Fantasy Fans, i have run out of Authors... help!

Agree with Patrick Rothfuss, Hugh Howey, GRRM, Mark Lawrence.

Have you read Robin Hobb's other pseudonym, Megan Lindholm? They're more children's books, but so what, they're good!

An obvious omission in your list is Joe Abercrombie - seriously good books, real page-turners. Sara Douglass is a bit swords-and-sorcery, but enjoyable. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan is good too.

And of course there's Margaret Atwood, HG Wells, and John Wyndham. Not really "fantasy", but all superb, and seeing as we share tastes in other authors might be worth a go!

Let us know how you get on :)

Great thread!
Melanie Rawn - love her Ruins of Ambrai books but she hasn't (yet) written the third and final one
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Robin McKinley
Patricia McKillip
Patricia C Wrede
Tanith Lee
Bit of old school - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (?) who wrote the Dragonlance books

Do try the Amber series, it's absolute classic high fantasy.

OP, I sympathise with you on the fantasy ? sci-fi thing. I like both, but if I want one, the other won't do.

Try Sara Maitland.
Her new book of short stories is excellent (The Moss Witch) and older collections are also brilliant. In fact I love everything that I've read of hers.

Hmmm.... I had witten a long reply that has disappeared into the mists....

Most of my favourite authors aren't on your list.

Yes to
Rivers of London
Jodi Taylor's St Mary's Chronicles. One Damned thing after another is the first.

My new favourite is the Ilona Andrews books. The Edge series is good. The 'Magic' series is fantastic. Great concept of a world where magic comes and goes.

I'm currently reading the Poison Study/Magic Study/Fire study trilogy which is good. If you liked the Menoly books in the dragon series then you'll like them I think.

If you don't mind wading through thick books, then the Mistborn series is good.

Kim Harrison's Witch series where every book is named after a clint Eastwood film but with a twist. Dead Witch Walking is the first I think.

Rachael Caine wrote the glass house vampire series (more than 9 books) but also wrote an interesting series called the Weather Wardens.

As we as a shorter Re-animation series.

If you like a bit of fun then the Divine by mistake trilogy is interesting - a 30 something teacher gets transported through to another dimension where she's been swapped by a lookalike who is a goddess. Who, incidentally, is betrothed to a centaur.

Faefever/blood fever.

Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye is a series of crime solving books where the main characters are a police detective and his psychic girlfriend.

And some old-but-good ones....

Piers Anthony has been mentioned. Yes, I like his Incarnations books.

Lord Valentine's Castle
Stranger in a strange land.
I will fear no evil - (very odd that one).

Brandon Sanderson?

Jack Vance: Lyonesse, Dying Earth.

R. A. Lafferty: various novels and short stories (Nine Hundred Grandmothers)

Silverlock by John Myers Myers

Jessica Salmonson's Tomoe Gozen series (may be OP)

Saint-Germain vampire series by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross (technically SF but involves travel to alternate technically challenged earths)

Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (again technically SF with no magic but in the fantasy quest tradition, I wouldn't bother with the sequels though)

Benedict Jacka
Ben Aaronovitch
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden books
China Mieville - The city and the city
Someone also mentioned the Parasol Protectorate - not exactly high art, but good fun!

Have a look at St Mary's Chronicles by Jodi Taylor.
Well written romp through time and very funny.

A story of history, time travel, love, friendship and tea. Meet the disaster-magnets at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around history, observing, documenting, drinking tea and, if possible, not dying. Follow the catastrophe-curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library...

Mike Shevdon (Courts of the Feyre) and Emma Newman (The Split Worlds) are others I've enjoyed.

Have you read:

Moonheart by Charles DeLint
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman

I'm also enjoying Ben Aaronovitch's London series mentioned up thread.

I've read pretty much the same stuff as you.

How about urban fantasy where magical stuff is out onto a back drop of the real world? I've enjoyed Benedict Jacka (Alex Versus books) and
Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London) enjoyable reads.

I sometimes get good ideas by looking at the "other people who bought this..." on Amazon for books I've enjoyed.

How about Maria V Snyder? Its YA but excellent.

Although I will shout from the hilltops the sheer brilliance of Megan Whalen Turner who is superior in every way to all YA authors, ever! I am nearly 30 and still enjoy her books, which I read in my late teens and early 20s.

Jon Rosenberg - Hidden Academy series? (Not often do you get books set in the West Midlands.)
Absolutely love Ben Aaronovich Rivers of London series, CMO, cannot wait for the next one. Do hope Lesley is Ok.....

Have you tried Joe Abercrombie? Also like Michael J Sullivan, Hugh Howey, Peter V Brett, Anthony Ryan and Faye Kellerman.

Thanks for starting this thread; I need some new authors myself.

Ooh sorry for weird double post it said it hadn't posted the first half and I'd thought of some more so I added to it and hit post again!

Have you read Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel? I thought it was extraordinary, and the most memorable book I've read for years...

Wool series by Hugh Howey
Temeraire by Naomi Novik - there is a series but they get progressively worse Temeraire the first one is excellent though and you don't need to read the rest to wrap up the story.

I've just finished working my way through all the existing game of thrones books and they really are very good once you get stuck in.

I've also really enjoyed a teen series by Janet Edwards that starts with Earth Girl. I guess technically it would be scifi but it feels fantasy in its approach (also not a huge traditional space ship scifi fan - in book form anyway!)

Definitely the Wool Trilogy as PP says.