the library ladder | This Fantasy Author Deserves More Recognition and Acclaim @thelibraryladder | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Why are the finalists for the major, annual fantasy awards (e.g., Nebula, World Fantasy Award, Locus) sometimes populated with unremarkable authors and books, while much better writers and works go unrecognized?

This video highlights a fantasy author who, in my opinion, is the greatest English language practitioner of the art working today, but who rarely, if ever, is on the ballot for awards, despite producing consistently high quality novels for decades.

I hope to introduce this author to more readers.

[NOTE: This is a slightly modified re-upload of a video I made in January 2022. Due to complaints about the audio mix in that video, I've improved the audio in this new version and addressed a couple of visual elements that needed fixing. Otherwise, the content of this video is the same as the original's.]

A second video in which I discuss each of this author's books and rank them into tiers for your reading enjoyment is linked here: youtu.be/WoFYvjIDaCM.



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Guy Gavriel Kay is the greatest living fantasy author writing in the English language today.