Comments on: Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/04/06/gene-wolfe-the-book-of-the-new-sun-volume-2/ 256 words or less - or your money back! Sat, 04 May 2013 17:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bjørn Stærk http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/04/06/gene-wolfe-the-book-of-the-new-sun-volume-2/#comment-689 Sat, 15 May 2010 18:03:49 +0000 http://max256.bearstrong.net/?p=1885#comment-689 Good to hear! There’s good modern fantasy, it’s just a bit overshadowed by the imitators. Martin sits alone on the (iron) throne, but I also like Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss and China Mieville.

]]> By: Mark Brinton http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/04/06/gene-wolfe-the-book-of-the-new-sun-volume-2/#comment-688 Sat, 15 May 2010 17:00:17 +0000 http://max256.bearstrong.net/?p=1885#comment-688 Your experience reading these books very much reflects my own. I have re-read the ending of “Shadow and Claw” so many times. The first time I read it was like awakening from a dream and desperately wanting to fall back asleep to recapture its essence.

btw; I owe you thanks for introducing me to G.R.R Martin. I had pretty much given up on modern fantasy as just pale imitations of Tolkien. I was wrong; and I am enjoying the considerable backlog of very good – in martin’s case, excellent – modern fantasy.

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