Oh for... Here, I'll reprint that list, and put the authors who I think need to know to be fundamentally Fantasy literate in bold and caps.Stormbringer wrote:And you're acting like a film student that's rambling about the greatness of indy cinema, as if it's god own home movies. Just because some one has a few awards (and yes I know what the Hugo and Nebulas are) and some fans doesn't make them great. I've seen people praise too much shit for me to take awards and a few fans as proof of greatness.Eleas wrote:These are not "minor" authors, numbnuts. These are hugo and nebula award winners and their like, not that you'd know what that means in the first place. They are absolute classics in every sense of the word, and to dismiss them as you do is roughly on par with a film student claiming Kurosawa and Leone were nobodies because their movies aren't rolling in mainstream cinema today.
"Guy Gavriel Kay. Philip Pullman. Jack Vance. ROGER ZELAZNY. John Betancourt. Stephen Brust. Stephen Donaldson. *thinks for a second* Robert fucking Howard. Tim Powers. JRR TOLKEIN, Poul Anderson. TERRY PRATCHETT. NEIL GAIMAN."
I probably even missed a couple that should be highlighted, just as I consider a number of fantasy authors excellent who aren't even on the list; those are just the ones obvious to me.
You're acting like a petulant preteen who can't believe there are significantly better singers out there than Justin Timberlake or whoever, and so when her considerate friends give her a mix tape throws it away without listening.
There's plenty of good stuff out there. Robert Jordan is, occasionally, very good. But he doesn't thrill me with every book he writes, unlike the genre's top authors. Trying to shift the blame for this onto his lack of editing is dumb; Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and George RR Martin all have titanic presold audiences, but you don't see their books or heads bloating up.
