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

[ASorcererIsAWizardSquared]

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?

Guy Gavriel Kay mentioned up thread, look at Tigana and the Fionavar trilogy.

Also Patricia Kenealy Morrisons Keltiad series, if you like Celtic they are a must.

Sorry haven't read the full thread but am similarly looking for a 'good' fantasy series to get into (fantasy is my guilty pleasure as dh looks down on it from a lofty height ...)

I loved LOTR as a teenager which got me started ..

My list of things I like includes a mix of fantasy and sci-fi/fantasy crossover:

Game of Thrones
Ursula Le Guin
Patrick Rothfuss
Guy Gavriel Kay
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
First few Dune books

I thought Robin Hobb was plodding and gave up halfway through the Assassins trilogy and do not want to read anything more about elves, dwarves and 'hey, we can't go round the mountains let's go through the ancient mines - I mean, no-one's ever done that before so what could possibly go wrong' storylines

Jim Butcher - both the Dresden Files and his 6-book series which I can never remember the name of. First one is called The Furies of Calderon.

In a similar vein to Dresden and the Rivers of London series is Benedict Jacka's series, starting with Fated.

The Eli Monpress series by Rachel Aaron.

basildon, you really should give Brent Weeks a look, his Night Angel Trilogy, only because the other series isnt complete and there is another book coming, the final installment - but its not due out until 2016)

is there any need for that never?

i dont like people treating me like a child, i am not some stupid unlearned, non-reading teenager.

I'm an adult who read, on average, about 8 books a week. my dislike of the sci-fi genre is not some fly-by-night whim, its a well researched dislike based on many attempts over the years to try different books and different authors by lots of different people.

I dont like it, so i don't see the point in wasting peoples time by them recommending something i'm not even going to read or enjoy, im not into wasting my money on buying books i'm going to lose interest in within the first few chapters.

Believe it or not, i am allowed to NOT LIKE a genre of books and say it out loud on my own thread.

I don't understand why people think they get to be pushy when people say they don't like or are uninterested in something. There are so many great things to read it's helpful to have a way to cut numbers.

Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (the last 2 did some good collaborations), Diana Wynne Jones is essential, Anthony Swithin's Rockall books...Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell of course

More urban fantasy - Benedict Jacka, Ben Aaronovitch

I found Jonathan Strange completely impenetrable.

I also found Jonathan Strange impossible to read.

As well as the Ice and Fire books.

I think everyone else has said what I would have said!

Don't drag me into your snippiness, please, never! You will have noticed that I recinded my suggestion in my next post - people are allowed to have differing tastes!

Some people don't like reading fiction, some don't like crime, some don't like classics, some don't like poetry. It doesn't matter! The OP asked for fantasy but not SF - her lack of interest is not a judgement on your own preferences.

Personally, I like quite a bit of SF, but prefer it to be character rather than technology focussed. So Ender's Game I really enjoyed, but Peter F Hamilton bored me in under a chapter. That doesn't mean that I think Hamilton fans are somehow lesser!

Jean M Auel - Earth's Children series - starts with Clan of the cave bear - kind of prehistoric historical/fantasy fiction.

I've read those Somewhere.. until the last book, i'm afraid i didn't make it through that one with all the titles of the women constantly bogging down every bit of speech.

I will try it again at some point though.

ftr, its not that i dont like sci-fi, i'm a whovian/trekkie..etc love it on TV, be it space or modern advanced science, fascinates me. But put it in print and hand it to me to read as a novel? Nope, i glaze over.

Magical fantasy
Megan Whalen Turner- The Thief
I've recently discovered Kate Elliott in the library.
Michael J. Sullivan
Karen Miller- Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series. Also wrote some books as K. E. Mills, around a world with both magic and zeppelins, which I liked very much.

Have you read Havenstar by Glenda Noramly? She now goes by Glenda Larke IIRC. I haven't read any others by her but Havenstar is a perfect little fantasy book, well characterised and very very good. I really hoped she had used the characters again but apparently not :( Even dyslexic, one-book-a-year DH was glued to it.

House Atreides I've had her name on the tip of my tongue for hours! It was Glenda Larke's Stormlord trilogy that I was thinking of.

I hate threads like this. It ruins my attempt to prune my Amazon wish list :)

I need to get up in the loft and dig out my Amber books. Amongst others.

Lois McMaster Bujold - a real treat. SOmeone recommended the Vokosigan series upthread, but since sci-fi isn't your thing at all, start with the Curse of Chalion. It's great.

Ursula Le Guin, people upthread named some great books.

I second (or third or fourth) Robin Mckinley

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

Jerusalem Fire by R M Meluch, mayyybe. It's a bit different.

Jan Siegel, Prospero's Children series.

The Luck of Relian Kru by Paula Volsky

The Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. If you like urban fantasy and Gaiman, there's a good chance you'll like this.

Sheri Tepper. She has a set few themes but her imagination is wild and so so inventive.

C J Cherryh (did someone mention her already?) if you choose the fantasy stuff.

Geta, Donald Kingsbury.

I dont' know if it's fantasy or sci-fi or future history or what but Cordwainer Smith wrote the most weird and wonderful stuff. I found it genuinely a bit different.

Also weird and wonderful: Lilith by George McDonald. Possibly an acquired taste.

Octavia Butler too.

CS Friedman, an interesting take on magic.

Joan D Vinge; Dreamsnake and also The Snow Queen

Ellen Kushner; Thomas the Rhymer

Michael Scott Rohan Winter of the Wolrd Series

Ancient History but maybe worth a look: Mary Renault. Some really great stuff, The King Must Die, the Praise Singer, The Mask of Apollo.

The Morgaine series by C J Cherryh is one of my favourite books of all time.

Oh yes Sheri Tepper, I knew there was someone else I meant to say but couldn't think of!

Argh I need to save this thread for all the suggestions! Is there an easy way to do that?

Tad Williams - Dragonbone CHair trilogy