heh. Fair enough, although Agyar Janos /does/ turn into a better person by the end of the book.
Sun Moon & Stars might hit some of the same "i hate this guy" buttons as Agyar. To Reign in Hell hasn't aged as well as I would have liked. I think you'd get on with Freedom & Necessity (co-written with Emma Bull). The first of Brust's main fantasy series is Jhereg (or the collection The Book of Jhereg has the first three); his other fantasy series in the same world starts with The Phoenix Guards and is a Dumas pastiche.
If you've not read Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword (by Ellen Kushner) you are doing yourself a great disservice. They're definitely fantasy (without magic), but not exactly epic as such. And I've heard good things about Sarah Monette's Melusine books as well.
I dunno. A distaste for Epic is a lot of why I'm not reading much fantasy these days myself.
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Date: 2011-05-12 03:10 am (UTC)Sun Moon & Stars might hit some of the same "i hate this guy" buttons as Agyar. To Reign in Hell hasn't aged as well as I would have liked. I think you'd get on with Freedom & Necessity (co-written with Emma Bull). The first of Brust's main fantasy series is Jhereg (or the collection The Book of Jhereg has the first three); his other fantasy series in the same world starts with The Phoenix Guards and is a Dumas pastiche.
If you've not read Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword (by Ellen Kushner) you are doing yourself a great disservice. They're definitely fantasy (without magic), but not exactly epic as such. And I've heard good things about Sarah Monette's Melusine books as well.
I dunno. A distaste for Epic is a lot of why I'm not reading much fantasy these days myself.