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Damn Fine Authors
Intro
Long Dead
W. Shakespeare
J. Milton
G. Chaucer
Gawain Poet
Anonymous
Recently Dead
J.R.R. Tolkien
I. Asimov
F. Herbert
E. Dickinson
D. Adams
Still Alive?
A. Clarke
Umberto Eco
Alive
C. Willis
W. Gibson
O.S. Card
R. Jordan
D. Brin
Rentable Films
Stupid Faxes
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Yes. Yes. I know.
Everyone here is a science fiction writer.
For an author with an uncanny sense of wit and timing, check out anything by David Sedaris.
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Still Scrawlin'
Behold: live bodies.
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David Brin
Brin's Uplift War creates a wonderful backdrop for his stories. The stories are worthy gems in themselves, but the concepts behind the structure of the universe and sentient factions make you wish he'd go into more detail about their causes, conflicts, and resolutions.But that's what makes him great: he has endless story line possibilities to choose from for future works.
Links:
� Official Web Site
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Connie Willis
A living giant in the current crop of science fiction writers, often taking over the editorship of Asimov's old posts. And she's not even hit her peak yet.
She is a joy to read as she can flip from the comedic to the gravely serious with equal skill.
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� Biography
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William Gibson
Well... you are on the internet, so you should have some rough idea who the (co-) founder of the cyberpunk movement is.
Gibson has a gritty, technical, and sensual blend to his writing. I'm just afraid he may turn out to be more prophet than novelist when all is said and done.
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� Bio & Books
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Orson Scott Card
An author well deserving of his multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. Scott Card's "Ender's Game" is possibly the fastest paced book I've ever read; one deftly written with ingenious sub-plots that make you temporarily forget the dangers of the looming main plot.
Not content to feed on action alone, his novels also do an admirable job of exploring human motivation and shortcomings.
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� Official Web Site
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Robert Jordan
Yes. I admit it. I avoided Robert Jordan's novels for years because of the cheesy book covers. Oh yes, their thickness was a factor too; Jordan's paperbacks look more like cubes than books. It took a publisher's free sample of the first half of his novel to hook me.The next thing I know, I was devouring those thousand page wonders as he spun a continually growing tale. This man has a gift for intertwining plots.
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� Wheel of Time
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� sklender, 1996 - Until My Death, and then three weeks beyond that.