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The 10 Most Ambitious High Fantasy Books of All Time, Ranked

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Few genres lend themselves better to hyper-ambitious ideas than high fantasy . This is, after all, a genre which liberates the writer from any of the constraints of real-world history, science, or logic, with stories set in worlds entirely outside the reader's reality . Vast imagined cultures…

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