# Favorite Fantasy authors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416 "2003-12-02T03:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/41 "2003-12-03T01:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > I’ve got some Tom Holt on my bookshelf at home – _Flying Dutch_ and _Expecting Someone Taller_, I think. What has he done recently, **Legolamb**? I’ll let you know just as soon as I get back on a computer that doesn’t block those kind of pages, **Ino**. The last one I read was _Here Comes The Sun_ but I think that was an early one. I know I have _Snow White & the Seven Samurai_ and _Paint Your Dragon_ too, which were in the last couple of years or so, the latter of which was probably my favourite of his that I’ve read so far. I’ve got the two you mentioned and I think three others, although titles escape me right now. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/42 "2003-12-03T01:20:37Z")
1. J.R.R Tolkien (of course) 2. Terry Pratchett 3. Roger Zelazny 4. Stephen R. Donaldson In that order ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/43 "2003-12-03T03:13:25Z")
Well colour me wrong. _Dragon_ was 96 and _Samurai_ was 99. Looks like _Little People_ and _The Portable Door_ are Holt’s most recent books. There’s a full list [here](http://hem.fyristorg.com/gumby/holt/bibliography.html) ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/44 "2003-12-03T05:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Nobody mentioned Katherine Kurtz’s Deryini novels? > > \Can’t believe it! Darn kids…\ \*\* See the first item in the list I posted earlier 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/45 "2003-12-03T05:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legolamb \* > \*\*Tom Holt > After spending a couple of months in America, I’m pretty disappointed not to find any of his books on shelves out here. His fantasy usually revolves more around everyday life rather than swords and sourcery affairs, and his comedy is easily as good as Pratchett. Don’t let a few Britishisms here and there in the text put you off, it’s not like Terry doesn’t do that too, right? \*\* I’ve seen several of his books on shelves out here (granted, the bookstore has a quite good sf/fantasy section). I think [NESFA Press](http://www.nesfa.org/press/) has published several volumes of his work. Tangent: If you’re into old pulp fiction, you really owe it to yourself to check out the stuff that NESFA Press has been putting out. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/46 "2003-12-03T07:27:06Z")
I love Weis and Hickman. Their latest Dragonlance series (with Mina and the One God) is my favorite. Douglas Adams is good (more humor/sci-fi, but eh.) ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/47 "2003-12-03T07:47:31Z")
I used to read a lot of fantasy but steer more toward Sci/Fi now. Of those mentioned Gaiman Pratchett Tolkien LeGuin Some others I’ll mention for their humor would be Robert Asprin (but he has gone way downhill) and Craig Shaw Gardner. For non published fantasy authors, I would say me. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416/48 "2003-12-03T08:11:08Z")
**John Crowley**. And not just _Little, Big_, either. (Although it is an astonishing masterpiece.) Try _Aegypt, Love and Sleep, and Daemonomania_ as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fantasy-authors/216416.md?page=2)