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I found this poll on the Web where you can vote for your five favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors.  If you are interested in voting, the site is here. 

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Nice! I added my vote to the end. 

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Valecynos wrote:

Nice! I added my vote to the end.

WTG Val.  Now (as of your post) Elizabeth Haydon has a grand total of one vote.  LOL.

I copy and pasted the entire page into MS Word and used the "Find Next" feature to search for the name Haydon and yours was the only one that popped up.  LOL.

My favorite author Maggie Furey got 0 votes and IMO the best fantasy writer of all-time George R. R. Martin only got 8 votes (mostly seconds).

And damn, Jennifer Fallon is popular.  LOL.

LOL! Hey, I did my part to further SoA.

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Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it. ~ The Blues Brothers (1980)

I voted.

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SIA, I heard about this poll on Jennifer Fallon's blog. She said that there were hardly any women authors up there, none from Australia, and asked all her readers to vote for Australian authors. But I only read books by her and Sara Douglass, and SD is not one of my favorite authors. I voted for Jennifer Fallon, EH, J.R.R. himself, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Patricia A. McKillip. I was thinking "I don't see any Elizabeth Haydon, that can't be!" :) I did my duty, and spread the word here so Elizabeth can get her fair share of votes. So, vote for Elizabeth Haydon! (And Jennifer Fallon, too, if you don't mind...she writes great books.)
P.S. I'm madhatter on that site, too.

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Darest thou now O Soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for feet Nor any path to follow."
~Walt Whitman
~Avatar made by Me, madhatter.

I voted again...I think you can vote as many times as you want. So maybe we can get a lot more votes for Elizabeth.

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Darest thou now O Soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for feet Nor any path to follow."
~Walt Whitman
~Avatar made by Me, madhatter.

I'm adding my vote, Elizabeth Haydon is # 1! What a surprise!

1. Elizabeth Haydon. (Symphony of Ages series and The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme)
2. J.R.R.Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion)
3. C.J.Cherryh (The Faded Sun trilogy)
4. Mercedes Lackey. (The Obsidian Trilogy)
5. Elizabeth Kerner. (Song in the Silence)

Heh, I accidently voted twice (huzzah!) and did ten first instead of five. Oops!

1. Elizabeth Haydon
2. J.R.R.Tolkien
3. C.J.Cherryh
4. Mercedes Lackey.
5. Elizabeth Kerner.
6. Elizabeth Moon.
7. C.S.Lewis.
8. R.A.Salvatore.
9. Weis and Hickman.
10. Sarah Douglass.

 

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"Fire-child, star-child, what is kel? Sword-bearers, song-weavers, that is kel."
-The Faded Sun trilogy by C.J.Cherryh.
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Okay, just visited Jennifer Fallon's blog page and she had the results of this little escapade posted. Hey guess what? Elizabeth is on the list at..let's see...ah, yes #62!
"Here's SFX's Top 100 Authors list, as voted for by readers of the magazine.
100. James Herbert
99. Gwyneth Jones
98. Sara Douglass
97. Charles Stross
96. Terry Goodkind
95. Brian W. Aldiss
94. Ken MacLeod
93. Olaf Stapledon
92. Michael Marshall Smith
91. Jon Courtney Grimwood
90. Christopher Priest
89. Jonathan Carroll
88. Scott Lynch
87. David Weber
86. M. John Harrison
85. Jacqueline Carey
84. Kim Stanley Robinson
83. Theodore Sturgeon
82. J.V. Jones
81. Joe Abercrombie
80. Joe Haldeman
79. Simon Clark
78. George Orwell
77. Samuel R. Delaney
76. Charles de Lint
75. Julian May
74. Edgar Rice Burroughs
73. Robert Silverberg
72. Susanna Clarke
71. Stanislaw Lem
70. Larry Niven
69. Alfred Bester
68. Katherine Kerr
67. Jack Vance
66. Harry Harrison
65. Marion Zimmer Bradley
64. Richard Matheson
63. Dan Simmons
62. Elizabeth Haydon
61. Terry Brooks
60. Richard Morgan
59. Stephen Baxter
58. Jennifer Fallon
57. Mercedes Lackey
56. CJ Cherryh
55. Harlan Ellison
54. Jasper Fforde
53. Octavia Butler
52. J.G. Ballard
51. Robert E. Howard
50. Sherri S. Tepper
49. H.P. Lovecraft
48. Mervyn Peake
47. Jules Verne
46. Alastair Reynolds
45. Neal Stephenson
44. Clive Barker
43. Jim Butcher
42. Tad Williams
41. Kurt Vonnegut
40. Trudi Canavan
39. Michael Moorcock
38. David Eddings
37. Alan Moore
36. Orson Scott Card
35. Stephen Donaldson
34. Gene Wolfe
33. China Mieville
32. Raymond E. Feist
31. Lois McMaster Bujold
30. Roger Zelazny
29. Anne McCaffrey
28. Steven Erikson
27. William Gibson
26. Guy Gavriel Kay
25. CS Lewis
24. Diana Wynne Jones
23. John Wyndham
22. Philip Pullman
21. Robin Hobb
20. Stephen King
19. Ray Bradbury
18. Arthur C. Clarke
17. Robert Jordan
16. JK Rowling
15. Robert Heinlein
14. Frank Herbert
13. Peter F. Hamilton
12. David Gemmell
11. Ursula K. LeGuin
10. Robert Rankin
9. HG Wells
8. Philip K. ***
7. Iain M. Banks
6. Isaac Asimov
5. George RR Martin
4. Douglas Adams
3. Neil Gaiman
2. JRR Tolkien
1. Terry Pratchett"
Good job voting for Elizabeth Haydon everyone....everyone who voted, that is. 

