Shipman's reading list: fantasy and ``soft SF''

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Shipman's reading list: fantasy and ``soft SF''

For an appetizer, see my homage to classic short short stories.

I give fantasy authors two ratings: a letter grade, indicating general quality; and a Tolkien Number, a statistic I invented for rating how much their work resembles Lord of the Rings. A value of 1 means nothing like it, and LotR itself is of course a 10.

Guy Gavriel Kay: A+, 2.
Gene Wolfe: A+, 3.
R. A. MacAvoy: A+, 2.
Raymond Feist: A, 5.
Evangeline Walton: A+, 3.
Robert Jordan: B+, 8.8.
Terry Pratchett: A+, 1. The Douglas Adams of fantasy.
J. R. R. Tolkien: A, 10.
Terry Brooks: C-, 9.7. Gallstones of Shannara---feh.

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Shipman's reading list: fantasy and ``soft SF''

Last updated: 2005/04/16 05:16:15 URL: http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/reading/fantasy.html

Last updated: 2005/04/16 05:16:15
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/reading/fantasy.html