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Who is the best fantasy writer in all of your opinions. When I say best I mean will keep my attention reading and actually make me want to continue reading and miss dinner.
~Josh
~Josh
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Ainulindale said:I think Martin is the best epic fantasy author IMHO, which perhaps puts him in the top 25 overalll curently IMHO. If we are talking current author's, here are the 20 who I think are the best:
Jefrey Ford
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Sean Stewart
, Terry Goodkind, ... are utter geniuses. Without them, we would never have the fantasy genre .
I'm not so sure on that next statement though - why wouldn't we have the fantasy genre without them? If we're looking for a "creator" of the fantasy genre, in the publishing sense, it would be Terry Brooks, who wrote his "Shannara" series in 1977, which opened the way for publishers to see it as profitable to form a fantasy genre. There have been fantasy novels for much longer, though, and many other important authors, like Tolkien, Moorcock, Howard and others contributed to creating a fantasy genre. Goodkind started writing too late to have any effect on creating it, and his significance is really overshadowed by that of Robert Jordan's, who started his series a few years earlier.
What, no Mervyn Peake?
If we are talking current author's
Ah... then, Still, I have another author for you. Lois McMaster Bujold. Her fantasy, not scifi, although that's very good too.StillILearn said:I took (and take) your word for it, ds. I trust you!