>>Walter John Williams - I'm a sucker for cyberpunk, too. But Williams has
>>expanded his repertoire outside that genre, and I've been favorably
>>impressed. Anyone into alternate history should read "No spot of Ground."
>>It's a short story about E.A. Poe. He is saved from the Baltimore gutter,
>>and becomes an officer in the Civil War (he did go to West Point, BTW).
>>Again, it is a good combination of plot and characterization.
----> Glad to see this guy get a mention here. WJW has been doing good
work for some years now, interesting subjects and coherent writing. If
anyone's been turned off by some cyberpunk authors' - he's different.
He also writes other things well as noted above. I'll try to hold back
until this turns into a "specific book recommendation" thread...
>>
>
>Yes I am interested. (The question wasn't entirely rhetoric...)
>
>Naturally our tastes differ, but it would be a boring world if we were
>all
>the same...
>
>I guess I favour clever ideas and plot twists more than "deathless
>prose".
>
>I'm kind of at a loss to pick any one author (or even five or ten) as I
>read
>pretty much anything I can get my hands on, but if pressed I would go
>for
>Brian Stableford, Jerry Pournel, Larry Niven, Harry Harrison (but not
>his
>Stainless Steel Rat series), and (I'm almost ashamed to admit it to an
>English major) EE 'doc" Smith!
>
>Agro
----> A guilty pleasure - the old Lensman books etc. Like Niven too...I
guess I would describe it as his books just have the right "feel" to
them.
My add: not so much sf, but for funny, who here has tried Terry
Pratchett...?
>Chris Miller
>
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