Har du lyst til å lese Fantasy?
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 18:38
Jeg fant denne tråden på westeros.org, en av de beste fantasyforumene på nettet, og syntes den var så god at den fortjente en plass på vårt eget lille forum. Forfatteren av tråden kaller seg "Stego", som er viden kjent for sin viten om fantasy. Bloggen til Stego er også av høy rang.
Dette er hva Stego skriver i sin åpningspost:
-Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-The Elves by Johann Ludwig Tieck
-A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
-The Mark of The Beast by Rudyard Kipling
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
-Journey To The Center of The Earth - Jules Verne
-The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
-She by H. Rider Haggard
-The King of The Golden River by John Ruskin
-The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
-The War With the Newts by Karel Capek
-The King of Elflands Daughter by Lord Dunsany
-The Worm Ourouboros by E.R. Eddison
-Conan the Barbarian Stories by Robert E. Howard
-The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
-The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
-The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
-The House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
-Silverlock by John Myers Myers
-The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
-A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay
-Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
-The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
-Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
-The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
-Animal Farm by George Orwell
-The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
-The Well At The Worlds End by William Morris
-The Princess and The Goblin by George MacDonald
-Lud-In-The Mist by Hope Mirlees
-The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
-Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
-Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
-The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
-The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
-The Once And Future King by T.H. White
-The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
-Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson
-The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
-The Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino
-Witch World by Andre Norton
-A Wrinle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
-The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin
-The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser Stories by Fritz Leiber
-The Elric Stories by Michael Moorcock
-The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
-Day of The Minotaur by Thomas Burnett Swann
-The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
-The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
-The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia McKillip
-'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
-Time and Again by Jack Finney
-Grendel by John Gardner
-Watership Down by Richard Adams
-Little, Big by John Crowley
-The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
-The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
-Ghost Story by Peter Straub
-Replay by Ken Grimwood
-The Lyonesse Trilogy by Jack Vance
-The Book of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
-The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
-Nifft The Lean by Michael Shea
-Legend by David Gemmell
-Magician by Raymond E. Feist
-Sheepfarmers Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
-Glorianna by Michael Moorcock
-The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
-Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
-The Chronicles of Master Li and The Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart
-Perfume by Patrick Suskind
-Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
-Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
-The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
-Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
-Assassin's Apprentice Trilogy by Robin Hobb
-The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
-The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
-Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
-Lamb by Christopher Moore
-The Prestige by Christopher Priest
-His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
-The Iron Dragon's Daught by Michael Swanwick
-Anno-Dracula by Kim Newman
-The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
-The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
-Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn by Tad Williams
-American Gods by Neil Gaiman
-Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
-Preacher by Garth Ennis
-House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
-A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
-The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
-The Prince of Nothing R. Scott Bakker
-Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
-The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Dette er hva Stego skriver i sin åpningspost:
16th through Early 20th Century Fantasy (Pre-Tolkien) Reading List:Stego wrote: There are a million and one threads on these forums asking a hundred different versions of 'What Should I Read Next?'
So I'm going to tell you. And then, whenever someone else asks, I can direct them here, and never have to write it all out again. As such this will be a bit complete. You ready to walk with me?
This is intended to be a comprehensive fantasy list, but I'm going exclude a couple things, and I'll tell you why.
First, any fantasy more than 500 years old has passed into the realm of mythology. The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Holy Bible, The Song of Roland, The Icelandic Sagas, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Story of the Volsungs and the Nibelungs, The Arabian Nights... these are the stories that gave rise to Fantastic Literature. These are the precursors to modern fantasy.
J.R.R. Tolkien, as vastly important as he was to the development of the genre of fantasy, is the father of nothing. Fantasy is as old as dreams; was born on the same hour as wonder. Understand, especially when people discount fantastic literature, that it is the seed from which all other literature sprang. Don Quixote fought a dragon, and the fucking literati need to recall that fact.
But I'm not here to talk about that stuff.
The reason fantasy and science fiction are inextricably linked today, often to the confusion and chagrin of the reader, is because in their modern form, they were given birth by the same authors, writing the same sort of stories.
H.G Wells wrote science fiction, but what are the morlocks if not a fantastic creation? They are not alien beings, but alien they are. Jules Verne wrote of monsters on an island, genetically engineered or no, they were monsters. He wrote of sea creatures so fantastic they defy modern science. Is H. Rider Haggard's epic She a science fiction novel or a fantasy novel? It tells the story of a hidden society in Africa whose queen is a magical being.
