Discovered Authors 2010

dask said:
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.
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I learned a lot of history from reading Harold Lamb years ago. I really liked his works.
 
First one this year (I'm trying for 12, one a month, so I'm already one behind...:():

Sergey Lukyanenko
 
Mary A Turzillo. I read one of her stories in Solaris Book of New SF 1 called Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads. Surprisingly she's not known on Fantastic Fiction even tho she has a novel out and one of her stories took the 2000 Nebula! One to look out for!
 
Heres a trio of authors from stories read today:
Keith Brooke-The Accord (the author's name rings a bell-I seem to remember something about Expatria or something similar?) Not a bad story, almost fantasy but becomes more SF.
Simon Ings-The Wedding Party. I didnt enjoy this at all and didnt finish it-it just didnt make sense!
Tony Ballantyne-Third Person, an interesting example of military SF from a UK author,with a strange twist! Notable for its mention of my town Darlington!!
 
Angela Carter
Liz Williams
Janny Wurts

I sometimes get a bit ashamed of how unbalanced my reading,bookshelf is for "male fiction"

Now without thinking about it i have a hattrick of reading 3 female authors in a row. A personal record hehe.
 
GOLLUM said:
Well, I think I'll take a little bit of credit here and declare this the winner of the Kearney award for 2010....;)
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I will have to agree this time since i had never heard of her before your comments about her.

Now i'm enjoying her writing ability,prose,magical stories,imagination,themes very much :)
 
James Sallis. His Lew Griffin novels are Private Eye novels that manage to be literate, allusive, evocative and richly characterised without missing out on the required hard-boiled tautness and tension. Someone who can channel Nabokov and Blind Willie Johnson, Walter Pater and Raymond Chandler, in the same book is okay with me. Maybe this is why genres exist at all - to be taken to levels undreamed of in watery 'literary fiction' by writers of Sallis' calibre.
 
This James Sallis certainly is an intriguing fellow.....:D

I'll have to start making notes for the authors in 2010 and will post something soon on the 2009 list.
 
Mark Z Danielewski, I have just started House of Leaves and it's an odd read.
 
Joe Abercrombie - terrific
Brandon Sanderson - very good

And I haven't discovered him, yet, because I've never managed to find the books, but I will soon discover... George R. R. Martin.

That's right.
 
Vladd67 said:
Mark Z Danielewski, I have just started House of Leaves and it's an odd read.
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Yeh...I've got that one too. Very different I must say and regarded very highly. I've not really gone through my copy properly so your comments will be of interest to me...:)
 
GOLLUM said:
This James Sallis certainly is an intriguing fellow.....:D

I'll have to start making notes for the authors in 2010 and will post something soon on the 2009 list.
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He is one of those few different,original,with more literary talent than the usual crime writer.

One of those few authors i read for their prose,writing ability, in crime today like Ken Bruen.

I would recommend him highly i mean i spend money on him i could have spent on great SFF writers ;)
 
Connavar said:
I would recommend him highly i mean i spend money on him i could have spent on great SFF writers ;)
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Hey! Someone arrest this guy!... :p

biodroid said:
Peter V Brett - Very good so far, still got Joe Abercrombie and then Patrick Rothfuss thanks to the chrons positive words on these 2 authors.
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See Conn...this member has their priorities in the correct order.....;)
 
Peter V Brett - Very good so far, still got Joe Abercrombie and then Patrick Rothfuss thanks to the chrons positive words on these 2 authors.
 
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