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or read the "Serrated Edge Series" by Mercedes Lackey.
Dave Duncan is always reliably great and
Steven Brust is funny and brilliant and a great read. Maybe the best of the best bunch here!
Raymond Feist is super,
and a thoroughly obscure English New Wave writer, M. John Harrison, authored one of the most beautiful, though admittedly dark, books I've ever read, "The Pastel City."

Aside from Fantasy, some mystery writers pique my interest.

Dick Francis is a brilliant writer, whose writing and storytelling is virtually unequalled!
And Tony Hillerman is also a favorite.

And I love SF, some favorite writers including