Friday, January 6, 2017
So You Want to Read Epic Fantasy: Here’s Where to Start
Stories of Beowulf fighting the dragon Public Domain
So You Want to Read Epic Fantasy: Here’s Where to Start
I love reading and writing super shorts. Of course I spend more time reading epic fantasy. It’s got where trilogies aren’t enough. The stories are huge. Vast in scale and imagination. I will never write epic fantasy. But I do read it.
Link on over for these recommendations by Shawn Speakman. The ones he mentions that I have read or am reading are definitely good. I’ll bet they all are.
In his intro Speakman says:
Epic fantasy once meant large books with an everyman-type of lead character against a dark lord. But to me, the epic fantasy that has been written in the last three decades are not only large in size and scale of story but also feature numerous point of view characters and several storylines that are separate but are also intertwined.
To talk about and recommend epic fantasy, it requires an epic list. These are the books I recommend people start with if they want a truly epic reading experience.
I can’t really add to that. So get epic. And enjoy!