Authors all of whose books I have or will read
Here’s an update to this list. There are a few authors for whom I’ve read all of their books, and a few that I’m very close on or intend to be. Here they are: Douglas Adams I’ve read 5 of his 7 novels plus 1 nonfiction book. I’ve reread 2 of them. Isaac Asimov I’ve […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Naomi Novik for A Deadly Education and its sequels, otherwise known as the Scholomance trilogy. Runner ups are Naomi Kritzer for Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Laura J. Mixon for Up Against It, Roger MacBride Allen for Caliban and its sequels, and Mickey Zucker […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner for the year is Margarita Montimore, for Oona Out of Order. The runner ups are Ren Hutchings for Under Fortunate Stars, Travis Baldree for Legends & Lattes, Alexander Jablokov for Carve the Sky, and Charles Yu for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. […]
Authors all of whose books I have or will read
There are a few authors for whom I’ve read all of their books, and a few that I’m very close on or intend to be. Here they are: Douglas Adams I’ve read 5 of his 7 novels plus 1 nonfiction book. I’ve reread 2 of them. David Brin I’ve read 11 of his 15 novels. […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. This past year was an outstanding one for new authors. The big winner is Annalee Newitz for The Future of Another Timeline. Runner ups include Andy Weir for Project Hail Mary, Brandon Sanderson for Elantris, Matt Ruff for Lovecraft County, and Alix E. Harrow for The Ten Thousand Doors […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. I read a bunch of new authors this year. The big winner is Cixin Liu for The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. Runner ups are Dave Duncan for West of January, Melissa Caruso for The Tethered Mage and its sequels, Cory Doctorow for Down and Out in the Magic […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Sue Burke for Semiosis. Runner ups are Dennis E. Taylor for We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone for This Is How You Lose the Time War, and John Gregory Betancourt for Star Trek: TNG — Double Helix: Infection. […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Ann Leckie for Ancillary Justice and its sequels. Runner ups are Marina J. Lostetter for Noumenon, Robert Jackson Bennett for Foundryside, Ilsa J. Bick for Well of Souls, and Brad Meltzer for Identity Crisis. Year Winner Runner ups 2019 Ann Leckie Marina J. […]
Authors you can’t go wrong with, part 8
This list continues from part 7. Becky Chambers Chambers burst on the scene with her brilliantly titled first novel and has continued writing in the same universe but with different characters and situations. Masterpiece The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Great books A Closed and Common Orbit Record of a Spaceborn Few David […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. Year Winner […]