Fantasy:
The late Robert Jordan
Terry Goodkind
Raymond Feist
Katherine Kurtz
Frank L. Baum
Susan B Cooper
Roger Zelazny
Lloyd Alexander
JRR Tolkein
Ursula LeGuin
David Eddings
Robert Asprin
Edgar Rice Bourroughs
Michael Moorcock
Sci Fi:
Doc Smith
Fred Saberhagen
Jules Verne
George Orwell
Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
Ray Bradbury
CS Lewis = #1 in Christian Allegory
Harry Turtledove = #1 in Alternative History
Me = #1 unpublished author :)
Yo, thanks, I forgot all about Doc Smith. Read his entire series in high school, run through them like a freight train about the same time I read Burroughs’ Mars stuff. Doc Smith, good memories!