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10 Authors Who Wrote Gritty, Realistic Fantasy Before George R.R. Martin

10 Authors Who Wrote Gritty, Realistic Fantasy Before George R.R. Martin

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When George R.R. Martin released A Game of Thrones in 1996, he helped to change the game with his grounded approach to fantasy tropes. At the same time, people sometimes talk as though Martin was the first to bring realism to epic fantasy. So here are 10 other authors who were doing "gritty" fantasy before Martin.

To be fair, Martin himself was also writing for a long time before A Game of Thrones came out — but Thrones, in particular, is usually referred to as a game-changer for epic fantasy. So these are works that don't necesarily predate Martin's entire ouevre, but do predate the release of the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series.

1) Stephen Donaldson

When you talk about works that brought a new darkness to fantasy, it's hard to overlook Lord Foul's Bane, the 1977 bestseller that launched Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. Donaldson took all of the tropes of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and peered at them through an ugly light. And he gave us a protagonist that it's almost impossible to sympathize with, especially in the first book. Thomas Covenant is a self-loathing writer who's become a pariah after he's infected with leprosy — so when he goes to a fantasy world where he's hailed as the mythical savior, the first thing he does is to rape someone. And then he carries on being the hero of the series, slowly coming to invest in the reality of this strange fantasy world. Not surprisingly, this series has fallen out of favor somewhat — but it still deserves a place in the history of fantasy that challenged our heroic ideals.  

2) Celia Friedman

Friedman's Black Sun Rising came out just five years before A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it made a splash at the time. As Adam Whitehead writes in The Wertzone, it's "unrelentingly grim," and filled with unlikable characters. Friedman "isn't afraid to kill off major characters, and paints them in convincing detail." This series, like the Pern series and a few others, is a hybrid of science fiction and fantasy — the human race has colonized a new planet, Erna, which is full of perils. Over time, humans have fallen back to a roughly Renaissance level of technology, and meanwhile we've encountered beings called the Fae, which can pose a huge danger but also can be used by certain powerful humans for their own ends.

3) Robin Hobb

Hobb's novel The Assassin's Apprentice came out in 1995, a year before A Game of Thrones (and George R.R. Martin actually blurbed it, as Hobb blurbed the first edition of Thrones.) And this story of Fitz, a young bastard who's looked down on and mistreated by everyone — but who secretly gets trained in the ancient art of the assassin — has some obvious parallels to certain aspects of Martin's storytelling. In particular, Hobb's willingness to paint a dark and terrible world where virtue isn't always rewarded, and where horrors — in this case, the Red Ship Raiders that turn their victims into quasi-zombies — lurk just on the edges of the world.

4) Glen Cook

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Cook's Black Company series of novels began in the mid-1980s, and they're often hailed as important works in the history of military fantasy. But they're also important precursors to the current era of fantasy about real, flawed characters in a complicated and morally gray world. As Martin Lewis writes in Strange Horizons, The Chronicles of the Black Company "is the book that injected a shot of realism into the genre, and helped steer it on the course towards modern so-called 'gritty' fantasy." Instead of following knights or pure heroes, this series follows a company of mercenaries, who are slowly fading away as their members die off and nobody comes along to replace them. Like the crew in Firefly, they take whatever jobs they're offered, including helping a sorceress to put down a rebellion.

5) Michael Moorcock

Elric cover art by Chris Achileos

To be fair, Moorcock doesn't exactly avoid the trappings of high fantasy with his stories of Elric of Melniboné, a red-eyed, white-skinned antihero who goes around murdering people with his soul-eating sword, Stormbringer. It's full-on epic fantasy, with less of the overt political wrangling that you'll see in Martin's work and other gritty fantasy stories of the past 20 years. But long before most of these other authors were around, Moorcock was already challenging Tolkien's manichean vision of a struggle between good and evil. Elric is a total antihero, not to mention a drug addict, whose morals tend to be slippery at best.

