What are your recommendations for best fantasy novels that have been published in the last 10 years. I know that most will be woke garbage but I want to know if they are still good fantasy authors to look into
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Mark Lawrence’s Red Queen’s War and Broken Empire trilogies are gritty, masculine, and fun.
How many books in the series?
Those are his first two trilogies, six books total, all very good
He has since penned two more trilogies and started on a fifth. I can’t speak to the quality of all those.
Last ten years? No chance. I have some older recommendations for authors you may not have read.
I can recommend the Winter of the World series by Michael Scott Rohan.
I also recommend Harry Harrison, who mostly writes SF. That said, his series 'West of Eden' takes place in a world populated by prehistoric humans and intelligent lizards. It is smart and well written. Harry Harrison was one of the greatest SF authors of all time, and this series was written at the height of his power.
I’ll check it out
Have you had a look at some of Jim Butcher's works? Dresden files and Codex Alara series are pretty entertaining and non-woke.
It is fantasy which should be timeless, why are you limiting yourself to the last 10 years?
I want to see what new fantasy writers that are still writing good fantasy and have no been infected with the woke virus
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is solid. It is a long series but the first 3 are amazing and the rest aren't bad.
Edit: I believe the later books came out in the last 10 years.
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman is one I recommend a lot, it’s more historical-fantasy/fantasy horror though.
I agree, a very good book. I find the ending to be slightly disappointing but not to the extent it ruins the whole experience. The supernatural horror and suspense building up as they travel through a wartorn and plague ridden France is amazing
Clockwork Elf by Alfred Haus. He and I are friends, so I have to mention it. If he ever finishes the stupid edit, he has a sci Fi about a construction site on Mars, and the main character starts an arcade in the building tents for entertainment.
The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade by Dan Abnett.
It's more sci-fi but Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon.
Don't bother with the Netflix series, it started out decent but butchered the books.
Will Wight's Cradle series, starts with Unsouled. It's kinda like if a kung fu muggle adventures in a brutal world, surviving and advancing thru drive and craftyness.
There's Joe Abercrombie's First Law books, starts with The Blade Itself. Great trilogy if you haven't read it. Low magic, grimdark. (alright so these are like 16 years ago)
If you just want weird and hilarious, there's the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Earth gets conquered by aliens, turned into a fantasy gameshow dungeon for the galaxy to watch.
I like lord of the rings.
Seconded, those are both excellent.
He's all in on LGBT now. While I loved his earlier books, his latest mistborn series has been subpar. I wasn't surprised by his turn politically since it entered into his books and it's caused a drop in quality in my view.
I haven't read his recent one offs so I can't speak to that.
If you search for him here you should find a post about it. Hopefully he doesn't ruin his closing stormlight book but it's something to be aware of. His 1 offs might be good, but I imagine all future books will be a bit pozzed.