Which is your favourite fantasy author and why???

Answer 1

My favorite fantasy author would have to be George R. R. Martin, winning out over a lot of tough competition. The Song of Ice and Fire is one of the greatest series ever. Fascinating and sometimes revolting characters, often the same people, populate the whole series. Nobody is safe, anyone can die at any time, and often do. Even viewpoint characters can get knocked off. The series reads like real history in a lot of ways, with the added advantage of not knowing how it will work out. The characters backstories are important (maybe) but often secret, figuring out just what happened in the past is half the fun of the series. Now if he'd just write faster.

Martin's closest competition would have to be Mercedes Lackey and Terry Pratchett, with nods to Terry Goodkind, Jim Butcher, Tolkien, Susan Cooper, and Lloyd Alexander, among others.

Answer 2

I think it would be impossible to narrow it down to just one author. I like Philip Pullman, Panama Oxridge, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, J K Rowling and many more.
Writing books isn't a competitive sport with only one winner; it's fine to enjoy plenty of writers equally!
As for "why?" I choose these ... well, they've all managed to create utterly believable fantasy worlds and characters, and devised engaging plots that keep readers guessing to the last page.

Answer 3

I like lots of authors.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Allan Cole wrote the Timura triology.(review from Amazon)
Warrior Iraj Protarus was a boyhood friend of Safar Timura, who, raised to be a potter, turned out to have an at first unsuspected talent for sorcery. The visions they share and the battles they fight side by side as they set off on a journey impeded by intrigue, enemies, plots, betrayals, adventures, and all the other trappings of the fantasy quest are the basic stuff of the book. Eventually, Iraj has a throne and Safar is his high magician, but realistically, the tale cannot end there, for the friends have hardly seen the last of the host of enemies who customarily badger the possessors of power.

Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1) by Jim Butcher.(From Publishers Weekly)At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions). Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external. Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land's remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitor—another classic trope from ancient Rome. She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory "herdbanes" that threaten his sheep.Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise.Warning:A character gets raped.

Time-Keeper Trilogy by Louise Cooper.Tarod,a clanless outcast child who is accepted into The Circle, a group of religious mages devoted to the power of Order, which reigns supreme in this era of the world.It details the battlefield of Chaos and Order, and the relationships that make Tarod what he is -- especially those with his tutor, Themila Avray, his best friend and the leader of the Circle, Keridil Toln, and his lover Sashka Veyyil, Cyllan Anassan, a drover girl.This is only the start of an extremely complex look at the old good/evil, order/chaos theme.Tarod who is part of the Chaos's bid to overthrow Order, must decide for himself which sect he should follow.

Answer 4

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of the of Lord of the Ring because of his amazing skill to produce a fantasy world which looks so real and the plot

Answer 5

Tolkein, Douglas Adams and JKRowling... All 3 were/are master story-tellers.

A lot's been said about the other 2, so I'll just seperately mention Adams. He had a wonderfully wacky sense of humor- but he always managed to get his point across, too (not that I always necessarily agreed with him)... an excellent read.

Answer 6

LaMontagne and Snyder - King Fortis the Brave!

Answer 7

as a younger reader, i loved brian jacques (writer of the "redwall" series)
now im fond of Tolkien, but i havent read much fantasy lately.

Answer 8

The best fantasy authors and their best works, so far as I know, are:

George R.R. Martin
"A Song of Ice and Fire"

Guy Gavriel Kay
"Tigana"

J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Hobbit"
"The Lord of the Rings"

Robert Jordan
"The Wheel of Time"

Brandon Sanderson
"The Stormlight Archive"
"Mistborn"

Dave Duncan
"A Man of His Word"
"A Handful of Men"

Glen Cook
"The Black Company"

Katharine Kerr
"Deverry"

L.E. Modesitt Jr.
"The Saga of Recluce"

Robin Hobb (she tends to "milk the cow," but the earliest books in her series are excellent)
"The Farseer"

Elizabeth Moon (same comment as for Robin Hobb)
"The Deed of Paksenarrion"

Garth Nix
"Abhorsen/The Old Kingdom"

David Eddings (usually a 2nd rater who wrote some 1st rate books)
"Belgarath the Sorceror"
"Polgara the Sorceress"

Raymond E. Feist (used to be 1st rate, now only 2nd rate)
"Magician"
"Empire (trilogy)"

I've HEARD GOOD THINGS about

Katherine Kurtz
Patricia Wrede
Patricia McKillip
Elizabeth Haydon
Stephen R. Donaldson
Steven Erikson
Kate Elliott
Tamora Pierce
Diana Wynne Jones
Lloyd Alexander
Lois McMaster Bujold

Answer 9

Terry Pratchett. Cause I laugh & laugh & laugh. Then I re-read the books another time & STILL laugh. Life was meant to be fun.

Answer 10

well to be honest, Rohl Dahl- it might just be kids stuff to others, but to me he's one of the most prolific writers of his time- BFG (big friendly giant) or witches. Does that count for fantasy?.... i hope so...