Enter Your Favorite Author and Literature Maps Will Make Suggestions

That is pretty cool. I typed in Robert Jordan and the ones clustered around his name are all other authors I have read and agree are quite similar.
It gave me:

George R.R. Martin
Terry Goodkind
Raymond Feist
Robin Hobbs
Tad Williams
Terry Brooks

I have read at least one complete series (Song of Ice and Fire to-date for Martin) for each one of those authors.

A little farther away but closer than the rest was David Eddings. I have read 4 separate series of his and agree he is not quite as close as the other authors.

This map was further validated by Brandon Sanderson not being all that close to Jordan.

This map explains why I have not found a good new fantasy series to read in a very long time. I've read all the good stuff from the similar authors it recommends.

This also shows how badly fantasy needs a new Robert Jordan, at least for my taste.

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The authors listed for Gaiman are all over the place when it comes to genre as well.

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Yeah and the fact that they put Anne Rice even close to him is a joke. I've done this with a bunch of other authors and the map is pretty close, but Gaiman is just his own entity. The only one that I would think is remotely close is Stephen King and a lot of his stuff is more horror than fantasy/magical realism (though he definitely has some magical realism going on in some of his books--e.g. The Green Mile)

But yeah, GRRM, HP Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, Neil Stephenson... These are not even in the same ballpark with each other. I mean shite, he's got Ernest Hemingway and Alan Moore on his map!

Philip K. Dick's closest writer is Stanislaw Lem. Nobody dig him up and tell him that

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Perhaps due to a frame of mind influenced by drug use or mental illness, however, Dick believed that Stanislaw Lem was a false name used by a composite committee operating on orders of the Communist party to gain control over public opinion, and wrote a letter to the FBI to that effect. Stanislaw Lem was also responsible for Polish translation of Dick's work, and when Dick felt monetarily short-changed by the publisher, he held Lem personally responsible (see Microworlds). This may have also been the impetus for Dick's letter to the FBI.

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I'm just gonna bump this because I think it's that cool.