{"id":6196,"date":"2019-10-19T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:54:59","slug":"best-fantasy-book-series-and-sci-fi-book-series-of-all-time-thrillist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/10\/19\/best-fantasy-book-series-and-sci-fi-book-series-of-all-time-thrillist\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Fantasy Book Series and Sci Fi Book Series of All Time &#8211; Thrillist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The 21 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series Ever<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\">Best Fantasy Book Series and Sci Fi Book Series of All Time &#8211; Thrillist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-1.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-2.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-3.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-4.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-5.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-6.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-7.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-8.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-article_talljpeg_quality20-9.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/nation\/best-fantasy-book-series-sci-fi-science-fiction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/tmg-facebook_social.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The<em> Broken Earth <\/em>Trilogy (2015-2017) by N.K. Jemisin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>The Fifth Season<\/em>, <em>The Obelisk Gate<\/em>, <em>The Stone Sky<\/em><br \/>\nAccolades like \u201cmasterpiece\u201d and \u201cinstant classic\u201d get thrown around a lot these days, but the acclaim for Jemisin\u2019s series is more than just marketing. Each of the books in this masterful science fantasy trilogy won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first author ever to win the award three years in a row, and the series is currently in development for TV at TNT. These books are a pleasure to read, heartbreaking, joyous, inventive, and challenging in equal measure, tackling systemic oppression, climate change, and the complications of parenthood and grief. There\u2019s simply no question that Jemisin is in a league of her own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"5\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The<em> Culture <\/em>Series (1987-2012) by Iain M. Banks<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Consider Phlebas<\/em>, <em>The Player of Games<\/em>, <em>Use of Weapons<\/em>, <em>The State of the Art\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nIf we have to say more than \u201cutopian socialism on sentient spaceships\u201d to sell you on this series, it may not be for you, but give it a shot anyway, won\u2019t you? Banks started the <em>Culture<\/em> series at a time when space opera was considered facile and pass\u00e9, and took full advantage of that attitude to reinvent and revitalize the genre, offering a smart, playful, and often stylistically flashy subversion of space opera tropes wrapped around a core of radical politics.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The<em> Vorkosigan <\/em>Saga (1986-ongoing) by Lois McMaster Bujold<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Shards of Honor<\/em>, <em>The Warrior\u2019s Apprentice<\/em>, <em>Ethan of Athos<\/em><br \/>\nSpanning 30 years and sixteen novels, this sci-fi epic is full of political intrigue, corrupt corporations, weird family dynamics to rival your own, travel via wormhole, and a universe of colorful cultures and societies. Bujold\u2019s universe is both witty and weighty, inclusive before inclusivity became a watchword of genre fiction, and a total joy to read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"7\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Wheel of Time <\/em>(1990-2013 by Robert Jordan (with Brandon Sanderson)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Eye of the World<\/em>,<em> The Great Hunt<\/em>, <em>The Dragon Reborn<\/em><br \/>\nJordan pretty much defined the conventions of modern epic fantasy in this sprawling, intricate series (which was completed by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan\u2019s untimely death). In the same way that Tolkien\u2019s races and grand quests defined the epic fantasy that followed <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> for a generation, <em>The Wheel of Time<\/em>\u2019s political machinations had an incalculable influence on the epic fantasy of the past thirty years (most notably in <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>). And with a TV adaptation from Amazon starting production this fall (and the publication of Jordan\u2019s never-before-published first novel, <em>Warrior of the Altaii<\/em>, on sale now), expect to see a resurgence of interest in Jordan\u2019s world in the coming months.