Dragaera

A question re: Begining Fantacy for Youth

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Sat Nov 23 19:00:36 PST 2002

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, H. T. wrote:

>Since it appears the majority of everyone that had typed in the
>discussion of "fantasy" had began reading fantasy when they were
>still young I thought I might ask what is appropriate for a young
>fantasy reader? 

I think most of the books on this page:

   http://www.starscapebooks.com/

would be appropriate.  I have only read about 8 of them, but they were
all ranging from "very good" to "stellar" in quality.  The taste of
whoever is choosing these books [1] seems to be spot-on for stories
that have an all-ages appeal.

By the way, Starscape books is an imprint of Tor Publishing, who also
bring us the books by that Hungarian guy who occasionaly posts here. [2]

[1] All of the ones that I read were actually published elsewhere; the
current editions are reprints.

[2] Some of the authors are friends of this guy, too.  There's an
in-joke in one of the books ["Magician's Ward"], where some books in a
library were pulled out by a would-be thief.   One of them was "Apres
Cinq Cent Ans".