Magician, Silverthorn, Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist..
How I despise this series. You can really tell it was the first thing he'd written. There are entire sections of magician that are straight from lord of the rings, and it's actually pretty damn hard to tell silverthorn and darkness at sethanon apart in terms of the storyline. I feel like he matured a lot after that though, and some of his stuff is quite good. I actually think Honoured Enemy is really well done. His best book. Just my personal opinion, take it with a grain of salt.
Iain Banks writes good sci-fi, too. Player of Games and Use of Weapons are really really good. Best sci-fi i've read.
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