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Old 16-July-2008, 01:05 AM
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Hmmm, maybe too obvious, but that sure sounds like Frodo on his way to meet Shelob in, Oh let's see, that would be the end of "The Two Towers."
Nope, not Tolkien.
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Old 17-July-2008, 05:50 PM
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Hint. First of a trilogy, published in the late 1980s.
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Hm, Seventh Son? I should pick up that book some day...

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Old 22-July-2008, 02:56 PM
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No, not Seventh Son.

Hint: This trilogy is often found in four volumes.
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Old 22-July-2008, 03:54 PM
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But HHGTTG isn't fantasy...

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Purely as a bump: Gene Wolfe's Autarch series?
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Old 04-August-2008, 09:22 AM
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Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, first part of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn?
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Old 04-August-2008, 01:04 PM
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Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, first part of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn?
Correct, AndreasJ. Your turn.
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Old 04-August-2008, 03:03 PM
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Let's see if I can hit the appropriate degree of obscurity with this:
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Dusk was becoming night when he stumbled from a brake out onto an open patch somewhere in the wilds. Trees stood as giant blacknesses around it. Above them glimmered the first two or three stars. What light there was turned the bog grass leaden and sheened sullenly off puddles. Ground squelched underfoot. It still smelled airy and the air still hung warm, but mists had begun to rise as earth cooled and a ghostly white haze drifted low. Silence brooded.

A man stood in the middle of the lea, armed with a spear. A broad hat shaded his face. His beard fell iron gray down the front of his cloak. Behind him waited a stallion of the same hue, tall enough for his great height.

Words rolled slow: "We meet again, as I foretold."
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Old 07-August-2008, 11:18 AM
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Too hard? Hint: American author probably better known as a SF writer.
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Bradbury?
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It's not Bradbury.
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Old 08-August-2008, 06:33 AM
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This reminds me of Time Patrolman by Poul Anderson, but I wouldn't consider that fantasy.
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Old 08-August-2008, 07:13 AM
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This reminds me of Time Patrolman by Poul Anderson, but I wouldn't consider that fantasy.
Poul Anderson it is. Time Patrolman it however is not.
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Old 08-August-2008, 03:36 PM
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Poul Anderson it is. Time Patrolman it however is not.
Aaaarrrgh! I knew I should have checked here before leaving for work today. If no one else get this today, I'll figure it out tonight.
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Old 09-August-2008, 02:17 AM
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Ah, I have it now. Poul Anderson, War of the Gods.
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Old 09-August-2008, 07:19 AM
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Correct. Your turn.
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Old 09-August-2008, 05:27 PM
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Thanks AndreasJ.

This will be a dead giveaway for a few people on this board, but this series apparently hasn't shown up in the contest yet.

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Silent as specters, the tall and the fat thief edged past the dead, noose-strangled watch leopard, out the thick, lock-picked door of Jengao the Gem Merchant, and strolled east on Cash Street through the thin black night-smog of Lankhmar, City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes.
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Old 09-August-2008, 11:28 PM
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Heh. I recognize the author, the characters, and the setting, but as I can't identify the specific story, I'll say no more.
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"Ill Met..." perhaps?
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