The Dragonbone Chair
The founding text of revisionist epic fantasy: George R. R. Martin has repeatedly credited it as the proof that the post-Tolkien form could carry moral complexity — A Song of Ice and Fire's acknowledged direct ancestor.
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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
by Tad Williams
Simon the scullion, three swords of legend and a dark lord whose grievance is justified: the revisionist epic that taught the next generation — Martin explicitly included — what the form could carry.