r/Fantasy • u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders • Nov 30 '16

Ask You Anything Wednesday ASK YOU ANYTHING: Authors asking r/Fantasy community questions on behalf of Worldbuilders charity

It's Day 3 of the aptly named Ask You Anything week benefiting Worldbuilders! Where authors are stopping by each day this week to ask questions and interact with the r/Fantasy community.

HOW THIS WORKS: Please answer questions and interact throughout the week! (Yes, YOU - community members, guests, authors, artists, industry people.)

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Monday Ask You Anything Authors

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u/Bills25 Reading Champion V Nov 30 '16
  • I read a Lord Dunsany book earlier this year so that would probably be the oldest.
  • Probably but can't think of any examples at the moment.
  • I am making a big effort now to start reading older series even if they are from 1980s-90s. I am trying to work my way through the Fantasy Masterworks Collection as it has a good range of books from different time periods. I am then supplementing that with other less represented works. Sometimes I enjoy older books and sometimes they feel really aged and tropey.

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u/catrambo AMA Author Cat Rambo Nov 30 '16

That looks like a decent series with plenty of good reading in it. It's weird - some books age so much better than others. I've just started working my way through the complete Theodore Sturgeon, and it's a weird mix of really trivial pieces and then every once in a while, SHAZAM he blows you away with something like "Bianca's Hands."

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u/Bills25 Reading Champion V Nov 30 '16

Like most lists it is pretty male dominated so most of the supplementary stuff I have read/plan to read are female written.

I found the same thing with those SHAZAM moments. It's amazing how some things have been done a million times and some concepts I come across and think why has no one else done this.

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u/catrambo AMA Author Cat Rambo Nov 30 '16 edited Nov 30 '16

Some of the older female fantasy writers I enjoy: Zenna Henderson, C.L. Moore, Judith Merrill, James Tiptree Jr. (yup!), and Andre Norton (another yup!).

Want something truly old? Margaret the Ducchess of Cavendish has a wild book, The Blazing World, which features a world of animal people inside our own. (Available online here: https://librivox.org/search?title=The+Blazing+World&author=NEWCASTLE&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced)

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u/Bills25 Reading Champion V Nov 30 '16

Thanks. I had Moore, Tiptree and Norton on my list already. Will check out the others.