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05-01-2004, 08:06 AM
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Bridgette -- shame on you for forgetting my favorite genre! 
Same rules -- the first ten fantasy authors that come to mind. Mine are in a separate post.
Bob |
05-01-2004, 08:09 AM
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1. J. R. R. Tolkien
2. E. R. Eddison
3. Mervyn Peake
4. Steven Brust
5. Charles de Lint
6. Orson Scott Card
7. Anne Bishop
8. Patricia A. McKillip
9. Jane Lindskold
10. Sean Russell |
05-01-2004, 08:57 AM
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1. Melanie Rawn
2. Laurell K. Hamilton (though she's more horror)
3. Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Mercedes Lackey (feh)
5. Terry Brooks (feh as well)
6. J.R.R. Tolkien
7. C.S. Lewis
8. Piers Anthony
9. Robert Asprin
10. Terry Pratchett
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05-01-2004, 11:47 AM
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Maybe we should start another thread for "Fantasy Writers (feh)"
(I am so glad to know that someone else thinks Mercedes Lackey is a waste of paper.)
Bob |
05-01-2004, 10:36 PM
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Terry Pratchett
Anne McCaffrey
Marian Zimmer Bradley
J.R.R. Tolkien
Diana Wynn-Jones
Piers Anthony
C.S. Lewis |
05-01-2004, 11:00 PM
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Piers Anthony
Douglas Adams
L. Sprague DeCamp
C.S. Lewis
Lloyd Alexander
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ack, I got interrupted and then forgot to come back to this window. So my list isn't quite a straight stream-of-consciousness effort
Katherine Kurtz
Anne McCaffrey
Laura Resnick
Diane Duane
wow, I got on a women of fantasy kick there at the end |
05-02-2004, 10:13 AM
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Just for fun, I decided to push the envelope a little bit -- the writers below all have at least one work that can be considered fantasy:
1. William Shakespeare
2. Jonathan Swift
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Sir Thomas Malory
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Christopher Marlowe
7. Sir Edmund Spencer
8. Edgar Allen Poe (fantasy/horror, actually, I guess)
9. John Milton
10. Thomas Pynchon |
05-02-2004, 10:48 AM
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Jack Vance
JRR Tolkien
U. Le Guin
S. Donaldson
R. Zelazny
Andre Norton
The first two come to my mind way faster than anyone else. |
05-02-2004, 08:03 PM
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Quote: | rmthunter said
Just for fun, I decided to push the envelope a little bit -- the writers below all have at least one work that can be considered fantasy:
1. William Shakespeare
2. Jonathan Swift
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Sir Thomas Malory
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Christopher Marlowe
7. Sir Edmund Spencer
8. Edgar Allen Poe (fantasy/horror, actually, I guess)
9. John Milton
10. Thomas Pynchon | So have these writers:
Rudyard Kipling
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gabriel García Márquez
James Thurber
G.K. Chesterton
Mark Twain
Walter Scott
Ambrose Bierce
Saki
Franz Kafka
Guy de Maupassant
Edith Wharton
Voltaire |
05-03-2004, 04:47 PM
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| | Re: Word/Author Association: Fantasy | |
Thank you for picking up the ball. There are lots of genres I haven't gotten to yet, but I didn't want to swamp the forum. 
OK, here are the first 10 that come to mind:
1. Ursula K LeGuin
2. J.R.R. Tolkein
3. David Eddings
4. Terry Goodkind
5. Terry Pratchett
6. Lloyd Alexander
7. L.E. Modesett
8. C.S. Lewis
9. Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. J.K. Rowling
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05-03-2004, 11:11 PM
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1. J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Terry Pratchett
3. George R.R. Martin
4. Terry Brooks*
5. David Eddings**
6. Meredith Ann Piece
7. Melanie Rawn
8. Mercedes Lackey*
9 Robert Jordan**
10. Garth Nix
* Feh.
** Double feh. |
05-03-2004, 11:33 PM
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1. Margaret Weiss
2. Tracy Hickman
3. David Eddings
4. Piers Anthony
5. Terry Brooks
6. R. A. Salvatore
7. Anne McCaffrey
8. Robert Jordan
9. Richard A. Knaak
10. C. S. Lewis
There is a disproportionate number of authors from the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms series, as this was my main staple of reading for my formative pre-teen through teen years! Thanks,
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