Kevin's Watch

C.J. Cherryh surprised no one else has voted for her yet
Ursula K. LeGuin

Warmark wrote:in my primary school the was Biff, Chip and Kipper - Kipper being a dog not a walking talking fish.

So......were Biff and Chip, uhh.....were they close?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In an attempt to rerain from promoting thread drift Im cruising through the old stuff, and find no mention of Elizabeth Moon here. Corrected.