12-05-2004, 03:10 PM | #1 |
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Top 3 Sci Fi/Fantasy Series of ALL Time
Here are my top 3 favorite Sci Fi/Fantasy Series of ALL Time
1. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (of course, this includes the History of Middle-Earth Series, the Silmarillion and the like) 2. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (this include all books pertaining to the Dark Tower series) 3. Dune Saga by Frank Herbert If you have any favorite series, post it up! |
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Isn't this the same as the top 5 thread... except 3.
Very cool books you listed though.
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06-29-2005, 10:32 PM | #3 |
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besides what you have mentioned there is also 'The Amber Series" by the late Roger Zelazny!
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06-30-2005, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Once and Fututre King - T.H. White Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay
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06-30-2005, 07:38 PM | #5 |
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Fantasy
The Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan Annals of the Black Company - Glenn Cook LoTR SciFi Giants Novels - James P. Hogan Mars Books - Kim Stanley Robinson Odyssey Series - Arthur C. Clarke |
08-05-2005, 02:25 PM | #6 |
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1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Conan Chronicles 3. The Elric Saga
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08-05-2005, 02:57 PM | #7 |
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top three (in order):
1) silmarillion -> hobbit -> lotr 2) original amber series (second lost a lot of focus) 3) dune (herbert's books, not his son's)
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08-06-2005, 04:57 PM | #8 |
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The Lord of the Rings, etc. - Tolkien
the Pern series - McCaffrey the Mars books - Robinson |
08-13-2005, 12:28 AM | #9 |
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My favorites would be
LOTR - Tolkein Abhorsen - Nix Necroscope - Lumley
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09-01-2005, 04:12 PM | #10 |
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I am not sure wot the other 2 r
but you earthlings should catch up with Stephen Donaldson.He recently published a new Thomas Covenant book, Runes of the Earth, which is just great. It is the first book of a tetralogy and comes after 2 terrific trilogies. Having a new book after 20 years in a great series is as if JRRT wrote another LOTR book recently and was committed to writing 3 more.
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will definitely check it out, thanks!
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Well, I'm not going to rate them critically.
My top 3 favorite fantasy (this is so hard): C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia anything by Tolkien Raymond E Feist's books tied with Mercedes Lackey's (sorry! I just can't limit myself) My top 3 favorite scifi: Anne McCaffrey's Pern series Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles |
09-09-2005, 05:55 AM | #13 |
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1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Axis Trilogy and the Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy by Sara Douglass 3. The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
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