What to read next?

I recommend you Trudi Canavans Black Magician Trilogy

My favorites are

• Daniel Suarez (Daemon, Darknet..)
• Patrick Lee (Dystopia there are three book but i dont know the english names)

Have you read the Kingkiller Chronicle? It's the best I ever read in the fantasy genre.

Some of my favorite genre authors:

John Scalzi (especially the Old Man's War series and the Redshirts standalone novel). Both someone who deconstructs and embraces various Science Fiction concepts. Also darned funny.

David Weber, especially the Honor Harrington/Honorverse space opera novels. Why there hasn't been a video game series based on these books yet is beyond me, it's a perfect setting for a grand strategy/space naval tactics game.

Now for fantasy authors I did not see mentioned yet:

Fritz Leiber, most famous for Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, perhaps one of the most important series in the entire realm of fantasy publishing.
( Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term.)

Paul S.Kemp in a similar vein to Leiber, the Egil and Nix books are great quick reads.

Old thread, but I must have closed the tab with my last reply before submitting it:

Ernest Cline's Armada would be a reasonable place to go for a gaming-related novel following his Ready Player One (science fiction/modern setting, not a sequel).

Steven Brust's Taltos series - They're light reading compared to something like A Song of Ice and Fire, but I remember them as a long series of short, entertaining books. "No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style."

I tend to read more short fiction than novels, and my taste in the fantastic tends to lean toward weird fiction rather than swords & sorcery, so in that vein, I'd recommend anthologies of Ray Bradbury, Jorge Luis Borges, J.G. Ballard, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Richard Mattheson and Philip K. Dick. If you like the style and subject matter of H.P. Lovecraft, I can also recommend Thomas Ligotti, though his books can be a little harder to find.

Two fantasy books in my queue I haven't read yet, but whose recommendation comes from sources I trust enough to pass along:

• Ian Tregelis' The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars series) - Espionage and free will are the focus in an alternate history setting where clockwork technology allowed the Dutch to take over the world. I also have a copy of the author's "Something More Than Night," billed as "a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven."

• Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora (the Gentlemen Bastards series) - In addition to the recommendation of a friend, I've often seen it in lists of fantasy recommendations and positively reviewed, but I didn't see it mentioned in this discussion.