Best Fantasy Authors (Vanity)

5/15/03 | bondserv

[bondserv]

Who are some of your favorite Fantasy authors, and their best books. I am looking for authors that might write in a similar style as some on my list.

My list:

Tolkien - Rings Series

Stephen Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series

Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time Series

Terry Brooks - Shanara Series

Terry Goodkind - Sword of truth Series

Joel Rosenberg - Guardians of the Flame Series

David Eddings - Belgariad/Malloreon/Elenium/Tamuli

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. - The Saga of Recluce Series

Robin Hobb - Farseer Series

Tad Williams - Dragonbone Chair

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What are some science fiction books that women would like? I don't want anything with a misogynist sensibility (like what I've heard about Heinlein).

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[Tax-chick]

Wow, it's been a long time since this went up! My oldest daughter has been reading books by Tamora Pierce ... young-adult stuff, quite clean. I got Steven Brust's "The Lord of Castle Black" from the library fairly recently.

Other than that it's been months of history and political reading. The book about the Florida presidential election, "At Any Cost" was quite riveting, a real nail-biting page turner :-). I had to keep reminding myself, "It's over and we won!"

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Thanks! I'll check them out. :)

[SunTzuWu]

I seem to remember you were reading the Wheel Of Time series. I thought you would like to know that Vol. 11 is being released on 10/11/05. The link is to Amazon.

[Maigrey]

I plan on being at the bookstore that day to buy it.
Amazon would take too dang long!
(I'm an avid Jordan fan, having read the series 3 times now...)

[MacMolge]

I just read a book by "Paul Kearney", the first in his new series called "The Mark of Ran", do yourself a favor and give that book a shot, i wasn't disappointed, its pretty good.

[Blask]

Two people who you should definitely check out are JV Jones, particularly her sword of shadows series (I’d rate her as highly as Robert Jordan or George RR Martin), and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series (who I believe is who Robert Jordan chose to finish off WoT). Frustratingly neither of these series are complete yet so you may want to wait a bit!

My favourites otherwise, who have already been mentioned are Martin and Jordan, Ian Irvine and Robin Hobb. Could anyone recommend similar authors to these? Particularly Martin, who I really enjoyed with the complexity of plot, politics and characters and also the underplaying of magic. This I have found much like Bernard Cornwell’s King Arthur series. I’ve heard Steven Erikson is comparable to Martin also.

I have to say I’ve tried Terry Goodkind, Raymond E. Feist and David Eddings (who I loved as a teenager but recently re-read) only to be disappointed by their simplicity in plot and character dialogue (something that really gets to me!)