Good Fantasy Authors - still living

[Erin Painter Baker]

I really like Barbara Hambly's books too! But I forgot to mention her. Steven Brust and Naomi Novik are also good authors.

I follow Barbara Hambly on Facebook, which is great, because that lets me know when her books are on special with Amazon. I got all three of the Darwath books for like $0.99 a couple of years ago. It was fabulous.

Another author I follow on FB, that I didn't mention, is Charles deLint. He's hard to classify. I think of him as fantasy, but he's probably closer to magical realism. Still, if you like modern urban fantasy, there's a good change you would like his writing.

[ErikaP13]

I have to recommend my have author Kelley Armstrong her Age Of Legends series is awesome. And Jay Kristoff's steampunk fantasy the lotus wars is the series I didn't even know I wanted.

I love Kelley Armstrong. She creates some of the best strong-willed female characters.

[ErikaP13]

I'm not sure if he's put out anything recently but I loved reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind when I was in high school.

I remember spending most of my free periods in high school one year reading though Sword of Truth. It's an amazing series and now I kind of want to read it again.

[SunVixen]

I really like Barbara Hambly's books too! But I forgot to mention her. Steven Brust and Naomi Novik are also good authors.

I follow Barbara Hambly on Facebook, which is great, because that lets me know when her books are on special with Amazon. I got all three of the Darwath books for like $0.99 a couple of years ago. It was fabulous.

Another author I follow on FB, that I didn't mention, is Charles deLint. He's hard to classify. I think of him as fantasy, but he's probably closer to magical realism. Still, if you like modern urban fantasy, there's a good change you would like his writing.

I already have all Darwath the books. Also, I have Winterlands books, Sun Wolf books, Windrose books and some others.

It's good to know that some of the good authors are still alive. It was so sad when Ursula Le Guin and Tanith Lee died.

Charles deLint is a great writer, but I rarely read urban fantasy. However, I recognize his talent.

[SunVixen]

I have to recommend my have author Kelley Armstrong her Age Of Legends series is awesome. And Jay Kristoff's steampunk fantasy the lotus wars is the series I didn't even know I wanted.

I love Kelley Armstrong. She creates some of the best strong-willed female characters.

I have not read her books yet. Perhaps I will try to read later.

[Erin Painter Baker]

I already have all Darwath the books. Also, I have Winterlands books, Sun Wolf books, Windrose books and some others.

It's good to know that some of the good authors are still alive. It was so sad when Ursula Le Guin and Tanith Lee died.

Charles deLint is a great writer, but I rarely read urban fantasy. However, I recognize his talent.

I can't say I currently owned all (or most) of Barbara Hambly's books. We moved twice in three years. We got to the point where we were really picky about which books we kept. I kept physical copies of her Dragonsbane series. So it was really nice to get ebook copies of other books of hers that I love, and never have to pack or unpack them.

deLint is really hard to classify. I call him more magical realism, but I also get that his style is not for everyone. His is a very literary style of writing. I can't read deLint books back to back the way I can Hambly, Pierce, or Saintcrow.

[SunVixen]

I already have all Darwath the books. Also, I have Winterlands books, Sun Wolf books, Windrose books and some others.

It's good to know that some of the good authors are still alive. It was so sad when Ursula Le Guin and Tanith Lee died.

Charles deLint is a great writer, but I rarely read urban fantasy. However, I recognize his talent.

I can't say I currently owned all (or most) of Barbara Hambly's books. We moved twice in three years. We got to the point where we were really picky about which books we kept. I kept physical copies of her Dragonsbane series. So it was really nice to get ebook copies of other books of hers that I love, and never have to pack or unpack them.

deLint is really hard to classify. I call him more magical realism, but I also get that his style is not for everyone. His is a very literary style of writing. I can't read deLint books back to back the way I can Hambly, Pierce, or Saintcrow.

Dragonsbane series and Winterland series are the same series. Some of my books are paper, some are e-books. For example, Darwath books are all paper, but I have only the first Dragonsbane\Winterland paper book. The rest of the books are e-books.

As for deLint, his too literary style does not frighten me. The problem is rather in the setting and other things.

[LinaMueller]

J.K Howling, V.E. Schwab, Catherynne Valente are my favorite fantasy writers still living.

[mariana90]

I have to agree with several above posters, Brandon Sanderson is a must. His Mistborn trilogy is beyond excellent. He has a standalone novel called Warbreaker that is really cool too. He is a prolific writer, but not necessarily a fast one. Though not even close to GRR Martin's level.

Cinda William's China The Seven Realms series is really good as well. Finally, an honorific mention for Kristen Britain's Green Riders series. Not finished yet, and slightly YA, but good anyway.

[ErikaP13]

I have to recommend my have author Kelley Armstrong her Age Of Legends series is awesome. And Jay Kristoff's steampunk fantasy the lotus wars is the series I didn't even know I wanted.

I love Kelley Armstrong. She creates some of the best strong-willed female characters.

I have not read her books yet. Perhaps I will try to read later.

Enjoy it if/when you do

[SunVixen]

I love Kelley Armstrong. She creates some of the best strong-willed female characters.

I have not read her books yet. Perhaps I will try to read later.

Enjoy it if/when you do

Perhaps I will. Many people praise her books.

[Nisha Ward]

Garth Nix's Abhorsen series is excellent and I'd be remiss if I didn't add to the chorus of people who mentioned Terry Brooks.

[ErikaP13]

I have not read her books yet. Perhaps I will try to read later.

Enjoy it if/when you do

Perhaps I will. Many people praise her books.

I can assure you, it isn't empty praise.

[Jezebelle84]

Brent Weeks is a pretty amazing writer. I also love Jacqueline Carey, though her books often have detailed sex scenes. Also Anne Bishop and Laura Resnick.