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Epic Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel world. It is most commonly considered to be the same genre as High Fantasy, since they share many of the same elements, but Epic Fantasy takes the story even farther, in a bigger and more epic way (e.g. the stakes are greater; the land/world is in peril; a great evil threatens the world; the conflict shakes all who dwell in the world of the story).

Epic Fantasy became more famous through the works of such as: Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, Terry B ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Epic Fantasy"

Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
The Sunlit Man
The Jasad Crown (The Scorched Throne, #2)
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
Lady of Darkness (Lady of Darkness, #1)
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
Catch the Sun
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve (He Who Fights with Monsters, #12)
The Dead Guy Next Door (Riley Thorn #1)
The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War, #2.5)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
Three Shattered Souls (The Broken Blades, #3)
Don't Be In Love
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
Four Ruined Realms (The Broken Blades, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
Bloodline (Cradle, #9)
Death of the Author
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
I Am Not Jessica Chen
A Language of Dragons
The Primal Hunter 5 (The Primal Hunter, #5)
The Primal Hunter 4 (The Primal Hunter, #4)
Sunday Morning (Sunday Morning, #1)
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
The Half King (The Half King, #1)
The Primal Hunter 11 (The Primal Hunter, #11)
The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)
The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)
The Primal Hunter 8 (The Primal Hunter #8)
Heretical Fishing (Heretical Fishing, #1)
The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)
The Nightshade God (The Nightshade Crown, #3)
Faithbreaker (Fallen Gods, #3)
Smoke and Scar (Shattered Crown, #1)
Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
The Primal Hunter 10 (The Primal Hunter #10)
The Primal Hunter 6 (The Primal Hunter #6)
Mark of the Fool 3 (Mark of the Fool, #3)
Mark of the Fool 2 (Mark of the Fool, #2)
Immortal
Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)
Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle, #3)
Mark of the Fool 4 (Mark of the Fool #4)
Defiance of the Fall (Defiance of the Fall, #1)
The In-Between Bookstore
The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)
Magical Midlife Awakening (Leveling Up, #9)
Defiance of the Fall 3 (Defiance of the Fall, #3)
Mark of the Fool 5 (Mark of the Fool #5)
Winter Solstice (The Wandering Inn, #4)
Azarinth Healer: Book One (Azarinth Healer, #1)
Defiance of the Fall 4 (Defiance of the Fall, #4)
Midlife in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #1)
Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)
Threshold: Stories from Cradle
Helen of Wyndhorn
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
Azarinth Healer: Book Two (Azarinth Healer, #2)
A Shadow Crown (The Halfling Saga, #2)
Storm & Shield (Mages of the Wheel, #2)
Cursebound (Faebound, #2)
Defiance of the Fall 2 (Defiance of the Fall, #2)
Anji Kills a King (The Rising Tide, #1)
The Torch that Ignites the Stars (Arcane Ascension, #3)
A Brief History of Chronomancy (Arcane Ascension, #6)
The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads, #1)
City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
Defiance of the Fall 5 (Defiance of the Fall, #5)
The Path of Ascension (The Path of Ascension #1)
The Aspect of Essence (The Aelfyn Archives, #1)
The Last Light (The Wandering Inn, #5)
What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball
Defiance of the Fall 6 (Defiance of the Fall, #6)
A Queen Comes to Power (An Heir Comes to Rise, #2)
Tears of Liscor (The Wandering Inn, #9)
The Silence of Unworthy Gods (Arcane Ascension, #4)
The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)
The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
Hell's Wardens (The Wandering Inn, #14)
Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
An Honored Vow (The Halfling Saga, #4)
Long Live the Elf Queen (The Elf Queen, #2)
The Traitor (Covenant of Steel, #3)
System Change (System Universe #1)
The Path of Ascension 2 (The Path of Ascension #2)
Dragon Rider (The Soulbound Saga #1)
The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy
Daindreth's Outlaw (Daindreth's Assassin, #2)
The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

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Quotes Tagged “Epic Fantasy”

Kevin James Breaux
“ Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most. ”
― Kevin James Breaux, Blood Divided
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Holly Black
“ Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far. ”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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