Top 100 Fantasy Authors (How Many Have You Read?)

I scored 22. I counted Scott Lynch and Roger Zelazny, even though I didn't enjoy the books enough to finish them.
 
Counting those whose work I've started and abandoned, 23.
 
I hit 37. Good list and has put a few authors into my mind to revisit. No Michael Moorcock on the list?
 
38. Although for a few of the authors I've only read their science fiction rather than their fantasy novels. Do I get some sort of prize? Cake, maybe?
 
59... There a few authors I would have expected to be there but aren't and some surprising entries, no disrespect but how can authors who are just starting out with one or two works under their belt make the list ahead of some the more established authors.
 
Only 15 for me, but i'm not much is a fantasy reader. I wonder how i'd do on a Sci Fi list?
 
It is a very strange list. Both for who is on it as well as who is not.

Stephen King and Anne Rice? They are fantasy authors?????? If so why isn't Lovecraft included.

Paolini deserves to be on this list? Seriously????

Where is Michael Moorcock. Where is Andre Norton!!!!! Where is Kathryn Kurtz. Where is C.J. Cherryh. Diane Duane?

And those are just the few I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure with some thought I could come up with others.....
 
Gordian Knot said:
It is a very strange list. Both for who is on it as well as who is not.

Stephen King and Anne Rice? They are fantasy authors?????? If so why isn't Lovecraft included.

Paolini deserves to be on this list? Seriously????

Where is Michael Moorcock. Where is Andre Norton!!!!! Where is Kathryn Kurtz. Where is C.J. Cherryh. Diane Duane?

And those are just the few I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure with some thought I could come up with others.....
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Stephen King belongs because of his Gunslinger series, IMHO.

As for the others - well, omissions always happen in lists like this. There are, of course, far more than 100 fantasy authors.
 
Same here, although I only had 19 (my hat's off to Nixie, Stephen and the others with so many!). Would note that the list is described as 100 of the best, not simply "the best", so maybe if we can't overlook the oversights (and I note a few as well!), we can forgive the compilers? ;)
 
59, same as nixie (though I do wonder how much overlap there might be!...)

And I agree, it's a very, um...idiosyncratic list. Paolini's in, but Moorcock's not? :confused:
 
I only manage 45, but I'm more SF than fantasy. However, there were several fantasy authors I have well up my list who are missing, and several classed there I've read very little of after trying one (plus some they've probably classed as SF, which I don't).
 
A mere 24.

On the bright side, I've just realised that Raymond E. Feist is the spitting image of one of my work colleagues - either that or Feist's books ain't selling that well and he's moonlighting.
 
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