Have you read George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books?
Nope...that came out after increasing genre-crankiness had left me drifting away from modern epic fantasy. I've had a few folks rec it to me, but these were mostly the same people who also raved uncritically about stuff I loathed like Eddings and Brooks, so that was...not a big selling point. But I did flip through an anthology that included "The Hedge Knight" a few years ago and the prose didn't cause me pain, so that's a very good sign. Perhaps this is something else to add to the BookMooch list.
And now I'm really curious about the one you still can't remember. Was it the Sarah Monette/Elizabeth Bear wolves-and-Vikings thing?
what have you seen Abe Hiroshi in?
Um...don't laugh...Godzilla 2000. I have a not-too-secret weakness for kaiju.
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Nope...that came out after increasing genre-crankiness had left me drifting away from modern epic fantasy. I've had a few folks rec it to me, but these were mostly the same people who also raved uncritically about stuff I loathed like Eddings and Brooks, so that was...not a big selling point. But I did flip through an anthology that included "The Hedge Knight" a few years ago and the prose didn't cause me pain, so that's a very good sign. Perhaps this is something else to add to the BookMooch list.
And now I'm really curious about the one you still can't remember. Was it the Sarah Monette/Elizabeth Bear wolves-and-Vikings thing?
what have you seen Abe Hiroshi in?
Um...don't laugh...Godzilla 2000. I have a not-too-secret weakness for kaiju.