Tied with Philip K. Dick and Dennis L. McKiernan as the best authors I have ever read. Many of his smaller works are hard to put into a coherent context unless you have researched the subjects as well as he has but his anthology, The Complete Book of Amber, is the most timeless piece of writing that I have ever had the privilege of reading. It combines aspects of dimensionality, chaos vs order, good vs evil, moral ambiguity, technology vs nature, classic high fantasy, and hard core sci-fi in a manner that I hadn't believed possible until I cracked the cover of this impressive work. He should have won the Pulitzer for this work. He creates a style that is so seamless that you would never believe that he started writing this anthology in the seventies and finished in the nineties. His style stays constant despite of the societal changes happening all around him. Find me another author that has accomplished this feat and prove me ignorant. PLEASE. If there are other authors out there with similar style, I want to know.
