Authors and Writing

This page is still in progress.

I have an ongoing love affair with books - mostly science fiction!

my favorite of favorites: 
 Caroline B. Cooney  BOTH SIDES OF TIME  
 Orson Scott Card PASTWATCH:THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 
 Charles Sheffield BROTHER TO DRAGONS 
 Orson Scott Card  LOST BOYS 
 Greg Bear BLOOD MUSIC
 Mike Resnick A MIRACLE OF RARE DESIGN  
 David Gerrold THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF:THE LAST WORD IN TIME
   MACHINE NOVELS  
 Neal Stephenson SNOW CRASH 

"Masters of Science Fiction"
Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg,Isaac Asimov,Frank Herbert, 
Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova


Piers Anthony has written the novels TOTAL RECALL, FIREFLY, and many 
other books in varied series (Get any book of his and look for his 
list! If you write him, he also replies to mail.)


Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H.Kidd LOVELOCK
Orson Scott Card read anything and everything by him! including:
{Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the
Mind.} PASTWATCH:THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS  

Greg Bear TANGENTS

Marion Zimmer Bradley  THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR

Roger Zelazny DOORWAYS IN THE SAND - interesting writing technique.

Douglas Adams THE LONG DARK TEA TIME OF THE SOUL   
(anything by Douglas Adams  Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy &
more!)

Barbara Hambly THE SILENT TOWER and THE SILICON MAGE

Larry Niven   N-SPACE (collection of stories)  

Anne McCaffrey THE ROWAN (and more...)

Rebecca Ore   BEING ALIEN and BECOMING ALIEN and HUMAN TO HUMAN

Edited by Don Sakers CARMEN MIRANDA'S GHOST IS HAUNTING SPACE STATION 3  

Melissa Scott MIGHTY GOOD ROOD, TROUBLE AND HER FRIENDS

Harry Harrison - Mostly his stories about the Stainless Steel Rat

Stephen R. Donaldson The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story  
(about 5 more in a series)
Be sure to read the author's note at end of The Real Story.

C.J. Cherryh  HEAVY TIME, YVGENIE, CHERNEVOG, THE GOBLIN MIRROR,and
Merchanter's Luck: Rendezvous at Downbelow station.

Diane Duane SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WIZARD        

Diana Gabaldon OUTLANDER  

Terry Pratchett GUARDS! GUARDS! (Very off-the-wall humor)

Barbara Cohen UNICORNS IN THE RAIN     

Steven C. Gould  JUMPER  

Theodore Sturgeon MORE THAN HUMAN  (hard to find but worth the search)

Spider & Jeanne Robinson  STARSEED
Spider Robinson many and varied; I like his style & stories.

Anne McCaffrey/Mercedes Lackey THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED   

Lois McMaster Bujold  VORKOSIGAN'S GAME  {and more!}

edited by David Alexander Smith FUTURE BOSTON 

Octavia E. Butler MIND OF MY MIND, WILD SEED, DAWN 

David Brin OTHERNESS 

Robert A. Heinlein THE STAR BEAST

Julian F. Thompson HERB SEASONING  

John DeChancie  MAGICNET

Catherine Asaro PRIMARY INVERSION 

David Pogue HARD DRIVE

Bruce Coville I LEFT MY SNEAKERS IN DIMENSION X. (A ROD ALLBRIGHT
ALIEN ADVENTURE) 

Esther Friesner GNOME MAN'S LAND, THE SHERWOOD GAME:A NEW
KIND OF ROBIN HOOD

Michael Crichton DISCLOSURE, JURASSIC PARK

David Gerrold VOYAGE OF THE STAR WOLF (and more....)

Ben Bova  ORION AMONG THE STARS (and more...)

Valerie J. Freireich BECOMING HUMAN

Philip K. Dick   THE GOLDEN MAN (Edited by Mark Hurst, a collection) 

Edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold BORDERLAND 
(with charles delint, ellen kushner, steven r. Boyett, bellamy
bach) Look for these companion titles: BORDERTOWN, LIFE ON THE BORDER, THE
ESSENTIAL BORDERTOWN, (all edited by Terri Windling) NOVELS: FINDER by
Emma Bull, ELSEWHERE, and NEVER-NEVER by Will Shetterly.

William Sleator: THE DUPLICATE, THE BOY WHO REVERSED HIMSELF,
INTERSTELLAR PIG, SINGULARITY

Audiocassette: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - a good way to see new authors.



not really science fiction, but interesting reads anyways:
Stephen King GERALD'S GAME

Stephanie D. Fletcher E-MAIL: A LOVE STORY  
(The first time I read this, I'd never seen a chatline *grin*)

Stephen W. Hawking A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME: FROM THE BIG BANG TO BLACK
HOLES

Robin Cook MUTATION

R.L. Stine different books, not really science fiction but worth a
look.  He writes kids/young adult fiction.

Caroline B. Cooney's books.... geared to Teens .....all excellent!


Searching the Web for Science Fiction Books and Authors:

Corwin's Author Web This site is
basically a search engine to find authors.I've just started exploring it!

Comprehensive Authors List (YAHOO results, scroll down a bit)


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