Author Lists by Essjayar Here is a list of my favourite authors, under broad headings. Some authors appear in both lists. They are NOT in order. I guarantee if you want something to read get a book by one of these and you won't be dissapointed. These lists are by no means complete. They`re only those I've read. The numbers are their ratings - 0 to 9. The + donates my favourite in that genre. I've also provided small notes on their work and an example novel. NB: 'Juvenile books' denotes a mainly childrens author. Fantasy Authors Rate Name Notes Novel/Series 8 Piers Anthony Childish 'punny' style Xanth series 8 Alan Dean Foster Wide range, Comedy to Thriller Spellsinger 8 Stephen King Has done fantasy and good at it Dark Tower 7 Peter Straub Partnered with King once Talisman 9 Clive Barker Long novels, but excellent Imajica 7 Harry Harrison Has written mainly SciFi Eden. 9 Terry Pratchett Discworld, funniest ever Discworld 7 Alan Garner Juvenile books Weird Stone 7 Susan Cooper Juvenile books Greenwitch 7 Ursula le Guin Juvenile and adult Earthsea 8 J R R Tolkien Needs no introduction Lord O.T.R. 6 Robert Westall Juvenile books Urn Burial 7 Steve Jackson Mainly does Fighting Fantasy Fighting F. 7 Ian Livingstone Same as Jackson, above. Fighting F. 9 Margaret Weis Mainly does D+D for TSR. Dragonlance. 9 Tracey Hickman Partnered with above. Dragonlance. 8 R A Salvatore And again... D+D. Dark Elf. 9+ David Eddings Excellent. Brilliant etc. etc. Belgariad... 6 Michael Moorcock Strange books but good. Elric. 7 Robert Silverberg Mainly does 'alien world' style books. Face On T.W. 8 Robert Asprin Now does comedy style fantasy. Thieves World 9 Stephen Donaldson Does both Scifi and Fantasy Thomas C. 9 Guy Gavriel Kay Like tolkien Tigana 7 Katherine Kurtz Small but good books Gwynedd 9 Melanie Rawn Big, inventive novels Dragon Prince 8 Tad Williams V. Big novels, but good M, S + Thorn 7 David Gemmel Lots of sword+sorcery style Legend 7 Kristine Rusch Only read one, but it was good White Mists.. 8 Raymond E Feist Classic fantasy novels Riftwar 7 Patricia McKillip Small books, but very inventive Riddler... SciFi Authors 6 Piers Anthony His SciFi is very gloomy Ghost 8 Alan Dean Foster He wrote Aliens, Krull etc. Krull 9 Harry Harrison Comedy Scifi Stainless Rt 9 Douglas Adams Mainly Hitchers Guide series H.G.T.T.G. 8 Arthur C. Clarke Needs no introduction 2001 9 Terry Pratchett Some Comedy Scifi as well Dark Side... 7 J B Priestly Classic british author Snoggle 9+ Robert A Heinlein The best SciFi ever! Slight comedy. Methuselahs.. 7 Terrance Dicks Written a lot of Dr. Who books Dr. Who 6 Gregory Benson Hard SciFi Beyond... 7 Phillip K. Dick Wrote Bladerunner, Total Recall etc. Crack in Sp.. 7 Greg Bear Hard Scifi Tangents 7 Ben Bova Entertaining novels Cyberbooks 6 Michael Moorcock Also written SciFi as well as Fantasy Ice Schooner 8 Robert Silverberg ... and another fantasy/scifi author At Winters... 8 Joe Haldeman Excellent novels, but not many Worlds 7 James P. Hogan same here Code of the.. 7 William Gibson Creator of 'Cyberpunk' Count Zero 9 Frank Herbet Author of Dune. Excellent series. Dune 8 Brian Aldiss Wrote Frankenstein Unbound and Dracula Greybeard 8 Ben Elton Mainly Ecological SciFi Gridlock 7 J M Dillard Mainly StarTrek Novelisations StarTrek IV 7 James Follet Mainly scifi thrillers trojan 7 Larry Niven Creator of Dream Park and sequel> Barsoom Proj. 7 H G Wells Author of The Time Machine Time Machine Horror Authors 9 Stephen King Probably the most famous alive Carrie 9 James Herbet The best british horror author Creed 9 Clive Barker Weird novels, creator of Hellraiser Great&Secret. 9 Peter Straub Sophisticated "horror" Ghost Story 6 Robin Cook Medical horror Sphinx 0 George R R Martin For this book, good fant. though Fevre Dream 6 Eric Morcambe Comedy childrens series Vampires. 8 John Farris Psychological Horror Nightfall 7 Dean R Koontz Psychological Horror again Watchers 9+ Graham Masterton Mainly about Demons, Spirits etc. Manitou 6 Shaun Hutson Blood and Guts... Relics 8 William Kotzwinkle Very Creepy Sentinel 8 Mark Morris New author, large creepy novels Toady 7 David Seltzer Author of The Omen Prophecy 7 Dennis Wheatley Books on black magic The Satanist 8 F Paul Wilson Creepy horror Reborn 6 David Wiltse Psychological Horror Fifth Angel 7 Gordon Macgill Wrote some more omens and others Stallion Thriller 9 James Patterson Crowd pleasers, but I like them Alex Cross