Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Mercedes Lackey? Valdemar series was my first thought.
Aren't her books chock full of sex?
Some Fade to Black stuff, I certainly don't remember anything graphic. Granted, I haven't read any Valdemar for several years now.
I wouldn't say chock-full, but I'd think twice about letting a kid read the third volume of the trilogy.
3rd volume of which trilogy? Some are more problematic than others, IIRC.
Oooh, Scott Westerfeld! Good call!
Seconded.
3rd volume of which trilogy?
Vanyel. I wouldn't want to be the parent trying to explain what the bandits are doing to Vanyel to a confused kid.
No, Vanyel, and Arrows of the Queen, I would not care to give to a tween. The Owl one, and the Dragons, I think, are okay (off the top of my head).
Andre Norton? has anyone mentioned her?
I adore Andre Norton.
Of course the Buffistas would have this subject covered!
Kate, if he liked Lud-In-The-Mist, and enjoyed Tolkien then he might be able to handle some of the other books from the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. (The "adult" part back then was meant merely to distinguish them from kid tales, not super sexy times. It's mostly 19th century and early 20th century stuff).
I was particularly charmed by Lord Dunsany's stories from that era and his classic novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.
Here's a complete list of the series and you'll see many titles you know well, and others that would probably be new:
Ooh, Katherine Kurtz' Deryni series! Kurtz was big in the Society for Creative Anachronism in its early days, and it was a fun game for SCAers to read the books and identify whose garb and devices had been lifted for the characters in the books.
Also, Peter Beagle's books, Evangeline Walton's books based on the Mabinogion, and CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books. Cherryh also wrote some fantasies based on Russian fairy tales, but I haven't read them.
Have any of you read In Other Lands yet?
I got about 80% of the way through and then my library book expired, Kat. I thought it was interesting but I obviously wasn't super into it if I didn't go "oh no only one day left quick must finish" but partly I think it just wasn't hitting the mood I was in.