I'm not sure Naomi Novik counts as epic fantasy, but it has dragons and politics!
And for fantasy that… I don't remember if it has dragons, honestly… Ricardo Pinto's Stone Dance of the Chameleon series has one that's not based in a pseudo-European culture and avoids the clichés that way. I seem to recall that it's fairly epic and political? Could be wrong, though.
Lynn Flewelling's Tamir Trilogy is fairly epic fantasy and more politics and saving the kingdom (well, queendom, actually) than her Nightrunner series.
uhhh.
Kate Elliot's Crown of Stars series was really interesting, IIRC! It's been years, though; I need to reread. Definitely the most epic and the most political of these recs-- there are seven books and they are all huge.
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Date: 2010-06-07 04:37 pm (UTC)And for fantasy that… I don't remember if it has dragons, honestly… Ricardo Pinto's Stone Dance of the Chameleon series has one that's not based in a pseudo-European culture and avoids the clichés that way. I seem to recall that it's fairly epic and political? Could be wrong, though.
Lynn Flewelling's Tamir Trilogy is fairly epic fantasy and more politics and saving the kingdom (well, queendom, actually) than her Nightrunner series.
uhhh.
Kate Elliot's Crown of Stars series was really interesting, IIRC! It's been years, though; I need to reread. Definitely the most epic and the most political of these recs-- there are seven books and they are all huge.