Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- Ursula K. LeGWINS!

Sacrosanct · Sep 11, 2018

Technically Anne McCaffery should also probably be on this list, but I'm sure she would be voted down the soonest for her comments in the infamous tent peg interview.

Grognerd · Sep 11, 2018

lowkey13 said:
I have subtracted out the grandfathered Appendix N authors, both because we just did that and ... well, that thread sure did escalate quickly, didn't it?

You think?!?

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 23
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 23
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 17
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 12
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

I'm convinced Raistlin was a bigger Mary Sue for H&W than Elminster was for Greenwood. Ugh.... get rid of 'im!

Lanefan · Sep 11, 2018

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 23
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 23
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 17
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 10 - this is what happens when you give us Drizz't and ruin the Ranger class forever
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

Parmandur · Sep 11, 2018

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 23
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 23
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 17
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 21 His Conan stories arr a good read, massively shorter and with greater sword fight to tavern description ratios than the Wheel of Time proper, for those who might be interested in trying him without that level of commitment. Not one of the greatest writers ever, but one of my favorites. I'd read him spend hundreds of pages describing commitee meetings any day of the week.
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 12 I was into Martin before he was cool, but...his work has not aged well as I have gotten older.
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 10
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

Lanefan · Sep 11, 2018

Sacrosanct said:
Technically Anne McCaffery should also probably be on this list, but I'm sure she would be voted down the soonest for her comments in the infamous tent peg interview.

There's a few that could be on this list but it's kinda big already. Probably should have been broken into two lists as I suggested in the Appendix N thread: one for authors whose main "era" was pre-2000 and another for post-2000.

Lanefan · Sep 11, 2018

[MENTION=6780330]Parmandur[/MENTION] - we cross-posted, will you fix or shall I?

Parmandur · Sep 11, 2018

Lanefan said:
[MENTION=6780330]Parmandur[/MENTION] - we cross-posted, will you fix or shall I?

Got it, easier to read that way

Flexor the Mighty! · Sep 11, 2018

I remember reading Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series as a teen and loving it, but going back over it years later there was a lot of dodgy writing and extolling of 50 year old men banging teen girls, and some really strange ideas on sex in general. Just his writing or a sign of some serious strange stuff in his head. I know writing a book called the Magic Fart probably doesn't help his rep with me these days. Xanth was just weird.

Bradley Hindman · Sep 11, 2018

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 23
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 23
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 17
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 21
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18 + 1 = 19
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 21
Martin, George R.R. 12
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 10 - 2 = 8
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

Kay wrote one my all time favorites "The Lions of al-Rassan." He also wrote the Fionavar Tapestry, but I will forgive him.

Salvatore, well . . . just blech!

Gradine · Sep 11, 2018

I will say that the Xanth PC Adventure game was pretty damn fun. If any setting was going to mesh well with 90's PC Adventure game moon logic it was Xanth. Pun-based puzzle solving = win.