I have posted this topic to give members a place to post authors who are obscure, relatively unknown or maybe ones who are well known but we're embarrassed to say we've read/liked! If one does receive a lot of posts, then maybe if he wants to, Matt could move them/create a separate thread.
I will start it off with Anne McCaffrey.
She is an extremely prolific writer who has also used a lot of different co-writers. Her main field is Fantasy Sci. Fi. & I've read 38 of her books - including ones from her Dragon Books, Crystal Singer Books, Talent Series, the Tower and the Hive Sequence and many more. I love the idea of sentient planets, talking dolphins and space ships with human brains. I haven't read enough Sci. Fi. to know who pinched what from whom but I have found myself watching various sci. fi. movies or TV shows & saying "Hey", I've read that idea before - Anne McCaffrey used that in one of her books!