actually i am opposed to organized religion ... why do you ask?

( favourite fantasy author quizzy ) Some of my favourite "traditional fantasy" authors are Peter s Beagle, Ian McDowell, Steven Brust, Dan Crawford, John Moore, Esther Friesner, Louise Cooper, Dave Duncan, John M Ford, Gardner F Fox, Nina Kiriki Hoffmann, Barry Hughart, Peter Morwood, Dennis Schmidr, Carol Severance, Will Shetterly, Wm Mark Simmons, Jane Lindskold, Steven Erikson, Mike Stackpole, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Roger Zelazny, amongst lots of others. As you can tell, I do tend to favour the lighter side of fantasy, whilst detesting the more formulaic fantasy. <grin>