favorite science fiction/ffantasy authors - what are yours?

[jkoney65]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" <Schlobin at ...> wrote:
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> Here are mine:
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> Tied for first place J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling
> 2 - C. S. Lewis
> 3 - Robert Heinlein
> 4 - Marian Zimmer Bradly
> 5 - Mercedes Lacky
> 6 - Robin McKinley
> 7 - Madeleine L'Engle
> 8 - Susan Cooper
> 
> and here are some others in no particular order, Poul Anderson,
> Isaac Asmiov, T.H. White, Sheri Tepper, Octavia Butler, Andre Norton, Charles de Lint, Orson Scott Card, Ursula LeGuin, E.E. Smith,
> Lord Dunsany, 
> 
> Yours?
>

jkoney:
I couldn't possibly rank them since they change so frequently.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Eddings: One of the most detailed fantasy worlds after Tolkien
Eric Flint: The 1632 world and also the Bellisarius series
David Webber
David Drake
John Ringo

If Mercedes Lackey could end a story in more than two pages I would like her alot more.