6) David Gemmell

Gemmell famously began writing Legend in 1976, when he was misdiagnosed with cancer and needed to take his mind off his supposed illness. And not surprisingly, the result is dark as hell, and is frequently brought up as a precursor to Martin, Joe Abercrombie, Scott Bakker and the other writers of gritty, brutally violent fantasy novels. As Tor.com explains:

The fortress of Dros Delnoch represents the last remnant of a faded empire. A barbarian horde known as the Nadir threatens to overrun it. In desperation, the inhabitants of Dros Delnoch turn to one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known, the figure of Druss. Druss is a he-man sort, comparable to Conan in terms of physical stature and prowess, a man who has carved a name for himself throughout the world through decades of awesome deeds. Only in this tale, Druss is 59 years old. He has a balky knee. Age is creeping up on him. His best years are behind him. But duty calls and Druss has never been one to duck a battle. What follows is one of the bloodiest fantasy novels I've read.

7) Mary Gentle

Gentle's novel Grunts is an epic fantasy story from the point of view of the Orcs who have to go into battle and die by the thousands for a cause that they barely understand. At the time when it was published, in 1992, its darkly comic approach of viewing the story from the point of view of the "villains" was considered revolutionary, and it became famous for a joke about Orcs raping Elves that probably wouldn't be considered funny today. But there's also funny scenes of the Orcs eating their own wounded, and the war crimes trials that ensue. It's hard to get less uplifting, and nastier, than Grunts.

8) Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin's Earthsea books aren't exactly filled with bloodbaths, or horrible human beings who behave in monstrous fashions — but she still deserves a place on any list of people who brought more realism and political nuance to fantasy. In particular, the fact that she returned to Earthsea for 1990's Tehanu, and started to chip away at the sexism (and species-ism) at the roots of her world, deserve a lot of recognition. To read the first three Earthsea books and then Tehanu is a bit of a mind-altering experience, because Le Guin's view of Earthsea in 1990 is a lot more ambiguous.

9) Karl Edward Wagner

Wagner's Kane series, published in the 1970s and 1980s, is more properly called sword-and-sorcery rather than epic fantasy — like Elric, it features an anti-hero who's immortal and has somewhat transcended our human ideas of good and bad... and Kane is another hero that it's difficult to identify or sympathize with.

10) Tad Williams

Book cover art by Michael Whelan

The Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, begun in 1988, takes place in a magical realm wher the humans have been united at great cost — but now the King is old, and his sons are falling into feuds and dragging the realm into a civil war.

As Ash Silverlock writes in Fabulous Realms:

George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has won plaudits from every corner but I have to say that in my view the foundations and first floor of his series were laid by Williams (Martin himself has indicated that he was heavily inspired by Memory, Sorrow and Thorn). Although much of Williams’ writing itself owes a debt, inevitably, to J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, it is in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, perhaps for the first time, that we truly see an adult take on the genre of epic fantasy. Expectations are turned over, beloved characters suffer (and die, over and over again) and the fantasy world that is presented is every bit as gritty, believable and sometimes unpleasant as our own.

For more on how this series inspired Martin, read here.

Fantasy Favourites Read-a-thon: It’s All About the Tricky Ones

Today we have something special planned !! 

We compiled a list of hard to answer questions and we want you to take the weekend to answer as few or as many of them as you feel like. You know, to give us a feeling of the kind of person you are.

Remember you can answer as few or as many as you like. To give you more time and make this easier for you, tomorrow we will have personality quizzes on our blogs for you, so you have less work. So, no excuses!

Here are the questions inspired by The Lux Series:  

• How far would you go to protect someone you love? Would you kill to save them? 

Yes, I will. As a 3rd generation to the people who saved themselves from the Nazis during The WWII (from both sides of my family) I learn the full meaning of survival and the value of life:

Both my grandparents from my mother side had the courage to cross the border to Russia when they were young (My grandma at 12yo and my grandpa at 15 yo) and in spite that their parents denial and most family stayed behind in ghetto Warsaw (there they died).

My grandpa swear to fight the Nazis and did so he joined the Russian army and then polish one as a Tank Officer and reach to Berlin their he got wounded.

This is the education that i got since i was little  - never to lower my head to any humiliation ( include bulling) and this what I am passing to my own children.

I always  fight the same against injustices, discrimination, and bullying, no matter which one.... and it is important to transfer this to others so no body will exploited others without sever punishment.

•  When do you think are people allowed to decide about the life of others? What makes one life more valuable than that of another? 

As a rule, all life is valuable and precious, people should not decide for others life.... as it is can lead to biases.

• “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” for example, the government faces the responsibility of shooting down a commercial plane that has been taken over by terrorists and is about to “attack”. Rightly so? Can one sacrifice the life of the few to save the life of the many? 

