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Fantasy Fiction

Fantasy fiction deals with the impossible being based on magic or the supernatural
They follow no scientific ‘rules’ - only the whim of the author

Contemporary

Intrusion of the fantastic into modern life

Brewer, Gene
Chadbourn, Mark
De Lint, Charles
Gaiman, Neil

Dark

Incorporates a sense of horror

Barker, Clive
Bishop, Anne
Carroll, Jonathan
King, Stephen
Koontz, Dean R
Lee, Tanith
Poe, Edgar Allan
Rice, Anne
Stoker, Bram
Straub, Peter

Epic

In which heroes and heroines wage epic combat with forces of evil

Anthony, Mark
Arden, Tom
Asprin, Robert
Barclay, James
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Brooks, Terry
Brust, Steven
Bunch, Chris
Cole, Allan
Cooper, Louise
Donaldson, Stephen
Douglass, Sara
Drake, David A
Eddings, David
Elliott, Kate
Farland, David
Feist, Raymond E
Furey, Maggie
Gemmell, David
Gentle, Mary
Goodkind, Terry
Green, Simon R
Haydon, Elizabeth
Hobb, Robin
Horwood, William
Jacoby, Kate
Jones, J.V.
Jordan, Robert
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Kearney, Paul
Kurtz, Katherine
Lackey, Mercedes
Le Guin, Ursula K
Lisle, Holly
Marco, John
Martin, George,R.R.
May, Julian
Modesitt, L. E.
Moorcock, Michael
Parker, K.J.
Rawn, Melanie
Reichert, Mickey Zucker
Salvatore, R.A.
Siegel, Jan
Tarr, Judith
Taylor, Roger
Tepper, Sheri S
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Turtledove, Harry
Weis, Margaret
Welch, Jane
Willaims, Tad
Williamson, Philip G
Wurts, Janny
Wylie, Jonathan
Zelazny, Roger

Humour

Includes elements of familiar folk tales

Anthony, PiersGardner, Craig Shaw
Harman, Andrew
Holt, Tom
Pratchett, Terry

Literary

Characters of fiction and literature take on reality in a fantasy world rich in literary allusion

Haggard, H.Rider
Holdstock, Robert
Lewis, C.S.
Peake, Mervyn
Wolfe, Gene

Myth

Authors who place their stories in particular Celtic worlds of myth saga and legend

Beagle, Peter
Borchardt, Alice
Cherryh, C.J.
Kerr, Katharine
Lawhead, Stephen
White, T.H.

Others 

Constantine, Storm
Dickson, Gordon R.
Gabaldon, Diana
Hambly, Barbara
Jacques, Brian
Lustbader, Eric van
Pullman, Philip
Rohan, Michael Scott
Silverberg, Robert

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