HYPERBOREA / Living authors

**Posted by Scalydemon** 1/30/2015 10:04 pm

Off the top of my head I like Ligotti, William Gibson, Moorcock, Wolfe, Lumley and now digging Matthew Hughes.

(don't really care for G RR Martin or the lady that writes Harry Potter.)

Always looking for more. Probably some I am not thinking of. Fun to have an author that you are waiting for a new book from

Who do you like?

**Posted by Griffith** 1/31/2015 2:14 am

I don't read much that is new. Ramsey Campbell is still alive, so he fits the bill
Cold Print is a collection of Lovecraftian short stories by Campbell. The titular story is a classic!

**Posted by Scalydemon** 1/31/2015 10:25 am

Good suggestion Griffith. Oh, and welcome to the board

**Posted by ThornPlutonius** 1/31/2015 11:30 am

Gene Wolfe, David Brin, William Gibson, Jack McDevitt and Alastair Reynolds are my current favorite modern living Sci Fi authors. Diane Duane did a fine job with her Harbinger Trilogy for TSR's StarDrive novels. I'm sure there are others that I would add to the list once I remember them or become familiar with them. Also, I've very much enjoyed the Pathfinder Tales novels by Robin D. Laws and Dave Gross.

**Posted by NAJones** 1/31/2015 6:44 pm

I have to admit I've been marching backward with my reading list; gobbling up everything I can put my hands on by Vance, Moorcock, Dunsany, Howard, Leigh Brackett, Abraham Merritt et al. But I've really enjoyed a few books by a couple of modern authors lately: China Miéville's Perido Stree Station and Joe Abercrombie The Blade Itself, etc. (First Law series). Abercrombie's stuff in particular has been just plain fun to read.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 1/31/2015 10:08 pm

Yeah, I get everything China Miéville puts out. For other living writers: Kelly Link, Will Wiles, Emily St. John Mandel. I think Gene Wolfe is past his prime, but I still get his books when they come out. I'm about to investigate K. J. Parker. Will report.

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**Posted by Rastus_Burne** 2/02/2015 2:50 am

Ironically I'm more fond of J.K Rowlings work than Martins' Game of Thrones novels. However the tv show is killer (pun intended).

**Posted by Scalydemon** 2/02/2015 7:53 pm

Anyone a Neil Gaiman fan? I think I have made an attempt once at a book of his and it didn't 'take'.

Am I missing anything?

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 2/03/2015 8:46 am

Scalydemon wrote:
Anyone a Neil Gaiman fan? I think I have made an attempt once at a book of his and it didn't 'take'.

Am I missing anything?

I feel like I should be--or rather, I feel like I would be, but it turns out I haven't really been exposed except in Sandman, which is a cool comic, but I think that no matter how hard I try I just won't ever be all that in to comics. But I do like several writers that he's supported and advised.

Rastus_Burne wrote:
Ironically I'm more fond of J.K Rowlings work than Martins' Game of Thrones novels. However the tv show is killer (pun intended).

I gotta say, I cannot stand either one of these. I find them both just unbearable. The TV show is fun, true, if a little portentous. Beats the crap out of the books!

Jeff VanDerMeer is good if you haven't checked him out ever. Part of the "New Weird." I liked City of Saints and Madmen quite a lot, and the first and third books of the Southern Reach trilogy.

**Posted by grodog** 2/12/2015 11:41 pm

Scalydemon wrote:
Anyone a Neil Gaiman fan? I think I have made an attempt once at a book of his and it didn't 'take'. Am I missing anything?

Which book didn't work for you, Scott? I'd be happy to make some recommendations---I've read more Moorcock than Gaiman (and love both of their work), but only because MM's been writing for so much longer :D

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Who do you like?

Some favorites include, in no particular order:

- Moorcock
- Neil Gaiman
- Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos, Carrion Comfort
- S. M. Stirling - The Sky People, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
- John Phythyon - Wolf Dasher series (written by one of my friends, a fantasy/James Bond setting)
- Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

**Posted by Scalydemon** 2/13/2015 1:04 am

Funny thing is the book I had started and couldn;t get into that I thought was by Gaiman wasn't actually written by him (false accusation! sorry Neil). It was this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash and the author was Neil Stephenson as I pulled it back off my shelf.

I guess I will actually have to give Gaiman a legit try

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 2/13/2015 7:32 am

Scalydemon wrote:
It was this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash and the author was Neil Stephenson

That book is terrible! No wonder. Oh, man. Yeah, I feel you. Snow Crash is the worst--just a very poorly executed ripoff of Neuromancer. Stephenson's only worthwhile book is Cryptonomicon--the good news is after reading that, you've pretty well read his entire body of work since he only has one story that he dresses up in different ways.

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**Posted by grodog** 2/13/2015 12:00 pm

I'll heartily recommend Cryptonomicon as well. (I've not read Snow Crash, since I'm not a cyberpunk fan in general).

Living authors - Sci fi, fantasy, horror

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