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The<em> Pern <\/em>Series (1967-ongoing) by Anne McCaffrey (with Todd and Gigi McCaffrey)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>Dragonflight<\/em>, <em>Dragonquest<\/em>, <em>The White Dragon<\/em><br \/>\nIf \u201ctelepathic dragons fight deadly space spores\u201d doesn\u2019t sound like something you want to read then we\u2019re not sure why you\u2019re reading this list in the first place. The world of Pern is unique and fascinating, yet never buckles under the weight of its own world building. The dragons and dragon riders provide an intensely compelling narrative hook (Lessa and Ramoth in <em>Dragonflight<\/em> are direly overdue for a film adaptation). And McCaffrey, was, notably, the first woman to win a Hugo or a Nebula award. Don\u2019t sleep on <em>Pern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"9\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Hainish Cycle <\/em>(1964-2000) by Ursula K. Le Guin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Rocannon\u2019s World<\/em>, <em>The Dispossessed<\/em>, <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em><br \/>\nLe Guin was a legendary talent, a force of nature who helped solidify the place of women in the SFF world and helped legitimize SFF as a genre to be taken seriously. <em>The Hainish Cycle<\/em>, which is a loosely connected series of novels set in the same universe of mostly peaceful civilizations, just so happens to contain two of the single best science fiction novels ever written: <em>The Dispossessed <\/em>and <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em>. That alone should qualify the<em> Hainish Cycle<\/em> for its place on this list, but the joy of it is that there are so many more books to read in this world beyond those two legends of the genre. Le Guin\u2019s stories blur the boundaries of the \u201cliterary\u201d and the speculative, but what really shines through is her focus on how we work through our prejudices and differences and come to understand one another.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>(1954-1955)\u00a0 by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, <em>The Two Towers<\/em>, <em>The Return of the King<\/em><br \/>\nOn the one hand, Tolkien didn\u2019t invent epic fantasy, but on the other hand, didn\u2019t he, though? The lasting impact of <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>can\u2019t be overstated. Authors, filmmakers, and cultural critics have responded to it, imitated it, subverted it, and rejected it entirely, but you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a part of the fantasy conversation without Tolkien\u2019s fingerprints on it somewhere. Because of that patina of cultural influence, it\u2019s easy to forget that they\u2019re just really great books: creatively rich, fully realized, populated with compelling characters, and beautifully told.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"11\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The<em> Sprawl <\/em>Trilogy (1984-1988) by William Gibson<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>Neuromancer<\/em>, <em>Count Zero<\/em>, <em>Mona Lisa Overdrive<\/em><br \/>\nGibson didn\u2019t invent cyberpunk, but his first three novels defined the genre as we understand it today. These novels exemplify cyberpunk\u2019s cynical reaction to the utopian science fiction of the mid-20th century &#8212; think of it as the sci-fi equivalent of Grimdark fantasy &#8212; as well as to the rapid acceleration of technological development in the real world. And forty years later, in an era where technology is at the forefront of culture, politics, and economy, the <em>Sprawl<\/em> trilogy is just as relevant (and eerily prescient) as ever.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>His Dark Materials<\/em> (1995-2000) by Philip Pullman<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Northern Lights<\/em>, <em>The Subtle Knife<\/em>, <em>The Amber Spyglass<\/em><br \/>\nThere\u2019s certainly no shortage of great fantasy fiction for younger readers that tackles heady thematic material, but Philip Pullman\u2019s trilogy is notable for being a fantastic adventure story with gravitas to spare, equally appealing to readers of all ages. Shot through with a vein of barely-contained righteous anger about the often-thoughtless way adults manipulate children, Pullman\u2019s writing draws Lyra Belacqua\u2019s world as a haunting, bloody, often deadly labyrinth full of moments of transcendent beauty and pathos. And who could read these books without desperately wanting a daemon of their own?