My preferred medium for speculative fiction is the word - novel, series, short story/novella - so I will restrict myself to nominations in those areas.
Since so many of my favourites have already been nominated (such as LeGuin's Always Coming Home, Kay's Fionvar Tapestry, Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Walton's Small Change trilogy, King's Green Grass, Running Water, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and McHugh's China Mountain Zhang), this leaves me free to nominate even more of my favourites for consideration.
Books:
Elisabeth Vonarburg, The Maerlande Chronicles (Also published as In the mother's Land
Gael Baudino, Gossamer Axe
Gwyneth Jones, Life
Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords
Series:
Diane Duane, Middle Kingdom trilogy, aka The Tale of the Five (The Door in Fire, The Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset)
Karen Traviss, Wess'har Wars series (Crossing the Line, city of Pearl, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally, Judge)
Lyda Morehouse, LINK Angel series (Archangel Protocol, Fallen Host, Messiah Node, Apocalypse Array)
R. A. MacAvoy, Black Dragon series (Tea with the black Dragon, Twisting the Rope
L. Timmel Duchamp, Marq’ssan Cycle (Alyanya to Alyanya, Renegade, Tsunami, Blood in the Fruit, Stretto
Glenda Larke, The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted)
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Since so many of my favourites have already been nominated (such as LeGuin's Always Coming Home, Kay's Fionvar Tapestry, Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Walton's Small Change trilogy, King's Green Grass, Running Water, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and McHugh's China Mountain Zhang), this leaves me free to nominate even more of my favourites for consideration.
Books:
Elisabeth Vonarburg, The Maerlande Chronicles (Also published as In the mother's Land
Gael Baudino, Gossamer Axe
Gwyneth Jones, Life
Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords
Series:
Diane Duane, Middle Kingdom trilogy, aka The Tale of the Five (The Door in Fire, The Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset)
Karen Traviss, Wess'har Wars series (Crossing the Line, city of Pearl, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally, Judge)
Lyda Morehouse, LINK Angel series (Archangel Protocol, Fallen Host, Messiah Node, Apocalypse Array)
R. A. MacAvoy, Black Dragon series (Tea with the black Dragon, Twisting the Rope
L. Timmel Duchamp, Marq’ssan Cycle (Alyanya to Alyanya, Renegade, Tsunami, Blood in the Fruit, Stretto
Glenda Larke, The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted)