Forgotten Beasts is perhaps McKillip's best, but she's remarkably consistent. The Riddle-Master trilogy apart (it's a bit over-blown), her books are small, jewel-like, and similar in tone.
If you haven't read Tolkien's tiny fairy tale Smith of Wootton Major, I would highly recommend it. It is the perfect fairy-story. And if you found the Silmarillion a little daunting, perhaps?, try Unfinished Tales: that's the book with all the juicy additions that LOTR readers want.
Better even than Dunsany's novels, I like his early short stories. There are a number of reprint collections of these floating around. Possibly easiest to find is one called In the Land of Time. Stories like "The Sword of Welleran" and "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" are what sword-and-sorcery would later try to be, but usually failed at. All-time favorite Dunsany, though, isn't S&S at all: "Kith of the Elf-Folk".
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Date: 2008-11-06 09:30 am (UTC)If you haven't read Tolkien's tiny fairy tale Smith of Wootton Major, I would highly recommend it. It is the perfect fairy-story. And if you found the Silmarillion a little daunting, perhaps?, try Unfinished Tales: that's the book with all the juicy additions that LOTR readers want.
Better even than Dunsany's novels, I like his early short stories. There are a number of reprint collections of these floating around. Possibly easiest to find is one called In the Land of Time. Stories like "The Sword of Welleran" and "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" are what sword-and-sorcery would later try to be, but usually failed at. All-time favorite Dunsany, though, isn't S&S at all: "Kith of the Elf-Folk".