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*'''''J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and anything else he wrote''''': The great grand-daddy of modern fantasy. at Not having even the slightest familiarity with his work is inexcusable | *'''''J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and anything else he wrote''''': The great grand-daddy of modern fantasy. at Not having even the slightest familiarity with his work is inexcusable | ||
*'''''Robert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian''''': Conan the Barbarian was born from his quill. Also a seminal classic | *'''''Robert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian''''': Conan the Barbarian was born from his quill. Also a seminal classic | ||
*'''''George R. R. Martin - Song of Ice And Fire''''': Best character development in genre, with a bit of mystery, political chess and realistically high death rate. | |||
*'''''Terry Pratchett - Discworld series''''': Starts from parodying Fantasy as genre, finishes far beyond AWESOME. Rare combination of good humor and wise messages. | |||
'''Science Fiction''' | '''Science Fiction''' | ||
Revision as of 19:54, 28 February 2013
/tg/ Approved Literature
We're imaginative folks here on /tg/, and there's a lot of tuff which insites this.
Fantasy
- J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and anything else he wrote: The great grand-daddy of modern fantasy. at Not having even the slightest familiarity with his work is inexcusable
- Robert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian: Conan the Barbarian was born from his quill. Also a seminal classic
- George R. R. Martin - Song of Ice And Fire: Best character development in genre, with a bit of mystery, political chess and realistically high death rate.
- Terry Pratchett - Discworld series: Starts from parodying Fantasy as genre, finishes far beyond AWESOME. Rare combination of good humor and wise messages.
Science Fiction
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars: Iconic, manly, and fuckin' A!
- Frank Herbert - Dune & its sequels: World-building, politic, super-humans - it's one helluva party. The spice must flow!
- Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers: Where Space Marines and Tyranids came from.
- Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The most creepy in this book is that author thought it is optimistic. If he some day want to wrote something pessimistic, universe would implode from grimdark overdose.
- George Orwell - 1984: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
Horror
- H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu & Other Stories, Dreams in the Witch-House, At the Mountains of Madness, and enything else he wrote - Lovecraft is to modern horror what Tolkein was to fantasy.
Mystery
- Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep: The grandfather of Noir.