Used for questions on the fantasy genre itself, including its tropes and conventions.
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Trying to track down a series I read as a teenager
I'm trying to figure out a fantasy series I read in the early to mid 90's. It wasn't the Belgariad or Eye of the World but it is so similar that I forget its name.
A young simple boy gets caught up ...
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What is the assumed name of Jon Snows mother told to Arya Stark?
Related to the book series A Song of Ice and Fire:
I forgot the assumed name of Jon Snows mother that was told to Arya Stark by a lord (forgot his name - first name Edrik I think) in the third book A ...
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An old novel on a “maneater” island
I cannot remember the title, neither the author, of a novel I read some time ago. Please help me, this thing is driving me crazy.
The novel was about the crew of a ship that approach to a desert ...
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Reading order of Tolkien's middle-earth books [duplicate]
I have these books written by J.R.R. Tolkien:
The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
All three LOTRs
Which reading order is the best to get the complete story?
The one I wrote up above, or?
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Differences between dragon, drake, wyrm and wyvern
In many different books including Dragonlance, Tales from the Sword Coast, Magic: The Gathering and other similar fantasy series, I've seen references to dragons, drakes, wyrms and wyvern (which may ...
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book about 2 children who traveled through time using a circle of stones
This book is about 2 children who traveled trough time using a circle of stones similar to Stonehenge. It was read to me in 5th grade... Around 1985... I am having trouble remembering more details. ...
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What is this novel about a man who could enter the minds of animals?
I read a book a few years back, and would love to read it again. The overall plot I don't remember much of, but the main character could enter the minds of animals. It was a huge taboo to do so, and ...
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Can anyone identify this 90s teen-fantasy series, gems in backbone, big magic, evil king?
I've been trying to find this darn series of books for ages, I read them back in early 2001-02 and can't really remember much of them. I think there were 10-ish (vague I know, memory isn't as good as ...
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Can you help me remember a young adult book about a young girl who I think is kidnapped by fairy people?
I remember very little about this book, but I remember it featured a lot of eerie black and white pencil illustrations. I think it was about a young girl who is kidnapped by people who live under the ...
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Does anyone know a book about Rune Casters/Masters?
When I was in America, I began reading a book series. It was a fantasy fiction series about some people who could use other peoples attributes, like their beauty or their intelligence by tattooing a ...
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In the Silmarillion, what was Morgoth's “dark design” against Luthien?
In the chapter "Of Beren and Luthien", we're told that, when Morgoth discovered Luthien in Angband, he
"conceived in his thought an evil lust, and a design more dark than
any that had yet come ...
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Fantasy book about two brothers in the afterlife
I read a great book once about two young brothers who die and go to the afterlife. The afterlife is a fantasy like world where they join the fight to free the world from an evil warlord. In the end, ...
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Help identifying fantasy trilogy with magic music
I'm looking for a trilogy (I think it was 3?) of books I read in the 90s. I got them from the library, some I'm not certain how new they were. Here's what I remember:
Protagonist was a girl, and ...
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Forgotten fantasy childrens book about 3 races, little, big and aqua people
The big people don't know the little people exist, and the little people can do a sort of magic if they know somethings true name. the plot is that theres friction between the the little people and ...
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What is the name of a fantasy TV series that features crystals as an element a lot?
I believe it is a classic adventure fantasy. The protagonist is a teenaged boy with a bow and arrow and long hair. There is a girl, of course, and I think there is an evil witch, but I may be wrong on ...
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Desperate to find comic, features female protagonist, pretty sure a goddess?
I've been searching for a urban fantasy comic/graphic novel series that I used to read when i was younger, in the last 8 years. It featured a female protagonist who was a goddess I'm pretty sure. It ...
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Looking for a book featuring magic headgear and death by cats
I read a novel, at most ten years ago, that featured a villain of some sort (not the big bad- more of a side quest) who wore a stack of hats. As in, probably upward of one dozen hats on his head ...
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Book-Identify: darker short-story anthology featuring Whelan-like art, beach campfire on cover?
This one's somewhat vague, and I apologize- I'm trying to remember a hard-cover anthology of Grimm-like tales, a bit more 'grown-up' than popular views of Grimm; and, it featured what I remember as ...
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Looking for a book about RPG players which get pulled into their game?
I read a book as a teenager and I am searching for it. (from around the 90's)
THINGS I REMEMBER:
I remember that one of the players was in a wheelchair and he played a dwarf,
Also remember when the ...
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ID this 90's stop motion film about little people
It was a sci-fi/fantasy movie probably from the 90's, and I believe it was a stop motion film.
Little people from outer space are trying to find way back home guided by this small computer cube.
At ...
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DYN for Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures?
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series has the Annotated Pratchett File.
The Simpsons has episodic "did you notice" (DYN) posts.
Is there an equivalent for Robert Asprin's popular Myth Adventures ...
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Why didn't Charlie try starving Alvin and Mohammed in Christopher Moore's “A Dirty Job”?
There's a period of time in Christopher Moore's "A Dirty Job" where
Charlie is trying to kill the hellhounds Alvin and Mohammed. Nothing
works, but he continues feeding them throughout this period.
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Story about a young man 'walking the feins'?
I think I must be spelling this word 'feins' wrong, because I can not find it (or the variations of it I can think of) anywhere. It seems like it should be from some druid mythology or something. The ...
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Story identification - fantasy novel in first person narrative/memoir
I'm struggling to remember/identify a fantasy story I read, probably 10+ years ago.
From memory, it was written in first person narrative and/or memoir style. The protagonist went through various ...