The positive, answer to this case is very sad and difficult. I think the government should have more then one scenario to this kind of situations and they should keep there mind always open and totally outside the box.

As we all know, since 911 things had change (but sadly, it wasn't the only case a long the human history) -  it is a real case scenario, to scarified the lives of the few in purpose to save thousands. The terrorist, also, know about this policy and they take into their account that nobody will negotiate with them, even about lives.

• The US is one of only 26 countries worldwide that is still actively imposing the death penalty. (The death penalty is still legal in 36 countries, though 10 of them haven’t made use of it in the last decade or are under a moratorium.) What are your thoughts on the matter? 

I am against it.

First it is cruel,  and it don't make us no better then the criminals themselves.  Why us, as a society, will make other people to do the execution of this kind of decisions and turn them to monsters..

Second, there always a chance that you make a mistake and sentence the wrong person to die... and it is irreversible if you discovers it.

Third it never prevented from others from doing or repeating horrendous things. So it ineffective punishment... best trying to educate people and teach them compassion.

•  What are your thoughts on teenage marriage? 

 No, No, No!!! live and learn first.

• If someone’s blood was possibly the cure to some of the world’s most dire diseases, would it be right to use them for their blood? What if it meant they would have to spend a lifetime in labs and hospitals or secret government facilities and weren’t able to have a normal life? What if they didn’t give their consent? What if you were that person?

This is another difficult question - but as a scientist and I can give you few answers. - First if somebody can give us solution to a cure, we must check the possibility how it is done and what is the machination behind his immunity. But it is doesn't mean that he has to scarified his life and spend all life in the lab. The science has the tools to copy this machination to artificial machination. The science has the tools to produce many thing outside the body of anyone (for example look how we produce vaccinations... we don't use human bodies to this. We can do this in vitro).

• What if alien lifeforms actually existed among us? Do you think you would be accepting of them or skeptical? 

First if they are already live among us we should learn about them as much as we can. As the history proved many time before, The knowledge is worth more then ignorance.

• The earth is no longer habitable. Another planet has been discovered that can support life, but it is inhabited by a lower/equal/higher life form. Do humans have a right to take over the planet? 

Yes, we have to survive. But of course we should do it while respecting other life forms.

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Fantasy Favourites Read-a-thon: Take Me Out!

The challenge for today is to make some dating profiles!

That means we describe a character to you as if creating a blind date suggestion, and then see if you can guess who these people are. Can you?

Age:16
Gender: Female
Relationship Status: Just started dating
Children: none
Fitness/Body Type: Petite, Very strong
Education: A very good privet school...
Income: little above the average
Occupation: Secret government agent
Likes: Flying
Dislikes:Dishonesty, Lies
Looking for: Someone who care

"My life would be so much simpler if these people were more selfish....."

"I may have a scales and claws and the ability ti tear your limb without breaking a sweat, but a monster exit in the mind. a monster is a creature of hate,  not form."

"Hey Number One. I made it to Oz. If you have time, I could use a little help with my phone - Unlucky"

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Relationship Status: Just started dating
Children: none
Fitness/Body Type: Slim and agile.
Education: A very good privet school...
Income: little above the average
Occupation: Secret government agent
Likes: Have a good time with my girlfriend
Dislikes: Dishonesty, Lies
Looking for: Security

"Every time our hands brushed, I wanted to hold your hand. Every time a guy at school check you out, I wanted to shove him in a locker..."

Age: Infinity.
Gender: Female.
Relationship Status: Virtual reality
Children: None
Fitness/Body Type: Virtual
Education: Self learner
Income: In the Virtual reality
Occupation: Computers
Likes: Solving riddles,taking care of people.
Dislikes: Being unable to solve something
Looking for: people to care of.

"She's like the guardian of the computer geek Wonderland. "

"Is your boyfriend okay? I'm picking up some strange fluctuations in his vitals..."

"Satellite"? "One moment" , she says, like I just asked her for a tissue.

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Day 3 of the Fantasy Favourites Read-A-Thon! - My Playlist

My  playlist This playlist is simply my favorite reading music or songs that remind me a book or a particular scene well. But just in case you want to do something more, here are a few mini playlist prompts which you can choose to do: It will start from those which most of you know and than.... I''ll attached more things that goes back. And again....there is a lot of good music and songs out there.... so it was hard to pick from all this richness.  Here my 22 themes Playlist  You are welcome to enjoy it!!!!