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Darest thou now O Soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for feet Nor any path to follow."
~Walt Whitman
~Avatar made by Me, madhatter.

I'm surprised by a lot of those results - especially with George Orwell, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Richard Matheson (for Pete's sake - the guy wrote many of the Twilight Zone episodes!) around or beyond the #50 placement!!!

Terry Pratchett #1?  Methinks a bunch of the TP fans made a massive voting call to put him at the top of the list! lol

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Krinsel wrote:

Terry Pratchett #1?  Methinks a bunch of the TP fans made a massive voting call to put him at the top of the list! lol

He he, I doubt it; he's sold over 45 million books worldwide - he's pretty popular. I'm not suprised he's number 1, his books have broader appeal than many of the other authors listed. I wouldn't have included J.K.Rowling to be honest, but there you go. I'm pleased to see George Martin at number 5 and Robing Hobb at 21 though - and I am stifling my giggles at seeing Terry Goodkind at 96.

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Yeah, I wouldn't have put J.K. Rowling at #16. I like her books, but of all-time? No...

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Darest thou now O Soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for feet Nor any path to follow."
~Walt Whitman
~Avatar made by Me, madhatter.

I agree with you on that madhatter. I can never really understand what people find so utterly amusing about thouse books. Sure, they are a good, fun read. But they just don't pack the punch as other fantasy novels do.

Yeah! C.J.Cherryh at 56!

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"Fire-child, star-child, what is kel? Sword-bearers, song-weavers, that is kel."
-The Faded Sun trilogy by C.J.Cherryh.
My Avatar is my cat, Niun.
*Keeper of The Dictionary of All Symphony of Ages Knowledge & The Ven Polypheme Dictionary Guide.*

Yeah, for Ursula K. LeGuin packing a punch with #11! The woman is in her 80's and she's still writing excellent books.

But they were a lot of names up there that I was glad to see. There are a lot of authors I think deserve the recognition (no matter how small), and this is a way of getting it from their readers.

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Darest thou now O Soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for feet Nor any path to follow."
~Walt Whitman
~Avatar made by Me, madhatter.

madhatter wrote:

Yeah, for Ursula K. LeGuin packing a punch with #11! The woman is in her 80's and she's still writing excellent books.



But they were a lot of names up there that I was glad to see. There are a lot of authors I think deserve the recognition (no matter how small), and this is a way of getting it from their readers.

I agree on both accounts and very happy to see Marion Zimmer Bradley and E.H. so close together, lol.

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"And then upsp'ke the Fairy Queen,
'Tam Lin, if I had known,
I would have pulled out both your eyes,
To give you eyes of stone.'"

I'm glad to see Niel Gaiman and David Gemmell at #3 and #12 respectively. As well as being glad to see EH on the list! I'm also happy to see Terry Pratchett so high up, he has written many books after all!

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