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I am totally addicted to books from the Fantasy genre. My latest hook-ups are the
Discworld novels by Terry
Pratchett. I've read all of them in three months' time...
If you'd like to see a list of all his novels, go to my
 Terry Pratchett section.
Other authors I have perused in the last year include
 Robin Hobb and
 Melanie Rawn. Nice, fat books,
ideal for any summer holiday or skiing trip. Or ideal when you have,
like me, nothing better to do with your time... Especially Melanie
Rawn's
 The Ruins of Ambrai, Volume 1 of
the Exiles trilogy, and Volume 2:
The Mageborn Traitor, are a good girlie read. Unfortunately,
there's still no information about when or whether Volume 3 will be published...
Two authors I will certainly recommend to you are Katharine Kerr and Kate Elliott.
Katharine Kerr is a fantasy veteran with her Deverry Cycle, the first volume of which,
Daggerspell, was first published in 1986. The latest volume,
The Fire Dragon, is due to appear December 15th. Kit Kerr is definitely an author
out of the ordinary...
Kate Elliott is a relative newcomer: she collaborated with Melanie Rawn
and Jennifer Robertson on
The Golden Key, and now has published a three-volume epic Crown of
Stars (
King's Dragon,
Prince of Dogs, and
The Burning Stone) which is absolutely wonderful. In the words of Katharine
Kerr: "What really counts are Kate Elliott's characters. Well-drawn and vivid, they come alive
and draw us into her work."
Of course I wouldn't be a good bookshop owner if I didn't have Tolkien.
 The Lord Of The Rings trilogy is
the single most famous book in fantasy writing, and every
self-respecting fantasy fan must have read it at least five times.
I've read it about twenty times...
One of my most recent addictions in the sci-fi genre is the work of Iain M. Banks. This Scotsman
writes the most imaginative and witty stuff I've read in a long time. Books like Consider Phlebas,
Use of Weapons, Against a Dark Background,
Feersum Endjinn, and
Excession, are not easily put
aside once you've opened them, and continue to haunt you for days after reading the last chapter.
It is science fiction at its terrifyingly best.
If you're looking for more Science Fiction titles that I haven't been able to show you, please
take a tour through the
 Science Fiction and Fantasy
section.
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