Tolkien (of course!) (Fantasy)
Robin Hobbs (Fantasy)
Terry Goodkind (Fantasy)
J.V. Jones (Fantasy)
David Eddings (Fantasy)
Stephen Lawhead (Fantasy? He crosses over to historical sometimes)
Parke Godwin (Fantasy)
George R. Martin (Fantasy Up there with Jones and Hobbs)
J.K. Rowling (Fantasy) (Harry Potter) (For those of you who don't have children;
She is going to turn a lot of young readers on to Fantasy and SF)
Andre Norton (SF)
Robert Heilien (SF)
Orson Scott Card (SF)
Robert Adams (Horseclan Series) (just found out he is dead) (SF)
Dean Ing (SF)
Brian Lumly (Horror)
Stephen King (Horror)
Clive Cussler (Adventure. Dirk Pitt is way better than James Bond!!!)
Robert Ludlum (Adventure)
Stephen Hunter (Adventure)
Tom Clancy (Adventure)
Michael Crichton (Adventure)
W.E.B. Griffith (War) (He has several great series! Very readable)

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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons
if you are crunchy and good with ketchup!

Raymond Feist Rules!!!!!!!!
He is a lot better then Tolkien.

i must agree raymond e feist is f*^@#n brilliant writer and he is understated by a lot of people. also salvatore is a good one even tho he maybe a bit more of a teenagers writer i still like his books.
Stephen donaldson
David Gemmel
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Dean Koontz
Kathleen o gear and micheal o gear
Katherine Kerr
and many others
i dont like a lot of those lonelty enod of the world books where an individual has to hide in the shadows and try and save a world consumed by darkness kind of thing.

Number one favourite is Jane Austen. I also like Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, Paul Auster, Clive Barker, Faye Kellerman (but not her husband Jonathon), Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle. I'm also a very big fan of children's fantasy, including Susan Cooper, Michael Ende, Maurice Gee, Margaret Mahy, Robert C O'Brien, Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1001 Arabian Nights.

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OOPS!!!!!! the Arabian Nights stories can hardly be called *children's* tales! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/FRblush.gif http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/FRblush.gif http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif


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Your voice is ambrosia

My favorite authors are Michael A. Stackpole for the Battletech and Star Wars Novels. Timothy Zahn for the Star Wars Novels. And my all time Favorite Author is Patricia Kennealy Morrison. If you want to see what books she has see my post in The AD&D books and other rpg books forum

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R. A. Salvatore
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
John Grisham
Shirley MacLaine
Sylvia Browne
Sue Grafton

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Seeker of Truth

My little list. Not in order of preference but of memory!
Tolkien
Mary Stewart
Piers Anthony
Diana Wynn Jones
Anne McCaffrey
C S Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Ray Bradbury
Robin Hobb
Jean M Auel
Ellis Peters
Stephen Donaldson
Isaac Azimov
Philip Jose Farmer
Douglas Adams
Rudyard Kipling
Rider Haggard
John Buchan
Ben Jonson
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mike Resnick
Tad Williams
William Hoarwood
Lindsey Davis
Harry Harrison
E Nesbit
Brian Jaques
Georgette Heyer (sorry about that!)
R F Delderfield
Leslie Thomas
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur Ransome
Ursula Le Guin
Mervyn Peake
Robert Jordan
Jenny Nimmo
Mary Renault
Clifford Simak...

memory has dried up for the moment, lol!

Hm. It occurs to me that several of the above would be a tad surprised to find themselves keeping company with the rest, lol! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif
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hmm..
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Arthur C. Clarke (2001, 2010 ,2061 and 3001 Odysseys)
Stephen King (even if the films of his books turn out shite)
Michael Crichton (The Jurassic Park/Lost World books are MUCH better than the films)

Tom Wolfe.

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My hopes lie dashed,
Crushed from high above,
My dreams lie shattered, my heart broken,
A casulty on a battlefield called love.