Favorite Authors...

[j d worthington]

Well, there's also the problem that it depends on what we define as SF and F... for example, Poe, Hawthorne, Dickens, Alcott, and the Brontes all wrote tales that can be considered fantasy at least; Penguin has issued a book of Poe's Science Fiction... so where does one draw the line? Is it those who are only labeled sf or f writers? Until recently, that would be a rather small group ... even among those who primarily wrote in these two fields (Poul Anderson, for instance, also wrote a children's book or two, mysteries, historical fiction, etc.)

So, keeping that distinction in mind:

Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving (who has recently moved up into this slot)
Donald R. Burleson (for his critical writing)

Mind you, this is subject to change at any time....

 

[littlemissattitude]

I do want to mention that my list above was just in reference to authors of fiction. I would have to think about a list of non-fiction writers before I could narrow it down to a few favorites. If I could even do that.

 

[nixie]

Ha! I was going to put Dennis Wheatley until I remembered that aside from the horror novels, he also wrote fantasy ... and that my favourite book of his was the fantasy 'They Found Atlantis'.

I completely forgot about the fantasy novels, my favourite of his was The Forbidden Territory.Mind you its years since I read them and after finding 4 of his black magic stories I'm re reading them.

 

[MJRevell]

Having finished Ptolemy's Gate, right now my favourite is Jonathan Stroud.

 

[Milk]

Gunter Grass ---The Tin Drum
Jersky Kazinski---Being There, The Painted Bird
John D Barrow--Book Of Nothing, The Universe That Discovered Itself
Clive Barker--- too many to name

 

[steve12553]

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mickey Spillane
Ellery Queen
THomas Harris


Maybe

 

[Tash]

CS Lewis
Barbara Erskine
Marion Zimmer Bradley (Avalon series)
Sara Donati

 

[Cerberus]

Jonathan Kellerman
Patricia Cornwell
Uberto Eco
Shakespear

 

[Ozymandias]

Kafka-All his works
Camus- The Stranger, and The Rebel
William S. Burroughs- Junky (once considered pulp trash, now analyzed in universities).
J.D. Salinger-Everything he's written

And many, many others.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Ben Elton
Bill Bryson
Tony Hawks (the comedian, not the skateboarder)
Haruki Murakami

Joel007 and Tash - you would class CS Lewis as not SFF?

 

[Tash]

Ben Elton
Bill Bryson
Tony Hawks (the comedian, not the skateboarder)
Haruki Murakami

Joel007 and Tash - you would class CS Lewis as not SFF?

Never consided him to be a SFF author

 

[j d worthington]

I think he would generally be considered such on the strength of the Ransome books and the Chronicles of Narnia, his Christian apologetics aside....

 

[Tash]

*shrugs*

 

[SERAFINApekkala]

My list is..

H. Dahlquist
P. Pullman
W. Burroughs
I. Welsh

What else does everybody think?
E. Po

 

[SERAFINApekkala]

whoops, i mean..

H. Dahlquist
P. Pullman
W. Burroughs
I. Welsh
E. Po

 

[Kettricken]

Difficult question... if you ask me tomorrow, or next week my top 4 could be totally different.

Marianne Fredriksson
Kerstin Ekman
Renate Dorrestein (dutch author)
Jane Austen

 

[Droptrooper]

Chris Brookmyre
George MacDonald-Fraser
Kate Atkinson
Sir Walter Scott
Nicholas Blincoe

 

[Connavar]

In this order :


Donald E Westlake
Ross Macdonald
Elmore Leonard
Raymond Chandler
Conn Iggulden
Jonas Hassan Khemeri ( a young and very talented swedish author)
Stehpen King
Clive Barker


P.S no diss against Dickens,Poe,Lovecraft,Le Fanu havent read enough them to rate and i plan to read more of them very soon.

 

[Shamu]

George Orwell.
Jane Austen.
Margerat Atwood.
Mark Haddon.

 

[Clansman]

Hmmmm, tough call, but not in any particular order:

C.S. Forrester
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Patrick O'Brien

and I could really go on, and on, and on, and on...