Take A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, for instance. Written by America's preeminent author of the time, Mark Twain, it tells the story of a boy from modern America sent to live in a mythological kingdom. Is this a fantasy novel or a scientific time travel novel?
The only answer is, quite obviously, both.
And so, when focusing on fantasy as a modern genre, I will begin with the hybrids, then move on to the pulps. Lovecraft. Howard. Merritt.
All books are chosen by me for merit and importance to genre and what came after. Feel free to disagree, argue, and offer your own opinions.
-Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-The Elves by Johann Ludwig Tieck
-A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
-The Mark of The Beast by Rudyard Kipling
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
-Journey To The Center of The Earth - Jules Verne
-The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
-She by H. Rider Haggard
-The King of The Golden River by John Ruskin
-The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
-The War With the Newts by Karel Capek
-The King of Elflands Daughter by Lord Dunsany
-The Worm Ourouboros by E.R. Eddison
-Conan the Barbarian Stories by Robert E. Howard
-The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
-The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
-The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
-The House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
-Silverlock by John Myers Myers
-The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
-A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay
-Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
-The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
-Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
-The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
-Animal Farm by George Orwell
-The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
-The Well At The Worlds End by William Morris
-The Princess and The Goblin by George MacDonald
-Lud-In-The Mist by Hope Mirlees
-The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
-Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
-Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
-The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Fantasy Reading List 1954-1969Stego wrote: So you've read all of those, have you? You have a great understanding of the recent basis of this genre called fantasy. You're ready for Tolkien and all that came after. I can dig it.
-The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
-The Once And Future King by T.H. White
-The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
-Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson
-The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
-The Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino
-Witch World by Andre Norton
-A Wrinle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
-The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin
-The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser Stories by Fritz Leiber
-The Elric Stories by Michael Moorcock
-The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
-Day of The Minotaur by Thomas Burnett Swann
-The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
-The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Fantasy Reading List 1970-1989Stego wrote: Ahh, the so-called 'golden years' of fantasy. Not too much being written though, huh? that's because Science Fiction was king and Tolkien wasn't all that popular. But then, well, to be quite honest, hippies discovered Tolkien. And Fantasy began a surge it has not stopped to the present day.
It's interesting to note that this era was dominated by women and books for younger readers.
-The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia McKillip
-'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
-Time and Again by Jack Finney
-Grendel by John Gardner
-Watership Down by Richard Adams
-Little, Big by John Crowley
-The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
-The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
-Ghost Story by Peter Straub
-Replay by Ken Grimwood
-The Lyonesse Trilogy by Jack Vance
-The Book of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
-The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
-Nifft The Lean by Michael Shea
-Legend by David Gemmell
-Magician by Raymond E. Feist
-Sheepfarmers Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
-Glorianna by Michael Moorcock
-The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
-Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
-The Chronicles of Master Li and The Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart
-Perfume by Patrick Suskind
-Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
-Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
-The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Fantasy Reading List 1990-PresentStego wrote: This was a time of the highest quality and the lowest. A time of Crowley and of Eddings. A time of Mc Killip and a time of Dragonlance. It was literally the best of times, and it was the worst of times.
-Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
-Assassin's Apprentice Trilogy by Robin Hobb
-The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
-The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
-Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
-Lamb by Christopher Moore
-The Prestige by Christopher Priest
-His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
-The Iron Dragon's Daught by Michael Swanwick
-Anno-Dracula by Kim Newman
-The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
-The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
-Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn by Tad Williams
-American Gods by Neil Gaiman
-Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
-Preacher by Garth Ennis
-House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
-A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
-The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
-The Prince of Nothing R. Scott Bakker
-Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
-The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Meningen med å klippe og lime denne åpningsposten, er at den kan fungere som både en leseliste og et samtaleobjekt. Føl deg fri til å liste opp hvilke av disse bøkene du har lest, kunne tenke deg å lese, ikke fortjener å være på listen osv. Mulighetene er uendeligeStego wrote: So you want something to read? Here's some of the greatest fantasy books/stories of all time. (Mileage may vary.) Check them out. You're sure to find something interesting in the bunch.
I just gave you a million hours, a million worlds of wonder. You'll never get a greater gift.
You're welcome.