Reddit mentions of The Last Book Of Wonder

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Lord Dunsany. Especially the King of Elfland’s Daughter. But the last book of wonders, and the gods of pegana are great too. Both JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis named him the greatest living influence on their own work.

The Deed of Paksennarion. Unbelievably good story, great military, great mythology, great personal development and awesome paladins. The dark elves are the best I’ve seen since drow have been ruined through overuse.

The Empire of the East. High fantasy post apocalypse setting. Amazing metaphysics, great characters, fun epic story that doesn’t go where you expect. Som the Dead inspired a lot of my NPC antagonists.

The Vlad Taltosh books by Stephen Brust. Autobiography of a human assasin in an elven kingdom. Love his pet Loiosh. My favorite scene was when he asks an elf lord “why can I leave but you can’t?” “Because you aren’t a person.” Then they get into a discussion of an elf could leave if they had the blood of a god and Vlad asks if that is literally or figuratively and the difference actually matters.

The Liftsal War by Alexandra Moody. Short and fast read about a scifi future earth meeting a high magic culture. Doesn’t live up to its potential but has lots of good ideas, the brakys are a fun monsterous enemy, and I enjoyed it. There is a lot of good description, locations, magic items, monsters, etc to inspire you.

The Fourth Element Trilogy by Kat Ross. Love the necromancers. Some cheesy cliches you will see a mile away, but metaphysics were enjoyable, and the djinn were cool as both heroes and villains, but again best and most unique necromancers I’ve seen in more than a decade.