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    Looking for a fantasy book, ideally a series. Can't be an unfinished series.

    Something like a Brandon Sanderson series would be just right. I've read everything by him that's finished.

    Ideally:

    • "decently-written": I love the writing of Gene Wolfe, Ada Palmer, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Leckie, Guy Gavriel Kay: that's what I think of as good writing. I like carefully crafted writing, and long-winded, detailed descriptions. I don't much like Robert Jordan, Brent Weeks, or Robin Hobb's writing. I'm looking for something in the middle of these two poles.
    • No glaring plot holes or characters doing things that make absolutely no sense for the character
    • Not coming of age, but that's not a hard rule
    • The weirder the better, BUT
    • Nothing SUPER complicated or extremely "avant-garde". E.g., I LOVE the Malazan books, and M. John Harrison, and Dhalgren, etc, but I don't want to read that kind of thing right now

    I've read quite a lot of fantasy and sci-fi, and I'm worried this will annoy people, like, "read this", "already read it". You can find my list of books on goodreads. I don't think I'm supposed to post links here. I'm "387920-hawkeye", so goodreads.com/review/list/387920-hawkeye. I've listed my top favorites down below.

    Here's the sort of thing I'm looking for, but ideally, just tighter and better writing:

    The Warded Man by Peter Brett Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) Nix, Garth
    The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1) Staveley, Brian
    The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) Abraham, Daniel
    The Shadow of the Gods (Bloodsworn Saga #1) by John Gwynne

    Low Hanging Fruit:

    I've read everything by Ursula K. Le Guin
    I've read everything by China Mieville
    I've read everything by Guy Gavriel Kay
    I've read everything by Neal Stephenson
    I've read everything by Octavia Butler
    I will read everything by Joe Abercrombie
    I can't read Jack Vance right now
    I can't read Gene Wolfe right now
    I can't read N. K. Jemisen right now
    I haven't read anything by John Scalzi yet, but he's on my list.

    Favorites:

    Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) Ada Palmer
    Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) Ann Leckie
    A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) Arkady Martine
    The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) Brandon Sanderson
    The Dreaming Tree (Arafel, #1-2) C.J. Cherryh
    Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) China Mieville
    The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) Christopher Buehlman
    The First Book of Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-4) Fritz Leiber
    The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1) Gene Wolfe
    Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1) Guy Gavriel Kay
    The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay
    The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien
    Kushiel's Dart (Phaedre's Trilogy, #1) Jacqueline Carey
    Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1) Joe Abercrombie
    The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1) John C. Wright
    Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1) K.J. Parker
    Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson
    The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1) Lois McMaster Bujold
    Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1) M. John Harrison
    All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) Martha Wells
    Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) Mervyn Peake
    Sharing (no name series, #1) Miracle Jones
    His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) Naomi Novik
    Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
    Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) Octavia E. Butler
    Riddle-Master (Riddle-Master, #1-3) Patricia A. McKillip
    The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) R. Scott Bakker
    Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) Richard K. Morgan
    The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10) Roger Zelazny
    The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) S.A. Chakraborty
    Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) Steven Erikson
    Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1) Tanith Lee
    Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1) Terry Pratchett
    More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon
    Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin
    A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) Vernor Vinge

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