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Fantasy as a genre is often unfairly maligned. While there are plenty of authors who seem to be paid by the word and are only concerned with churning out volume, there are many authors producing fantastic works that transcend genre and often are even worthy of the word literature. While there were many worthy contenders, here are what we consider to be the 10 greatest fantasy series of all time.
魔幻題材的小說常常遭到不公的非議。盡管確實存在不少貌似只是為了按字拿錢絞盡腦汁擴大篇幅的作者，同樣也有很多的作家創作出了無以倫比的作品，有些甚至可以被奉為文學瑰寶。
10. The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan 《時光之輪》——羅伯特.喬丹
I could probably write several pages on what's wrong with The Wheel of Time (Jordan never could write female characters, the quality fell off a cliff after book four, the series should have ended many, many books ago, etc., etc.), but the positives of the series greatly outweigh the negatives. The Wheel of Time was made for those who like their fantasy writ large, and The Wheel of Time fulfills that desire epicly. You won't find a more in depth work (which has it's downsides as well, every new book release begs for a rereading of the incredibly long series since it's nearly impossible to keep track of every minor character) and Jordan clearly takes as much pleasure in world building as any fantasy author since Tolkien. As previously mentioned, WoT has a huge cast, a fully realized world with dozens of races and nations, and a huge tapestry of plot lines that combine to form one of the greatest fantasy series of all time. It's a shame that Jordan didn't live to complete it, but hopefully Brandon Sanderson will bring the series to a satisfying conclusion.
我很容易就可以找出《時光之輪》的種種敗筆（比如喬丹不擅長刻畫女性角色；從第四部開始整體質量就開始急速下降；這個系列早在很久之前就應該終結；等等等等），但這部作品的正面影響遠遠大過其不足之處。《時光之輪》是為那些喜歡幻想巨著的人創作的，這本書極大地滿足了這些人對魔幻的渴望。你不可能再找到另外一部在深度上可與之并提的作品（當然也有它的短板，每本新書發售都得重讀之前的章節，因為你不可能記住每個微小的角色（再括號：我去...十幾本磚頭那）），且喬丹顯然像自托爾金之后的任何一個魔幻作家一樣，熱衷于構建世界。像之前提到過的，《時光之輪》有一個龐大的角色陣容，一個完全真實的擁有數十個種族和國家的世界，通過龐雜的分支相互交錯串聯從而組成史上最偉大的魔幻系列。很遺憾喬丹生前沒有完成這部巨著，希望布蘭頓.桑德森能夠帶給這個系列一個令人滿意的結局。
