A few notes on this pantheon:
This is based on my own opinions and tastes, not necessarily on what might be perceived as "good" SF or fantasy (though I'd argue like heck for that status for anyone in the Trinity or Mount Olympus). The reason that, say, Larry Niven isn't in here is that I don't like Larry Niven. (Sexist pig with lousy characterization anyway.... Told you I was opinionated!) I did alpha order within each area or I'd go nuts trying to rank everyone!
People have a bit of a tendency to move around a bit in the hierarchy. Julian May used to be on Mt. Olympus but I can't get into her later stuff. Kage Baker flirts with Trinity (Tetrity?) status.
The Trinity
Lois McMaster Bujold - Ursula K. LeGuin - J.R.R. Tolkien
Mount Olympus
Isaac Asimov - Kage Baker - Ray Bradbury - Charles De Lint - Diane Duane - Zenna Henderson - Robert Heinlein - Madeleine L'Engle - Philip Pullman -Theodore Sturgeon
Non-Book Media Gods
Jim Henson - Hayao Miyazaki - J. Michael Straczynski
Minor Gods and Goddesses
Douglas Adams - Orson Scott Card - Julia Ecklar - Esther Friesner - C.S. Lewis - R.A. MacAvoy - Julian May - Garth Nix - J. K. Rowling - Charles Sheffield
(more to come, most likely after Tom Z. beats on me for "whom I've forgotten." Assuming he'll forgive me for putting Douglas Adams and Charles Sheffield way down here. Well, he can do his own pantheon!)
I'll gradually link up the names to websites. Maybe some time in the next decade...
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