@TheEdVerse I hope you're doing tremendously! I stumbled upon your videos recently and am very grateful for all your contributions. If you don't mind, I wonder if you've ever shared your favorite fantasy books/films. Would be great to hear your "Appendix N."

Oh, yes, I've shared my essential books list many times, here and elsewhere. It's about four hundred titles too long for Twitter, though...

I would start with the works of Guy Gavriel Kay, Terry Pratchett, Lord Dunsany, Tolkien, Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley, Peter S. Beagle, and Roger Zelazny. Then The Face In The Frost by John Bellairs, Julian May's Pliocene Exile and Metaconcert series. For starters. :}

Then Jack Vance's fantasy works (and the pastiches by Michael Shea, Jim Webster, and Matthew Hughes), Fritz Leiber's Fahfrd & Mouser tales, LeGuin's Earthsea series, Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff, and Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series.

Then turn back to Julian May for her Boreal Moon saga, Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique & Xiccarph series, Poul Andersons' Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Broken Sword, and The High Crusade, and...we're off and running. :}

Running where? Well, to C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry series, Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis tales, the novels of J.V. Jones, and Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni saga. Then C.J. Cherryh’s Morgaine novels (Gate of Ivrel, et al) and her Merovingen Nights series. Whereupon it would be time to...