[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: favorite science fiction/fantasy authors - what are yours?

[Sue Wartell]

Favorites - I'm glad someone started listing without ordering; I'm going to follow suit.
In no particular order:

J.K. Rowling 
Lois McMaster Bujold - she writes both sf and fantasy.  I think Paladin of Souls is my favorite of hers, though it changes, and I love everything she's written. The Vorkosigan series is wonderful, character-driven SF/space opera.  
Janet Kagan - she didn't write many books, but they were very imaginative, with vivid characters I wanted to meet in the real world.  Highly, highly recommended
Connie Willis - especially To Say Nothing of the Dog
Arthur C. Clarke - for many, many years he was my very favorite author
Roger Zelazny
Christopher Stasheff (guilty pleasure)
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (though I find them somewhat uneven)

I've enjoyed the first couple of Michael Scott's series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" but I can't name him a favorite on the basis of two books. He may join the group above by the end of the 6 planned books, though. 

There are other authors who have some books I like, and some I don't care for as much - McCaffrey is in that category and so is Lackey.  I used to like Heinlein and Asimov, but their books haven't aged well for me.  Alan Dean Foster has a few that I really like.  I've not quite decided about Michelle Sagara West - I don't exactly love the "Cast in..." series, but I keep reading it and looking forward to the next book.

Sue
in balmy Columbus OH


      

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