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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Fair does. Meanwhile, back on topic for those not up so late, which books are the most innovative you've read? (what the hell, why not, let's go for horror as well as fantasy since there's such a fine line between the two)
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DeathJunior · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 177 Location: Louth, England

OOH OOh OOH

I did particularly like Monkey Planet the book ...
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NicciM · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Toronto, Canada

Lord Foul's Bane took me to a place I was surprised and amazed by. Stephen R Donaldson is truly a writer who earns respect through his story telling.

I would also agree about the Ascendants series.

Personally one that takes the cake for me has always been the Dark Tower series..

And then there Jack of Kinrowan by Charles De Lint...All books that really got my attention really fast and really hard because they were so different from the main stream
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Alia · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 246

Some Russian fantasy writers do amazing things with the genre, really, but since they haven't been translated into English, there's no point in naming them. Apart from that - for me New Weird is highly innovative. Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" or Macleod's "Light Ages" left me really stunned, if you know what I mean.

Deornoth · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 446

At the moment it would be a tie between Abercrombie and Lynch, two guys doing great stuff with the genre Very Happy

I honestly couldn't choose between the two... Confused

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