1.Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming Orchestral Music
 2. Epic Celtic Music - King of the North
 3. Fantasy Music - The Elven Prophecy
 4. Skellig Lord of the Rings
 5. Arthas destiny - Loreena McKennitt
 6. Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
 7. Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart
 8. Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
 9. Florence and The Machine - Swimming
 10. GAME OF THRONES SONG - When Winter Comes by Miracle Of Sound
 11. Beautiful Forest Elf Music - Elven Sanctuary
 12. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
 13. Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
 14. Jethro Tull - Greensleeves
 15. King Crimson - Epitaph
16. Renaissance - I Talk to the wind  
 17. Sally Oldfield - Nenya (Songs of the Quendi)
 18. Sally Oldfield - Mirrors
 19. Fantasy Film Music - Forest Children
20. Blade runner blues  
 21. Send me an angel - Scorpions

22. War of the Worlds - Forever Autumn
 

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Lindsey Stirling - Take Flight [Official Music Video - YTMAs]

All this because i couldn't stop to listen to my playlist on Read A Thon post

So I add this 3 Vids. of the so talent musician

Lindsey Stirling

The Fantasy Favourites Read-A-Thon 2nd day

Here is the visual proof of:

1. My Bookshelf.

I have more in boxes.

2. Your TBR pile.

GoodReads TBR , My Kindle TBR and all thise beside my bed.

3. Where you will be reading this week.

Unfortunately I broke my ankle so I am limited to my bed and main room.

 4. Your blogging space.

 Most of the time the dining room..... but i can do do it anyplace.

 

5. Your favorite fantasy book.

 Well why only one? here rampantly six .

6. A book in your bookshelf that includes: aliens, magic, dragons, mythology or is steampunk. - Only one?

 

7. Your fantasy books sorted by color. - None

8. Your reading material for this week.

Remember when we asked you to tell us what character you would like to be chained to during this week? Well, keeping in mind whom you chose we want you to enter their name wherever you see XYZ and answer following questions:

1. Now that  Lyra Belacqua from  the Golden Compass/ Northern Lights (His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman) is chained to you, what do you want to force them to do with you? (Assuming you have their consent.)
Of course I will try to make a contact  with - 'dust', this type of a mysterious elementary particles - Dark Matter -  and then with their help try to visit parallel worlds. Then to take me to meet the "gyptians"; Serafina Pekkala from witches; the aeronaut Lee Scoresby and the armor-clad polar bear- Iorek Byrnison. ( I also love to befreind her dæmon - Pantalaimon.

2. What books is Lyra Belacqua reading? Not that I know about. 

3. Roleplay a scene where you and Lyra Belacqua are fighting over a scene/character in the book you are currently reading.Hmmm...Are you crazy?  Lyra, prefer  to play outside. the sun just came out today, after a dreary grey, wet weekend.

4. You've already spent 12 hours chained to Lyra Belacqua. How do you feel about them now? Anything irritating you yet?
She is so full of energy ... it is make me tired just watching her.  But on the other side her curiosity and honesty are so refreshing.

5. How do you spend your day with Lyra Belacqua during the read-a-thon?
Between taking care of the house, family and my blog? Most of the time, I just let her be, But I'm happy when she share with me the things she is seeing around and her thoughts.

6. What would your relationship status with Lyra Belacqua be if you got to keep them after the read-a-thon?
Yes! I would like to learn more about her adventures and findings.I really corius how is to live in a world with "dæmons" (animals that constantly accompany, aid, and comfort their humans. Children's dæmons can freely and instantaneously change their appearance into that of any animal; once they reach puberty, however, all people's dæmons settle into one permanent animal form.)

7. Lyra Belacqua is at your mercy. What have you always wanted to ask them? What do they answer?
I would like her to teach me how to work with the alethiometer (Aletheia in Ancient Greek is truth or disclosure in philosophy) and generally, how to make contact with the "Dust" particles.

8. If given the chance to, would you like to go back to Lyra Belacqua's world after the read-a-thon?

Yes Sure!

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3.	Read-a-Thon Day 1	4.	Ashley @ Book Nerd Paradise
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