Who are your favorite fiction authors?

Just about anything by Simmons is going to be great. The guy is an incedible writer. Hyperion is the first thing I read by him. Read it and you'll be hooked. Banks has gone downhill in the last decade, but he was so great. The first I read of his was Consider Phlebas - yes that title is a quote fron TS Elliot. The other SF by him that I recomend most is Use of Weapons. The structure is fascinating, with a set of chapters moving forward chronilogically and another set moving backwards. Card I like maily for the short stories. Ender's Game was good. I haven't read everything that Hamiton has written, but I liked the Night's dawn books. Try The Reality Disfunction.

Well my favorite author fiction wise is Dan Brown because of his great seller "The Da Vinci Code" I really enjoyed this book to bad the movie version didn't do well in the box office.

the only fiction I'm interested in reading these days is scripts for acting!!

Diana Gabaldon ( I think that's how you spell her last name )

My fav. J.R.R. Tolkien

R.A. Salvatore, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Roger Zelazny, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Michael Crichton are among some of my favourites. For the books which have been made into movies though, I love the movies based off of Stephen King's novels that are directed by Stephen King. He always seems to appear in them at some point, and his stories are at least as good on the screen as they are in my mind.

kooz wrote:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft

Awesome quote!!! Even though you may never see this reply I say thank you.

Off the top of my head-

H.P. Lovecraft -from my youth
J.R.R. Tolkien
Isaac Asimov
Tom Clancy
Dean Koontz
Patrick McManus <sp?> Humor
Stephen King
Keith Laumer and anything having to do with Bolos
Michael Crichton

Hunter S Thompson, although I'm not sure if you'd call it fiction. I mean it happend in his head so... it's gonzo.

I like Stephen King, because I think he has really strong characters that you care about, and I like Vonnegut's sense of humor. John Irving is pretty cool.