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Cyberpunk with “spiritual” elements = science fantasy? [closed]
I am working on a story that incorporates spiritual elements (the soul, non-physical beings, God, etc) in a cyberpunk setting.
Does this make it "science fantasy"?
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What order should I read tales of Mythago Wood?
Robert Holdstock thoroughly confused me with his Mythago Wood series, to the point that I gave up trying to understand them. I'm wondering now if I should have read the novels in a different order or ...
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Does the fantasy genre garner more sequels and series? If so, why?
Trilogies seem to be prevalent in fantasy, but there are a disproportionate amount of sequels in general it seems. Why is this?
The ratios described in the link, and below are (roughly) 1:8 for ...
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High fantasy writers like Erikson and Bakker [closed]
I discovered Steven Erikson's Malazan series about 5 years ago, which gave me a hunger for brutally dark fantasy works along the same lines. I then read Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series which I ...
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What is the movie where a teacher is sent to a desert world with a ring?
I'm searching for a movie I saw when I was a child. So this movie would have been made around 1980-1990, I think.
This story took place across 2 movies.
At the beginning, we are in our world and a ...
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Book about a young man who goes questing with a magic knife made from his gardening tool?
I read this book back in middle school (about 1998-2000), and remember very little about the plot. What I do remember is this:
The main character is a young man who leaves his farm on a quest for a ...
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Please help identify this multi-point of view fantasy novel
I read this book in the early 2000's, and believe it was published in the late 1990's. The story was told from the points of view of several main characters, and the author made mention of ...
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Fantasy series about magic and non magic humans on related worlds
Have been trying to remember this for a while now; there were four books I read them in the late 80's or early 90's, each set in a different, but related, world. Sort of a sword and sorcery theme. I ...
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Looking for title of TV series about boy and an alternative world
In the middle of 2000 - 2010 I saw a TV series about a boy, who after school went to work for an old man at a shop. I don't remember clearly but shop sells old artifacts, books, suchlike.
This boy ...
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Looking for a Book about people Called Talents
I remember something about people gaining powers from areas that were once inhabited by dragons. The main character can talk to animals and is followed around by a wolf; her brother can influence ...
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Identify YA series about magical cats
I'm looking for a series I read five or more years ago, about cats (strays, but also housecats) who I'm pretty sure lived in a fairly big city and had some kind of ability that involved seeing ...
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A trilogy, the first of which was about a girl (fairy?) hiding a flute in a tree stump?
I've been looking for years, trying to figure out if a book I think I read as a kid existed or not. It was a girl (I think a fairy) in a green dress and a blue cape, with dirty blonde hair in thick ...
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Story Identification: Man can do magic by writing spells on the inside of his mind
I'm trying to identify a fantasy fiction (possibly epic fantasy) book I read several years ago, although I'm sure it was out well before then. It may or may not be in a series, but it was a decently ...
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Fantasy story about neanderthals having moon magic
I'm trying to remember the title of a fantasy novel I read about 15-20 years ago that featured both neanderthals and homo sapiens. The neanderthals had a magical connection to the land and some form ...
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Fantasy book, where people are born with a magical talent
There was a female who could grow plants, and she carried seeds with her. But there was this door made of Reverse Wood that when she threw the seed in front of it and told it to grow nothing happened ...
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Identify a fantasy book about a white haired wizard
I need to know the title of a book I read a few years ago (90s).
It's about a orphan boy that has a little white in his hair, meaning that he has magic powers, and as the book progresses his hair ...
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Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's
Hi all I am looking for a movie, this time a fantastic one.
Various groups are sent on a search for an artifact. I think it was a sword. There is one scene I can remember quite clear: A group of ...
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Fantasy novel written as first person narrative [closed]
I am looking for a fantasy novel written exclusively as a first person narrative, where the world and its creatures, the metaphysics and everything else is gradually revealed to the protagonist.
Has ...
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Are characters in scifi/fantasy TV shows more likely to die?
There are many science fiction/fantasy TV series where several/many main characters are killed (A Game of Thrones, Firefly / Serenity, Earth: Final Conflict, Robin Hood, even back in Blake's 7 days). ...
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Non-Tolkenian Orcs with redeeming qualities? [closed]
This question is a follow-up to Were there any good Orcs [in Tolkien's fiction]?, where we agreed that Tolkien's Orcs cannot be good (if you disagree, please reply to that question).
This question is ...
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What is a hollow world?
I have heard the phrase hollow world several times, but seeing the question "Does the Song of Ice and Fire take place in a hollow world?," inspired me to finally Google the topic. This led to a TV ...
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Parallels between Magic and Programming than the “shoot self in foot with unsafe magical code” as in Wizard's Bane by Rick Cook? [closed]
In The Wizard's Bane and the Wizardy Compiled and other books in the series by Rick Cook, a key theme is that Magic is a form of programming, and the hero of the books learns to use magic much like a ...
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Fantasy short story featuring a character named Pepsi
10-15 years ago I read a short story collection that I would like to read again.
One story had a character named Pepsi. He was a boy of about 10-15 years old. There was a wonderful passage about the ...
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Chronological order of the Drizzt series
A long time ago, when I was a wee child I read some of the Drizzt Do'Urden books, they really captured my imagination. I'd like to continue reading, but I've lost track of which books contain him, and ...
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Early 90's fantasy with a unskilled student wizard
Hi I'm looking for a series (at least 2) of fantasy novels I read in the early to mid 90's. I can't remember the author or titles, though I can remember some parts of the books.
The main character ...
