Good fantasy authors?

answers1:Piers Anthony, (born 1934) author of Xanth K.A. Applegate,
(born 1956) author of Everworld Patricia Briggs, author of Moon Called
and Blood Bound Kristen Britain, author of the Green Rider novels C.
Dale Brittain, author of the Yurt novels Susan Cooper, (born 1935)
author of the The Dark Is Rising Sequence David Anthony Durham, (born
1969) author of Acacia: The War With The Mein Charles G. Finney,
(1905-1984) author of The Circus of Dr. Lao Alan Garner, (born 1934)
author of Elidor and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Richard Garnett
(1835-1906) author of The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales Randall
Garrett, (born 1927) author of the Lord Darcy novels Jyoti Guptara,
(born 1988) twin co-author of Conspiracy of Calaspia Suresh Guptara,
(born 1988) twin co-author of Conspiracy of Calaspia E. T. A.
Hoffmann, (1776-1822) author of "The Nutcracker" and other fantastic
stories Brian Jacques, (born 1939) author of the Redwall series Tove
Jansson, (1914-2001) author of the Moomin novels Stephen King author
of The Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower Series Fritz Leiber,
(1910-1992) author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories Valery
Leith, (born 1968) pseudonym of Tricia Sullivan Madeleine L'Engle,
(1918-2007) author of A Wrinkle in Time Mervyn Peake, (1911-1968)
author of the Gormenghast series Melanie Rawn, (born 1954) author of
Dragon Prince Mickey Zucker Reichert, (pseudonym of Miriam Susan
Zucker Reichert, born 1962) Anne Rice, author of The Vampire
Chronicles Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
series Jennifer Roberson, author of the Cheysuli, and the Swordbreaker
series Katherine Roberts, (born 1962) author of The Echorium Sequence
trilogy Kenneth Robeson, (pseudonym of Lester Dent among others) Doc
Savage stories David Lee Stone, author of The Illmoor Chronicles Harry
Turtledove, (born 1949) author of the Videssos series and Darkness
series Tad Williams, (born 1957) author of the Memory, Sorrow, and
Thorn trilogy Terri Windling, (born 1958) author of the Bordertown
series Roger Zelazny, (1937-1995) author of The Chronicles of
Amber...Show more
answers2:The only fantasy series that really interested me were the
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Luv them! Don't get me wrong,
though, I know that there are tons of books out there that are
amazing, like the Lord of the Rings and Eragon and the Chronicles of
Narnia, but I never seemed to like them as much as Harry.
answers3:1. Kelly Culver - Read online at
www.bebo.com/unbreakablesword (Book - SariahSamari)2. Jeani Rector,
all books. My favorite is We All Fall Down. All books available on
Amazon.3. Rosemary Macleod, not much fantasy but still good, buy
online at www.turnermaxwellbook.com
answers4:The DragonLance novels by Weis/Hickman are amazing!!!!!
answers5:Some writers close to those you've listed: Steven Erikson is
a writer you didn't list rather close in the style of his vast epic to
Jordan or Martin. Fans of Howard are likely to enjoy his good friend
(they wrote for years but never actually met) H. P. Lovecraft.
Elizabeth Moon, who writes mostly Science Fiction but has written some
fantasy, is usually similar to Ann McCaffrey in approach. Marion
Bradley's Darkover series is likely to be a winner with fans of
McCaffrey's Pern. Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instrument series is one
that a fan of Rowling may well like. Another very popular SF book,
Ender's Game, has some striking similarities to Harry Potter. THere
are several sequels, of varying quality and mostly not centered on the
same themes as Ender's Game.All of the writers you list are people
I've read, and most I don't count among my own favorites, so you may
well not like my own favorite authors. But some of them are not yet
mentioned:Robin HobbJacqueline CareyKelley ArmstrongJuliet
McKennaSimon Green...Show more
answers6:The best writers are:George RR MartinJRR TolkienBrandon
SandersonPatrick RothfussStephen R. DonaldsonGuy Gavriel KayDave
DuncanRobin HobbL.E. Modesitt, Jr.Glen CookStephen EriksonRaymond E.
FeistJanny WurtsRobert JordanJacqueline CareyJuliet MarillierHowever,
there's stuff you might as well avoid.Dragonlance by Weis/Hickman
stunk. It's trash. Weis might have written better stories, but
Dragonlance has flaws: it's too obviously a Tolkien ripoff, which
isn't a deal-breaker by itself. However the storytelling is poor. The
viewpoint character will change several times on one pages; it is so
inconsistent that you feel like your mind is a basketball being passed
around during a game.Unless you are a militant feminist who enjoys
reading insults made to people because they are male, or about gender
roles sharply rearranged just to prove that you can write a story that
way, and a narrative that seizes upon any opportunity to glorify
homosexuality, then you might as well leave Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Darkover series unread.(To be fair, I should acknowledge that MZB
could have been a great fantasy writer -- if she had not prostituted
her talent in the service of a nasty feminist agenda. The one
first-class bit of writing by her that I know about is a filler for
JRR Tolkien's LOTR, in which she told the tale of Arwen's farewell to
her father Elrond. It is a scene that Tolkien left out of his trilogy.
Bradley wrote it, and she wrote it well, capturing Tolkien's ethereal
talespinning essence better than anyone else ever has. It's a shame
that she went all political as she did.About the same thing could be
said of Terry Goodkind. He could have been, well, at least pretty
good, but he turned preachy in his Sword of Truth series, so that as a
story it just plain isn't worth reading, except the first book:
Wizard's First Rule....Show more
answers7:You have to give Raymond E. Feist a try. He's brilliant. Some
others:Jacqueline CareyMarion Zimmer BradleySarah AshBrandson
Sanderson--one of my favoritesRussell KirkpatrickI'm really more of a
sci-fi kinda guy, but those, and half of what you posted, really hit
the spot....Show more
answers8:Also Terry Brooks