Favorite Authors (Non Technical)
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I've noticed a lot of Terry Pratchett quotes / mentions recently and i've been wondering which other authors people like in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Ian M. Banks is a particulary good author as is Julian May, who else?
Most of my favourite authors have been mentioned already, except this one:
- Stanislav Lem
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned J. K. Rowling!!! ;P
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Jeremy Davis http://www.astad.org
http://www.jvf.co.ukStrangely enough, despite the vast quantity of books I read each year, I have yet to read a JK Rowling. Jeremy Davis wrote: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Have you ever read the Virtual Mode Series by Piers Anthony? Paresh Solanki "Set you're faces to stunned..."
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Strangely enough, despite the vast quantity of books I read each year, I have yet to read a JK Rowling. Jeremy Davis wrote: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Have you ever read the Virtual Mode Series by Piers Anthony? Paresh Solanki "Set you're faces to stunned..."
Paresh Solanki wrote: Jeremy Davis wrote: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Have you ever read the Virtual Mode Series by Piers Anthony? Nope! When my wife was working away from home for 7 weeks, she sent me a card with those words on. I liked it so much, and put it in my sig.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Jeremy Davis http://www.astad.org
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Richard Green wrote: Ian M. Banks He rocks, love his Culture series. Richard Green wrote: good author as is Julian May I have been recommended her before, but what type of SF does she write? Richard Green wrote: i've been wondering which other authors people like in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Well Terry Pratchett is the only fantasy author (apart from J.R.R Tolkien of course) I like. But for SF... Alfred Bester (read The Stars My Destination, amazing, amazing, amazing!) Asimov Clarke Bova Phillip K. Dick Sherri S. Temper (Grass is great, the book too) Poul Anderson Gregory Benford (hard stuff though, my head hurts after reading his books :) ) Robert A. Heinlein Frank Herbert (no brainer which book I am reffering too) Larry Niven Frederik Pohl Robert Silverberg Ray Bradbury Dan Simmons Kurt Vonnegut Ian M. Banks and some others I cannot remember right now. I recommend you check out the recommended reading list on SFWA for some great ideas. Most of the authors listed match who I like. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Alison Pentland wrote: I now have an image of you in front of the mirror in the morning, wearing your knickers, socks and shoes trying to decided if they match!
Paul Watson wrote: Ian M. Banks Prefer the stuff he writes under Ian Banks. The Wasp Factory and Complicity being two of his best. He is one sick and twisted writer. I love his stuff :-D Michael :-) Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor
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Roger Allen wrote: Peter F Hamilton (Sci Fi) The Nights Dawn (I think that is the name) series was good, except for the ending which was the biggest cop-out in SF history ever. It has actually put me off reading any of his other work for fear of beeing left totally cold again. Roger Allen wrote: I generally read a heck of a lot of books. Join the club! Just had our monthly book club meeting last night, I got Guns, germs and steel as one of the books. We are the BBC (Bohemian Book Club) and it is good fun, spend half our time camping, chilling, drinking and philosophising under the stars. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Alison Pentland wrote: I now have an image of you in front of the mirror in the morning, wearing your knickers, socks and shoes trying to decided if they match!
Paul Watson wrote: ending which was the biggest cop-out in SF history ever I personally don't think it was a cop out. The product of millions of years of scientific study by alien races should be able to do things like that! After all it was a conscious AI singularity! Read his other Greg Mandell books. They are very good with no cop outs! Its PI* outs! * He's a Private Investigator, I know a really crap joke.... *sigh* Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
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Paresh Solanki wrote: Jeremy Davis wrote: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Have you ever read the Virtual Mode Series by Piers Anthony? Nope! When my wife was working away from home for 7 weeks, she sent me a card with those words on. I liked it so much, and put it in my sig.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Jeremy Davis http://www.astad.org
http://www.jvf.co.ukIt's a series of adventures of three companians travelling in a plane that slices through multiple dimensions. You need three people to anchor the plane (in the same way that you need two points to define a line). At the end of each novel, one of the characters departs and the plane rotates until a new character is caught. He has had interesting places (eg Fractal Mode where the world is constructed of fractals), worlds with intelligent Horses and even a world where it's still the Cambrian period of Earth's development. Your quote just reminded me how much I enjoyed those books. Paresh Solanki "Set you're faces to stunned..."
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I've noticed a lot of Terry Pratchett quotes / mentions recently and i've been wondering which other authors people like in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Ian M. Banks is a particulary good author as is Julian May, who else?
For sci-fi: Douglas Adams (one of my favorite authors with Stefano Benni and Daniel Pennac). Also William Gibson and Philip K. Dick ("Do androids dream of electric sheep?" is even better than the movie IMHO). I like also Douglas Coupland (not sci-fi but many of his novels are related to technology) I don't like much fantasy. Out of sci-fi/fantasy, I like also Nick Hornby, Sebastien Jarisot, Carlo Lucarelli, Toni Hillerman. -- Looking for a new screen-saver? Try FOYD: http://digilander.iol.it/FOYD
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I've noticed a lot of Terry Pratchett quotes / mentions recently and i've been wondering which other authors people like in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Ian M. Banks is a particulary good author as is Julian May, who else?
Must add Spider Robinson (no one else has) I have read his Callahans books and each one I haven't put down until it was finished. Paresh Solanki "Set you're faces to stunned..."
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Paul Watson wrote: Ian M. Banks Prefer the stuff he writes under Ian Banks. The Wasp Factory and Complicity being two of his best. He is one sick and twisted writer. I love his stuff :-D Michael :-) Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor
My favorite was The Bridge. "You don't have to be a political scientist or a history major to see the 'bigger dick foreign policy' at work. It goes something like this: 'What?! They have bigger dicks? Bomb them!' And of course the bombs and the bullets and the rockets are all shaped like dicks. I don't understand that part of it, but it is part of the equation." -George Carlin
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Roger Allen wrote: Peter F Hamilton (Sci Fi) The Nights Dawn (I think that is the name) series was good, except for the ending which was the biggest cop-out in SF history ever. It has actually put me off reading any of his other work for fear of beeing left totally cold again. Roger Allen wrote: I generally read a heck of a lot of books. Join the club! Just had our monthly book club meeting last night, I got Guns, germs and steel as one of the books. We are the BBC (Bohemian Book Club) and it is good fun, spend half our time camping, chilling, drinking and philosophising under the stars. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Alison Pentland wrote: I now have an image of you in front of the mirror in the morning, wearing your knickers, socks and shoes trying to decided if they match!
I agree on the ending of "The Nights Dawn" though it didn't scare me away. As Roger suggests, try the Greg Mandell books, they are quite good. I can also recommend "Fallen Dragon", but be prepared to go through some hundred rather boring start pages. I actually did put the book away for months, but then I got sick and didn't have any other reading and it appeared that the action started just a few pages from where I initially stopped!. "It could have been worse, it could have been ME!" -Rincewind