10) John Steakly (
Armor FTW)
9) O. S. Card (Seriously, he only had one really good book in
Ender's Game, but that book rocked like none other)
Heinlen (I loved
Starship Troopers and
Stranger in a Strange Land)
7) Stephen Gould (Little known author, but you have to check him out; Read
Jumper, so much better than the movie)
6) Mercedes Lackey (
Chrome Circle is her best work while everything else she writes is at least decent)
5) C. S. Lewis (He really knows how to get you emotionally involved in a story; his non-fiction is really good too)
4) Robert Jordan (Some of his books dragged on way too long or he'd be higher on the list)
3) Edgar Allen Poe (He started it all for me;
The Tale Tell Heart is awesome)
2) Brandon Sanderson (Everything I could want from an author: great characters, original storylines, and twists that actually catch me by surprise)
1) Terry Pratchett (His way of looking at the world puts him at the top of the list; his work is social commentary, humor, and fantasy, all rolled into one, and that's hard to beat)