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Post by Dazzler on Mar 18, 2005 10:22:06 GMT -5
Mine is Garth Nix who wrote Keys to the Kingdom, the Abhorsen trilogy and Shade's Children. I have several favourite authors, but I can never decide who's better so I settle on Garth Nix because his books had an impact on me.
Who's yours??
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Post by LadyTass2001 on Mar 18, 2005 13:00:23 GMT -5
I have one main favorite and that is David Eddings, but There are so many good authors out there it would be hard to make just one choice on who is next so here is a short list,Edgar Allen Poe,Tracy Hicks and Margaret Weiss,R.A.Salvatore,J.D.Robb,Frank Herbert.
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Post by 053 on Mar 19, 2005 23:52:13 GMT -5
Eddings is up there for me, Raymond E Feist ('Magician' was my first big fantasy novel as a young bloke!), Terry Pratchett, Tad Williams... mostly Sci fi... but then I fall back on my favourites as a kid... Gerald Durrell('My Family and Other Animals', 'Birds Beasts and Relatives', 'Rosy is My Relative' etc). Alan Dean Foster wrote this fun Sci fi series (7 - 8 books I think) that I enjoyed immensely - but struggle to find now... the adventures of Jon Tom the human and a ratbag rabbit known as Mudge... I can't think of the titles now (was a long time ago) but I always keep an eye out for them. I just thought they were clever and entertaining - a good light read. A few more... but hey - who hasn't! Cheers 053  |
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Post by Thena on Mar 21, 2005 4:54:02 GMT -5
I have heard of Mudge i think my daughter is reading that lol
as far as my fav i will have to say Laurell Hamlton right now ccan not wate tell april lol but i have a lot. i go by books more then authers because they are just like potato chips you cant have just one. growing up my grandparents and mother read a lot and that is where i get that from.
but i think i have them all beat with all the books that i strung around my house
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Post by Vanguard the Newly Employed on Mar 21, 2005 13:39:55 GMT -5
Well, I personally have too many to name, and who I'm really into depends on my mood. Overall, my favourites would be:
-Frank Herbert (Dune; Destination: Void; The Santaroga Barrier; etc)
-Harlan Ellison ("I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"; "'Repent, Harlequin' Said the Ticktockman"; "Eyes of Dust"; etc)
-Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; "Second Variety"; etc)
-William Gibson (Neuromancer; The Difference Engine (w/ Bruce Sterling); "Jonny Mnemonic")
-Robert J. Sawyer (Calculating God)
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Post by Nevermore on Mar 29, 2005 8:46:58 GMT -5
Well they are not sci-fi or fantasy authors my big two people i always read is John Saul and Dean Kootz there are many more but those are the ones i like best!  |
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Post by Thena on Mar 30, 2005 1:19:38 GMT -5
oooo i like Koontz books
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Post by Nevermore on Mar 30, 2005 8:36:39 GMT -5
Right now i am reading "Frankienstien"pretty good book! |
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Post by Nevermore on Apr 1, 2005 11:39:17 GMT -5
Jus finished last night it was good cant wait for part two which comes out in august!  |
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Post by LadyTass2001 on Apr 1, 2005 23:18:03 GMT -5
Doesn't that suck? I know when I first started reading Eddings it was like that for me,I picked up the Belgariad at book one and he hadn't finished Book 2, man I thought I was going to die waiting-LOL-but I had to wait almost a year!!! Then again it was a 5 Book set so it kept me reading for along time waiting for the next one and the next one and the next one et cetra. Then he pulled a real nasty when He started writing the Mallorean, I had to wait 2 Years to read the first one of those!!!and of course it was another 5 Book set.
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Post by haramis on Dec 20, 2005 20:14:07 GMT -5
There's no way I could pick just one, so here are a few of my favs:
Andre Norton
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Barbara Michaels (also writes as Elizabeth Peters)
Jayne Krentz (especially when she writes as Jayne Castle)
Mary Higgins Clark
Jane Austen
I'm interested in George R.R. Martin. Can anyone suggest a book of his that I might start off with?
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Post by steve12553 on Feb 23, 2006 20:09:37 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Herbert's Dune Series and a lot of the Phillip K Dick stuff. ( had to read them after I saw the movies and read the original titles. I also am a big fan of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Robert A. Heinlein in no particular order.
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Post by Speardane on Mar 7, 2006 20:37:45 GMT -5
Robert Heinlein will always be an important player in the way I read Sci-Fi. I was probably 12 when I read Orphans of the Sky, and to me, it defines what good sci-fi is.
David Eddings was an important influence for me when I was younger.
Another author of note was Kim Stanley Robinson of the Mars trilogy.
But, as anyone who's read the poem knows by my alias, Beowulf beats anything recent all to heck. Now THAT's a story. A man with the strength of fourty men who battles not one, but two trolls of the ancient giant race, who becomes a great king, and dies saving his kingdom from the wrath of a great dragon. Most heroic fiction borrows from the epic of Beowulf, just because it's such a powerful archetype. He's the original superhero.
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Post by jabberwocky on Jan 15, 2007 2:21:26 GMT -5
Well this is a hard one. ther are so many wrtiers that I enjoy rading - Neil Gayman
- Asimov
- William Gibson
- Spider Robinson
- Charles de Lint
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Post by LadyTass2001 on Feb 4, 2007 23:02:03 GMT -5
ok now oI have to add another name to that list of mine lol I just can't ever seem to be happy with a short list lol so .......... add Laurell K Hamilton to that list also lol
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