> >What authors do Brust fans really like? I think in the SF/Fantasy > >realm, my favourite (besides Tolkien, of course) would be Stephen R > >Donaldson, who sadly hasn't released anything lately. Hmmm... I think I'm going to have to list a couple of obvious and the diverge. Bull, Datlow, Windling, Kurtz, Bradley, de Lint, Foster, Griffith, Akers, Bishop, Weber. Otherwise: My wife and I devoured the entirely of the Laurel K. Hamilton 'Anita Blake' series the holiday season, we've also bought the first of the Meredith Gentry novels and enjoyed it. Somebody mentioned Susan R Matthews, I've liked everything she's written. Jacqueline Carey suprised the heck out me with her Kushiel books. Other specific books worth reading that have been sitting around: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Grossman The Psychology of Conflict and Combat - Shalit The Other Bible: Ancient Alternative Scriptures - ed. Barnestone Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness - ed. Forche Handbook of Medieval Sexuality - eds. Bullough & Brundage Black Dog of Fate: An American son discovers his Armenian past - Balakian Me Against My Brother: At war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda - Peterson The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - Hopkirk Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence -Juergensmeyer Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community - Pike David