Discovered Authors 2010

[Fried Egg]

Since there's no thread for this year, I thought I'd start one.

Although we're not even a month into this year, I'm doing great for new authors already:

J.M. McDermott, Ramsey Campbell, H.G. Wells and and the Solaris book of new Science fiction I'm reading now I hadn't read anything from any of the contributing authors before. I can't go on like this and I think next month will see me returning to some old favourites...

 

[jojajihisc]

Good start for me too.

Ted Chiang
Greg Egan
Karen Joy Fowler

 

[GOLLUM]

Yeh sorry about that. I has intended to post a thread for 2010 but it must have slipped my mind.


Have now stickied this thread.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

So far, everything I have read this year has been a newly discovered author for me. These are the ones I have finished so far. I am currently reading 2 other new authors, but will wait to add them until I am finished with them:

Marcia Bartusiak
Simon Singh
Margaret Mitchell
HG Wells

 

[Connavar]

So far in January its:

Joe Abercrombie
China Mièville

who i have read and liked enough to already have bought new books of theirs.

 

[Khale]

So far Glen Cook and Brent Weeks

 

[Connavar]

Add Tom Picirilli who had an exellent first book for me and now i'm reading Meg Abbott.

A awarding winning Noir writer. She is not my first female crime writer but she is my Noir one. Interesting since i'm reading a book of hers set in 1940s Hollywood, to see it from another POV than male POV the great subgenre.

I'm not really looking for new authors, just picked them because their work sounded good to me.

 

[CyBeR]

Read 4 books this year so far (well 3, reading the 4th now), all new authors for me. Save for Eric Nylund, it's been pretty good so far. I really enjoyed the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and what I've read from Philip Jose Farmer (this guy is simply WOW!). And I'm quite enjoying the work of A.S. Byatt now.
Good start, good start. I want at least one new author per month this year.

 

[Red 13]

Hallo, i'm new here and looking forward to having cool discussions about books.
This year i've just discovered Brandon Sanderson. He's really good! I'm now reading Book one of "Shadows of the Apt" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I'm enjoying it and it looks like its gonna be quite a long serie's so there's plenty more to come!

 

[Ursa major]

A bit late in the day, but: J.R.R.Tolkien.

Discovered as a producer of prose in a book, that is: I've seen Jackson's (and Bakshi's) films and heard radio plays (BBC, 1981) before but have not read anything by him until this month.

 

[Red 13]

Coo! I discovered the "Lord of the rings" when i was a kid listening to the BBC radio version of it on a collection of tapes, i still have it. Its really good!

 

[Connavar]

Joe Abercrombie
China Mièville
Tom Picirilli
Meg Abbott
Ray Bradbury
Gene Wolfe

In the order i read them. Dont plan to read many more new authors this yearat least outside anthologies.

 

[Fried Egg]

Dont plan to read many more new authors this yearat least outside anthologies.

Are you going to be discovering Janny Wurts this year?

 

[Connavar]

Yeah i'm still waiting for my library copy of hers so i didnt count her.

She came in just before the gates was closed for new authors

Her stand alone book and Joe Lansdale noir book i'm waiting for.

By the way FE you must try Joe Abercrombie, his series, he is epic fantasy but quality action,story,characters. Like you i dont like that kind of fantasy but he did alot with 500 page fantasy book of that kind.

Reading Janny Wurts GR group read topic,your latest post made me think you would enjoy it.

 

[Fried Egg]

I plan to get around to reading Joe Abercrombie at some point, for sure. Maybe he'll come up for a group read at some point?

 

[Connavar]

I plan to get around to reading Joe Abercrombie at some point, for sure. Maybe he'll come up for a group read at some point?

Yeah maybe but me and Mike have already read the first book at least.

But we can read another book of his.

If not remember his name next time you read this kind of fantasy.

 

[Talysia]

I've been doing a lot of rereading so far this year, but I have discovered C.J. Sansom and the wonderful Shardlake series. I discovered Brandon Sanderson late last year, too, but neglected to post in the previous thread due to being rather busy.

 

[Heather Myst]

Has anyone else been reading Michael J. Sullivan? His Riyria series begins with The Crown Conspiracy and I really like it so far. It reminds me of Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora.
Robert Redick is another new author who has won me over. Red Wolf Conspiracy was great and I can't wait to open up Rats and the Ruling Sea.

 

[AE35Unit]

First entry for this year, F Paul Wilson
Tho the book by him I'm currently reading, The Keep, is horror, he has also written SF

 

[dask]

Albert Richard Wetjen, Allan Vaughan Elston, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, W.C. Tuttle, and Perry Adams. All courtesy of the May, 1933 issue of ADVENTURE magazine, all unknown, all superior, especially Perry Adams who strikes me as a writer of the highest level. His "Song In Mahratti" strips away all negative encrustations associated with pulp fiction. The only name I know is Harold Lamb, whose "The Golden Horde" (part one of two) is coming up soon.