George R.R. Martin is an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on 20 September 1948. He is best known for “A Song of Ice and Fire”, the epic fantasy series that HBO adapted as “Game of Thrones”, and he has also written science fiction and horror. The son of a … Read more
Sir Terry Pratchett (1948 to 2015) was an English author and satirist, best known for the 41 comic fantasy novels of the “Discworld” series, published between 1983 and 2015, and for “Good Omens” (1990), which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. His books have sold more than 100 million copies in 43 languages. Born in Beaconsfield, … Read more
Robin Hobb is the pen name of the American fantasy writer Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, born in Berkeley, California, in 1952. She is best known for the 16 novels of the “Realm of the Elderlings”, which began with “Assassin’s Apprentice” in 1995, and she also writes as Megan Lindholm. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, … Read more
Philip Pullman is an English novelist best known for “His Dark Materials”, the fantasy trilogy that began with “Northern Lights” in 1995, and for its companion trilogy “The Book of Dust”, completed with “The Rose Field” in October 2025. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. Pullman was born … Read more
Neil Gaiman is an English author of novels, short fiction, comics and screenplays, born in Portchester, Hampshire, in 1960. His best-known works include the comic series “The Sandman” and the novels “American Gods”, “Coraline”, “The Graveyard Book” and “Good Omens”, the last written with Terry Pratchett. Gaiman worked as a journalist in the early 1980s, … Read more
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author, born in Jerusalem in 1975 and raised in Los Angeles. She is best known for the Grishaverse novels, which began with “Shadow and Bone” in 2012, and for the Alex Stern books for adults, which opened with “Ninth House” in 2019 and concluded with “Dead Beat” in 2026. … Read more
Joe Abercrombie is an English fantasy author, born in Lancaster in 1974, best known for “The First Law” trilogy and the further novels set in the same world. His most recent novel, “The Devils” (2025), opened a new series, and its sequel “The Heretics” is due in May 2027. Abercrombie went to Lancaster Royal Grammar … Read more
C.S. Lewis (1898 to 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian, best known for the seven fantasy novels that make up “The Chronicles of Narnia”. He also wrote the Space Trilogy, “The Screwtape Letters” and works of Christian apologetics such as “Mere Christianity”. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast on … Read more
Brandon Sanderson is an American author of fantasy and science fiction, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1975. He is best known for the “Mistborn” novels and “The Stormlight Archive”, both set in a shared fictional universe called the Cosmere, and for completing Robert Jordan’s series “The Wheel of Time”. Sanderson studied at Brigham Young University, … Read more
Christopher Ruocchio is an award-winning American author who has made a significant impact in the realms of fantasy and space opera. Born and raised in North Carolina, Ruocchio’s journey from a staunch Roman Catholic upbringing to becoming a celebrated science fiction author is as compelling as the stories he weaves. See all of Christopher Ruocchio … Read more
