Of course, recommending a book for someone who has seen Lord of the Rings requires understanding if they liked Lord of the Rings or not.
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While the literary genre may not have taken over the world, big movie and TV franchises with fantasy trappings are now a major part of the landscape, and any 101 conversation needs to take that into account. I love how this question is formulated, because it makes one thing clear from the start: very few people coming into SFF books for the first time are entering in a vacuum of previous media. I also try to reserve all 800 pages of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for 201 readers, because not everybody is up for footnotes about fairy history.Īdri is co-editor here at Nerds of a Feather. The Fifth Season is brilliant, already-classic, excruciating, and wonderful-but it doesn't hold your hand as it takes you through a continent's-worth of secondary world history and a heady mix of technology and magic. But not everybody is prepared to read about a geologically-fractured planet and the hyper-evolved earth-benders who manipulate its surface in service to a totalitarian empire.
A 201 SFF book for someone looking for a deeper, richer experience, rewarding their previous reading in genre. You can find her in real life wherever it's cold enough, on twitter or on her website at 2. Marissa Lingen writes an alarming number of science fiction and fantasy stories, and now poetry and nonfiction too. Here are our participants and their answers!
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A 101 SFF book that someone who may have seen Lord of the Rings but never cracked open an SFF book might fruitfully read.Ģ. So I'd like for you to recommend me *two* books:ġ. Other readers want more than a basic experience but are frustrated with novels that retread the same basics over and over. Some readers are looking for entry points into fantasy and pointing them at a book rich in the conversation and assumed tropes can throw them right out of it again. Formerly at SF Signal, and at Barnes and Noble, the Mind Meld’s home is now here at Nerds of a Feather. Welcome back to the Mind Meld, the feature where we ask a bunch of genre people a single genre related question and compile their responses.
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