Kevin's Watch

I just copied this from da Hangar, but who cares. Whos is YOUR favorite author of all time?? Not just fantasy....but Im sure itll be a fantasy author..hehe, but who is it?

J.R.R. Tolkien.

The others (in no particular order) include C.S. Lewis, Stephen Donaldson, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Steve Jackson & Ian Livingston, and Sarah Douglas (Australian fantasy author!), David Eddings etc etc... there's more but I can't think of them right now.

I cannot say I have one favourite. It depends on the genre and I appreciate a wide range of styles.

I like these and more:

Michael Moorcock
Aldous Huxley
Norman Spinrad
Mervyn Peake
SRD
Gene Wolfe
Julian May
Azimov

There's so many. I'll add and edit as I go

Tolkien is awesome! First fantasy/sci fi(?) I read. I also enjoyed the Dragon Bone Chair series by Tad Williams and destiny series by Elizabeth Hayden. Tad Williams has a gift sim to Tolkien in the imagry & languages he makes up, I would recomend 2 anyone! (trilogy except book3 is 2 parts). Eliz. Hayden is good - first book was tough to get through, but moved along after that.

I've read Hobbit/LOTR more times than I can count. Silmarillion is good too, though I always had a slow read thru - only read it 2 or 3 times. Maybe I'll reread after the Covenent series.... so many words, so little time....

Give Tad Williams a read - been thru it 4 times in 2 years

Tolkien but a close 2nd goes to Mary Stewart and Alan Dean Foster.

C.S Lewis is number one!! All of your authors are cool too!

SRD
David Zindell
Walter Jon Williams
Tolkien
David Brin
John Varley
Frank Herbert
George R. R. Martin
Tom Robbins
Douglass Adams
H.P. Lovecraft
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Priest
Robert Anton Wilson
Cormack McCarthy
Issac Assimov
Tad Williams
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
Herman Hesse
E. R. Eddison
Roger Zelazny
Jack London
Fredrick Pohl
Dr. Suess
Ursula K. LeGuin
yeah! C. S. Lewis 2!!!!

Tolkien
George R.R. Martin
Donaldson
Steven Erikson
Jack Vance
Asimov
PK Dick

A more complete list than the one I posted on the Watch:

Orson Scott Card
Garth Nix
Philip Pullman
Tolkien
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Stephen R. Donaldson

There are more, but I'm too lazy to go look at my bookcase and see what books are there...

~Foamy~

In no particular order...

OK, in more-or-less chronological order...

Stephen Donaldson, of all people - first fantasy/SF author I read
Anne McCaffrey
David Eddings
J. R. R. Tolkien
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Death Gate more than Dragonlance)
Robert Jordan
Roger Zelazny
George R. R. Martin
H. P. Lovecraft

...and probably some others I missed.

Lets see...

Steven R. Donaldson
Robert Jordan
David Eddings
Orson Scott Card (Enders Game rules)
Douglass Adams
Harry Turtledove

-jay

SRD of course
Julian May
G.R.R Martin
Brian Lumly
F.Paul Wilson
Philip Jose Farmer
Roger Zelazny
Richard Laymon
Harper Lee (for the best book ever)

Tequila Mockingbird?

LOL, Danlo.

Stephen R Donaldson
George R R Martin
J R R Tolkien
Tad Williams
Jack Vance
Robin Hobb

Fantasy/sci-fi:
SRD
Philip Pullman
Terry Bisson

Non-genre fiction:
Kent Haruf
Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison

Weird guys:
Richard Brautigan
Kurt Vonnegut

Mysteries:
Tony Hillerman

Holdovers from when I was younger:
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Bronte

I guess you would call my taste eclectic....

I don't have a favourite author, but I do have a list of favourite authors:

Iain Banks
C.J.Cherryh
Stephen R Donaldson
H.P.Lovecraft
Olaf Stapledon
H.G.Wells
Gene Wolfe

Ooh, another Pullman fan! aliantha, which books by Pullman have you read? The His Dark Materials books are probably my favorite books ever.

~Foamy~

Well, this is an old discussion but since I am new I will post a little list of my own.

Now my favourite author is Stephen Donaldson, but this is more a matter of choice. He is definitely not my choice of reading for all occasions. Quite the contrary.

But I also have a good opinion of these following authors:
Tolkien (of course)
Barbara Hambly (check out the Witches of Wenshar)
Tanya Huff (enjoyable but light fantasy and SF)
Raymond Feist (Magician and Silverthorn, the quality goes downhill from there)
Patricia Wrede (Mairelon The Magician)
Barry Hughhart (The Bridge of Birds and Eight Skilled Gentlemen)
Lois McMaster Bujold (Just about everything. my favorite is Memory)
Janni Wurts (The Mistwraith Saga is epic.)
Jim Butcher (also quite light contemporary fantasy, a little bit reminiscent of the Anita Blake series, which incidentally is a little bit heavy on the sex and low on the plot for my taste)
C.S. Friedman (The Coldfire Triology, a quite novel approach to several fantasy themes)
Roger Zelazny (Amber is good, at least the first five books.)
David Weber (quite good, but the latest books are far too long and the plots far to difficult to follow.)

Not in any particular order:
Stephen R. Donaldson
JRR Tolkein
George RR Martin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Tony Hillerman
Nevada Barr
William Shakespeare
Mary Stewart
Barabara Tuchman
Jeff Shaara