<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"13\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Lilith\u2019s Brood <\/em>(<em>Xenogenesis<\/em>) (1987-1989) by Octavia E. Butler<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Dawn<\/em>, <em>Adulthood Rites<\/em>, <em>Imago<\/em><br \/>\nButler was one of those writers who pushed genre fiction to spectacular new heights, and nowhere is that on better display than in <em>Lilith\u2019s Brood<\/em>. After nuclear war renders Earth uninhabitable, the few remaining survivors are rescued by the Oankali, a race of aliens who engage in genetic trade, borrowing beneficial biological characteristics from other species and offering them in return. Lilith Iyapo\u2019s bond with Nikanj, an Oankali, leads to the first human-Oankali hybrid population, and the trilogy focuses on all that their union entails. Butler thoroughly and elegantly interrogates matters of gender, race, identity, slavery, and colonization, and her power as a storyteller remains unparalleled.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Remembrance of Earth&#8217;s Past<\/em> (2006-2010) by Cixin Liu<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em>, <em>The Dark Forest<\/em>, <em>Death\u2019s End<\/em><br \/>\nSome of the most revolutionary contemporary science fiction right now is coming out of China, and Cixin Liu is leading the charge. This is as hard as hard sci-fi gets &#8212; the first book in the trilogy, <em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em>, takes its name from a concept in orbital mechanics &#8212; but the scientific here is weighed equally with the political, the cultural, and the personal. And, if you mostly read SFF written in English, Liu\u2019s work is a great introduction to the world of sci-fi in translation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"15\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Binti<\/em> (2015-2018) by Nnedi Okorafor<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Binti<\/em>, <em>Binti: Home<\/em>, <em>Binti: The Night Masquerade<\/em><br \/>\nShort-form sci-fi and fantasy have been making a comeback in recent years, and Okorafor\u2019s novella trilogy is an unparalleled example of how to tell an expansive and moving story in an economical page count. Binti is a young woman who leaves her home on Earth to pursue her studies at an off-world university. But when her ship is invaded by a group of aliens, she finds that looking to her past and to her culture\u2019s traditions offer a solution to move forward. It\u2019s a beautiful meditation on cultural exchange and a thrilling yarn.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Temeraire<\/em> (2006-2016) by Naomi Novik<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>His Majesty\u2019s Dragon<\/em>, <em>Throne of Jade<\/em>, <em>Black Powder War<\/em><br \/>\nThe <em>Temeraire<\/em> books take a great alternate history hook &#8212; what if the Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons &#8212; and uses it as the (extremely compelling) backdrop for the relationship between the titular Temeraire and Laurence, his human partner, which is rich with mutual care and plenty of humor. Complete with steampunk details and utterly beautiful prose, Novik presents a cosmopolitan worldview where colonialism took a different path &#8212; indigenous societies all over the globe are alive and thriving, and species identity and autonomy are treated differently by society.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"17\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Machineries of Empire <\/em>(2016-2018) by Yoon Ha Lee<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Ninefox Gambit<\/em>, <em>Raven Stratagem<\/em>, <em>Revenant Gun<\/em><br \/>\nLee\u2019s trilogy is more recent and less well-known than many of the others on this list, but it\u2019s a massively deserving series that should have much more widespread recognition. This is military sci-fi in a universe built on number systems, where the physical laws we know (and upon which much of sci-fi is based) don\u2019t necessarily apply. Lee doesn\u2019t hold your hand &#8212; he expects you to trust him and keep up, and if you do, you\u2019ll be rewarded with an absolutely mind-bending reading experience. This is the kind of story that will haunt the way you think for months after you finish it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em> (1950-1956) by C.S. Lewis<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em>,<em> Prince Caspian<\/em>, <em>The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nThe defining portal fantasy series. Much like epic fantasy after <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, it\u2019s pretty much impossible to talk about any book involving a magic door to another world without bringing Lewis into the conversation. The trick, though, is that the sense of wonder you felt the first time you read <em>The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/em> is still there. Aslan-as-Jesus-figure is a well-worn genre joke at this point, but Lewis\u2019s writing has such a transportive quality that the all-knowing lion is still effective and affecting. And that\u2019s really the key to any lasting portal fantasy &#8212; the book was the magic door all along.