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

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I have had a scan through the other thread, but its mostly stuff i have already read.. i am a bookwork in need!

My library includes
Katherine Kerr
Mercedes Lackey
Raymond E Feist
David Eddings
David Gemmel
Brent Weeks
Anne McCaffrey
Trudi Canavan
Jenny Wurts
Robin Hobb
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

I have read some Terry Goodkind and also the Wheel of Time (author escapes me)

I've just bought Brian Sandersons Mistborn Trilogy to try and i do have a Patrick Rothfuss novel somewhere i haven't dipped into yet properly. Game of Thrones doesn't really grip me to be worth trying.

Can anyone suggest anyone else?

I'm not keen on science fiction, space ships bore me.

Is there anyone i've over looked?

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.....

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.

i've read Abercrombies 'Half a King' in the last few months and enjoyed it, i'm waiting on the next one to hit paperback, so will probably wait until the last in the trilogy does too, so i can read all three in one go.

I've also got an Anthony Ryan book on my kindle which i enjoyed and i think i'm in the same situation where i'm waiting on other books to be published.

i can get through a book in a day, so i like to have the whole series to indulge myself :)

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.

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.

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

OOH.. the Rivers of London stuff looks good :)

I do like Urban Fantasy, its why i like Neil Gaiman so much :)

i just finished reading the Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy which is kind of a cross over as its in our time but crosses dimensions.

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...

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 just ordered myself the first two Rivers of London books :)

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)

Brandon Sanderson?

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).

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.

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.

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

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 :)

Oh, just seen you don't like science/future books, so discount those last three!

For historical fiction, have you read Lindsey Davis' Falco books? They are Ancient Roman whodunnits, and very funny.

It's hard to know where to draw the line between SF and fantasy though. There is the whole sub genre of "planetary romance" with at one end CS Lewis's Pelelandra series, clearly fantasy with the slightest of SF trappings, or Lord Valentine where the telepathy has a vague hand-wavey SF justification, through some of Le Guin, Vance's Showboat World or Planet of Adventure where the spaceship is simply a vehicle to place the protaganists in a fantastical setting, to Niven's Ringworld which is clearly SF although fantastical in a lot of ways (vampires and other humanoid races, quest plot etc.). Sorry for the essay, the point is, someone who enjoys some of these books could well enjoy others even if they are ostensibly "SF" and not fantasy. If you definitely want elves and magic then something like Valentine would not appeal. But if you want stories exploring a well imagined fantasical setting even something like Weinbaum's Martian Odyssey could work.

Takver mentioned the Parasol Protectorate series, by Gail Carriger; I would second this, she writes in a kind of feminist/dry humour way that I enjoy. Def worth a shot.

Or I have enjoyed Cherie Priest's 'Clockwork Century' books, starting with Boneshaker; they're set in an alternative-history American Civil War and each book follows different characters so quality/plot remains good IMO.

Guy Gavriel Kay!

And Robin McKinley - a lot of those are more YA, but she has written two of my (still)-favourite books ever and is a good fit with other ones you said you'd liked.

Have you tried Game of Thrones? What did you think?

I won't touch MZB, after the revelations about her i refuse to support the people who continue to publish her works and actually threw away the one book of hers i already owned.

i did read some of the dragonlance stuff back in the day :)

i downloaded a freebie sample of GoT and it didnt quite grip me.. but i think i'm somewhat put off by the furor around the series. I felt the same about Harry Potter but did read those once the hoo-ha calmed down, so i may go back to them at some point.

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Fritz Lieber's Fahfred and Grey Mouser series
Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon and the George series
Alan Dean Foster's Spell singer series