Best Authors

[Milamber]

Hey everyone.
With that best series post up the other day I thought I'd ask the followup question: Who is everyone's favourite author(s)??

I'd have to say my three favourites would be (in order):
Orson Scott Card:D
Raymond E. Feist :cool:
Robert Jordan:)

All fantasy and all great writers who give you more than just a storyline (i.e. :grumbles: David Eddings)

So, who are yours and why? And if for one book in particular, which one?

Milamber

[Arawis]

Terry Brooks
Philip Pullman
Robert Jordan

(yes thats in order)

[Berk]

Robert Jordan
Margaret Weis


After those two, I just have favorite books which are:

The Stand
Kane and Abel
The Bourne Identity
If Tomorrow Comes
Lightning
As the Crow Flies

[talyn rahl]

me list (In no perticular order)
Robert Jordan.
David Eddings.
Philip Pullman.
Chuck Palanuik (sp?)
William Gibson.
Margret Wies and Tracy Hickman. (Only together, i read sum sepertae stuff and it wasn't as good).
many many other who i can't remember

[Berk]

Actually, Terry Hickmans lone attempts sucked but Margaret Weis's lone shot:

The Star of the Guardian Series

I thought was better than any other she wrote.

[talyn rahl]

hmmmm never read star of the gaurdian series is it better then the Dragon lance series coz the would be hard to beat

[Byrn]

Robert Jordan
Stephen R. Donaldson
J.R.R. Tolkien
Terry Pratchett
Roger Zelazny
Barbara Hambly
Douglas Adams
Terry Brooks
Piers Anthony
...just to name a few

[Berk]

It was better than even the Dragonlance 6.

However, it is science fiction and not fantasy.

[Vivacia]

Mine would probably be ( in no particular order)

Robert Jordan
George R.R. Martin
Anne McCaffrey (the first Pern novels)
R.A. Salvatore ( Drizzt, of course)
Jean Auel
Diana Gabaldon
Melanie Rawn
Jennifer Roberson
Robin Hobb
Elizabeth Kerner
Stephen King
L. Ron Hubbard ( Battlefield Earth ROCKS!)
Weis and Hickman
Stephen Hawking

and a few others I can't think of right now
:rolleyes:

[talyn rahl]

ooooooooh i don't really read sci-fi, coz thats the Genre i like to write in, so if i don't read it i can't be accused of copying :) and i dig the whole magic thing, which sci-fi seems to be a little low on might give it a try tho

[Nachtnoir]

Ok, this is a hard one, there are so many great writers out there. But I'll try to list my favorites.

Robert A. Heinlein
Phillip K. Dick
Alfred Bester
H.P. Lovecraft
James White
Michael Moorcock
Fritz Lieber
Anne Rice
Stephen King
Algernon Blackwood
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Frank Herbert
Robert Jordan
Alan Moore
Harlan Ellison
Richard Mathieson
William Shakespeare
Issac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke

[Tayhlon]

Hmmmm.

My favorites:

Robert Jordan
Terry Prachett
Roger Zelazny
Anne McCaffrey
Orson Scott Card
Neil Gaiman

there are others, I just can't seem to think of them......

[astraea]

Anne Rice, Robert Jordan, Sharon Penman and Donna Tartt (The Secret History, anyone? That should be recomended reading for all students...)

[Jacob]

I have a hard time making these lists, it may depend abit on my mood at the time. However...(in order of reading them, not ranking)

J.R.R. Tolkien.
Astrid Lindgren's "The brothers Lionheart"
Stephen Donaldsons "Cronicles..."
Robert Jordan.
Terry Pratchet.
George R.R. Martin.


I wonder, how DARN small a world is the WWW: A few years back I knew of a Milambar from South Africa who also used to visit the Feist Board....are you the very same??

[Dashiva]

I have to say that George R. R. Martin tops my list, his world is so real, it sucks you in by not explaining all the details but having a sense of rationality and consistency that I have found in no other fantasy world before or since. I can actually dream his characters with some degree of accuracy. After taht, I think Robert Jordan, Tolkein (all bow to the master), Terry Brooks, and Margaret Weis. It pains me to say it, but, as much as I love the Sword of Truth series, Goodkind is a writer of at best mediocre talents who sucks up RJ's work and pornographies it (is that even a word?). I would not read anything else by him.

[The Tourist]

My personal favourites are

Stephen King
Robert Jordan
J R R Tolkien
Alex Garland (although I've only read 2 of his books)

[radarofpolo]

This is kinda hard but I would have to say:

Robert Jordan
Terry Brooks
Mike Stackpole
Phillip Pullman
Tolkin

just off the top of my head. i know i missed some, oh well.

[mindphone]

Originally posted by Dashiva
I have to say that George R. R. Martin tops my list, his world is so real, it sucks you in by not explaining all the details but having a sense of rationality and consistency that I have found in no other fantasy world before or since.

agreed. george r.r. martin writes the most amazing fantasy literature i have ever read. absolutely astounding work.

i also enjoy:

guy gabriel kay
rj (obviously)
terry goodkind
tad williams (very underrated)
john marco
terry brooks
david farland
robin hobb

[talyn rahl]

i have to re-submit Chuck Palanuik, wow ive re-read fight club so many times the pages and gettin loose, its a book beyond all others, a rare and truely precious peice, i say again wow

[Alexia]

I would have to list one of my most favourite authors is Juliet Marilier. Her books have a lot of culture in them, as well as magic etc. I really enjoy reading her books and would recommend them to others as well.

[Knight]

My favorites are:

1) Terry Pratchett
2) J.R.R. Tolkien
3) C.S. Lewis
4) George R.R. Martin
5) Robert Jordan

[James]

in no particular order:

Neil Gaiman
Robert Jordan (duh)
Terry Pratchett
Anne Rice
Terry Goodkind
Terry Brooks
Steven King
Richard Laymon (sick but amusing)
Eric van Lustbader ('Ninja' rocks)
Ayn Rand
Dean Koontz
Edgar Allen Poe
others whose names I forget

[Rosanna-Sedi]

My favourites are:-

Robert Jordan
Terry Pratchet
Tad Williams
Anne McCaffrey
Melanie Rawn
Mikey Zucker Riechart (I think thats how you spell it)
The author who wrote the Dune books

There are many others that deserve a mention but thier names elude me.

[James]

Oh yeah, and

Margaret Weis & Tracey Hickman
ummm, that guy, you know, wrote books

[Sorrowmind]

Robert Jordan
David Eddings
R.A. Salvatore ( Am I the only one in here, who reads his works??? )
Robin Hobb

I could try read Terry Pratchett when I have time...

[James]

David Eddings, that's the guy

[lan sam]

Brian Jacques
Robert Jordan
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
C.S. Lewis
And the one that wrote A Wrinle In Time. Damn it! I can never remember her name!(:+(-)

[lan sam]

Oh yeah, Edgar Allen Poe

[val7]

it's Madeline L'Engle (sp?)

1. GRRM :D
2. Terry Pratchett
3. RJ
4. Weis and Hickman (new additon to my list :))

non-fantasy:
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Dante Alighieri (sp?) (if you can call him an author... I guess he's more of a poet...)

:)

[Sparrow]

J.R.R. Tolkien
Douglas Adams
Frans G. Bengtsson
Robert Jordan
Terry Pratchett
Stephen Donaldson

[Burkshifter]

Uh...

Terry Brooks
Robert Jordan
Stephen King
J. Gregory Keyes
Michael A. Stackpole
J. K. Rowling
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

Not in order. I don't have orders.