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"19\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy <\/em>Series (1979-2009) by Douglas Adams<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong><em> The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>, <em>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything<\/em><br \/>\nAdams is easily one of the funniest writers who\u2019s ever lived &#8212; <em>The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> has helped shape the sense of humor of several generations at this point, and shows no signs of ceasing to do so anytime soon. Notably, <em>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide<\/em> was a multimedia sensation in an era before that was a common marketing strategy, originating as a successful radio drama before being turned into an indelible series of novels, a television show, a stage production, a video game, and, decades later, a decidedly mediocre film. (There is, of course, another TV adaptation in the works.) It\u2019s\u00a0 remarkable that these books were an adaptation of another medium, because they feel so thoroughly, zanily lived-in &#8212; an eternal testament to Adams\u2019 talent.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\">The <em>Foundation<\/em> Series (1942-1993) by Isaac Asimov<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>Foundation<\/em>,<em> Foundation and Empire<\/em>,<em> Second Foundation<\/em><br \/>\nAs contemporary science fiction\u2019s (excuse us) foundational text and winner of the 1966 one-off Hugo Award for &#8220;Best All-Time Series,\u201d this is big, serious sci-fi at its finest. Asimov\u2019s focus was, at its most basic, on human behavior, and accordingly you\u2019ll find threads of sociology, economics, group psychology, statistics, and individualism weighed against collective behavior. It\u2019s fascinating, thought-provoking, and perennially relevant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"21\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Imperial Radch <\/em>Trilogy (2013-2015) by Ann Leckie<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including:<\/strong> <em>Ancillary Justice<\/em>, <em>Ancillary Sword<\/em>,<em> Ancillary Mercy<\/em><br \/>\nLeckie is, in many ways, an heir to Ursula K. Le Guin, but nothing about the <em>Imperial Radch <\/em>trilogy is derivative. She does what the very best authors do: presents an ambitious concept (here, human bodies known as ancillaries are inhabited and operated by AIs on a large scale, and the series explores what happens when they\u2019re cut off from their network) rendered in clear, powerful, engaging prose. It\u2019s a triumphant story about the importance of self-determination.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>iscworld<\/em> (1983-2015) by Terry Pratchett<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Color of Magic<\/em>, <em>The Light Fantastic<\/em>, <em>Equal Rites<\/em><br \/>\nIn terms of longevity and popularity, Sir Terry has always been the guy to beat &#8212; there are 41 published <em>Discworld<\/em> novels, and the series has sold 80 million copies worldwide. But numbers don\u2019t tell the whole story. Pratchett had a near-supernatural ability to balance satire and storytelling &#8212; the <em>Discworld<\/em> novels skewer the conventions of epic fantasy and are still laugh-out-loud funny a quarter century later, to be sure, but they never lose sight of what makes a compelling and empathetic narrative. It\u2019s a massive, sprawling fictional universe populated by characters who are uniquely, beautiful human.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"23\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>The Realm of the Elderlings<\/em> (1995-2013) by Robin Hobb<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>Assassin\u2019s Apprentice<\/em>,<em> Royal Assassin<\/em>, <em>Assassin\u2019s Quest<\/em><br \/>\nHobb writes epic fantasy with a philosopher\u2019s sense of nuance and intricacy. This is a universe populated with exquisitely-drawn characters who experience some of the most honestly rendered emotional arcs in all of SFF. Hobb\u2019s characters grow and change and react to fantastical circumstances ike real people, who feel as solid as your own friends and family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-ad-inserter-target--inactive\" data-modifier-class=\"u-standard-spacing\" data-parent-element-index=\"23\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"body-text__paragraph-header font--h2\"><em>Mistborn<\/em> (2006-2008) by Brandon Sanderson<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body-text__paragraph-text font--body has-spacing\"><strong>Including: <\/strong><em>The Final Empire<\/em>,<em>The Well of Ascension<\/em>, <em>The Hero of Ages<\/em><br \/>\nSanderson is known for writing clever and original systems of magic, and that he does (in <em>Mistborn<\/em>, magical power is derived from the eating or wearing of different metals), and when it comes to intensely immersive world building you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone doing it better. 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