Colleen McCollough (I loved the masters of Rome series) Anne Rice (I've read everything, even the Beauty series--blush) Neil Gaiman (Favorite new guy) Clive Barker (One of the nicest guys at a book signing) Tom Clancy (What can I say) JK Rowling (Hary is my alter ego!) JRR Tolkien (the MAN!)
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Steven Brust (The kind of writing which inspires me) Peter F. Hamilton (The kind of hard SF I could never do) Frank Miller (If graphic novels count) Alan Moore (ditto) Brian Williams (I may be biased)
--Enigmatic (plus many classics that go without saying)
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Roger Zelazny Robert Heinlein J. P. Donleavy (Ok, so I have only read one book. Big deal.) Dan Simmons George R. R. Martin J. R. R. Tolkien Alexander and Ann Shulgin (What can I say, I am a head.) Irvine Welsh Hunter S. Thompson Robert Anton Wilson (with Robert J. Shea in the Illuminatus! Trilogy) Brian Jacques (When I was younger, and still for the sentimental value. If I have children, these books will be read to them.)
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Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Ernest Hemingway Evelyn Waugh Sean Russell Anne Tyler Tony Hillerman George RR Martin Orson Scott Card Barbara Kingsolver Anne Lamott C.J. Cherryh Tad Williams
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In no particular order... Douglass Adams Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Tom Clancy Arthur C. Clarke James Clavell Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Michael Flynn David Gerrold Harry Harrison Robert Heinlein Larry Niven Frederik Pohl Jerry Pournelle Fred Saberhagen Mark Twain J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jim Sagel Linda Hogan Stephen King Joseph Bruchac Mildred Taylor Madeleine L'Engle Norbert Capek (Chapek) Eoin Colfer J.R.R. Tolkien C.S. Lewis David Peltzer Jonathan Kozol
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Enigmatic have you read Zelazny? Brust is heavily and obviously influenced by him. Seems to me he sort of used Zelazny's style as a jumping-off point to find his own voice. I look at Brust as sort of carrying the Zelazny torch (as opposed to the other option, who is Jane Lindskold). (Who is also good.)
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I am fairly out of it right now, but I will try and think up of a couple.
Jack McDevitt Greg Bear Ben Bova Louis L'amour Alighieri Dante Robert Jordan (the non Wheel of Time books) Tad Williams Robert Heinlein Fred Saberhagen Kim Stanley Robinson
Yep, that was bit more than a couple, but oh well.
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Second platoon: Joe Haldeman A. & B. Strugatski A. E. van Vogt Stanislaw Lem John Brunner Robert Heinlein
Non-SF (even though one might wonder ): Haruki Murakami J.D. Salinger (yeah, one book, THAT book)
In the process of joining my platoons: Dan Simmons (have read just Ilium until now, but wow!), George R.R. Martin (if "A song of Ice and Fire" series is anything like what it is said to be).
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TL: I don't think I have, but I'm sometimes bad with names until I've read at least a few different books by someone. Recommend a good Zelazny book or starting-point of a series and I'll add it to the pile (currently 2.7 books).
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Isaac Asimov John Christopher (Tripod trilogy) Robert A. Heinlein (pre-1959) John Wyndham Arthur C. Clarke Terry Brooks (Magic Kingdom) Fred Saberhagen Roger Zelazny (original Amber series) Walter R. Brooks Louis L'Amour Charles Sheffield (I don't think this is spelled right) Clifford D. Simak J.R.R. Tolkein (LOTR) Fred Saberhagen (oops, I said that already)
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Robert J. Sawyer Robert Charles Wilson Isaac Asimov Arthur C. Clarke Robert Heinlein Douglas Adams John Varley Charles Stross Stephen Baxter Ray Bradbury Nancy Kress Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. J.R.R. Tolkien Allen Steele
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I'll try it some time. But for now I've restricted myself from buying books for a while, so it won't happen very soon. Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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WB Yeats (poetry counts, right?) JRR Tolkien TH White CS Lewis JK Rowling (Hmm. I really seem to have a thing going for initials only authors, don't I?) Ray Bradbury Elizabeth Goudge JM Barrie (Hey, look! More initials!) OR Melling (I swear I'm not doing this on purpose.) Jane Urquhart Homer Diana Wynne Jones Andrew Lang Matt Cohen
I'm sure there's about a hundred more I'm forgetting.
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Neil Gaiman JK Rowling Philip Pulman Monica Furlong Han Nolan Octavia Butler David Mack Barbara Kingsolver LK Hamilton for pure delightful smut Larissa Lai Lori Aurelia Williams
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Oh Danzig, my son loves Brian Jacques! We made him a Mathias Halloween costume one year and he took photos of himself to a book signing! Mr. Jacques was so nice to him (he was 9 at the time) and told him "I think you make a splendid Mathias!" My son is now 13 and still talks about that day.
