Favorite fantasy author

[Breschau]

Of the authors in the poll the only one I've read is David Gemmell. But that's cos I just don't read much anymore.

When I was younger I read, as I say, Gemmell and also Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stewart (I think anyway) and Terry Pratchett. There may be others that I've read one book by and forgotten.

Pratchett's the only one I've kept reading, and I've read almost everything he's written (passed over a couple of his children's books). I could probably read books by the others and find them enjoyable enough, but they were a bit too fantasy-by-numbers (esp. Gemmell, I don't remember the other two so much) for me to get excited about.

I've also become a big fan of Neil Gaiman - both his comics/graphic novels (Sandman being the main one) and his "regular" novels and short stories (30 odd short stories from Smoke & Mirrors, along with Neverwhere, Coraline, American Gods).

So it's Pratchett and Gaiman that I am thinking of when I tick "Other" in the poll