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What's your favorite really obscure fantasy/sf novel?
(vanity) | Dec 13, 2013 | Me

Posted on 12/13/2013 8:49:04 PM PST by Kip Russell

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1 posted on 12/13/2013 8:49:04 PM PST by Kip Russell
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This oughta be worth a bookmark for later...........


2 posted on 12/13/2013 8:52:53 PM PST by doorgunner69
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Unintended Consequences


3 posted on 12/13/2013 8:54:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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It's not obscure, but not many people talk about it much anymore. His best novel, in my opinion. Wish he'd written a sequel like he planned to.

4 posted on 12/13/2013 8:54:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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Lovelock, by Card and Kidd. I spoke to Scott about this novel, and even he didn’t like it. I never met anyone who read it.

Another that does not come up in conversation often is Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper.


5 posted on 12/13/2013 8:55:26 PM PST by DBrow
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“The Way of Kings” Brandon Sanderson (Author of Knife of Dreams, Towers of Midnight, A Memory of Light).


6 posted on 12/13/2013 8:57:11 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Evil must be punished.)
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“Neverness” by David Zindell


7 posted on 12/13/2013 8:57:40 PM PST by Gman (Anglican Priest)
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On my way to Paradise, by Dave Wolverton


8 posted on 12/13/2013 8:57:43 PM PST by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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Another that does not come up in conversation often is Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper.

Read it! But then, I'm a big fan of alternate history.

9 posted on 12/13/2013 8:58:30 PM PST by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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THE RATS IN THE WALLS by H P Lovecraft.
and other assorted tales.

I also have the trilogy of Robert Block’s novels PSYCHO, PSYCHO II, PSYCHO HOUSE.


10 posted on 12/13/2013 8:58:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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Really obscure? Hmmm...uhhh...I really don't know how obscure most of the stuff I read is, honestly. The interwebs has killed traditional obscurity. I guess the only thng that comes close is a mostly forgotten trilogy that was a bestseller back when t was first published - The Time Master series by Louise Cooper.
11 posted on 12/13/2013 8:58:55 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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12 posted on 12/13/2013 8:59:41 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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Fantasy novel ? Ummmm....”You can keep your doctor” by B.H. Obama, esq.


13 posted on 12/13/2013 8:59:55 PM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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I read it! It is quite the adventure.


14 posted on 12/13/2013 9:00:56 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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(The War Against the Chtorr)

One of the greatest unfinished series ever written.

15 posted on 12/13/2013 9:01:19 PM PST by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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IMO (and to my surprise) the “Retief” series by Keith Laumer is obscure!


16 posted on 12/13/2013 9:02:19 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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Martians Go Home.

I had to look up the author, Frederick Brown.

But I remembered the original illustrator, Kelly Freas


17 posted on 12/13/2013 9:03:00 PM PST by ifinnegan
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18 posted on 12/13/2013 9:03:00 PM PST by Beowulf9
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Whoa ho! A favorite of mine. Loved Counselor Onsword.


19 posted on 12/13/2013 9:03:45 PM PST by DBrow
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This is my really obscure one. Ken Grimwood’s, “Replay”.
20 posted on 12/13/2013 9:04:15 PM PST by Slicksadick (We accept the love we think we deserve.)
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