Fantasy, just like the best NZ online casinos, is always popular. That is why we have prepared a list of books that will give everyone a vivid literary experience and make them love this genre forever.
“Hyperion”, Dan Simmons
The novel by the American writer goes beyond science fiction. Simmons has created his synthetic genre, in which the very distant future serves as a backdrop, but an extremely successful and appropriate one, for philosophical reflections on man, God, love, self-sacrifice, humanity, etc.
The work consists of six parts. Each is a story about the connection of a certain number of characters with the planet Hyperion. An expedition sets off to save humanity, scattered across the vastness of space, from certain death.
The heroes are destined to be a Catholic priest, a colonel of the military and space forces, a famous poet, a Templar who controls an amazing starship, a philosopher, a private detective and a consul, and a double agent of the enemy forces. The answer lies in the story of each of them.
“The Nightcrawler”, George R.R. Martin
The material about science fiction would lose a lot if it did without Martin’s book. The writer, now known as the author of popular fantasy, began his career with completely different works.
The collection Noctilucent was published in 1985. It includes novels and short stories that had previously won a bountiful harvest of prestigious science fiction awards: Hugo Award, The Locus Poll, etc. Martin is still the same talented storyteller in these works, a little cruel and inventive.
The main work of the collection, of course, is “Nocturnal” itself – a story that keeps you in suspense until the last page. Its plot will not surprise genre connoisseurs with its novelty: an intergalactic spaceship is on a mission to find the Volcryns, which, according to the scientist and initiator of the flight, Caroy d’Branin, are unique intelligent beings whose greatness is legendary in the universe.
“Burn, Witch, Burn!”, Abraham Merritt
Horror literature is also classified as fantasy, although it has long deserved to be a genre of its own. Having its ancestors and classics, horror has gained an ambiguous status among readers. There are its fans, for whom the world of horror literature is not limited to the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, and there are those for whom these names alone mean something in the context of creepy stories.
Burn, Witch, Burn (1932) includes two eponymous stories about a mysterious puppet-maker and Crawl, Shadow, Crawl (1934) about ancient legends that can come to life and become a reality.
The writer plays on people’s fears, pitting common sense and science against black magic that dates back almost to the world’s creation. And Merritt does a great job because it’s scary even now, in the more or less rational twenty-first century.
“Those Without Roots”, Naomi Novick
Naomi Novik’s book is perfect if you’re tired of Tolkien’s hobbits or the Great Houses of Westeros from Martin’s novels and want something light but fascinating.
The writer, raised in Polish folklore, has created a story that takes the reader back to the Middle Ages. The two countries, Rosia and Polnia, are constantly at war because, several decades ago, Prince Basil treacherously seduced Queen Anna and caused her death in the great and powerful Forest.
Vivid characters, a dynamic plot, surprises and intrigue, beautiful people, incredible nature, and a good ending make Naomi Novik’s novel a great read for fans and neophytes of the genre.
“The Neuromancer”, William Gibson
In the future described in the novel, everything is complicated and life-threatening. Gibson writes about criminals and outsiders, so it’s hard to believe a hero could be among this specific contingent. As such, Neuromancer does not have one because reality, whose boundaries have been erased by drugs and computer technology, no longer requires truths and absolute truths.
When reading Gibson’s novel, one should always keep in mind the year it was written (1984). Over three decades ago, the writer predicted the everyday use of artificial intelligence or gadgets that allow you to enter virtual reality.
Complex in the plot and sometimes brutal, this dystopia was ahead of its time and ours.
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