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Originally Posted by Ferrick  Here are a few of the many Fantasy books that I loved:
[Ursula K. LeGuin - The Earthsea Trilogy. Great concept and excellent writing.
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes. Another wordsmith. |
Of your choice list I'd have to choose these two as being the most special, with Bradbury as being a 'nose past the finish line'. Highly recommend William Gibson too (have listed a link on my thread, you can read a bit of the first chapter. He too is a wordsmith), but when I stop to think of all the fantasy and sci-fi writers I have read, well, I get almost tired. There have been alot and I think for many people now computer games are expanding that world. We are lucky. We have the fabulous books, and some excellent games too. I would love to see Larry Niven's
Ringworld produced as a game...
Ringworld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ringworld Larry Niven.
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The main protagonist is Louis Wu, a periodic adventurer-genius in the midst of celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, he is in perfect physical condition due to a combination of superior genetic makeup, advanced medical technology and boosterspice, a drug that extends human life. He extends his birthday by teleporting ahead of the terminator from party to party across Earth, but it so happens that he is bored with life and eager for new challenges, so Nessus has little difficulty recruiting him. The character Nessus is a Pierson's Puppeteer. Essentially Puppeteer's are xenophobic, only a very small minority of Puppeteers interact with "potentially dangerous" alien species. Nessus, being a "mad" Puppeteer, is given the task of assembling a team to explore the Ringworld, to see if it poses a threat to his species.
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