So in follow-up to my post two weeks ago on the Inker Blog, I've been thinking about all of the epics I've read in the past and what would be one of my all-time favorites. Finally I decided that there's really two that deserve that honor. It's a tie: Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series and Garth Nix's Abhorsen series. Very different concepts, one is a fantasy set in an Asian-like realm (leaning toward Japanese heavily), and the other is about a heroic necromancer who must keep the minions of the dead in the underworld in a divided world not unlike in Neil Gaiman's Stardust: cross "the Wall" and you're not in England anymore.
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I would have to agree that the Abhorsen trilogy is a great epic. I was lucky enough to buy the series at a garage sale for 25 cents; once I started reading them, I couldn't put 'em down.
By the way, we talked a bit at LTUE. It took me a while to find your card (I think my son's totem animal would be a pack rat). Thanks for all of the advice that you gave me, it is always good to hear from a person who is already in the field.
Here is the address to my blog that I had promised to send you:
yabooks.typepad.com
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