I want to see more...

[Butterfly]

There's got to be something we would all like to see more use of in fantasy literature.

Me? I want to see more Firemares!

Krull - Ride Of The Firemares - YouTube

What about you?

 

[danr62]

Dude, I think your horse is on fire...

 

[Penpilot]

Hey that was Liam Neeson in that clip. Ahhh..... eighty's cheese fantasy, why do I love thee so. Is it the music? Is it the 'special' effects? Maybe it's all of the above.

As for the initial question, I'd like to see the light and innocent fun make it's way back around. I love the dark. I'm all about the dark, but something light, kind of like those eighty's cheesy movies, I'd like to see more of that. Maybe I just reading the wrong stuff.

 

[Benjamin Clayborne]

What actually strikes me the most about that clip isn't the cheesy effects, it's how incredibly long it is. Minutes and minutes of dudes... riding... horses...

 

[Jabrosky]

Sexy African warriors chicks and dinosaurs. Preferably in the same story.

 

[Philip Overby]

Jabrosky, have you seen this collection called "Sword and Soul?" It's like sword and sorcery but usually based in African types of settings. It may be worth a look. Amazon.com: Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology (9780980084283): Milton J. Davis, Charles R. Saunders: Books Charles Saunders seems to write in this vein.

As far as what I'd like to see more of:

1. More epic fantasy that doesn't follow the same stylistic choices (Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is a good example)

2. More darkly comic fantasy (which is what I hope to write)

3. More sword and sorcery

4. More China Mieville "genre-busting" style writing

5. Unique monsters that actually scare me

 

[Jabrosky]

Jabrosky, have you seen this collection called "Sword and Soul?" It's like sword and sorcery but usually based in African types of settings. It may be worth a look. Amazon.com: Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology (9780980084283): Milton J. Davis, Charles R. Saunders: Books Charles Saunders seems to write in this vein.

As a matter of fact, I have five of Saunders' novels (Dossouye and the Imaro series). They are among my favorites!

 

[T.Allen.Smith]

Bodice-ripping Elvish erotica?

 

[shangrila]

Steampunk. Lots and lots of Steampunk.

 

[robertbevan]

Bodice-ripping Elvish erotica?

oooohh... i like the sound of that.


as for me, i'll take this as an invitation to repeat myself again.

i want to see more and more varied comic fantasy. no puns. no anachronisms. just straight up laugh out loud comedy in a fantasy setting.

 

[Lorna]

Awesome mythic heroes / heroines with world changing powers

Dark Ladies

Mind boggling magic

 

[Kit]

Hippocampi. Hippocampi are just way too cool to not put into my story.

If you have to Google "hippocampi", that's a shame and that's why we need more of them.

 

[TWErvin2]

Fewer larger than life heroes and more regular folks stepping up to do their part to change their world for the better.

 

[Jabrosky]

Fewer larger than life heroes and more regular folks stepping up to do their part to change their world for the better.

I would welcome such characters too, being a "regular guy" who would like to change the world for the better, but the issue is that such people don't exercise a lot of power individually, especially in the hierarchical societies most fantasy settings are based on. They might wield a lot of power if united into large groups, but most stories focus on a small number of protagonists rather than whole mass movements.

The kind of story that would probably resonate with me the most would have regular individuals working their way up into becoming larger-than-life heroes. The most satisfying heroes, but possibly also the hardest to write, are the ones who earn their greatness.

 

[CupofJoe]

Hippocampi. Hippocampi are just way too cool to not put into my story.

If you have to Google "hippocampi", that's a shame and that's why we need more of them.

Squishy brains!?!?! Icky...

 

[CupofJoe]

I like the idea of seeing a story from people that aren't the movers and shakers but the bag carriers...
Gandalf is great but he has to keep disappearing [or at least being elsewhere] for either the Hobbit or LOTR to really get going.

 

[Mizily]

More steampunk, more original magic systems, IMO And I'm not a guy, but bromance is good whenever the author can get it in.

 

[Anders Ämting]

Peter Pan-style unaided flight as a general skill.

Because riding is for squares.

 

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Sentient plants.

 

[Kit]

Feed me, Seymour!!!!!!