{"id":13954,"date":"2019-03-02T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2019-03-03T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:41:07","slug":"authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors you can\u2019t go wrong with, part 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/authors-you-cant-go-wrong-with-part-7\/\">part 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Becky Chambers<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>A Closed and Common Orbit<\/li>\n<li>Record of a Spaceborn Few<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>David A. Goodman<\/h2>\n<p>Goodman has written 2 autobiographies of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> characters, both books well worth reading. He also wrote episodes of <strong>Futurama<\/strong> and <strong>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>The Autobiography of James T. Kirk<\/li>\n<li>The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Matt Haig<\/h2>\n<p>Haig has written a couple of startlingly brilliant novels. He&#8217;s also written the nonfiction <strong>Reasons to Stay Alive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>How to Stop Time<\/li>\n<li>The Humans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jeffrey Lang<\/h2>\n<p>Lang has written several <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> novels. His 2 <strong>Next Generation<\/strong> novels feature the character of Data.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>TNG: Immortal Coil<\/li>\n<li>TNG: The Light Fantastic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ann Leckie<\/h2>\n<p>Leckie&#8217;s first novel won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards &#8212; the first time a book has ever won all 3. She also edited the online magazine <strong>Giganotosaurus<\/strong> for several years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Ancillary Justice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great book\n<ul>\n<li>Ancillary Sword<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Michael A. Martin &amp; Andy Mangels<\/h2>\n<p>This writing team has written a bunch of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> books, and Martin has also written a few solo ones. They also wrote some <strong>Deep Space Nine<\/strong> comics and a couple of <strong>Roswell<\/strong> books.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>ENT: The Good That Men Do<\/li>\n<li>ENT: Kobayashi Maru<\/li>\n<li>ENT: The Romulan War \u2014 Beneath the Raptor\u2019s Wing (Martin solo)<\/li>\n<li>ENT: The Romulan War \u2014 To Brave the Storm (Martin solo)<\/li>\n<li>TITAN: Taking Wing<\/li>\n<li>TITAN: The Red King<\/li>\n<li>TITAN: Fallen Gods (Martin solo)<\/li>\n<li>ST: The Lost Era \u2014 The Sundered<\/li>\n<li>ST: Typhon Pact #2 \u2014 Seize the Fire (Martin solo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good book\n<ul>\n<li>ENT: Last Full Measure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kate Morton<\/h2>\n<p>Morton&#8217;s books follow a similar structure, with someone in the present finding out about a secret that happened decades ago in a previous generation of their family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Lake House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great book\n<ul>\n<li>The Distant Hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Claire North<\/h2>\n<p>North is a pen name. She also publishes under her real name, Catherine Webb, and another pen name, Kate Griffin. She finished writing her first book when she was 14 years old.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>The Sudden Appearance of Hope<\/li>\n<li>Touch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Carl Sagan<\/h2>\n<p>Sagan only wrote one novel, but he&#8217;s worth reading in both fiction and nonfiction. He&#8217;s known for the TV show he was host of, <strong>Cosmos: A Personal Voyage<\/strong>. He was a scientist and professor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>Contact<\/li>\n<li>The Demon-Haunted World (nonfiction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dayton Ward<\/h2>\n<p>Ward has written a bunch of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> books, and got his start with a story in the first <strong>Strange New Worlds<\/strong> anthology.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great books\n<ul>\n<li>TOS: In the Name of Honor<\/li>\n<li>TOS: Legacies #3 \u2014 Purgatory\u2019s Key (with Kevin Dilmore)<\/li>\n<li>TNG: Armageddon\u2019s Arrow<\/li>\n<li>TNG: Headlong Flight<\/li>\n<li>TNG: Hearts and Minds<\/li>\n<li>DISCO: Drastic Measures<\/li>\n<li>ST: The Fall #5 \u2014 Peaceable Kingdoms<\/li>\n<li>ST: Typhon Pact #4 \u2014 Paths of Disharmony<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[87,7,42],"class_list":["post-13954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}