger is SOOO GOOD. That last part of the first book when he’s having philosophical conversations with the antagonist about the cosmos❤️

I loved your description of the Malazan series: "I don't know what's really going on but I love it anyway"--very accurate

I'll also recommend the Five Warrior Angles trilogy by Brian Lee Durfee. It's not too difficult to read, but the world is humongous and it's very dark. It also has amazing prose.

Been reading fantasy for sixty plus years and applaud your choices. A few I don't know so will check them out. Malazan for me is the best modern fantasy written, Tolkien is base and Glen Cook is a pivotal point in fantasy. He was one of the first, if not the first, to shift the narrative viewpoint to that of a common soldier and away from the tropes of the kindly, wise old wizard, the prince on a quest, etc that happened with all the Tolkien imitators. I'll just throw in couple writers I love. One is Tanith Lee and her Flat Earth series and Evangeline Walton's Mabingonion series based on Welsh mythology. Good reading all!

I recommend including the Patternist series by Octavia E. Butler. Wild Seed is my favorite book in it. The Final Strife (Saara El-Arifi) is book 1 in the Ending Fire series that definitely needs a place on the list. 😊

So glad David Gemmell's getting some recognition. I've read all of his works so I'd essentally end up recommending all of them, but you gotta start with Legend. Gemmell's great at creating iconic heroes.

"All the Seas of the World" by Guy Gavriel Kay was just beautiful... A total surprise when I chose it based on the cover art... lol...