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    Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:17am
)this is genres I relate to much of what is also metal (and prog), and fans of said genres are also fans of thees three genres     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction

this is a site to recomend, talk and about certan book or auther, series, themes, moods, exitement, dissapointment,  also some books that are NOT in thees genres but have traits of it

I can start by saying that I'm a fan of the Wheel of Time series (daaahConfused), the Malazan book of the falen (awsomly complex ), Tolkien Universe, Harry Potter, the Dark Materials, Bartheimus trilogy, the Museum of Stolen Memories  - by Ralph Isau,

 im a newbie to Science Fiction but I have purchased a book  by Peter F Hamilton and looking forward to read it, and Horror is also a new territory for e so i bought books by this auther named Shaun Hutson exiting.
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Well, you know I'm a huge fan of the WOT series as well, and have read all 12 volumes several times. In spite of all the flak it gets for being too long, yadda yadda, I've found it addictive right from the first time I picked up The Eye of the World, and can't wait to read the final two instalments.

Anyway, Tolkien was my first love, and I regard him as being on another level - as good as many fantasy writers are. Over the years I have read a lot of fantasy literature: the whole Harry Potter series (which I love), WOT, the Dark Materials trilogy (didn't like the third book too much, while the first two are great), Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (a must for fantasy lovers), Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibon� series,  all of Jacqueline Carey's Terre d'Ange books (absolutely fantastic, and highly recommended), and others I don't remember now. I have also read all of HP Lovecraft's work, and stories written by some of his contemporaries, such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard.
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I've always associated Speculative Fiction as a genre in its own right with hard to classify authors like John T Sladek, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut and Harlan Ellison (and to some extent Philip K Dick) who don't produce fiction that fits comfortably in the accepted slots of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror. (where I would cite SciFi as more space oriented like Herbert, Heinlien and Niven, or technology based like Azimov or Clarke).

Of the modern authors Iain M Banks, Ken MacLeod, Peter F Hamilton and Michael Marshal Smith are ones I'll buy anything and everything they produce.
 


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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

I have also read all of HP Lovecraft's work, and stories written by some of his contemporaries, such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard.
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I could only get half-way through Call of Cthulhu, although I do plan to finish it sometime.
A friend of mine also recommended Dagon.
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I love dystopian works such as 1984.  I also love Philip K. Dick's novels -- my two particular favourites being "Ubik" and "Dr. Bloodmoney" and Kurt Vonnegut.  My favourites I've read in the last year were "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" (both highly recommended).
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