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  • Chronicle Of The Unhewn Throne

    The emperor is dead and the empire in turmoil. With these dark scenes, Stavely’s series opens, and things don’t let up from there. A son and heir, Valyn is training...

  • Dark Souls

    At a time where games were becoming increasingly dumbed down, Dark Souls burst onto the gaming scene in a blaze of glory. It took the elements of its predecessor and...

  • A Dance With Dragons

    "A Dance with Dragons" is the fifth book in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. It picks up where the previous book left off, with the...

  • Angels' Blood: Guild Hunter #1

    Nalini Singh is one of the most well known paranormal romance authors. And with good reason: She's written two of the most popular series in the genre. Guild Hunter, along...

  • Lud-in-the-mist

    Lud-in-the-Mist is one of the genuinely overlooked classics, a striking piece of fantasy that, for almost 100 years, has been ignored and forgotten. Amazingly, when reading it, you wouldn't realize...

  • Sailing To Sarantium

    Kay writes a lot of fantasy that appeals to those who enjoy a good, well thought out romance novel. While romance is not the only point of Kayâs stories (Kay...

  • The Stand

    You either love him or hate him (and if you do hate him, it's probably because every second sentence is a ridiculous metaphor), but there's no denying that Stephen King...

  • Cartomancy

    They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill, but anything after that and you reach the point of diminishing returns. In Cartomancy, practice doesn’t just make perfect, it...

  • Hard Magic

    Usually, a superpower system wouldn’t make this list, but the detail and logic Coreia imbues makes it a must read. ‘Actives’ are a small, yet growing percentage of the population,...

  • The Sword Of Shannara

    There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who want to burn The Sword of Shannara and those who say they want to burn The Sword of Shannara...

  • The Blacksmith's Son

    If you are hungry from some of the better traditional fantasy in the indie pub marketplace, The Blacksmith's Son delivers. There is nothing original or necessary inventive about this book...

  • The Princess And The Goblin

    This classic is written in a similar manner as Brother's Grimm and is a magical fairy tale about an independent, yet innocent, eight-year-old princess who discovers that her mysterious great-grandmother...

  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (2001)

    The Metal Gear Solid series has gone down as some of the best storytelling, not just in video games, but period. But while there are countless titles that deserve an...

  • Assassin's Apprentice

    How could a story about the apprentice of an assassin not be grimdark? It couldn't, that's how. This first entry sparked off three trilogies about the one protagonist, which contain...

  • Some Girls Bite: Chicagoland Vampires

    If there's one criticism that can be leveled at the entire paranormal romance genre (other than the cover art featuring bare-chested hos and beaus), it's that the writing is subpar....

  • Tigana

    Tigana is both a sweeping epic and a look into human nature – flaws and all. The characters and plot exist in an area of grey where good and evil...

  • Southern Fire

    This saga is a nice change from standard fantasy. It's set in a Mediterranean milieu -- rich, complex, and full of exotic mystery. Overall, a great read. British author McKenna,...

  • Armor

    Some of best battlefield action scenes I’ve ever read. You literally feel the rush of adrenaline, the shock, confusion, and horror of the battlefield. There is literally never, ever a...

  • Deus Ex

    Perhaps my favorite game of all time. What can I say about Deus Ex, other than it did everything right. This game is old, like mega-over-a-decade-old, but it's still one...

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  • The Worst Fantasy Books Ever

    This list contains the books you should generally, in my opinion, avoid. Some of the authors who published this crap should never have been published, while the others should be...

  • Best Fantasy Books of 2016

    If you look at what's being released by the Big Six publishers, small press publishers, not to mention the hordes of indie fantasy releases, then there would be hundreds (maybe...

  • Best LITRPG Books

    LitRPG an emerging subgenre of Science Fiction & Fantasy and, arguably, the fastest growing new speclatutive fiction genre, if you look at the sheer number of LitRRPG indie fiction being...

  • Top 50 Best Coming of Age Fantasy Books

    Coming of age stories are one of the oldest themes in fiction, providing a sense of progression and growth that can't be rivaled. This is a theme that's as old...

  • Best Non-English Fantasy Books

    English literature has many great works of fantasy -- Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia. But there's an entire body of literature -- and...

  • Top 25 Best Indie Fantasy Books

    Welcome to our new, and long-overdue list: The Best Indie Fantasy Books. It's been years in the making, but I've finally put my best efforts into giving a good guide...

  • Best Fantasy Books of 2017

    We are mid-swing into the 2017 year and so far there's been quite a few standout fantasy book releases by some big-hitting authors. April, particularly, was a strong month with...

  • Top 25 Best Fantasy Audiobooks

    Listening to an Audiobook is a popular way to 'read' a book these days -- especially for those who are always on the move and don't have time to site...

  • Best Story Rich Video Games

    Video games have a near endless potential for story. They present an opportunity for players to actually be a character, not just in their heads but in the actions taken...

  • Top 25 Fantasy TV Series

    TV and fantasy have always had a complex relationship. While long, stretching series often do well in print, they seem to struggle on screen. All too often, important themes are...

  • Best Fantasy Books of 2017

    The BestHere's my list of the best fantasy novels I've read in 2017. I'll be keeping this list updated from month to month with all the new releases coming out. ...

  • Top 10 Fantasy Books of 2017

    The BestHere's my list of the best fantasy novels I've read in 2017. I'll be keeping this list updated from month to month with all the new releases coming out. ...

  • The Best of the Dresden Clones

    All these books are in some way similar to The Dresden Files while still being completely unique.  Butcher's Dresden seemingly created an entire subgenre of Urban Fantasy -- one of...

  • The Best Sci-Fi Movies

    The Sci-Fi genre is arguably one of the most exciting in the film industry. The freedom of Sci-Fi allows almost endless subject matter possibilities. Hence, Science Fiction movies, unlike other...

  • Best Fantasy Books of the 70's

    The 70's saw us Afro hairstyle, the Me generation, the continuation of the Cold War, the end of the Vietnam war, and death of the hippy trail.  It was also...

  • Top 25 Best Fantasy Books of the 90's

    Ah the 90's. Bad fashion, bad hair and Nickelback.If fashion and hairstyles (and arguably music) took a hit, fantasy certainly did not. The 90's saw the emergence of some of...

  • The Best Fantasy Books of the 1960's

    The Swinging 60's. The Space Race. Martin Luther King JR. Vietnam. JFK. The Beetles Woodstock. Bonnie and Clyde. The Sound of Music. The Jungle Book. The 60's is an era...

  • Top 25 Fantasy Books of the 80's

    The 80s wasn't just a period of Hammertime(!) and big hair. It was also a revolutionary decade for fantasy. a revolution in the marketplace that helped make fantasy the pop...

  • Best of the Tolkien Clones

    Tolkien is considered the founding father of the modern epic fantasy. Thus, it’s no surprise that many fantasy epics give a heavy nod to Tolkien, through some of the plot...

  • Top 100 Fantasy Books

    This list continues directly from where  the Top 25 Best Fantasy List ends, starting from #26 and ending at #100 (yes, I know the list shows #1, but 1 = 26).Frankly, there are...