I'm talking like proper ass pulp shit with some Frank Frazetta ass shit on the cover, like a big Barbarian dude throwing an axe at a sorcerer with a pet giant snake.
I've never actually read any of that stuff but I'm curious what that genres Citizen Kane is.
I love the dragon riders of Pern so, so much. It's the feminine equivalent of a sword and sorcery novel about some over-sexed warrior.
Same, I read all of them, I loved how they're both scifi and fantasy. It's weird that the genre is perceived as super masculine when there are tons of great female authors that I read growing up such as Anne McCaffrey, Mary Stewart, Ursula LeGuin, and Robin Hobb
There's a pretty long list of women fantasy writers who had to use men's names as pen names to even get published.n : p
Different, no public profile as far as I'm aware. He doesn't share her last name.
Eh that's too comedic and self aware. I'm talking like actually just trashy ass fantasy shit.
Bard, by some australian dude
The Drenai Saga, which is just Conan with 3% less racism
Fafrd and the Grey Mouser, which I haven't read but is apparently a classic and/or satire of the genre
The Books of the New Sun by Gene Wolf
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance.
Most everything in the genre is full of content warning stuff, so exercise caution. There's probably recent writing that's better but I stopped learning new things in 1978.
Most everything in the genre is full of content warning stuff, so exercise caution.
You're not kidding, suggesting an older fantasy novel sometimes requires a CW list longer than the book itself.
I recently, in the last year, got into Tanith Lee, and read the first three of her Tales from Flat Earth novels.
She was writing in the '70s, and in some ways the books feel much more forward-thinking than you would expect from something that old. There are strong female protagonists, characters of a variety of ethnicities (well, the first book notwithstanding), several prominent LGBT characters including the hero of the second book who is gender fluid. At the same time I'd probably list the top ten CWs I could think of if I tried to recommend the books and still miss something notable.
The Books of the New Sun by Gene Wolf
Hey I've actually read that one!
Now that I think of it, it was a lot hornier than i initially recalled
It was probably not appropriate for my parents to let me read Litany of the Long Sun and encounter Hyacinth at age 7
I love the Book of the New Sun, but goofy pulp fantasy it is not
Howard was turbo-racist. Like I agree that there can be a positive interpretation of the Conan character shorn of Howards baggage, but the plain text is racist af.
The Zanth novels are peak corny. They're sexist and weird with constant reminders of the Author's fetishes, don't get me wrong, but you get gems like unicorns competing to see who is the strongest by jumping up in the air and driving their horns into the ground. The winner is whichever can balance on their horn the longest. Or, the protagonist getting caught by a harpy while pooping in the woods, then he tries to run away with his pants down, the harpy shouting abuse at him.
Do I recommend them? No, absolutely not.
I would not reccomend Zanth at all. Piers Anthony was a pedophile, a real pathological sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children pedophile, and it's spread all through the books. I don't think he ever actually attacked kids. But his condition cannot be removed from his writing and anyone who tries to read the books should be informed going in.
I loved that shit when I was a kid and I tried to reread some as an adult
Right? People say "how did they get this in to a kids film/show/book?" All the time and it'll be fairly mild sex jokes or whatever. And then there's Zanth.
Yeah, I can read a good book that occasionally makes me want to throw it against the wall with great force, heck, I like John C Wright!
But avoid Zanth it's....not a good time..., if you must embrace cheesy problematic author's barely disguised fetish stuff there's good old Jack Chalker.
I actually suspect that old Jack might have been less about hardcore sexist transformation fetishes and more sublimating some gender stuff and getting it out in writing. in which case good for him, but, "oh Jack Chalker no!"
Calling WoT pulpy is grounds for throwing hands outside a bookstore hosting a D&D session.
I've seen people say good things about the Corum series, in the context of its comic adaptations at least.
Corum of the Silver Hand, right? yeah one of the better parts of the Cycle of the Eternal Champion.
The early discworld novels are a direct spoof of that kinda pulp fantasy. They're pretty good
Already posted once but if you want the real titan of the Genre it has to be Michael Moorcock and his Cycle of the Eternal Champion. He's an Anarchist and a comrade too.
Start with Hawkmoon (far future fantasy with a decadent fascist Britain trying to conquer Europe.), though Elric (the template for Arthas from Wow, basically) is the most popular figure.
I enjoyed the Shannara series as a kid. Sort of halfway between Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, with a little bit of A Canticle for Leibowitz thrown in.
Shannara is interesting historically because it was one of the first really successful attempts to write a Tolkien style fantasy after LotR was released. Today it reads as LotR fanfic, which it basically is, but it played a very important role in opening up the fantasy genre. I believ the same author also wrote the slapstick "Magic Kingdom for sale: sold!" Series and some modern urban fantasy stories that I remember being good.
Probably all the Gor shit from what I've heard. I've only seen one of the movies, and even then only its MST3K form.
Absolutely not. No one likes Goreans. Even by horny kinky dom standards it's considered gross.
Michael Moorcock said something along the lines of, "While I'm against the banning of any literature, any store that stocks Gor should have a sign that says, 'I'm an abuser'."
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