I‘m getting back into fantasy and currently read lots of Pratchett. Back I the day I read the old Mtg Books, Earthsea and stuff. When I‘m at the bookstore I have a hard time browsing the fantasy section because the covers look very homogeneous (I‘m a visual person, sorry). But I think there is modern stuff I‘d love out there.
by mandarine_one
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Fairy Tale by King might fit. Definitely a modern voice, but with a lot of well loved tropes/plot devices.
Urban Fantasy? Fae? Romantasy? Grimdark? Low Fantasy? High Fantasy? Sword and Sorcery? What specifically are you after?
Some I liked are:
Fantasy:
McKillip, Patricia :The Sorceress and the Cygnet, The Cygnet and the Firebird, The Changeling Sea, Song for the Basilisk, Ombria in Shadow, In the Forests of Serre (Lyrical, can be classed as YA as little violence or sex descriptions)
The Blade Itself (and all of the The First Law, )Abercrombie, Joe (Grimdark)
The Lions of Al-Rassan Kay, Guy Gavriel and The Sarantine Mosaic, series (Alternate Historic/Low Fantasy)
A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin, George R.R.
Stardust, Neverwhere, Ocena at The End of The Lane Gaiman, Neil (Urban Fantasy
The Dagger and the Coin series, also Kithamar series Abraham, Daniel (Low Fantasy)
Paker, K.J – Two of Swords, Sharps (Low Fantasy)
The Riyria Chronicles, The Riyria Revelations, Sullivan, Michael J. (Buddy adventurers)
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction Pratchett, Terry (Mix of stories, not all from Discworld)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – The Tales of Dunk and Egg, Martin, George R.R. (3 Novellas)
The Raven Scholar Hodgson, Antonia (Mystery/Fantasy)
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman