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C.J. Cherryh surprised no one else has voted for her yet :)
Ursula K. LeGuin
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i liked weiss and hickmans work on with the deathgate saga/cycle and also kate jacoby in a series( cant remember name but 1st book was exiles return. and apart from these two all other authors of books i have read have been male ,except J.K Rowling of course
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In no particular order...

Lois MacMaster Bujold
J.K. Rowling
Tanith Lee
Ursula K. LeGuin
Andre Norton

Honestly, I personally don't care for Marion Zimmer Bradley and Katherine Kurtz strikes me as the David Webber of fantasy--fun, but that's pretty much all I can say about her stuff.

Yeah, I'd give Mary Stewart an honorable mention for her Merlin series, too.
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Oo difficult one, but I would say Ursula Le Guin, Katherine Kerr, CJ Cherryh and Janny Wurts when she wrote Empire with Raymond Feist. used to read Ann McAffrey but not read that for a loooong time.
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I think Pamela Dean deserves a mention, though perhaps not a spot in the top 10.

Her stories were very rich with imagery, I enjoyed them very much. :)
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Anyone remember Elizabeth Boyer? I have at least 4 or five of her books. She had a pretty good fantasy selection back in the early eighties.

Not a very deep kind of writing, and all of her plots kind of had the same developments in her books, but...at least as I remember...for the time (and my age then), they were pretty enjoyable reads.
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I was looking through the prior names I mentioned and I noticed I didn't mention Carol Emshwiller, which was pretty stupid of me - so since someone brought this topic back, I feel the need to correct my prior oversight.
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In an attempt to rerain from promoting thread drift Im cruising through the old stuff, and find no mention of Elizabeth Moon here. Corrected.
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