![]() So, in the manner of Sam Jordison's manful slog through the Hugos, I'm going to tackle the winners of the British Fantasy awards, right from the beginning. I ploughed through 12-book series – I like to know the ending – and yes, I have read the bizarro chicken sequence from Soul of the Fire.īut I have been feeling of late that my literary education in those authors (apart from Tolkien) who shaped the fantasy writers of today is sorely lacking. ![]() Then I lapsed for a while, until I fell in love with someone at university after we discovered a shared love of Douglas Hill, and he introduced me to the endless series of George RR Martin (great), Robin Hobb (loved her, especially Nighteyes the wolf), Stephen King's Dark Tower sequence (I liked it so much I bought them in hardback), Robert Jordan (tedious and confusing), Guy Gavriel Kay (brilliant), Stephen Donaldson, even the progressively crazier, more polemic, frankly dreadful Terry Goodkind. I grew up on Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce and Ursula Le Guin. ![]() ![]() After Damien G Walter owned up to it last week, I'm going to come out and say it, too: I am a fantasy reader. ![]()
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