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Fantasy authors
Award winners
- Tom Arden
- Sarah Ash
James Barclay- Legends of the raven series.
- Clive Barker
- Mostly known for writing horror.
- Carol Berg
- Anne Bishop
- Black Jewels series.
- Alice Borchardt
- Historical, werewolves and Arthurian.
- Jonathan Carroll
- Fantasy and horror novels.
- Mark Chadbourn
- Age of misrule books integrate Celtic mythology.
- David Coe
- Glen Cook
- Instrumentalities of the night series.
- Sara Douglass
- Writes fantasy in historical settings.
- David Eddings
- Best known for the Belgariad, Elenium and other sagas.
- Kate Elliott
- Steven Erikson
- David Farland
Raymond Feist- Riftwar sagas that began with Magician.
- Jasper Fforde
- Humourous fantasy, best known for the adventures of Thursday Next.
- David Gemmell
- Most recent series based on the Trojan War.
- Terry Goodkind
- Sword of truth series was made into Legend of the seeker TV series.
- Simon R. Green
- Novels of the nightside series.
- Barbara Hambly
- Fantasy and historical fiction.
- Kim Harrison
- Urban fantasy.
- Elizabeth Haydon
- Mike Jefferies
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Much of her work is written for young adults: Howl’s moving castle was made into an animated film in 2004.
- J. V. Jones
Guy Gavriel Kay- Paul Kearney
- Katharine Kerr
- Deverry saga and the Westland cycle.
- Garry Kilworth
- Known for his animal stories but has also written a Polynesian fantasy series: Navigator kings.
- Katherine Kurtz
- Ellen Kushner
- Mercedes Lackey
- Books of the fantasy world Valdemar - young adult fiction.
- Tim LaHaye
- Christian fantasy fiction.
- Tanith Lee
- Both adult and young adult fantasy fiction.
- Ursula Le Guin
- Author of the Earthsea series and 2002 Nebula Grand Master awardee.
- Valery Leith
Holly Lisle- Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Patricia McKillip
- John Marco
- Juliet Marillier
- New Zealand-born author of mostly historical fantasy.
- George R. R. Martin
- Best known for A song of ice and fire series, which has been made into the TV series Game of Thrones.
- Rand Miller
- Books based on the computer game Myst.
- L. E. Modesitt
- Michael Moorcock
- Author of The dancers at the end of time.
- Philip Pullman
- Known for His dark materials series for young adults.
- Michael Scott Rohan
- Winter of the world series
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on the Acorna novels.
- Jan Siegel
- Judith Tarr
- Fantasy and historical fiction.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
- Harry Turtledove
- Alternate history and time travel.
- Jo Walton
- Margaret Weis
- Wrote several of the DragonLance novels.
- Martha Wells
- Tad Williams
- Memory, sorrow and thorn and Otherland series.
- Philip G Williamson
- Janny Wurts
- Collaborated with Raymond Feist on the Daughter of the empire trilogy in the Riftwar sagas.
Cross-overs: writers of both science fiction and fantasy
- Poul Anderson
- Mostly science fiction but Mother of kings is based in a Viking setting. Nebula Grand Master awardee.
- Piers Anthony
- Some humourous fantasy and science fiction.
- A. A. Attanasio
- Some Arthurian fantasy and the Dominions of Irth series.
- John Barnes
- Co-author of some books with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, plus has written his own fantasy and sci-fi books.
- James Blaylock
- Fantasy, sci-fi and horror.
- Ray Bradbury
- Nebula Grand Master awardee
- Terry Brooks
- Best known for the fantasy series Shannara and Landover, but also writing Star Wars novels.
- Orson Scott Card
- Winner of two Nebula awards for books from his Ender series.
- C. J. Cherryh
- 1989 Hugo award for Cyteen.
- Storm Constantine
- Stories about the Wraeththu.
Stephen R. Donaldson- Author of the sci-fi Gap series and the fantasy series Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
- Eric Flint
- Historical (Thirty Years' War), fantasy and science fiction.
- Alan Dean Foster
- Mostly science fiction set in the Humanx Commonwealth, but has also done some fantasy.
- Mary Gentle
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Vampire Hunter series.
- Thomas Harlan
- Some historical fantasy set in Rome.
- Gwyneth Jones
- Katharine Kerr
- Well known for the Deverry books, but has also done science fiction and cyber-punk.
- J. Gregory Keyes
- Fantasy and spin-off novels for Star Wars and Babylon 5.
- Anne McCaffrey
- Famous for the Dragons of Pern and Talents of Earth series.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Award winning author of several series, best known for the Miles Vorkosigan adventures.
- Sean McMullen
- Titles include vampire fiction.
- Gregory Maguire
- Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West and other tales of the Land of Oz.
- Phillip Mann
- New Zealand author.
- Julian May
- Sagas of Pliocene exile and Rampart Worlds trilogy.
Andre Norton- 2005 Nebula Grand Master awardee. From 2006, SFWA presented the inaugural Andre Norton Award for an outstanding young adult science fiction or fantasy book.
- R. A. Salvatore
- Star Wars and fantasy novels.
- Sharon Shinn
- Cults and convents, mystics and magic. Also writes for young adults.
- Brian Stableford
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Jack Vance
- Gene Wolfe
- Roger Zelazny
- Sarah Zettel
- Arthurian fiction.
- David Zindell
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