non-human stories

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:03:40 -0500


> What if I look for a "serious" and "epic" fantasy tale
> where the humans are not the star?
>
> I don't rem any, at the moment.

Stephen Brust's books 'The Phoenix Guards' and 'Five Hundred Years After', written in the style of Dumas, have no important human characters. The hero of his Vlad Taltos stories is human, but he spends most of the books in an elven-dominated society and many of the other characters are elves.

In SF, several of CJ Cherryh's books are set in alien societies with any human characters described solely from the alien viewpoint.

Andrew

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