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J.R.R. Tolkien George R.R. Martin Robin Hobb Lloyd ALexander Brian Jacques Usela K. Leguin Cnris Van Allsburg C.S. Lewis J.K Rowling Bill Watterson
I know these aren't all adult novelist, but still these people have all made me smile over the years. And looking at it now it seems weird, I have a ot of initialled authors.
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Colleen McCollough (I loved the masters of Rome series) Me too! Agatha Christie Robert Massie J. K. Rowling W.B. Yeats Jack London John Steinbeck Scott Roberts George R. R. Martin Jane Austen L. M. Montgomery Harper Lee
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Isaac Asimov Phillip K. Dick Chuck Palahniuk Neal Stepehenson Douglas Adams
Some of my favorite books are also written by authors not on that list. Books like Dune, Watership Down, The Neverending Story, Everything is Illuminated, House of Leaves, books where the author either hasn't written anything else or i haven't read anything else, thus precluding them from being in my list of favorite authors.
Then some books by Bradbury, Orwell, Heinlien, Rand, Vonnegut...which I really love, but never considered them my "favorite" authors.
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Vernor Vinge Robert Silverberg Robert Heinlein Tad Williams Frederick Pohl Larry Niven Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov David Brin Jack Chalker Arthur C. Clarke Robertson Davies Robert Heinlein (mostly his YA books) Robin Hobb Jonathan Kellerman R.A. Lafferty George RR Martin Tim Powers Mike Resnick J.K. Rowling Robert J. Sawyer Robert Silverberg Clifford D. Simak
(I had to put in a plug for some of the ones I read in my early teens. Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein and Simak were the main forces in turning me into a lifelong fan of the science fiction genre.)
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Frank Herbert George R R Martin Harry Harrison C S Lewis Terry Goodkind Terry Pratchet Niel Gaiman Carol Burg Terry Brooks Robert Jordan Homer Robert Silverberg (as an editor too) Nancy Kress Dean Koontz David Eddings Lloyd Alexandar J R R Tolkien Ben Bova C S Friedman
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George R. R. Martin Tad Williams Dan Simmons Terry Brooks David Eddings David Farland Charles Dickens Dostoyevsky Ayn Rand Salman Rushdie
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Robert Heinlein Piers Anthony Steven Brust Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle Terry Pratchett Steven King JK Rowling JRR Tolkien
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Michael Ondaatje Margaret Laurence Mordecai Richler Leo Tolstoy Yann Martel Pierre Berton TS Eliot Samuel Coleridge
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Speaking of which, I hereby add Morley Callaghan to my list. A brilliant, very under-recognized author in my opinion.
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The Great Dark Lord of the Sith Also the well known Darth Card A personal favorite Darth Jordan And the Champion of Darth ways, Darth Asimov
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In no particular order... Tolkien G R R Martin Stephen King William Horwood Edgar Rice Burroughs Julian May Frank Herbert Alexander Solzenhitsyn Anne Perry Tom Clancy James Clavell Richmal Crompton Steven Pressfield
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Isaac Asimov (that man had a lot of brain in his brain)
Anne McCaffrey (Pern, anyway, and that was a junior high thing so, well, it's been more than a few years)
e e cummings (someone already gave the go-ahead on poets, right?)
C. S. Lewis (pretty curious about this new movie from ?Disney?, actually)
Oscar Wilde (everyone else got a parenthetical insertion, Wilde deserves one as well, I'd imagine)
Louis Sachar (wowee, a lot of wit in that man, it's unfair to call him childish -- although I imagine he'd resent anything but that)
Shel Silverstein ("I made an airplane out of stone... I always did like staying home")
Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons, and not so much the movie)
hmm... I think I'd be better at authors I did NOT like, actually. But I won't since, well, I just got done reading half the Sith thread and that was enough criticality for me for the day.
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J.R.R. Tolkein Isaac Asimov George R.R. Martin Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm J.K. Rowling Eoin Colfer C.S. Lewis
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Tim Powers Kage Baker Faye Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman Clive Barker Irving Stone Tony Hillerman Chaim Potok Stephen King John D. MacDonald (for the Travis McGee books) James Ellroy Robert B. Parker
I'm sure there are others that my poor, tired mind is forgetting right now.
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Now somebody with a better attention span than mine is going to go through this thread and figure out which authors get mentioned most often.
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I rather like Stephen King, but why is it that his best stuff (ok, the only stuff I read) seems to be his short story work?
seriously.
In respectitude, I'm reminded of OSC's "Fart Farm" and the other stories in "Maps". Most of his compelling writing maybe isn't in his signature novel.
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