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M. John Harrison has written a lot of good stuff (e.g. the Viriconium series) and is still going strong. Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood series pretty intense (not at all like the authors in your list).
Another vote for Earthsea but only the original trilogy. Great stories, although strongly criticised in some quarters for internalised misogyny ("weak as women's magic, wicked as women's magic" isn't the half of it). So later on she went back to try and correct the very traditionally patriarchal tone of the originals but unfortunately wrote a shit book to do it.
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Any suggestions for decent fantasy novels? Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson, David Gemmell, David Eddings style of thing. (Not Glen Cook which is often recommended but I didn't really like for some reason.)
This seems to be an area which is just full of shit on Amazon now. New authors with glowing reviews, from what I assume are their mates, but read like they were done by a child.