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That would be Diane Duane. Love, love, love her Star Trek books, like the Young Wizard series, varying degrees of like for her other work. You can download a free copy of her book "A Wind from the South" here.
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I'll echo many of the ones listed here, and add Kate Wilheim, Elizabeth Ball, and Holly Lisle.
I liked Lackey's urban fantasy works more than the Valdemar ones, but I'm also a sucker for a well-reasoned magical system. Most of her stuff is mind-candy for me. Also a fan of her Aerie series.
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And Gael Baudino. Liked her elf series, was left cold by her elements series, and "Gossamer Axe," problems and all, remains one of the favored books I reread at least once a year.
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She was a Wiccan and a free spirit when she wrote Gossamer Axe, the elf books and the dragon trilogy. And then she became a Quaker and apparently decided that all of that was wrong. It shows in her writing. I couldn't even finish that Water! series.
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I don't know; I read some Kate Wilhelm stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and I thought them a little sloppily written. The language was quite unmemorable to me.
Joyce Carol Oates has also written some fantasy/horror stories for that magazine. At least in those stories, she has a very tough style that I find appealing.
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quote:Originally posted by Chris Bridges: You can download a free copy of her book "A Wind from the South" here.
She has a free short available for download as well. I liked the short; Wind was too long and winding for my tastes. And while I did like reading about the founding of Switzerland (something I only know a very little bit about), and enjoyed the Romansch folktales woven in, that wasn't enough. Especially since it was only the first book in three. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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JKR of course. I also like Ursula Le Guin's EarthSea series and Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. I'm sure there are other SF and Fantasy books by other female authors I have read and liked, but I can't think of any more off the top of my head. However, I can't think of many male SF/Fantasy authors I like off the top of my head either (Card of course, Tolkien, and Rick Riordan).
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I have to say, I'm halfway through the first Harry Potter (at the point where they're about to start flying lessons) and it isn't drawing me in as much as I'd hoped. There doesn't seem to be much driving the story along; it's just Harry going through various situations at school. I know from the movie that Voldemort (or is it one of his servants?) enters the story by the end, but I don't get the sense that the story is heading toward a confrontation with him.
I know OSC says the later novels are better than the early ones, so I suppose I'll stick with it.
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Seeing as this thread came back up I can't understand how I failed to recommend Tove Jansson in my earlier post. Her Moomin books are the best young adult fantasy ever written. The first book is called The Moomins and the Great Flood, though I'd recommend reading Comet in Moominland (the second book) first as that's a better book and more similiar in tone to the later ones.
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I couldn't remember her names earlier. She's a SF author who wrote under a male pseudonym for a long time.
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