Comments on: List: Unbound! & NextRead’s Top 50 SFF Books

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:31:45 +0000

[...] the blogosphere seemed to collectively go ‘huh?’ In a great show of initiative Gav from Nextread and Adele from Un:Bound decided to come up with their own list, and invited comment about the books [...]

By: nextread

nextread — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:46:28 +0000

She's amazing. She's Urban Fantasy in the Neil Gaiman sense of wonder
and imagination.

I'm reading The Midnight Major next and hopingfully getting and
interview

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:41:35 +0000

Is Kate Griffin good? I mean is she worth investing 8+ hours of my life into? 'cause I am a huge fan of fantasy and especially urban fantasy but there is a LOT of crap out there, and I have been bitten more than once so I am quite shy!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:46:00 +0000

She’s amazing. She’s Urban Fantasy in the Neil Gaiman sense of wonder
and imagination.

I’m reading The Midnight Major next and hopingfully getting and
interview

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Is Kate Griffin good? I mean is she worth investing 8+ hours of my life into? ’cause I am a huge fan of fantasy and especially urban fantasy but there is a LOT of crap out there, and I have been bitten more than once so I am quite shy!

By: nextread

nextread — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:10:19 +0000

Oi, you can't put in Unpublished books eg Wolfangel

I love it that so many people have different choices and some that we overlap on – each of us chose A Madness of Angels and a Mike Carey for example.

You know there is a new Old Kingdom book coming this year don't you??

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:05:31 +0000

Ooh, dudes - good list!

My favourites would be:

1. Jack of Kinrowan by Charles de Lint
2. Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
3. Sandman by Neil Gaiman
4. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
5. Fire by Kristin Cashore
6. Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
7. Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan
8. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
9. A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
10. Lirael by Garth Nix - the second book in the Old Kingdom series

I like this a great deal - good work and well thought out. I heartily approve.

By: hagelrat

hagelrat — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:12:45 +0000

Never read banks and couldn't get into eddings. Not read any Mieville yet but want to. Would have liked to include Dave Devereux but although there is a paranormal element his books are more thriller than fantasy. Very subjective but on the whole I am pleased with our choices. I think the list had to reflect our reading choices and it does.

By: nextread

nextread — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:25:09 +0000

The thing is that all lists are subjective as they are going to be based on what you've read and what you've enjoyed – you can't put in what you've not read either.

I've read UnLunDun, which was good but not great – and Mieville's earlier stuff is too large for me to go into lightly.

I didn't enjoy the Banks I read. And Eddings is OK but not amazing. Is it really a Golden Age – do they stand the test of time? Really?

By: nextread

nextread — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:19:31 +0000

love it! going to come over and comment