best series?

[Kaotic_Writer]

Alright i'll try and keep it short the question is your fav series

Mine: The Rignate series (by david gemmell)

the reason for this post is i need a new series to read and by god i think you all are the right ppl to ask. and if you can try and throw in a few series you think a person who has read all of terry brooks david gemmell and tolkein would like thx.


so the question is favorite series and start now!

[Snowdog]

The topic title says best series but your post says favourite series. Favourite series is easy.

My favourite series is the first chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny, comprising:

Nine Princes In Amber
The Guns Of Avalon
Sign Of The Unicorn
The Hand Of Oberon
The Courts Of Chaos

If you want a 'best series' I'd have to think some more.

[Kaotic_Writer]

srry for the confusion but most ppl consider their fav to be the best but i can see where u are coming from my apologies.

[stirdgit]

Very different than the authors you mentioned but I am religiously and ethically obligated to mention:

Dune by Frank Herbert.

(I'm also very fond of Foundation by Isaac Asimov)

[steve12553]

Originally Posted by stirdgit

Very different than the authors you mentioned but I am religiously and ethically obligated to mention:

Dune by Frank Herbert.

(I'm also very fond of Foundation by Isaac Asimov)

Throw in Heinlein's future history and I'm there.

[Lirineth]

You sound like the kind of person that has read more than the above-average reader has.

In other words what i am asking is if you could give us a little list of the very few series etc that you havent read, that would be usefull to (in turn) give you a helpful answer.

by the way my favourite series off the top of my head are:

Waerththus x2 trilogies and loose bits
Harry Potter
Lestats (Ann Rice)
Robin Hobbs Trilogies

Did it help?

[littlemissattitude]

Try Kage Baker's novels of the Company (no, I don't get a commission; maybe I should look into that):

In the Garden of Iden
Sky Coyote
Mendoza in Hollywood (published as At the Edge of the West in the UK)
The Graveyard Game
The Life of the World to Come
The Children of the Company

There is also an associated book of short stories: The Company Dossiers: Black Projects, White Knights.

There is time travel here, and cyborgs, and romance, and comedy, and some intereting social commentary. I don't know about "best series", but it is my favorite series.

[carrie221]

My favorite series are...

-Harry Potter
-Dune (but only the first two, after that they lose me)
-The Lion, the witch and the woredrobe by C.S. Lewis
-Isaac Asimov books (I have only read a few but the ones that I have read were excellant)
- A swiftly tilting planet by Madeleine L'Engle

These may not be the best but they are my favorites. I know that half of them are kids books but they are still some of the best.

[Snowdog]

A series list is much easier/better , and includes favourites and best:

Amber - Roger Zelazny
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Black Company - Glen Cook
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cities In Flight - James Blish
Demon Princes - Jack Vance
Lensman - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
Urth Of The New Sun - Gene Wolfe

I know that's more than 5, and I could have gone on , but I love all these books, with the possible exception of the first Foundation book.

[j. d. worthington]

The Eternal Champion Cycle, by Michael Moorcock.

That's if I have to pick a single series within epic fantasy, as I assume was what your original question indicated. If not, clarify, and I'll throw out some others, as well.

One thing about this series is that it really does belong to a series, but a very different sort of series, and there's a wide variety of types of story and even styles of writing included, so it doesn't tend to get repetitive....

[Rane Longfox]

Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson

[Winters_Sorrow]

If you're a fan of Terry Brooks & David Gemmell, I would suggest the Belgariad books by David Eddings (first one Pawn of Prophecy) or the Riftwar series by Raymond E Feist (first one Magican) as I think they are two fantasy authors who's easy reading style fits in with DG.

[Neurolanis]

For Sci-Fi, Brin's "Uplift" series.

For Fantasy, Tolkien's "Middle-earth" series. I do considerate a series, made up of three books (or six if you count the LOTR as seperate books.)

[Rosemary]

My favourite series would have to be The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass but this is nothing like Gemmel or Terry Brooks.
Perhaps R.A.Salvatore or Raymond Feist might be more your style.

Science Fiction - Usually I read Fantasy but I did enjoy Julian May's The Galactic Millieu Trilogy.

[star.torturer]

LOTR is six in itsself

WOT is great (especialy the last 6)