1) It's not SF/Fantasy but I recommend this to EVERYONE and have never seen someone not get sucked in. Pat Barker is a fabulous modern British novelist (the kind of author who can turn a phrase that makes you stop and stare at the beautiful way she uses language) and she's most famous for her Regeneration Trilogy. Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road are WWI historical fiction. The first book focuses on Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen (famous WWI poets) who historically met each other while being treated for shell shock at Craigslockheart in Scotland by W.H.R. Rivers (whom my parents studied for their anthropology degrees). Anyway, the first book focuses on the developed friendship/mentorship of the poets. The second book focuses more on Rivers and an original character she introduces in the first book and the third book almost entirely on Rivers and the entire trilogy is just phenomenal.
2) Have you read Robin Hobb? Her first three trilogies (which technically come in an order) are all very good though I prefer the middle (Ships of Magic) one the best.
3) He writes Sci-Fi short stories, but Ted Chiang is amazing and I'm ever-grateful for rydra_wong for pointing me to Stories of Your Life and Others.
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2) Have you read Robin Hobb? Her first three trilogies (which technically come in an order) are all very good though I prefer the middle (Ships of Magic) one the best.
3) He writes Sci-Fi short stories, but Ted Chiang is amazing and I'm ever-grateful for
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