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Question: Anyone read science fiction!?
just curious to know if anyone has or has had a favorite S!.F!. author!.
also, some favorite books from the past or now in the present!. any type of S!.F!. from fantasy to hard science!. thanksWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Here are some older fantasy authors worth checking out:

Jack Vance
Fritz Leiber
Clark Ashton Smith
James Branch Cabell
H!. Rider Haggard
L!. Sprague de Camp
Robert E!. Howard
E!.R!. Eddison
Mervyn Peake
Talbot Mundy
William Hope Hodgson

Here are some SF authors worth checking out:

Alastair Reynolds
Poul Anderson
Philip K!. Dick
Harlan Ellison
A!.E!. van Vogt
William Gibson
Bruce Sterling
Charles Stross
Cory DoctorowWww@QuestionHome@Com

Favorite "classic" sci-fi writer: Arthur C!. Clarke!. Favorite Clarke books: The Rama series, the 2001 series, Imperial Earth, and his short-story collections!.

Favorite present sci-fi writer: Robert J!. Sawyer!. Favorite Sawyer books: The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Calculating God, Mindscan, Rollback!.

They're both "hard-science" sci-fi writers!. I'm not all that much into fantasy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I like to read a combination of sci fi and fantasy!.My favorite authors for sci Fi are Anne McCarthy her dragons of pern,the crystal singer
trilogy,Dinosaur planet,Planet Pirates!.
Greg Bear,Songs of eternity,Eon and others
Tanya Huff,Valor's choice
Gene Wolfe,his Severian the Torturer series
C!.J Cherryn, The Chronicles of Morgaine
Frank Herbert ,his Dune series and his son's follow up
books like House of Harkonnen
There is so many,I cannot remember them all at once,but I like to read!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't read very much hard sci-fi, though I love the tv shows Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, etc!., but my favorite adult fantasy authors are George R!.R!. Martin and Terry Pratchett!. Who are about as similar as night and day!.!.!.

Pratchett writes the Discworld series, though my single favorite of his books is probably Good Omens, which was co-written with Neil Gaiman!. He's very clever and hysterically funny, though sometimes comes off as a little disorganized!. Knowing what we know now about his EO Alzheimer's, though, I'm no longer as annoyed by that as I sometimes use to be!.

Martin write vast, sprawling, alarmingly organized epics set in a very brutal, medieval-type world based very loosely on the English Wars of the Roses!. Where Pratchett kind of revels in the cliches of fantasy, Martin plows through them with a battle axe and turns them upside down!. Daenarys Targaryen may be a purple-eyed, silver haired long lost princess who is the only living person who can control dragons, but NOBODY could call her a Mary Sue!. He also seems to enjoy killing off characters who would be untouchable in any other novel, and generally defying the usual expectations of high fantasy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hi!
The House on the Borderland , The Ghost Pirates or The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson !.
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http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/William_Hop!.!.!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_House_o!.!.!.
http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10002
"In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten!. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it!. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility!. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction!. Classic American horror writer H!. P!. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences!."
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Ghost_P!.!.!.
http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10966
"The Ghost Pirates !. !. !. is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate!. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power!." — H!.P!. Lovecraft
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Night_L!.!.!.
http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10662
The Night Land
by William Hope Hodgson
[O]ne of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented!. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism!. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark!. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy!. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies!. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human!.?a Excerpted from The Night Land on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!.

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I've read four of John Wyndham's books!. Kraken Wakes, The Midwich Cuckoos, Web, Day of the Triffids!. Currently I am reading a lot of Star Trek novels(both the original and next generation), written by various authors!. Read the Day of the Triffids, you'll be scared!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I recently read the Host by Stephenie Meyer!. She is the author of Twilight!. This is her first sci-fi novel!. It is really good!. Its about alien invasion on earth that takes over and the souls (aliens) use the humans as their hosts!. Its great!Www@QuestionHome@Com

i have read a lot and vonnegut is the most rounded author for me although all the others have good aspects to there writing I can always read a vonnegut book end to end in one (or two if i must) sitting!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I've read The Host by Stephenie Meyer!. also if it counts, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - my favoriteWww@QuestionHome@Com