response 75 of 195:

Feb 1 16:19 UTC 1999

  Nope..  Recent guesses have at least been in the right genre, though,
  and are correct on several other counts (writer is male and currently
  living.)

response 77 of 195:

Feb 3 05:51 UTC 1999

  Nope.  

  I'd actually picked this one because I wanted something that would be 
  easy to guess:  I thought that between the number of science fiction and
  fantasy fans on Grex and the distinctive flavor of this writer's dialog
  that someone would quickly identify him.

  Perhaps we need more quote, I'll enter a bit more in a bit..

response 79 of 195:

Feb 3 12:25 UTC 1999

Hmm.  I've lost track of the quotes themselves.

response 81 of 195:

Feb 3 16:26 UTC 1999

  Not Michael Moorcock or Stanislaw Lem (though I highly recommend Lem.)
  The quotes are in responses #59, #67, and possibly not-yet-numbered
  responses to be enterered soon..  :-)  You can see the currently entered
  ones by typing "only 59; only 67" at the "Respond, pass, forget, quit?"
  prompt.

response 83 of 195:

Feb 3 18:20 UTC 1999

(For purposes of this game, you don't have to identify the work, just 
the author.)

response 85 of 195:

Feb 4 02:36 UTC 1999

Doesn't sound the least like Mary Stewart to me.  (I reread/read all 4 of the
Arthurian ones about a month back, having discovered that I never read the
last two at all way back when.)  Presumably if jep's right the A___ is Arthur.
I'll guess vaguely at L. Sprague de Camp; the diction sounds a bit like him,
and he might have done an Arthurian job that I've never read.

response 87 of 195:

Feb 4 04:49 UTC 1999

half-florins?  arthur?...

response 89 of 195:

Feb 4 14:41 UTC 1999

I got as far as searching the WWW to verify that florins and 
half-florins are some sort of monetary unit.  It's true, they are; I 
found coin-collector references to them.  "Cwyd" is almost certainly 
Welsh.

In the last 20 years, at least 50,000 writers have written fantasy 
novels with a Welsh background.  To my mind, 49,686 of these were 
identical, and I have long since given up finding the rest.  (Some that 
I did read were good, to be sure, but finding any that are 
distinguishable from the rest seems as difficult as finding an original 
disco song.)

Maybe this author one-upped Mary Stewart's misogyny.  It's a common 
technique; find a good, successful author, and copy some of what they 
did, while trying to go a little further.  This thought doesn't doesn't 
help to identify the author.

Maybe more clues and quotes are in order.

response 91 of 195:

Feb 4 22:41 UTC 1999

L. Sprague de Camp was at least alive in 1992, which is the latest book 
of his available to me at the moment.  It would surprise me if he were 
dead.  

response 93 of 195:

Feb 5 06:32 UTC 1999

   +  None of the answers so far are correct.  

   +  This particular author has probably published more works of science
      fiction than of fantasy but his fantasy works may possibly be better
      known.  Perhaps I should quote from one or two of the science fiction
      works as well..

   +  "A___" is not short for Arthur, though that would be a great guess
      if the story were, in fact, set in Wales.

   +  Although Cwyd is undeniably Welsh-sounding, the story I've been
      quoting does not take place in Wales, but in a fictional setting
      that is a hodge-podge of elements taken from various European
      traditions (in other words, don't strain yourself trying to
      reconcile "Cwyd" with "florins".)

   A few words about the setting, which should give it away if anyone's
   read and remembers the work from which I'm quoting..

      "South of Cornwall, north of Iberia, across the Cantabrian Gulf
      from Aquitaine were the Elder Isles, ranging in size from Gwyg's
      Fang, a jag of black rock most often awash under Atlantic breakers,
      to Hybras, the 'Hy-Brasill' of early Irish chroniclers:  an island
      as large as Ireland itself."

   If that doesn't tip someone off I'll enter another quote in a day or
   so from another one of this author's works.

response 95 of 195:

Feb 5 12:22 UTC 1999

Haven't read this kind of stuff for years and years, but I'll add
another and probably wrong random guess to the pile anyway: Jack
Vance.

response 97 of 195:

Feb 5 13:42 UTC 1999

tend to agree with resp:89

and have run out of ideas...:(

response 99 of 195:

Feb 5 18:40 UTC 1999

Fritz Leiber?  Or is he dead?