Some of My Favourite Authors
I read just about anything and everything I get my hands on. Some of my favourite authors are (in no particular order):
- David Wingrove
- Blatent Plug: If you can only read one SF series, read Wingrove's Chung Kuo. You won't regret it!
- Anne McCaffery
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Thus far it's a toss up between Cetaganda (her latest) and Mirror Dance, although her new novel, Komarr, looks quite interesting.
- Komarr is due out (in hardcover) June 1998 from Baen Books. If you want a sneak preview, you can read a few sample chapters from the novel.
- Wilbur A. Smith
- To my mind, Hungry as the Sea is his best work.
- Sue Grafton
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Stranger in a Strange Land! (What more needs be said?)
- Isaac Asimov
- So far as I can remember, the first SF I ever read was one of Asimov's robot short stories. Still in my top 10.
- William Shakespeare
- Macbeth is my current favourite, but I change my mind at least once a year...
- W. E. B. Griffon
- The Corps is on of the best military fiction series is I've come across.
- Colin Forbes
- I think I've read Avalanche Express at least 10 times.
- Arthur Hailey
- The author of Hotel, Strong Medicine, Hotel and many others...
- David Eddings
- His first series is his best.
- Tad Williams
- Robert Ludlum
- Alistair McLean
- John R. Maxim
- Marquis de Sade
- Steinbeck
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)
- Anne Rice
- The imagery of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy really impressed me, as did Belinda. Cry to Heaven is another work of Anne's that I'd recommend to anyone.
- Jack Vance
- Diane Duane
- "Spock's World" is an amazing work. Rich, and the "historical" flashbacks are stunning.
- C. S. Forester
- Hasn't everyone read Hornblower?
- Tom Clancy
- Yes, like a lot of other people, I've been sucked into Clancy-dom. IMNSHO Red Storm Rising (co-authored with Larry Bond) is his best work.
- Leon Uris
- Battle Cry is an amazing novel. Still bites, even after numerous reads.
- James Mitchner
- Space [the Final Frontier...] - Sorry I couldn't resist. - A powerful dramatization of the life and times of the American astronauts.
- Guy Gavriel Key
- The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road) puts a real spin on the legend of King Arthur.
- Theodore Sturgeon
- The father of SF. Check out the new decology of his short stories. Everything he ever wrote in chronological order, with explanations of how and why he wrote it.
- Raymond E. Feist
- I really enjoyed The Rftware Sage. Although this is pure fantasy, it's also excellent writing.
- Robert B. Parker
- Everyone's read at least one Spencer novel...
- Katherine Kerr
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- John Barnes
- Mother of Storms is his best work, with A Million Open Doors coming a close second.
- Mercedes Lackey
- Some of her work is straight pulp-fantasy, but most of it is quite good sword & sorcery fantasy.
- Douglas Reeman
- Prayer for the Ship is a great read... as are the rest of his oeurvre.
- C.J. Cherryh
- Or visit the C. J. Cherryh Fan Site