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off-shoot of the other thread, obviously...

Timothy Zahn (Hier to the Emipre Trilogy) All hail GA Thrawn best Imperial ever and still is (at least here)

Okay...on to things OTHER than Star Wars....

Fantasy? I'd say Glen Cook, with Steven Brust trailing second.

Sci-fi? Asimov. ph33r the Foundation.

Other? Michael Shaarn. Just for The Killer Angels, if nothing else.

Aaron Allston (sorry Ver, but I love his writing)

Le Ly Hayslip: 'Child of War, Woman of Peace' VERY good book

Fantasy: I have to go with either Jordan or Tolkien (Tolkien obviously in the lead).

As for Sci-fi, unfortunately, I have not read much outside Crichton.

Horror: King....Koontz...King....Koontz.....GARUGH!!!!

Other: Too many.....

Sci Fi- Heinlein

Fantasy: Tolkien

JRRR Tolkein, yes, can't believe I forgot him.

J.J.R. Tolkein

In sf and fantasy: Zelazny.

Dante
I truely enjoy Dante
But then again an author that will be emerging soon into the world is Derek Passehl his poetry is inspirational!!!

Best:
SF (not sci-fi):
Stanislaw Lem
Isaac Asimov
Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskii
Alfred Bester
Harlan Ellison
Sergey Lukyanenko
Dan Simmons
Iain M. Banks

Fantasy:
The Professor (obviously)
Robert E. Howard
Nick Perumov
Fritz Leiber (the Fafhrd series)

Jordan is one of the wors, IMO.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

fgalkin wrote:Jordan is one of the wors, IMO.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

To each his own.

Dante was good, as was Sartre.

I always liked Faulkner, although I have read very little of his material.

Oh, almost forgot, Dostoyevsky is great, too!

Have a very nice day, fellow book-readers (as opposed to the rest of the world out there. )
-fgalkin

Sci-fi:

Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury

(Can't believe no one has mentioned these two guys yet)

Shinova wrote:Sci-fi:

Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury

(Can't believe no one has mentioned these two guys yet)

Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorites but I just plain like Heinlein better. If it was solely Clarke's earlier stuff then hell yes but some of his newer stuff has been disappointing.

And Harlan Ellison also deserved an honorable mention. Brilliant guy and a razor wit. Plus no one can write an insult like him.

Stormbringer wrote: And Harlan Ellison also deserved an honorable mention. Brilliant guy and a razor wit. Plus no one can write an insult like him.

*points to his list*

have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Brownie points: Stravo.

D.F. Jones' "Colossus" trilogy has been a favorite of mine for quite awhile now.

Damn shame no one I meet ever seems to have read it.

Favourite authors from various genres:

C.S. Lewis
Ray Bradbury
Stephen Hawking
Nick Bantok
E.E. Cummings
J.D. Salinger
Maeve Binchy
Robert Frost
T.H. White
Antoine de Saint-Exuprey

For non-SW modern Sci-Fi I'd say William C.Dietz (Bounty series).

For Fantasy, can't say no to R. A. Salvatore Drizzt Do'Urden

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*adds in Orson Scott Card*

Has anybody ever read Wyrms?

John Steinbeck

verilon wrote:Brownie points: Stravo.

Verilon...I am NO WHERE in the class as these giants but thanks anyway.

Some of my favorites:

Frank Herbert
George RR Martin
Tolkien (ANY doubt he belongs on this list??)