It’s been a while since I listed ten science fiction titles. Those are still valid but I thought I’d add to them by listing ten current SF authors (people writing good work right now) who I’d recommend.
- Greg Egan, author of Permutation City, Schild’s Ladder and Quarantine and other titles
- Mary Gentle, author of Golden Witchbreed, the White Crow quartet and other titles
- Peter F. Hamilton, author of the Night’s Dawn Trilogy and other titles
- Gwyneth Jones, author of the Aleutian trilogy and other novels
- Ursula Le Guin, author of The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, Four Ways to Forgiveness and other titles
- Rachel Pollack, author of Temporary Agency and Unquenchable Fire and other titles
- Adam Roberts, author of Stone, Salt and Gradisil and other titles
- Michael Marshall Smith, author of Only Forward, Spares and other titles, now writing horror novels under the name Michael Marshall.
- Neal Stephenson, author of The Diamond Age, The Big U and other titles
- John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and other titles
Please note that these are adult SF titles and as such may contain adult content including scenes of violence and/or sexual activity. Rachel Pollack is also recommended as an author of LGBT fiction – another list I should write at some point.
Michael Marshall Smith has also recently published a YA book under the name M M Smith.
And I think Rachel Pollack prefers to spell her name with an ‘a’?
Comment by Mo — April 28, 2009 @ 8:13 am